[Rpm-maint] [Rpm-announce] RPM 4.14.0 released!

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Fri Oct 13 06:44:15 UTC 2017


On 10/12/2017 11:16 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> On 12 October 2017 at 11:22, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> 
> 
> Hi
> Can you create the proper tag in the rpm-4.14.x branch?
> (or push it if it already exists on your machine)
> Thanks
> 

Yeah, realized yesterday evening I'd forgotten to tag it. And forgotten 
all about it again this morning, so thanks for the reminder :)

Tagged & pushed now,

	- Panu -


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