First rpm.org-RPM version released

Recently the first version of rpm.org’s RPM tool was released. While it is only a minor version (4.4.2.1) this release is a milestones because it is a coordinated release between the participating distributions.

rpm.org, the new community behind the package management tool RPM, released a first common version, RPM version 4.4.2.1.
The release is more a bugfix release focusing on stability and reliability, but nevertheless marks an important date for RPM: for the first time in years this release is coordinated between several distributions. This can be best seen by the changelog: bug fixes where included from both, Red Hat and Novell/Suse. Previous to this release RPM was maintained in house for each distribution. The disadvantage was duplicated effort but also stagnated development because there was no real central project which could...