This turned out to be a much bigger release than anticipated with
several groundbreaking new features, despite finally being back to
annual cycle almost to date. After a whopping six month testing period,
here goes!
Highlights include:
* Database backends:
* NDB backend promoted to stable
* New sqlite-based backend
* New experimental read-only BDB backend
* BDB database backend deprecated
* Powerful macro and %if expressions including ternary operator
and native version comparison
* Optional MIME type based file classification
* Dependency generation by parametric macros
* A new version parsing and comparison API in C and Python
* Parallelise test-suite execution
* Clarify RPM license
Further details & download info at:
https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.16.0
On behalf of the rpm-team, with special thanks to Michael Schroeder for
all the database and expression work!
- Panu -
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