[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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