Hello, I received this email and it would really assist us in our memory foot print if we could use this version of rpm. It seems we (openSUSE) are still using 4.4X. See message below. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:10:39 +0200 (EET) From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> To: rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org, rpm-announce@lists.rpm.org Subject: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available Didn't expect a new version this soon? Frankly, we didn't either :) In the months that RPM 4.6.0 spent in stabilization phase of numerous release candidates we had plenty of time to work on new things, and as things have been fairly stable for a while now, it started looking like a good time to cut out a release. By far the most visible improvements over previous versions are in the area of performace: - Memory consumption in transactions has been reduced dramatically. A testcase of "everything install" of Fedora 10 used to top at near 1.5GB memory consumption, now the peak with the same package set is just over 300MB. Also gone is the quadratic memory consumption on large number of identical basenames. After the peak during Preparing-stage, heap consumption drops to mere megabytes during the actual transaction. - File conflict checking / fingerprinting runs an order of magnitude faster, especially for upgrades and erasures. There are of course lots of other improvements and fixes too, for more details (and download information) see the draft release notes: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0 On behalf of the rpm-team, - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org