Fedora Family / IBM: RPM 4.20, Ansible, and Fedora 41
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LWN ☛ RPM 4.20 is coming
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) project is nearing the release of RPM 4.20, the last major planned update for the RPM 4.x series. It has few user-facing changes, but several additions and enhancements for developers—as well as some small incompatibilities that will likely require RPM packagers to revise their spec files. 4.20 will be rolling out to many users soon, in Fedora 41, which is scheduled for October. RPM 6.0 is already in the works, with a new package format and opening the door to enabling C++ use in the RPM codebase.
An RPM release consists of the command-line suite of tools for installing, managing, removing, and creating RPM packages. It also includes RPM plugins and librpm, which provides the RPM API to user-facing tools like DNF, Zypper, and others. In addition, the project maintains the RPM package format and spec file format documentation, which is updated with each RPM release. RPM spec files are text files, with the .spec extension, that describe how to build an RPM. They are included with a package's source RPM (.src.rpm), along with the original source code and patches to be applied to the software.
Many Linux users interact directly with RPM rarely, if at all. Desktop users can do all their software management on RPM-based systems, like Fedora and openSUSE, with tools that use RPM behind the scenes, such as DNF, Zypper, or GNOME Software. Packagers, on the other hand, spend quite a bit of time with RPM, and the bulk of the features in 4.20 are designed to make it easier to build and maintain RPMs.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Call for Proposals now open for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025
We’re looking for intriguing content and captivating speakers to join us to share your story and expertise with the thousands of customers, partners, and technology industry leaders from around the world to come together for three high-energy days of innovation, education and collaboration.
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Red Hat Official ☛ What’s new in Event-Driven Ansible, part of Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
This release includes expanded enterprise capabilities that can help you gain more operational ease from Event-Driven Ansible. Whether you are ready for advanced event-driven use cases that take into account multiple sources of events, want to advance your Event-Driven Ansible testing efforts into production, or want highly scalable and available Ansible Rulebook operations, this new version has you covered. Let’s dig into the details of these exciting new features:
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Hans de Goede: IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41
I'm happy to announce that the last tweaks have landed and that the fully FOSS libcamera software ISP based IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41 now has no known bugs left. See the Changes page for testing instructions.