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RPM 4.8.1 released! (Jun 11th 2010)

  • CVE:2010-2059 security issue on hardlinked executables with SUID/SGID bits and POSIX file capabilities
  • Transactions no longer hang due to unrelated non-responsive filesystems such as NFS / FUSE mounts
  • Several regressions and other bugs fixed
  • See release notes for details what has changed since 4.8.0
  • Original annoucement

RPM 4.8.0 released! (Jan 8th 2010)

  • Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
  • Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
  • Original announcement

RPM 4.8.0 beta1 released! (Dec 7th 2009)

  • Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
  • Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
  • Original annoucement

RPM 4.7.2 released! (Nov 25th 2009)

RPM 4.7.1 released! (Jul 21st 2009)

RPM 4.6.1 released! (May 18th 2009)

RPM 4.7.0 released! (Apr 16th 2009)

  • Vastly improved performance and reduced memory footprint over older versions
  • XZ/LZMA payload compression support
  • Support for POSIX file capabilities
  • Lots of bugs fixed
  • RPM 4.7.0 release notes
  • Original announcement and changes from RC1.

RPM 4.7.0 rc1 released! (Apr 9th 2009)

RPM 4.7.0 beta1 released! (Feb 26th 2009)

  • Big performance improvements over previous versions, much reduced memory footprint
  • Support for POSIX file capabilities
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.6.0

RPM 4.6.0 released! (Feb 6th 2009)

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 4 out (Jan 30th 2009)

  • Fixes:
    • Various corner-case misbehaviors and segfaults
    • Reduce impact of NSS disliking forks
  • Full summary of changes since RC3 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 3 out (Dec 9th 2008)

  • Fixes:
    • Queryformat regressions
    • Public header C++ brokenness
    • Compatibility workarounds for old and broken packages
    • Buildroot correctness on sub-packages with differing versions
  • Full summary of changes since RC2 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 2 out (Nov 29th 2008)

  • Bunch of more or less minor issues found in rc1
  • Full summary of changes since RC1 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 1 out (Oct 16th 2008)

RPM 4.5.90 (4.6 alpha) available for testing (Sep 30th 2008)

rpm.org site update (Sep 30th 2008)

  • Rpm.org has moved to new hosting provider (OSU Open Source Lab)
  • The website has been converted from mixture of static html and Moin Wiki to Trac
  • Rpm finally has a real upstream bug tracking system via Trac

RPM 4.4.2.3 released! (Apr 1st 2008)

RPM development switches to GIT (Mar 31th 2008)

  • Rpm code repository has been converted from Mercurial to GIT, effective immediately. Access details are documented on GetSource page.

RPM 4.4.2.3 release candidate 1 out for testing (Jan 25th 2008)

RPM 4.4.2.2 released! (Oct 3rd 2007)

RPM 4.4.2.1 released! (Jul 23rd 2007)