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DNF Package Manager: "Getting More & More Stable"

Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 10 April 2015 at 10:24 AM EDT. 19 Comments

New versions of DNF and DNF-PLUGINS-CORE have been released and there's pre-built packages for Fedora 22 and Fedora 23.

Jan Šilhan announced the releases today of DNF 0.6.5 and DNF-PLUGINS-CORE 0.1.6. There's documentation improvements, the erase command has been deprecated by the remove command, and there's many bug-fixes.

Jan wrote, "DNF is getting more and more stable with 20 bug fixes while DNF-PLUGINS-CORE 0.1.6 newly adds Config manager."

More details via this blog post. DNF is replacing Yum as the default package manager for Fedora 22.

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