**New Features**

-   Allow $(var) substitution in filenames (#620)
-   Rough prototype of @since processing. (#617)
-   First cut at runfiles support in pkg_* rules (#605)
-   Allow substitution of user-defined variables in RPM preamble (#787)
-   Add %posttrans scriptlet to RPM package (#799)
-   Allow additional RPM macro defines (#794)
-   Bring tar runfiles up to feature parity with pkg_files.runfiles. (#754)
-   Add support for `Obsoletes` tag in RPM definition (#778)
-   pkg_deb: allow data.tar.zst (#761)
-   Add support for failing on file conflicts. (#683)
-   Make pkg_zip compression configurable (#737)
-   Append changelog to RPM spec file (#726)
-   Add basic include_runfiles to pkg_files. (#724)
-   Add changelog attribute to pkg_deb (#725)
-   Add support for setting uid/gid from pkg_attributes (#671)

**Bug Fixes**
-   Explicitly set the FILE bit in zip external attributes. (#802)
-   Explicitly set `%{_builddir}` macro (#792)
-   Only inject pre and post scriptlets when provided (#788)
-   Don't load cc toolchain from rules_cc (#779)
-   doc: Fixup external manual references (#777)
-   Get bzlmod working in CI (#766)
-   use runfiles from rules_python (#768)
-   When pkg_tar.prefix_dir == base of symlink path, don't double-dip. (#749)
-   add imports to fix bazel --noexperimental_python_import_all_repositories flag (#630)
-   Align pkg_rpm returned files with other rules (#692)
-   fix(pkg_tar): properly normalize paths for empty files (#760)
-   Document that package_dir also uses package_variables (#747)
-   Fix handling paths with whitepsaces (#733)
-   Fix python 3.6, doesn't support compresslevel
-   Use Gzip compress level 6 (#720)
-   write debian Date field in UTC rather than local time (#712)
-   [pkg_deb] Fix multiline fields in changes file (#691)

**Incompatible Changes**
-   Remove PackageArtifactsInfo. (#752)

Thanks to: Adam Azarchs, Alex Eagle, August Karlstedt, Austin Schuh, Adrian Vogelsgesang,
flode, Florian Scheibner, Ignas Kaziukėnas, Jean-Hadrien Chabran, Matt,
Mike Kelly, Paul Draper, Sam Schwebach, Tomasz Wojno, Vertexwahn

**MODULE.bazel setup**

```
bazel_dep(name = "rules_pkg", version = "0.10.0")
```

**WORKSPACE setup**

```
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
    name = "rules_pkg",
    urls = [
        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.10.0/rules_pkg-0.10.0.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.10.0/rules_pkg-0.10.0.tar.gz",
    ],
    sha256 = "e93b7309591cabd68828a1bcddade1c158954d323be2205063e718763627682a",
)
load("@rules_pkg//:deps.bzl", "rules_pkg_dependencies")
rules_pkg_dependencies()

```

**Using the rules**

See [the source](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/0.10.0).