Release Notes: novi can now read RPM header info from Repository Metadata (repodata) files. For repositories that don't change (such as OS install media) this offers a significant performance boost: novi can parse a single XML file instead of reading all of that repository's RPMs.


Release Notes: novi now uses an RPM's "epoch" tag to help determine which is the newest release of a given product. This oversight caused problems with updated packages that were released with newer epochs but older versions (notably, pilot-link in FC5).


Release Notes: novi can now read RPM header info from Repository Metadata (repodata) files. For repositories that don't change (such as OS install media) this offers a significant performance boost: novi can parse a single XML file instead of reading all of that repository's RPMs.


No changes have been submitted for this release.