#16 Change: RPM 4.14
Closed 6 years ago Opened 6 years ago by bex.

This issue tracks the release note for the following Fedora Change:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.14 - @ignatenkobrain @ffesti @pmatilai

If you own this change, please add additional information here that we should communicate to Fedora users. Specifically, please consider:

  • New features available because of this change - pick 2 or 3 that are important
  • Considerations for users of previous releases of Fedora (upgrade issues, format changes, etc.)
  • Links to any upstream Release Notes
  • If this helps Fedora be a superior environment for our target audiences, please explain how so that we can emphasize this.

Your notes to us do not need to be formally written. We will edit them and add details as needed. This is a way for you to ensure that we know what is critical about your change.

If you want to write this release note, then:

  • Assign this issue to yourself
  • Check the wiki page linked above, find out what the change is about
  • Determine whether the change actually made it into the release or not[0]
  • Write a draft release note using that information against the correct branch here, in Pagure. (or see below)
  • Get in touch with the contact person/people listed on the wiki page, either through IRC or e-mail, and ask them to check your draft for technical accuracy
  • Submit your Release Note as a PR to this repository.

Once you're done with the above, make sure to either commit the relnote to an appropriate section of the Release Notes book, or, if you're not familiar with Git, AsciiDoc, or whatever else, just add it to this issue as a comment and let pbokoc[1] know that you're done with this one and you'd like the note included. Be sure to do this at least one day before the final release (October 29 according to the current schedule). Also make sure to do this even for relnotes that haven't been checked by the change owner.

[0] You can do that by asking the change owner listed on the wiki page; alternatively you can infer it by checking the tracker bug (linked in Wiki) in Bugzilla and looking at its status; see bug comments for details. Ask someone on the mailing list or on IRC if you're not sure.
[1] In #fedora-docs on FreeNode (UTC+1 timezone, online mostly during the day on weekdays), or pbokoc @redhat.com if you can't get a hold of me on IRC.


New features available because of this change - pick 2 or 3 that are important

There are different interesting features from different POV.. The most important ones are below.

Users (nothing really interesting here):

  • Many bugfixes
  • Better handling invalid data

Packagers:

  • Better error reporting in macro engine
  • Dependency generators now properly support rich (boolean) dependencies
  • New with, without and unless rich operators

Considerations for users of previous releases of Fedora (upgrade issues, format changes, etc.)

Generally everything is supposed to just work. On old systems you will not be able to install some packages built with new version of RPM, e.g. due to increased maximum size of header.

Links to any upstream Release Notes

http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.14.0

If this helps Fedora be a superior environment for our target audiences, please explain how so that we can emphasize this.

For package maintainers there is one huge feature available now -- new rich operators. With them packagers can express anything (what I could imagine): specify version range dependency, require package with specific features, conditionally conflict with packages.


I'm going to contact #fedora-docs today to get my text extended and to get it in a better shape ;)

Metadata Update from @sclark:
- Issue assigned to sclark

6 years ago

Thank you. Release note created in PR #65 from information provided above.

Release note approved by @ignatenkobrain over on PR #65. Closing the issue.

Metadata Update from @sclark:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

6 years ago

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