= System Wide Change: RPM 4.14 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.14 Change owner(s): * Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Florian Festi <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx> * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> Update RPM to the upcoming 4.14 release. == Detailed Description == RPM 4.14 contains several improvements that needs to get released and integrated in Fedora: * Major macro engine bug fix + sanity work: ** Macro scope simplification + enforcing ** Macro arguments expanded ** Nested lua macro scoping fixes ** Improved error reporting * Major header/package/signature rewrite: ** Unified code path for all header read/import ** Major hardening work on header parsing ** Unified code path for all header/package signature checking ** Signature checking before header imports ** Support for multiple signatures per package ** Support for configurable signature policies * Major debuginfo rewrite (covered by two other changes and already applied in F27) * Signal handling rewrite: ** Custom signal handlers while rpmdb open ** Signals blocked throughout write transactions * SSD conservation mode * Improved support for reproducible builds * RPMCALLBACK_ELEM_PROGRESS now carries index of header * Support for OpenSSL as a one of crypto libraries used for digests/signatures (already part of F27) * Support for rich dependencies coming out from dependency generators * %include can contain paths with whitespaces * Dependency generator for pkg-config files doesn't check dependencies in .pc recursively, but rather print top-level ones (if pkgconf is used) * Header digests use SHA256 by default * Improvements in Python dependency generator * Improvements and stabilization of "ndb" * Support for "with" rich-operator: ** Specifying version range dependencies ** Specifying packages which provide special ability == Scope == * Proposal owners: Rebase RPM * Other developers: Test new release, report issues and bugs, fix bugs in packaging (if it is not bug in RPM, should be detected during Mass Rebuild) * Release engineering: [1] (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed) * List of deliverables: Change affects whole distribution rather than deliverables * Policies and guidelines: FPC should look (and possibly approve) "with" rich dependency in Packaging Guidelines * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) [1] https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6875 Thanks, Jaroslav _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
