[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.14.0 released!
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at redhat.com
Thu Oct 12 09:22:52 UTC 2017
In short, RPM 4.14.0 is out now. It's not quite what we originally had
in mind - some things we planned for didn't make it, but perhaps more
importantly, it's actually a whole lot MORE than we ever could've
anticipated.
Some highlights:
- Major revamp of debuginfo packages
- Debuginfo packages are parallel installable
- Debuginfo can be split to subpackages and separate source package
- Debugedit supports string/line table rewriting
- Major macro engine changes to sanitize and improve the "language"
- Parametric macro arguments are expanded and quotable
- Scoping is enforced for automatic macros
- Buggy "block level" scoping is gone, only macros defined inside
parametric macros are considered local
- Major rewrite of package/header reading and signature checking to
utilize a single codepath
- Support for with/without/unless rich dependencies
- A configurable mode to conserve SSD disks
- Experimental LMDB database backend
...and I'm sure I missed several things worth being on that list,
because there's an absolutely *huge* amount of enhancements and fixes
all over the place, from over 20 contributors. For details and download
information, head over to
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.14.0
On behalf of rpm-team,
- Panu -
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