Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!
by Dennis Gilmore
Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14
will launch in early November. Fedora is the leading-edge, community-
developed, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver
innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months.
But... what's that, you say? November is oh, so, far away? Never fear - Beta
is here! Checking out the latest and greatest in Fedora's cutting-edge
technologies is just a click away.
Stand out from the crowd. Get your taste of Fedora 14 ''now,'' by trying out
our Beta release:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF14b
== What is the Beta Release? ==
The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 14. Only critical
bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of
Fedora 14, scheduled to be released in early November. We invite you to
join us and participate in making Fedora 14 a solid release by downloading,
testing, and providing your valuable feedback.
Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list
of the problems we already know about is found at the [[Common F14 bugs]]
page.
If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before
release by reporting your discovery at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thank
you!
== Features ==
Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:
* '''Faster loading and saving of JPEG images.''' The libjpeg-turbo feature
nearly halves the time to load and save JPEG images on most modern machines -
meaning you'll be seeing your digital photos even faster.
* '''Easier virtualization for end users.''' From the creators of KVM comes
Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This framework
allows end-users to enjoy the features they enjoy, such as accelerated 2D
graphics, encryption, and audio playing and recording, all while working in a
virtualized environment.
Are you a sysadmin? Check out the new features we have for you!
* '''Additional IPMI support.''' Enjoy using IPMI (Intelligent Platform
Management Interface) to manage your servers? The new ipmiutil feature adds
more functionality to existing IPMI capabilities, including SOL (Serial-over-
LAN) and identity LED management.
* '''Tech preview of systemd.''' Looking to the future? Check out systemd, a
next-generation replacement for Upstart and SystemV init. With faster boot
times, the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets, and system state
snapshotting, this preview of systemd will have you prepped for the future.
Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:
* '''D Programming.''' Statically typed and compiling directly to machine
code, the D systems programming language combines the power and performance of
languages like C and C++ with the productivity of languages like Ruby and
Python.
* '''GNUstep''' is a GUI framework based on the Objective-C programming
language, and is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment.
* '''Memory debugging tools.''' Unique to Fedora 14, the gdb-heap package
allows developers to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory
- and can do unplanned memory usage debugging by attaching to runaway memory
hogs, mid-process.
* '''Python 2.7''' capabilities increases Fedora's commitment to improving
portability and migration paths for developers to move to Python 3. Enhanced
debugging and integration with GCC continue to be available in Fedora 14, and
Python-related enhancements such as fixing common problems with GObject
introspection and SWIG are also introduced.
* '''Rakudo Star''' is the most actively developed implementation of Perl 6,
and is based on the Parrot virtual machine. Perl 6 is a major revision to
this sysadmin and developer toolbox standby, introducing elements of many
modern and historical languages.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the
new features onboard Fedora 14 is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?wkanF14b
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?wkanF14b
''Fedora 14 / Beta is for Carotene / Let's Push for Final!''
== Contributing ==
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org?wkanF14b
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates,
write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities,
and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To
get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
12 years, 8 months
poppler update to 0.15.0 (0.16 alpha)
by Marek Kasik
Hi all,
I plan to update update poppler in rawhide (Fedora 15) to new
development version 0.15 next week (at Monday, October 4th). Changes
against 0.14.x are:
core:
* Remove exception support
* Improve creation of Annotations
* Fix failure to parse PDF with damaged internal structure.
(Bugs #29189 #3870)
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
* Speed improvements when reading multiple characters from a
given Stream
* Speed improvements in the Splash backend
* Speed improvement in gray color space calculations
* Speed improvement in ICC color space calculations
* Speed improvement when reading some fonts
* Make GBool a bool instead of an int
glib:
* Add GObject introspection support
* Improve creation of Annotations
* Add a way to get the coordinates of each character of a page
* Add a way to get the page label
* Documentation improvements
* Support password protected documents in the demo
* Support for selection in the demo
* Support for adding annotationss in the demo
* Misc improvements in the internals
qt4:
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
* Recognize "Print" as named action
* Documentation improvements
build system:
* Add option for autogen.sh to skip configure
* Nicer autogen.sh output
* Improvements when build the glib frontend with CMake
utils:
* pdftohtml: Use splash instead of external gs invocation to
render the background
* pdftohtml: Let the user specify the resolution of the
background. (Bug #29551)
cpp:
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
+ 2 soname bumps in libpoppler.so.* and libpoppler.glib.so.*.
Please check whether your package builds against this new version of
poppler correctly if you maintain a package which requires it. The new
version has been pushed to git already but not built yet.
Regards
Marek
12 years, 8 months
libedataserverui soname bump in Fedora 14
by Milan Crha
Hi all,
I'm so sorry for a late notice, but there was a soname bump of
libedataserverui library from evolution-data-server package in time for
2.31.91 update, but I didn't notice this change, and because this update
didn't get it to the testing repo, then I realized just now, when I
finished an update to 2.31.92 and pushed it to updates-testing.
Affected packages seems to be these:
almanah
anjal
gnome-panel
It should be enough to just rebuild these against
evolution-data-server-2.31.92, which is still marked for a build system.
The update request url is here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/evolution-mapi-0.31.92-1.fc14,evo...
Bye,
Milan
12 years, 8 months
Fedora 14 Beta Declared GOLD
by John Poelstra
At the Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Beta was
declared GOLD and ready for release on September 28, 2010.
Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible!
===================================================================
#fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Minutes and Logs
===================================================================
Meeting started by poelcat at 21:01:35 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* attendees rbergeron jsmith fenris02 SMParrish stickster jlaska adamw
brunowolff (poelcat, 21:03:17)
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings
(poelcat, 21:03:42)
* review of release criteria and open bugs (poelcat, 21:05:24)
* adamw and jlaska here for qa (poelcat, 21:07:18)
* SMParrish here for devel/FESCo (poelcat, 21:07:28)
* dgilmore representing releng (poelcat, 21:07:38)
* brunowolff is here for Spins SIG (brunowolff, 21:08:00)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Install
<--- install test matrix (adamw, 21:08:11)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Desktop
<--- desktop test matrix (adamw, 21:08:25)
* LINK:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611991&hide_resolved=1
<--- beta blocker list (adamw, 21:08:49)
* AGREED: 627789 is not a beta blocker (adamw, 21:12:54)
* IDEA: create release criteria asserting some level of functionality
of livecd-tools (jlaska, 21:13:03)
* AGREED: move https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789 to
f14blocker (poelcat, 21:15:00)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Install
(adamw, 21:19:50)
* AGREED: publishing a documented updates.img with a fix for 635887 is
an acceptable workaround, move 635887 to be a final blocker (adamw,
21:25:48)
* AGREED: 542255 is not a regression, is of minor impact, and the
question of non-default-spin bugs blocking releases requires further
discussion and clarification, so we will not block the beta for this
bug (adamw, 21:45:26)
* ACTION: there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release
criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD (poelcat, 21:55:34)
* open discussion (poelcat, 21:55:37)
Meeting ended at 21:58:31 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria,
Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* **UNASSIGNED**
* there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria,
Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* adamw (106)
* poelcat (51)
* jlaska (45)
* dgilmore (27)
* jsmith (22)
* brunowolff (9)
* fenris02 (9)
* maxamillion (8)
* stickster (7)
* bcl (6)
* mjg59 (5)
* SMParrish (4)
* zodbot (4)
* rbergeron (4)
* kalev (3)
* mmcgrath (2)
* skvidal (1)
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12 years, 8 months
bodhi v0.7.9 deployed
by Luke Macken
A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number
of bugfixes and enhancements.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
Web UI Changes
==============
- Improved editing functionality
- Only unpush edited updates when builds are altered
- Make a note in the comments of which builds were added/removed
- Allow people to revert their karma vote more than once
- Add mouseover tooltips to the update status with more details
- Prevent different versions of a package from being added to the same update
- Handle more types of bugzilla auto-linking in comments (ex: rhbz#1234)
- Link to the newer update in the obsoleted ones
- Link to gitweb instead of viewvc
- Set default (un)stable karma values if re-enabled
- Anonymous karma has never effected karma, so we now mark them as being ignored
in the interface to make it obvious
- Get the 'suggest reboot' flag working again
- Allow non-critpath updates to be pushed to stable after meeting our critpath
requirements
- Allow maintainers to request that their update be pushed to stable before the
automatic approval job runs, if it already meets the time-in-testing
requirements.
Client Changes
==============
- Add --stablekarma, --unstablekarma, and --disable-autokarma client arguments
- Fix a bug in using `bodhi --push-build=` on multi-build updates
- Add a --bodhi-url command-line option
- Instead of requiring only one argument with a comma separated list of updates,
support several builds as several arguments.
API Changes
===========
- Remove our API pagination query limit of 1000
- Add a new 'author_group' field to each comment in our JSON API
Backend Changes
===============
- Add the new 'dist-fN-updates{-testing,}-pending' tags to builds so AutoQA can
start testing them before they get pushed
- List security & critpath testing updates in our updates-testing digest emails
- Download and inject the pkgtags sqlite db into our repodata from the pkgdb
(which will be utilized by `yum search`)
- Email the proventesters about stale unapproved critical path updates
- Update the bug titles for all security updates before pushing (since security
bug titles frequently change after the update is submitted to reflect the CVE id)
- Improved sanity checking in the masher when resuming pushes
- Properly capture & log stderr from our mash subprocess
- Improved metrics report generator (soon to be integrated into the web
interface)
Bugs & RFEs
===========
Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here:
https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket
12 years, 8 months
