Po desetih letih razvoja RPM je le ta 16.6. prispel do različice 5. Za vse, ki ne veste kaj je RPM oz. ne veste nič o njegovi zgodovini pa si preberite spodnji sestavek:

RPM was originally written in 1997 by Erik Troan and Marc Ewing for
use in the Red Hat Linux distribution. Later the development of RPM
became a classical free software community effort, now lead since many
years by RPM’s primary developer Jeff Johnson. In 2007 the RPM project
was relaunched by Jeff Johnson on a new infrastructure provided by the
OpenPKG project and its Ralf S. Engelschall.