On October 16, 2026, Red Hat engineer Panu Matilainen filed a proposal to move Fedora 46 from the RPM v4 package format to RPM v6, a 'largely invisible' modernization that will prepare the RHEL 11 base. For administrators and third-party repository maintainers, now is the time to confirm their tooling still reads the headers.

On Saturday, September 5, 2026, the PGP key that signs GitHub CLI’s APT and RPM repositories expires, and any gh install done before April 8 without a keyring update will start failing. Check your local keyring before the deadline and add the replacement key 7F38BBB59D064DBCB3D84D725612B36462313325.