Today we’ve released the first Fedora CoreOS testing release based on Fedora 32. We expect that this release will promote to the stable channel in two weeks, on the usual schedule.

New features include:

• Support for the Ignition 3.1.0 config specification. Use this with the FCC 1.1.0 config specification. For more on the new features, see here.
• It’s now easier to enable SSH password authentication.

There are a few quirks that may affect you:

• New releases are signed with the Fedora 32 key. Accordingly, bare metal installations require coreos-installer 0.2.1 or greater. If you’re installing from media that matches the release you’re installing, you’ll already have the correct installer version.
• Ignition currently fails to set SELinux labels on absolute symlinks. For more info and a workaround, see #512.
• AWS instances may produce a kernel warning on shutdown. For more info, see #507.

On Monday, June 8, we’ll be joining the Fedora QA team for a Fedora CoreOS test day. Join us in #fedora-coreos on Freenode to test Fedora CoreOS based on Fedora 32! For more information, see the mailing list post.

Thanks for helping us make Fedora CoreOS awesome!

Dusty Mabe, for the Fedora CoreOS team