DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions.

DNF 5.4 introduces a new "--debugsource" flag for the DNF download command for downloading the debug source packages rather than the regular packages.

There is also a new "--debuginfo" flag to download debuginfo packages rather than the regular packages.

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DNF 5.4 also ships a new "local" plug-in. This new local plugin for DNF automatically copies all downloaded packages to a local repository.

The libdnf5 plugins code now supports loading plugins from multiple config directories.

DNF 5.4 also adds musl libc support as an alternative to glibc.

An AI contributions policy has been added for DNF. The policy was adopted from Fedora's. AI assistance is allowed as long as there is accountability and transparency.

Downloads and more details on DNF 5.4 via [2]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=dnf_lrg

[2] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/releases/tag/5.4.0.0