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RPM | 14 Apr 16:33
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RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.1.0 released

RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.1.0 was released today.
Find its source distribution under http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.1/

RPM 5.1 is the second major release of RPM 5 and incorporates over 300
distinguished fixes and improvements which were made since the release
of RPM 5.0 in January 2008.

Most notably, RPM 5.1.0 provides many additional macro and Lua scripting
functionality (UUID generation, path resolution, text-processing,
etc), supports initial path-to-repository expansions on the command
line ("+N-V-R.A"), provides additional output format specifiers on
querying (":sqlescape", ":utf8", ":cdata", etc), provides an RPM
4 compatibility C API, and additionally ships with new utilities
("rpmdigest", "rpmgrep", etc) and many more.

During its development, RPM 5.1 was compiled on as many compiler and
operating system combinations as possible. RPM 5.1 is considered the
most portable RPM since ever. Additionally, during its beta period, RPM
5.1 was already in-depth tested by building, installing and running
a real full-size portable software distribution with it under both
multiple BSD and Linux platforms. Hence, RPM 5.1 is considered to be
fully stable and ready for production by distribution vendors.

For more details about RPM 5, visit us at http://rpm5.org/

                                  The RPM 5 Developer Team
                                  http://rpm5.org/team.php
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RPM | 5 Jan 12:34
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RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 released


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  2008-01-05

    RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 released.

http://rpm5.org/ -- 2008-01-05 -- After seven months of comprehensive
development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package
Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. The relaunch of the
RPM project in spring 2007 and today's following availability of RPM 5
marks a major milestone for the previously rather Linux-centric RPM. RPM
now finally evolved into a fully cross-platform and reusable software
packaging tool.

WHAT IS NEW IN RPM 5.0.0

The Automake/Autoconf/Libtool-based build environment of RPM was
completely revamped from scratch and as one major result mostly all
third-party libraries now can be linked externally and in a very
flexible way. Support for the ancient and obsolete "rpmrc" files was
completely removed, as everything is now configured through RPM "macros"
under run-time only.

The RPM code base was ported to all major platforms, including the
BSD, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Unix flavors and Windows/Cygwin.
Additionally, the code base was heavily cleaned up and now can be
compiled with all major C compiler suites, including GNU GCC, Sun Studio
and Intel C/C++.

The RPM packages, in addition to the default Gzip and optional Bzip2
compression, now support also LZMA compression. Additionally, initial
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