Release Notes, and F23 Change list

Tue Jul 21 14:28:09 UTC 2015

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218414
will affect Publican

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 08:05 -0600, William Moreno wrote:
> Is  there any update in the publican package in F22 or rawhide?
> El 21/07/2015 06:44, "Zachary Oglesby" <zach at oglesby.co> escribió:
> 
> >  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 ask on
> > the list, or in irc, or read the documentation on [how to write this
> > documentation][2].
> >
> >
> >  If you have worked on this in the past please visit the page and remove
> > the asterisk (*) from your name to show that you want to work on that beat
> > this time around.
> >
> >
> >  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
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_workflow_-_beat_writing
> >
> > [3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/ChangeSet
> >
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