The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system. Highlights of the version 4.20 include:

  • Declarative build system support
  • Dynamic spec improvements
  • Guaranteed, RPM-controlled per-build directory
  • Support for spec-local file attributes and generators
  • Support for group membership in sysusers.d(5) files
  • Proper distro-agnostic debuginfo support
  • Sanitized spec comments and indentation syntax
  • Sanitized --build-in-place mode
  • New unshare plugin for scriptlet isolation
  • Plugin API made public