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Fedora 17 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 17 Release.
| % Complete | Name | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | Boost 1.48 | Update Boost to the upstream (latest) 1.48 release. | 2011-12-17 |
| 0% | BTRFS Default File system | Make BTRFS the default file system for normal installs. | 2011-11-15 |
| 75% | ConsoleKit Removal and Automatic Seat Support | A grab-bag of little cleanups and improvements all related to session and seat handling. | 2011-12-19 |
| 90% | DRI2 Drivers Only | Ship only DRI2 3D drivers in F17. | 2011-12-15 |
| 90% | Ext4 support beyond 16T | Support for ext4 filesystems larger than 16T (2^32 blocks). | 2012-01-09 |
| 50% | D Programming Language | Updates to D programming language environment. | 2011-12-06 |
| 50% | Software rendering for gnome-shell | Make gnome-shell work with software-rendering on most hardware]] | 2011-12-14 |
| 100% | Inscript 2 Keymaps | m17n keymaps for Indic languages follow new Enhanced Inscript draft standard(Inscript2). | 2011-11-15 |
| 75% | Multitouch support | Multitouch support in the plumbing layers of the desktop stack. | 2011-12-15 |
| 70% | Password quality checking | Provide unified and configurable way to check quality of new passwords on the system. | 2011-12-12 |
| 100% | KDE Plasma Dependency Generation and PackageKit Integration | Add automatically-generated RPM dependencies for services related to KDE Plasma and PackageKit hooks to use them to Plasma. | 2011-12-03 |
| 50% | Thin Provisioning | Provide the thin provisioning Device Mapper (DM) target and supporting userspace utilities. | 2011-12-08 |
| 50% | Move all to /usr | Provide a simple way of mounting almost the entire installed operating system read-only, atomically snapshot it, or share it between multiple hosts to save maintenance and space. | 2011-11-22 |
| 80% | ns-3 Network Simulator | A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. | 2011-12-05 |
| 30% | SysV to Systemd | Porting from sysVinit init scripts to systemd unit files. | 2011-11-04 |
| 40% | virtio-scsi | A new storage architecture for KVM based on SCSI. | 2011-07-14 |
Fedora 17 Spins
Feature Process
- The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
- The deadline for proposing new features is the Feature Submission Deadline Fedora 17 Schedule
- Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete