Release Notes, and F23 Change list

[Zach Oglesby]

Fedora 23 is just around the corner and it is time to buckle down and start working on the
release notes. If you are interested in working on this, or you want an easy way to get
more badges please take a look at the [wiki page][1] and sign up to write a beat for the
release notes. If you have question on what a beat is or how to go about writing it please
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documentation][2].


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Now your [change log][3]: (Note: I did not add a synopsis for self contained changes)


1 Fedora 23 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals

1.1 Harden All Packages

  Hardening is the process of securing a system/application by reducing its unnecessary
functions, or restricting access. In Fedora 22 and before, it was up to the package
maintainer to add %global _hardened_build 1 to their spec file to ensure their program was
hardened. Beginning with Fedora 23 this will now become the defaults for all packages.

1.2 Mono 4

  Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.*

1.3 Disable SSL3 and RC4 by default

  This change will disable by default the SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher in
components which use the system wide crypto policy. That is, gnutls and openssl libraries,
and all the applications based on them.

1.4 Perl 5.22

  A new perl 5.22 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl
5.22 should be released 5/20/2015. See 5.21.11 perldelta for more details about preparing
release.

1.5 Default Local DNS Resolver

  To install a local DNS resolver trusted for the DNSSEC validation running on
127.0.0.1:53. This must be the only name server entry in /etc/resolv.conf.

1.6 Fedora 23 Boost 1.59 Uplift

  This change brings Boost 1.58.0 or later to Fedora 23. We generally aim to ship 1.59.0,
as that seems likely to make it (hence the Change name), but 1.58.0 is out and available
now.

1.7 Glibc locale subpackaging

  This change should make it possible to install or uninstall locales individually.

1.8 SELinux policy store migration

  The newest SELinux userspace project release 2015-02-02 includes a change of the
location of the SELinux policy store, which defaults to /var/lib/selinux/.

1.9 Two Week Atomic

  Fedora Atomic Host is an implementation of the Project Atomic pattern for a specialized
operating system for the deployment of containerized applications. For the past two Fedora
releases, we've included an Atomic Host cloud image as a non-blocking deliverable.
However, upstream Atomic is moving very fast — by the end of the alpha, beta, final
stabilization cycle Fedora uses, the released artifact is basically obsolete.
Additionally, the Project Atomic team at Red Hat would like to do their ongoing
development work in the Fedora upstream, and the six-month release cycle does not lend
itself to that.

1.10 Unicode 8.0 support

  Unicode 8.0 got release on 17th June 2015. It includes 41 new emoji characters
(including five modifiers for diversity), 5,771 new ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean, the new Georgian lari currency symbol, and 86 lowercase Cherokee syllables. It
also adds letters to existing scripts to support Arwi (the Tamil language written in the
Arabic script), the Ik language in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte d’Ivoire, and other
languages of Africa. In total, this version adds 7,716 new characters and six new
scripts.

1.11 IBus 1.5.11

  IBus 1.5.11 will have the features of XKB prefix language icons on the panel in KDE 5
and support $HOME/.XCompose file in all desktops.

1.12 Node.js 0.12

  Fedora 23 will be updated to Node.js 0.12, the latest release of the platform built on
Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.

1.13 jQuery

  jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML
document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with
an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of
versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write
JavaScript.

1.14 Layered Docker Image Build Service

  Fedora currently ships a Docker base image, but Docker supports a layering concept.
There are some applications like Cockpit which we would like to ship as layered
applications.


2 Fedora 23 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals

2.1 Cinnamon Spin

2.2 System Firmware Updates

2.3 Cockpit GUI for Domain Controller Role

2.4 Containerized Server Roles

2.5 Frappe Framework

2.6 Cloud MOTD

2.7 Cloud Systemd Networkd

2.8 Local Test Cloud

2.9 RPM MPI Requires Provides

2.10 Sugar 0.106

2.11 ibus-libzhuyin

2.12 npm 2

2.13 Astronomy Spin

2.14 io.js Technology Preview



[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats

[2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_workflow_-_beat_writing

[3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/ChangeSet