Fedora 9 Feature List
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Fedora 9 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 9 Release.
CategoryAcceptedFedora9 (alpha order)
% Complete |
Name |
Summary |
Updated |
100% |
Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements |
2008-03-26 |
|
100% |
Improve the support for multiple timezones/locations in the clock applet |
2008-03-03 |
|
100% |
Fix the proliferation of dictionaries in Fedora |
2008-04-07 |
|
100% |
Xen fully virtualized guests will be able to directly boot a kernel and initrd image and pass kernel boot args |
2008-03-15 |
|
100% |
Add ext4 filesystem support |
2008-04-07 |
|
100% |
Add built in encrypted file system support |
2008-04-07 |
|
100% |
Increase response time to 1 second from exec to accepting clients |
2008-04-11 |
|
100% |
Upgrade to Firefox 3 |
2008-04-10 |
|
100% |
Make Identity, Policy and Audit centrally and more easily managed |
2008-04-07 |
|
100% |
Update Fedora to gcc 4.3 |
2008-03-12 |
|
100% |
Update to new upstream Gnome Desktop Manager (gdm) |
2008-04-09 |
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100% |
Gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem with backends for things like sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obexftp, etc. It is the replacement/successor of gnome-vfs |
2008-03-17 |
|
100% |
Provide jigdo support for obtaining Fedora |
2008-03-15 |
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100% |
Replace KDE3.5 with 4.0 and upgrade modules |
2008-04-16 |
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100% |
Live USB images persist between booting |
2008-04-08 |
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100% |
Expand the situations in which NetworkManager can be used and make it more robust |
2008-03-19 |
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100% |
Proper support of GSM and CDMA mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including first-class device support like Ethernet and WiFi devices |
2008-03-19 |
|
100% |
Provide alternative package management system |
2008-04-06 |
|
100% |
Partition resizing at install time |
2008-04-07 |
|
100% |
Update perl in Fedora 9 to 5.10.0 |
2008-03-10 |
|
100% |
Allow users to depsolve and download only the pkgs they need to upgrade their distro while using the older version |
2008-04-10 |
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100% |
Use the capabilities offered by the Xrandr X extension throughout the desktop |
2008-04-09 |
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100% |
Move install selection to second stage of installer |
2008-04-07 |
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100% |
Replace teTeX with TeXLive |
2008-04-10 |
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100% |
Update X server to at least version 1.5 |
2008-04-11 |
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100% |
Replacement for SysVinit that allows service management and event-driven initialization |
2008-04-09 |
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100% |
Extend remote authentication to use Kerberos and PAM |
2008-03-15 |
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100% |
Enable virt-manager to run as a unpriveledged user |
2008-03-15 |
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100% |
Replacing the current forward-ported XenSource code in kernel-xen with the paravirt_ops based implementation from upstream |
2008-04-07 |
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100% |
Introducing and ensuring that all the applications that need only the Gecko browser engine are using XULRunner |
2008-04-10 |
Fedora 9 Proposed Features
The status of proposed features is at the Features Dashboard
The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the Fedora schedule
Features proposed, but not yet accepted for Fedora 9 are here: CategoryProposedFedora9
Not proposed for a specific release: CategoryProposedFeature
Feature Process
The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is here: Feature Process.
Fedora 9 Release Schedule