2.10.0-RC2 - released 2026-05-20

Changelog

Since 2.10.0-RC1, fixes in 2.9.6 - 2.9.8, many of which security relevant, are also included
Since 2.10.0-RC1 a lot of the new filter list config format was modified - see #12786 for the latest state of this new feature
Added a new policy config block to control all security related update/install/audit policies. This replaces and deprecates most of the audit config (#12804 for implementation, #12786 for RFC/upgrade docs)
Enabled blocking of malware packages at install time by default
Fixed --no-plugins handling regression (#12789)
Fixed regression in startup performance when many scripts are defined (#12832)
Improved classmap dumping performance