Reminder: Fedora 20 end of life on 2015-06-23
by Dennis Gilmore
Greetings.
This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 20.
Fedora 20 will reach end of life on 2015-06-23, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 22, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 20
collection.
Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 20 to a newer release.
Dennis
8 years
Fedora 22 for aarch64 is here!
by Peter Robinson
We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22 for aarch64,
the community-driven and community-built operating system now available
in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions.
If that's all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download
-- or for current users, run the FedUp upgrade tool.
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
In addition to the latest versions of all your favorite free and
open source software, Fedora 22 marks our second release with
distinctly-targeted offerings for cloud computing, the server room,
and the desktops and laptops of software developers and creators
everywhere. Thanks to the hard work of developers, designers,
packagers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and
everyone else, we're incredibly confident in saying that this is
our best and most polished release yet.
Also with this release, we return to our traditional six-month
cadence -- we'll see you back here sometime around Halloween!
Highlights in the Fedora 22 release
===================================
Every Fedora release has its own character. If this release had a
human analogue, it'd be Fedora 21 after it'd been to college,
landed a good job, and kept its New Year's Resolution to go to the
gym on a regular basis. What we're saying is that Fedora 22 has
built on the foundation we laid with Fedora 21 and the work to
create distinct editions of Fedora focused on the desktop, server,
and cloud (respectively). It's not radically different, but there
are a fair amount of new features coupled with features we've
already introduced but have improved for Fedora 22.
Fedora Server
-------------
* Database Server Role -- The Fedora Server edition focuses on easy of
different server roles. Fedora 21 debuted with an Domain Controller
Role featuring FreeIPA. For this release, we've added a Database
Server role, built around PostgreSQL.
* Default to XFS filesystem -- The default file system type for
Fedora Server installs will be XFS running atop LVM for all
partitions except /boot. The /boot partition will remain a non-LVM,
ext4 partition due to technological limitations of the bootloader.
* Cockpit will be compatible between OS releases -- Cockpit is a
server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux
servers via a web browser.
- Easy to use. Cockpit is perfect for new sysadmins, allowing
them to easily perform simple tasks such as storage
administration, inspecting journals and starting and stopping
services.
- No interference. Jumping between the terminal and the web
tool is no problem. A service started via Cockpit can be
stopped via the terminal. Likewise, if an error occurs in the
terminal, it can be seen in the Cockpit journal interface.
- Multi-server. You can monitor and administer several servers
at the same time.
Other changes of note
=====================
Faster and better dependency management with DNF
------------------------------------------------
With Fedora 22, we're introducing a major change under the hood.
Specifically, we're now using DNF and hawkey to manage packages.
DNF is much like the Yum software package manager (it's largely
command-line compatible), but re-written and re-engineered to
provide optimal performance and (along with Hawkey) provide a
strict API definition for plugins and extending projects. DNF also
makes use of the libsolv library initially pioneered by the
openSUSE Project to provide faster and better dependency
management.
It also boasts a better performance and memory footprint vs. Yum,
and is designed to have a cleaner codebase and be easier to
maintain.
If you're using the Fedora 22 Workstation edition, and managing
packages with the Software Application, odds are you won't notice a
difference. Server and Cloud users who fall back on Yum commands
will receive a reminder (courtesy of dnf-yum) that Yum is
deprecated and DNF is now the default package manager. DNF has been
in development for quite some time, so we're confident it's ready
for prime time. The classic Yum command line tool has been renamed
to yum-deprecated as a transitional step for tools still using it.
See Read The Docs for compatibility changes from Yum to DNF in
detail.
GNU Compiler Collection 5
-------------------------
Fedora 22 comes with GCC 5.1 as the primary compiler suite.
Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs
==================================================
You can start by downloading Fedora 22:
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
Fedora's FedUp utility enables an easy upgrade to Fedora 22 from
previous releases. See the FedUp page on the Fedora wiki for more
information:
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
Documentation
-------------
Read the full release notes for Fedora 22, guides for several languages,
and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
* http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora 22 common bugs are documented at:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs
This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in
Fedora 22. Please be sure to read it before installing!
Read this announcement in glorious full color on Fedora Magazine, at
* http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-22-released
and follow the Magazine for regular user-focused articles covering
all things Fedora.
8 years
poppler soname bump in rawhide
by Marek Kasik
Hi,
I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.33.0 during the next week.
There are several API changes and soname bump of the base library
libpoppler.so.*.
I've prepared a scratch build of poppler-0.33.0 against which you can
test your packages. You can find the build here:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9851480
or here:
http://mkasik.fedorapeople.org/poppler/
Poppler developers changed the model they use for releasing.
All releases should be considered stable from now so even the odd ones.
Also, if your package use the unstable API (headers from poppler-devel),
could you consider to change it to use a stable API (glib, qt, C++)?
This would allow us to not ship the headers and rebase to the newest
poppler versions whenever we want not just in Rawhide.
Regards
Marek
8 years
Fedora 22 Final status is Go, release on May 26, 2015
by Jaroslav Reznik
At the Fedora 22 Final Go/No-Go Meeting #2 that just occurred, it was
agreed to Go with the Fedora 22 Final by Fedora QA, Release Engineering
and Development.
Fedora 22 Final will be publicly available on Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
Meeting details can be seen here:
Minutes: http://bit.ly/1Bh2pH1
Log: http://bit.ly/1HzMI5g
Thank you everyone for a great job, sleepless nights validating TCs,
RCs, fixing bugs, composing stuf and everything else needed for
smooth releases. Amazing last three years wrangling releases for me!
Jaroslav
8 years
Fedora 22 Final is No-Go but second sign-off try is tomorrow
by Jaroslav Reznik
Hi!
Today at Fedora 22 Final Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 22
Final is No-Go. More details in meeting minutes [1].
As both bugs we accepted as blocker bugs today are already fixed and RC3
compose is requested, we will try to sign-off the final release tomorrow.
If you are willing to help with release validation, follow standard
channels for RC3 announcement.
The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Friday, May 22 17:00 UTC #fedora-meeting-2
channel.
[1] http://bit.ly/1FFcJ2G
8 years
Fedora 22 Final Release Readiness Meeting :: Thursday, May 21, 19:00 UTC
by Jaroslav Reznik
Fedora 22 Final Release Readiness Meeting.
date: 2015-05-21 place: irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2
time: 19:00 UTC (3 PM EDT, 12 noon PDT, 21:00 CEST)
This Thursday, May 21, we will meet to make sure we are coordinated
and ready for the Final release of Fedora 22 on Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
Please note that this meeting will occur on May 21 even if the
release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours
earlier.
You may received this message several times, but I was asked to open this
meeting to the teams and I'll also hope this will raise awareness and more
team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best
when we have representatives from all of the teams. We also have a badge!
Jaroslav
8 years
F23 System Wide Change: Netizen Spin
by Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Netizen Spin =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Netizen_Spin
Change owner(s): Corey Leong <cleong at fedoraproject dot org>
A Fedora Spin for promoting and supporting internet citizenship and citizen engagement.
== Detailed Description ==
Fedora Netizen is an open source operating system for enabling internet citizens to engage with online services and communities. The goal for Netizen is to pattern the operating system's features after Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which was published in his 1943 paper, "A Theory of Human Motivation". As a professor of pyschology, Abraham Maslow theorized that individuals attempt to experience five stages of needs starting with physiological, safety, social, esteem, and then ending with self-actualization. Beginning with the first level of physiological needs, individuals' motivational needs ascend upwards to higher levels of needs in order, however, only after establishing lower levels of needs first before ascending to the next level.
The philosophy for Netizen closely relates to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by establishing three primary software package levels in a hierarchical model. The first and lowest software package level addresses the need for Netizen Privacy in the areas of personal privacy, informational privacy, and communication privacy. After Netizen Privacy, the second software package level addresses the need for Netizen Security in the areas of data security, local security, and network security. After Netizen Security, the third software package level addresses the need for Netizen Engagement in the areas of publishing, education, and social engagement.
Future Netizen software package levels will address analytics, awareness, design, develop, and others.
== Scope ==
A Netizen theme is the final requirement to be developed per marketing department support of a look and feel in order to replace the current default theme. This is an isolated change.
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has been tested, and release with rest of spins
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
--
Jan Kuřík
8 years
F23 Self Contained Change: Cinnamon Spin
by Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Cinnamon Spin =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Cinnamon_Spin
Change owner(s): Dan Book <grinnz(a)gmail.com>
A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.
== Detailed Description ==
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2. The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell. The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: Track existing Cinnamon desktop environment group, and test the Spin:
* * Boot and auto-login to Cinnamon
* * Functionality of desktop, panel, menu, windows
* * Themes of panel/menu, windows, controls, icons
* * Default panel launchers and menu favorites
* * Install and verify functionality after install
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has been tested, and release with rest of spins
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
--
Jan Kurik
8 years
