DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager.

DNF 4.20 brings various DNF5 preparations and fixes:

- Prepare man pages for switch to dnf5 as the default package manager

- Do not add user site-packages directory to sys.path (RHEL-26646

- Remove --duplicates and --oldinstallonly exit with 0 when nothing to remove (RHEL-6424)

- repoquery: Fix loading filelists when -f is used (RhBug:2276012)

- Prepare for switch of dnf5 in Rawhide

Now that Fedora 40 is out, [1]Fedora 41 is aiming to switch to DNF5 by default after [2]failing to make it for Fedora 39 .

DNF5 has a reduced footprint compared to the existing DNF, better performance thanks to changes like concurrently downloading repository metadata, package query operations are also much faster, and a more unified user experience.

Those wishing to download DNF 4.20 from source can find it via [3]rpm-software-management/dnf on GitHub.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Switch-DNF5-Approved

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-DNF-Plan

[3] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/releases/tag/4.20.0