[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.9.1 released!

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Fri Jul 15 11:17:43 UTC 2011


We're pleased to announce the availability of RPM release 4.9.1. 
Download instructions and more detailed information are available from:

     http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1

This is a regular bugfix and minor enhancements maintenance release to 
the 4.9.x series. Here's the executive summary, for details please refer 
to the release notes link above.

* Two potential security issues fixed:
    * Packages with a bad signature but for which a key is not
      imported could slip through unnoticed when signature checking
      enabled
    * Crash/memory corruption on PGP key armors containing more
      than one key
* Numerous other bugfixes ranging from crashers to memory leaks
   to quiet misbehavior
* Numerous minor enhancements especially wrt packaging and
   dependency generation

On behalf of the rpm-team,

     - Panu (who hereby commits release-and-run to vacation) -


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