v1.16.0

What's Changed

• deb: Add support for zstd compression (#2009, #2084; Ștefan Rusu)
• deb: Add compression level setting, --deb-compression-level (#2036_; Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen)
• rpm: Generate an empty rpm changelog if none is given. This should help cases where rpmlint would complain about missing a changelog entry in the rpm. (#2041_; Gordon Bleux)
• deb: When converting from an rpm, remove package information that is not valid on Debian systems. (#2053_, #1627; Jordan Stopford, Jamesits)
• python: Fix bug when PYTHONPATH has spaces in it (#2062_; Kristof Willaert)
• deb: You can now choose a different systemd directory with --deb-systemd-path (#2063_; Reinier Schoof)
• freebsd: OS version can now be specified with --freebsd-osversion: (#2064_; David Newhall II)
• freebsd: Improve the 'architecture' value used by fpm to generate freebsd packages (#2064, #1880; David Newhall II, Matthew R Kasun)
• deb: Timer units can be given to --deb-systemd now (#2065, #1978; phillipp, Robert Schneider)
• rpm: When converting cpan packages, use newer perl-interpreter dependency name. To use the old dependency name perl, use the flag --rpm-old-perl-dependency-name (#2066, #2085; Kevin Duret, Nicholas Hubbard, William N. Braswell, Jr., Jordan Sissel))
• Some errors now correctly print just an error message instead of dumping a ruby stack trace (#2067_; Jordan Sissel)
• python: Support modules which download as zip files (#2068, #2074, #2072_; Matt Ezell, hussainbani, hbani)
• rpm: Fix rpm build failures on Fedora 41 (#2082, #2076; Wayne Heaney, Antheas Kapenekakis, Romain Geissler)

New Contributors

• @white-gecko made their first contribution in #2044
• @cwegener made their first contribution in #2023
• @brad made their first contribution in #2057
• @phillipp made their first contribution in #2065
• @davidnewhall made their first contribution in #2064
• @wheaney made their first contribution in #2082
• @SaltwaterC made their first contribution in #2009
• @mattaezell made their first contribution in #2068
• @skoef made their first contribution in #2063
• @willaerk made their first contribution in #2062
• @UiP9AV6Y made their first contribution in #2041
• @chouquette made their first contribution in #2036
• @kduret made their first contribution in #2066
• @JordanStopford made their first contribution in #2053

Full Changelog:

• Release Notes: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/blob/v1.16.0/CHANGELOG.rst#1160-december-8-2024
• Git Commit Log: v1.15.1...v1.16.0