From mdomonko at redhat.com  Wed Aug  2 13:43:52 2023
From: mdomonko at redhat.com (Michal Domonkos)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 15:43:52 +0200
Subject: RPM 4.19.0 BETA released!
Message-ID: <ZMpdmHd1mFiiE5EU@thinkpad>

This is a feature-complete pre-release with a number of bug fixes since ALPHA2.

Highlights include:

    * New sysusers.sh script as a drop-in replacement for systemd-sysusers(8)
    * New %{specpartsdir} macro for configuring the spec snippet location
    * New %{rpmversion} macro for obtaining the running RPM version
    * New Python binding usage examples
    * Adoption of Linux containers in the test-suite, replacing fakechroot(1)
    * Platform detection fixes and improvements for x86 CPUs
    * Chroot handling fixes

Details and download info at

    https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.19.0

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Michal Domonkos / RPM dev team / Red Hat, Inc.