[Rpm-announce] RPM 4.16.0 alpha released!

[Panu Matilainen]

On 3/23/20 3:22 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> So soon you say? Well, its almost a year since 4.15 alpha and annual 
> release schedule isn't *that* fast. More like trying to get back on 
> track with this release stuff after some erratic years.
> 
> Anyway, here goes. The two major themes here are: preparing to finally 
> kick Berkeley DB out, and (conditional) macro expressions. If you ever 
> thought %{?foo:bar} is too limited, this one is for you.

So this is what I get for trying to cut a release on Monday: the 
originally linked rpm-4.15.90-git14970 snapshot has a buggy rpm.pc file 
which prevents using it for linking. Since an important aspect of alpha 
testing is testing other software... duh.

Just pushed a new snapshot (rpm-4.15.90-git14971) to fix that and 
updated the download links + hashes, but if you were eager enough to 
have grabbed the first snapshot then you'll want to update.

> 
> Highlights include:
> - Powerful macro and %if expressions including ternary operator
> - New sqlite and read-only BDB backends, NDB promoted to stable
> - Automatic SSD detection and optimization on Linux

Seems I also forgotten some highlights as well:

- Support for dependency generation with parametric macros
- Support for dependency generation based on MIME types

The details and download info still at

	https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.16.0

Apologies for the confusion,

	- Panu -

	- Panu -