Fedora Linux's DNF Package Manager Hits the 2.0 Milestone, Now in Fedora Rawhide

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

On October 3, 2016, DNF developer Jan Šilhan proudly announced the release of the DNF 2.0.0 package manager for Fedora Rawhide, the development version of the Fedora Linux operating system.

DNF 2.0.0 is a major update of the default package management system used in the Red Hat-based Fedora distribution, but it doesn’t look like it landed in the stable Fedora 25 version just yet, most probably because of the incompatibilities with the DNF 1.x series. Therefore, DNF 2.0.0 is now available in Fedora Rawhide.

“The next major version release of DNF brings many user experience improvements such as more understandable dependency problem reporting messages, weak dependencies shown in transaction summary, more intuitive help usage invoking and others,” says Jan Šilhan in the release announcement.

Over 60 bugs reported by users since DNF 1.1.10, the last maintenance update to the… (read more)

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