From mdomonko at redhat.com  Mon May 11 14:23:14 2026
From: mdomonko at redhat.com (Michal Domonkos)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:23:14 +0200
Subject: [Rpm-announce] RPM 6.1.0 RC1 released!
Message-ID: <agHmUsHSN0nH0tj1@thinkpad>

This is the first release candidate of RPM 6.1. We are moving to a new release
model inspired by the Linux kernel and its stability guarantee, and 6.1 is the
first one to follow it. Therefore, we are skipping the alpha/beta snapshots and
shortening the cycle. For a more detailed overview, see the announcement at

    https://rpm.org/2026/05/11/release-cycle.html

Highlights of the upcoming 6.1 release include:

* Improved keystore locking mechanism
* Restored NSS-based user/group lookups by default
* Support for literal and one-shot macros through a new macro modifier syntax
* New %define options for expansion at definition and global context
* Improved and fixed build and verification error handling
* Improved usability of rpm-plugin-syslog(8) with systemd journal
* Fixed Clang compilation errors and warnings
* New man pages

Despite the attempt to bring some sanity to our pre-release numbering scheme
(through #2477), we are keeping the old (and arguably a bit awkward) numeric
scheme for the time being, due to the various (CMake) complications that would
stem from changing it. Therefore, this RC1 release has the formal version of
6.0.91, and we'll bump the last component for the subsequent release candidates
(if any), as per usual.

For download information, visit the release page at
    https://rpm.org/releases/6.0.91

For the full release notes (still a draft), visit
    https://rpm.org/releases/6.1.0

On behalf of the RPM team,
    Michal