Bayan shekara guda na ci gaba, an saki mai sarrafa kunshin RPM 4.18.0. Red Hat ne ya haɓaka aikin RPM4 kuma ana amfani dashi a cikin irin wannan rarraba kamar RHEL (ciki har da ayyukan da aka samo asali CentOS, Linux Linux, AsiaLinux, Red Flag Linux, Oracle Linux), Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Tizen da sauran su. A baya can, ƙungiyar ci gaba mai zaman kanta ta haɓaka aikin RPM5, wanda ba shi da alaƙa kai tsaye da RPM4 kuma a halin yanzu an yi watsi da shi (ba a sabunta shi ba tun 2010). An rarraba lambar aikin a ƙarƙashin lasisin GPLv2 da LGPLv2.
Mafi shaharar haɓakawa a cikin RPM 4.18 sune:
- An gabatar da sabon harsashi mai mu'amala "rpmspec -shell", wanda ke goyan bayan aiki tare da macros da ginannen Lua (rpmlua).
- An ƙara sabon kayan aikin layin umarni, rpmuncompress, don sauƙaƙa cire fakitin fayiloli da yawa.
- An sake yin amfani da lambar don sarrafa manyan fayiloli don haɗawa da kariya daga lahanin magudin symlink yayin shigarwa, farfadowa, da tsaftacewa.
- An ƙara sabon bangon baya na OpenPGP don aiki tare da sa hannun fakiti, dangane da aikin Sequoia (aiwatar da OpenPGP cikin harshen Rust).
- An gabatar da macro "% bcond" mafi fahimta don ma'anar yanayi yayin taro.
- Lokacin da aka bayyana raƙuman dogaro, an aiwatar da goyan bayan alamun “meta” da “pre”.
- An ƙara sabon sashe "% conf" zuwa takamaiman fayilolin don haɗa fayilolin sanyi.
source: budenet.ru