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, ; David Newhall II, Matthew R Kasun)
#1880
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 https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2044
@cwegener made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2023
@brad made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2057
@phillipp made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2065
@davidnewhall made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2064
@wheaney made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2082
@SaltwaterC made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2009
@mattaezell made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2068
@skoef made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2063
@willaerk made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2062
@UiP9AV6Y made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2041
@chouquette made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2036
@kduret made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2066
@JordanStopford made their first contribution in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/pull/2053