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RPM 6.1.0 released

Version 6.1.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes include the ability to provide modifiers to RPM macros at definition time, improved build and verification error handling, support for signing files with PKCS11 tokens using rpmsign , as well as the addition of several new man pages. The 6.1.0 release also debuts a new release model inspired by the Linux kernel's.

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