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:
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:
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):
Packagers:
with
without
unless
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
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)
Log in to comment on this ticket.