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Fedora has always contained a rich set of development tools.  The following are highlights of the many improvements to the development tools included in this release of Fedora.
== Jenkins ==


==== gcc ====
The official Fedora repositories now include Jenkins, an application written in Java that provides continuous integration services for software development. Jenkins allows you to build and test software projects continuously, as well as to monitor executions of jobs that were ran externally.
 
Fedora 17 includes version 4.7.0 of '''gcc''', '''gcc-c++''', '''gcc-gfortran''', '''gcc-objc''', and '''gcc-gnat'''. The update includes  numerous changes to the gcc series of compilers, not only C and C++, but also to Ada and Fortran.  For complete details, refer to the GCC 4.7 Release Series Changes at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html.
 
Some highlights:
 
* Several obsoleted architectures including IRIX 6.5, MIPS OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX 5.1 and a number of legacy ARM platforms
* Support for OpenMP 3.1 on C, C++ and Fortran
* More support for the C11 and C++11 standards updates
* New debug flexibility for Ada
* A number of performance improvements in Fortran
* Many optimizer enhancements
* New platforms:
** ARM Cortex A7
** AVR XMEGA
** Texas Instruments C6X
** National Semiconductor's CR16
** Tilera TILE-Gx and TILEPro families
* In addition, there are platform-specific improvements in ARM, AVR, IA-32/x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC/PowerPC64, SH and SPARC.
 
 
==== gdb ====
 
Fedora 17 now includes '''gdb''' 7.4.50.20120120.  To review the many new features please visit http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT
 
 
==== doxygen ====
 
In addition to numerous bugfixes, '''doxygen''' 1.7.6.1 includes:
* The selected member is now briefly highlighted in the HTML output (when GENERATE_TREEVIEW is enabled).
* The navigation tree (GENERATE_TREEVIEW) now shows the same information as the index.
* The navindex section of layout now also controls what is shown in the navigation tree.
* When a class/structs has many (>15) members of the same type, only the first 10 are shown in the UML diagram.
* Made the output of the javascript based search engine more compact.
* Update of the French translation.
* Added support for PHP heredoc and nowdoc constructs.
* Added support for cross-referencing in case of operator-> overloading. This includes support for std::auto_ptr,std::smart_ptr,std::unique_ptr and std::weak_ptr when BUILTIN_STL_SUPPORT is enabled.
 
Project site: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html
 
 
==== emacs ====
 
GNU Emacs is updated to the latest prerelease from upstream, 24.0.93
 
 
==== git ====
 
 
'''git''' has been updated to 1.7.9.  Fedora 16 included 1.7.7.
 
There are numerous small feature additions.  The interested reader should review the
[https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt  changes since 1.7.8] and [https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt  changes since 1.7.7] in the upstream release notes.
 
 
==== rcs ====
 
The venerable revision control system ('''rcs''') has been updated to 5.8.
 
Updates include:
 
* License now GPLv3+
* Change in terminology: from "path" to "file name" (or "file-name")
* Changes to the RCS package
** New documentation in Info format
** Dropped configure option: --with-diffutils
** Configuration more strict in some ways, more lax in others.
** New configure option: --enable-suid[=setreuid]
** New configure option: --disable-mmap
** New configure option: --enable-mailer=PROG
** New configure option: --enable-compat2
** You can "make check" prior to "make install".
* Bug fixes
** Remove all edit info when removing all revisions.
** Code no longer uses mktemp.
** Misc manpage tweaks / fixes.
* Other changes
** All commands accept ‘--help’ and ‘--version’.
** A string of all digits is now valid for author, state.
** Env var RCS_MEM_LIMIT controls stdio threshold.
** RCS can now work with files larger than 2 gigabytes.
** Pass-through for RCS file ‘commitid SYMBOL’ now builtin.
** RCS file top-level grammar frozen.
** RCS file syntax-validated earlier, completely.
** Possible to specify an empty log message with ci -m, rcs -m.
** Date option accepts some more date-only formats
* Changes to rcsdiff
** New handling for option: -U N
** Refined "same-revision don't call diff" optimization
 
 
==== subversion ====
 
The version control system '''subversion''' has been updated from 1.6.17 to 1.7.3.  Numerous changes include better use of HTTP, a new remote dumpfile tool, and improved console output, in addition to numerous minor changes.  The reader is encouraged to visit http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html for more information on these improvements.
 
 
==== bugzilla ====
 
'''bugzilla''' 4.0.4 fixes a number of security issues with previous versions. In addition, the new release permits system administrators to disable autocomplete and corrects a number of minor bugs.  Refer to http://www.bugzilla.org/ for details.
 
 
==== bzr ====
 
Friendly distributed version control system
 
  Old Version: 2.4.0 -> New Version: 2.5
 
Project site: (http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/)
 
 
==== highlight ====
 
Fedora 17 includes '''highlight''' 3.7.  Improvements over version 3.6 include:
* support for Biferno
* support for RPL
* support for Ceylon
* fixed Ruby definition
* HTML font string may contain a list of fonts, which is not enclosed in quotes
* added --portable command line option to save config files in the current  working directory instead of the user directory
 
 
==== mercurial ====
 
'''mercurial''' has been upgraded to 2.1.  The interested reader should visit http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew for a detailed list of new features and bugfixes.
 
 
==== monodevelop ====
 
'''monodevelop''' 2.8.5 is included in Fedora 17.  Among the numerous new features:
 
* Project Management
** New Edit References dialog
** Improved Class and Document Outline pads
* Source Editing
** New editor for syntax hilighting color schemes
** New default syntax hilighting color scheme
* Several fixes and enhancements to the Version Control support and to SVN support in particular adding a project which contains linked files to version control is now handled correctly
 
Visit the project we site at http://monodevelop.com/ for further details.


For additional information, see the [https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Meet+Jenkins Meet Jenkins] webpage.


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Jenkins

The official Fedora repositories now include Jenkins, an application written in Java that provides continuous integration services for software development. Jenkins allows you to build and test software projects continuously, as well as to monitor executions of jobs that were ran externally.

For additional information, see the Meet Jenkins webpage.