2.8.0

RPMLint 2.8

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

RPM Package Handling

• Fix grammatical direction for unstripped-binary-or-object message
• SpecCheck: Report rpm warnings on spec files
• Fixup fallback regexp for buildroot detection
• Tests: Accept long GPG key ids (for RPM 6)
• SpecCheck: Add shared-dir-glob-in-files warning
• When Declarative BuildSystem is used, assume patches are auto-applied
• test: Fix spellchecking
• SpecCheck: Add new warning for setup.py install usage
• SpecCheck: warn also for py3_install macro usage
• Add openQA users to users-groups.toml
• BuildRootAndDateCheck: More specific buildroot check
• AlternativesCheck: Fix .conf files regex
• ZipCheck: fix utf8 decoding erros in jarfile manifest
• Run only once the validate_filters per call
• AlternativesCheck: detect update-alternatives on Fedora

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@scfc, @d3flex and @xdelaruelle.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

10  Daniel Garcia Moreno
 2  Dirk Müller
 2  Miro Hrončok
 1  Ioannis Bonatakis
 1  Jan Engelhardt
 1  Tim Landscheidt
 1  Xavier Delaruelle

Release 2.7.0

RPMLint 2.7

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

RPM Package Handling

• New groups in openSUSE user-groups config: xpra, sssd, proxy, traefik.
• New group in Fedora user-groups config: sssd
• Don't mask rpm2cpio failure in Pkg._extract_rpm()
• Strict policy to ERR on patch-macro-old-format for openSUSE
• New warning about the usage of %suse_update_desktop_file
• FilesCheck: Do not error about non-readable %ghost
• Don't show suse-update-desktop-file-deprecated for yast packages
• %{autochangelog} in the changelog section do not cause a warning anymore
• Handle the missing buildroot in rpm 4.20 gracefully
• FilesCheck: Update FSF address check to match new only remote
• Add declarative build support to SpecCheck

Linting and Code Quality

• Massive clean-up test files, creating mock packages to replace .rpm binaries.

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@sbradnick, @scabrero, @13ilya-old, @weberhofer and @mavit.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

46	Daniel Garcia Moreno
22	Luz Marina
 4	Daniel Mach
 1	Dirk Müller
 1	Johannes Weberhofer
 1	Peter Oliver
 1	Samuel Cabrero
 1	Scott Bradnick
 1	Илья Индиго

Release 2.6.1

This is a minor fix release. The release fixes a crash when trying to lint packages with folders or binaries with tmpfiles.d in the path.

This is the complete list of changes from the previous release:

• FilesCheck: Fix zero perm check with binaries
• FilesCheck: Fix zero permission check with folder
• Update openSUSE's licenses.toml
• configs/openSUSE/users-groups.toml: add user and group woodpecker
• configs/openSUSE/users-groups.toml: add user and group vault-sync
• configs/openSUSE/users-groups.toml: add user and group openbao
• configs/openSUSE/users-groups.toml: add user and group alloy

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@DimStar77 and @johanneskastl.

Release 2.6.0

RPMLint 2.6

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

RPM Package Handling

• Added support for RPM packages containing files greater than 4GB.
• Use rpm2archive to unpack and left rpm2cpio as a fallback for distros without rpm2archive.
• Checked for Python dependencies like python3.12dist(foo).
• PythonCheck: simplify requirement check using metadata.
• Add new check to FilesCheck to look for files with zero perms.
• Check usage of deprecated %patch -pN macro.
• Warn about no %check section in spec.
• BinariesCheck: do not mark as binary eBPF ELF files
• Added pgadmin, forgejo, netdata, cady user/group
• Fixed issues related to readelf output encoding handling.

Linting and Code Quality

• Reset all checks for each package.
• Cleaned up test files, creating mock packages to replace .rpm binaries.

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@plageat, @chaitanyabisht, @antlarr, @carlosrodfern, @Idesmi, @darix, @mia-0 and @i12momal.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

27  Daniel Garcia Moreno
 8  Mikhail Campos Guadamuz
 5  Luz Marina Montilla Marín
 4  Chaitanya Bisht
 3  afrid18
 2  Luz Marina
 1  Antonio Larrosa
 1  Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
 1  Dirk Müller
 1  Idesmi
 1  Marcus Rückert
 1  Mia Herkt
 1  Pi-Cla

Release 2.5.0

RPMLint 2.5

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

• New check for python packages called PythonCheck with new warnings and
  errors:
  python-module-def, python-sitelib-glob-in-files,
  python-doc-in-package, python-tests-in-site-packages,
  python-doc-in-site-packages, python-src-in-site-packages,
  python-missing-require, python-leftover-require,
  python-pyc-multiple-versions and python-sphinx-doctrees-leftover.
• Do not consider files-duplicate for SMALL files (configurable with
  DuplicatesMinSize that's 4 bytes by default)
• dump_stats.py: add one more category for filtering
• Remove shared-library-without-dependency and library-not-linked-against-libc
  (#969)
• Relax no-binary and noarch-with-lib64 checks, detect symlinks in /usr/lib64
  as binaries.
• Support filtering of warnings/errors based on title
• Add new check: patchable-function-entry-in-archive
• SpecCheck: Improve patch applied regex to detect %patch -Pn and %patch n
• Adjust for rpm-4.19.0 API changes
• BinariesCheck: Allow ELF prefix in magic string
• Add iso_15924 to LANGUAGES so now language codes like zh_Hant are detected
  as valid
• Add new check to detect links to scripts, symlink-to-binary-with-shebang
• Improve help in rpmdiff

Development Improvements:

• Improved the test framework so now it's easier to write simple tests.
• Migrate metadata from setup.py to pyproject.toml
• Releasing rpmlint as pre-commit hook

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@afrid18, @bkmgit, @cyungmann, @computersalat, @emilianolangella,
@fabiobarkoski, @jpodivin, @NeerajGartia21 and @Pi-Cla.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

49	Daniel Garcia Moreno
43	Martin Liska
38	afrid18
10	Todd Zullinger
 3	ChrisWi
 3	fabiobarkoski
 2	Ondřej Súkup
 1	Benson Muite
 1	Chris Yungmann
 1	Emiliano Langella
 1	Jan Engelhardt
 1	Jiri Podivin
 1	LGTM Migrator
 1	Matthias Gerstner
 1	Miro Hrončok
 1	Neeraj Gartia
 1	Pi-Cla

RPMLint 2.4

RPMLint 2.4

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

• tomli package is used for TOML file format (will be available in Python 3.11)
• New warnings related to ELF hash sections were added:
  missing-hash-section, missing-gnu-hash-section.
• Manual pages check was extended and includes a new warnings:
  bad-manual-page-folder and manual-page-in-subfolder.
• A new spec-related warning was introduced: python-setup-test.
• SLPP (shared library packaging policy) policy checks skips HPC (high-performance computing) packages.

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@tobbez, @tmzullinger, @portante and @danigm.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

    60  Martin Liška
     3	Torbjörn Lönnemark
     3	Todd Zullinger
     1	Stefan Schubert
     1	Peter Portante
     1	Neal Gompa
     1	Miro Hrončok
     1	Jan Engelhardt
     1	Georg Pfuetzenreuter
     1	Daniel Garcia Moreno

RPMLint 2.3

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

• BashismsCheck speed was improved for files with equal content
• For python modules, undefined-non-weak-symbol and shared-library-without-dependency-information
  error are not reported any more
• binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath can resolve $ORIGIN variable part and resolves
  relative file paths
• no-binary error is reported for all packages now that are not architecture independent
• BuildDateCheck and BuildRootCheck checks were unified and utilize mmap for a faster
  file processing
• New option --ignore-unused-rpmlintrc can be used for skipping of unused-rpmlintrc-filter errors
• Time used for package extraction and decompression was added to time report (-t)
• Build dependency was fixed for zstd python package

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release:
@lrupp, @tacerus, @kraptor and @aekoroglu.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

     50 Martin Liska
      1 Matwey V. Kornilov
      1 Lars Vogdt
      1 Georg Pfuetzenreuter
      1 David Anes
      1 Carl Smedstad
      1 aekoroglu

RPMLint 2.2

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

• Fixed support for loading .rpmlintrc files
• Added support for /usr/lib/modules as a valid path for kernel modules in packages
• Added /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d to D-Bus config folder list
• Massively reworked the shlib-policy-name-error rules
• Added support for %autochangelog macro in %changelog section
• Improved support for detecting whether code is compiled correctly with hardening flags
• Multiple fixes to library dependency checks
• Added support for libalternatives as an alternative to alternatives

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release: @schubi2, @jengelh, @archiebold811, @oturpe, and @remicollet.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

    29  Martin Liska
     4  Carl Smedstad
     4  Randy Vandermate
     3  Tom spot Callaway
     2  Neal Gompa
     1  Dirk Mueller
     1  Jan Engelhardt
     1  Otto Urpelainen
     1  Remi Collet
     1  Stefan Schubert

RPMLint 2.1

This is a minor feature release with the following improvements:

• Add support for cpio from Busybox
• Add support for binutils 2.37+ readelf
• Add the ability to block local filtering of rpmlint rules to enforce rules that must always be adhered to
• Fix detection of the RPM database
• Other miscellaneous fixes

I want to thank the following new contributors for their efforts in this release: @carlsmedstad, @kkaempf, @mikelolasagasti, and @spotrh.

Full author list with number of (non-merge) commits:

    25  Martin Liška
     6  Carl Smedstad
     3  Neal Gompa
     1  Klaus Kämpf
     1  Mikel Olasagasti Uranga
     1  Miro Hrončok
     1  Tom spot Callaway

RPMLint 2.0 🚀

Nearly four years and 754 commits since rpmlint 1.10, we are releasing rpmlint 2.0.0!

This new release has a lot of new features, but here are the most notable:

• RPMLint now is a "normal" Python application and now supports being imported like a standard Python module! This means that all the normal use-cases for RPMLint are still supported, but now you can make it a part of larger Python-based applications or services.
• RPMLint uses a declarative TOML-based syntax for configuring RPMLint policy instead of Python code.
• RPMLint now has an override system for the descriptions shown for various checks, so that distributions who want to give specific policy information can do so without patching the code.
• RPMLint includes many more checks! Nearly all of the generally useful checks created by the openSUSE community have been merged into the tree, so distributions can now benefit from a wider offering of checks to implement policy enforcement.
• RPMLint is Python 3 only and now supports Python 3.6 and newer.
• RPMLint is now built and installed like a standard Python application using setuptools.

I want to specifically thank @scarabeusiv, @marxin, @kstreitova, @dirkmueller, @xsuchy, @mimi1vx, @thisisshub, and @hroncok as top contributors to make this release happen!

Full author list with number of commits:

   309  Tomáš Chvátal
   197  Martin Liska
    47  Dirk Mueller
    26  Kristyna Streitova
    24  Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)
    24  marxin
    21  Neal Gompa
    21  Ondřej Súkup
    14  thisisshub
    11  Miro Hrončok
     9  Kristýna Streitová
     8  Miroslav Suchý
     6  Markéta Calábková
     5  Ville Skyttä
     4  Ben Greiner
     4  Frank Schreiner
     4  Van de Bugger
     3  David Greaves
     3  Matwey V. Kornilov
     2  Daniel Mach
     2  Matthias Gerstner
     1  Cathy Hu
     1  Ludwig Nussel
     1  MeggyCal
     1  Petr Menšík
     1  Stefan Brüns
     1  Steve Kowalik
     1  Werner Fink
     1  Wolfgang Stöggl
     1  Yanko Kaneti
     1  tpgxyz