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RPM 4.16.0 released

([Development] Sep 30, 2020 17:36 UTC (Wed) (ris))


Version 4.16.0 of the RPM package manager has been released. " 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. " Highlights include new database backends, macro and %if expressions including ternary operator and native version comparison, optional MIME type based file classification, new version parsing and comparison API in C and Python, license clarification, and more. The [1]release notes have more details.

From :

Panu Matilainen <pmatilai-AT-redhat.com>

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RPM 4.16.0 released!

Date :

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:03 +0300

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[2]Article

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 -



[1] https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.16.0

[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-announce@lists.rpm.org/msg00076.html

Brief History Of Linux (#15)
Too many hyphens: Traf-O-Data and Micro-soft

Bill Gates and Paul Allen attended an exclusive private school in Seattle.
In 1968, after raising $3,000 from a yard sale, they gained access to a
timeshare computer and became addicted. After depleting their money
learning BASIC and playing Solitaire, they convinced a company to give
them free computer time in exchange for reporting bugs -- ironically, an
early form of Open Source development!

The two then founded a small company called Traf-O-Data that collected and
analyzed traffic counts for municipalities using a crude device based on
the Intel "Pretanium" 8008 CPU. They had some success at first, but ran
into problems when they were unable to deliver their much hyped
next-generation device called "TrafficX". An engineer is quoted as saying
that "Traf-O-Data is the local leader in vaporware", the first documented
usage of the term that has come to be synonymous with Bill Gates.

Soon thereafter, the two developed their own BASIC interpreter, and sold
it to MITS for their new Altair computer. April 4, 1975 is the fateful day
that Micro-soft was founded in Albuquerque, NM as a language vendor.