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Fedora 35 Accepted System-Wide Changes

Switching Cyrus Sasl from BerkeleyDB to GDBM

cyrus-sasl package was built with libdb requirement, now it is replaced by gdbm.

Owners

• Owner: Dmitry Belyavskiy

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-05-03
• Tracking bug: #1952926
• Release Notes tracker: #688
• Contingency deadline: F35 branch date (2021-08-10)
• Status: Change accepted

Autoconf-2.71

Autoconf upgrade from version 2.69 to the last upstream version 2.71 in Fedora.

Owners

• Owner: Ondrej Dubaj

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1936597
• Release Notes tracker: #661
• Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide (2021-08-10)
• Status: Change accepted

Changes/Binutils 2.36

Rebase the binutils package from version 2.35.1 to version 2.36.

Owners

• Owner: Nick Clifton [1]

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-01-25
• Tracking bug: #1920226
• Release Notes tracker: #641
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Broken RPATH will fail rpmbuild

Enable broken RPATH detection buildroot policy script by default. This will make the RPM build fail once a broken RPATH was detected within a binary or a shared library file. An opt-out mechanism will be provided as well.

Owners

• Owner: Charalampos Stratakis

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-09
• Tracking bug: #1964548
• Release Notes tracker: #700
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Finished

CompilerPolicy Change

Fedora has historically forced packages to build with GCC unless the upstream project for the package only supported Clang/LLVM. This change proposal replaces that policy with one where, given a good technical reason, a packager may:

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-05-13
• Tracking bug: #1960295
• Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler: not externally facing> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler: not externally facing>
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

DNS Over TLS

Fedora will attempt to use DNS over TLS (DoT) if supported by configured DNS servers.

Owners

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-02-10
• Tracking bug: #1889901
• Release Notes tracker: #590
• Contingency deadline: can be done at any time, before F34 beta freeze would be best
• Status: Change accepted

Boost 1.76 upgrade

This change brings Boost 1.76 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.

Owners

• Owner: Thomas Rodgers

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Tracking bug: #1982394
• Release Notes tracker: #711
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

MinGW environment and toolchain update

Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.

Owners

• Owner: Sandro Mani

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-08
• Tracking bug: #1980422
• Release Notes tracker: #709
• Contingency deadline: Before release
• Status: 100% code completed

"Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release

"Fedora" is the name of our project. Our general-purpose Linux distribution is "Fedora Linux". Let's refer to it that way in the OS itself.

Owners

• Owner: Matthew Miller

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-03-29
• Tracking bug: #1944428
• Release Notes tracker: #664
• Contingency deadline: Decision should be made at beta, but in the unlikely event of disaster this could be reverted right up until the last minute.
• Status: Change accepted

Make btrfs the default file system for Fedora Cloud

For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.

Owners

• Owner: David Duncan, Chris Murphy, Josef Bacik, Michel Alexandre Salim, Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa, Dusty Mabe, Matthew Almond

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-15
• Tracking bug: #1972376
• Release Notes tracker: #702
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Testable

Build Fedora Cloud Images with Hybrid BIOS+UEFI Boot Support

With recent changes in public cloud widely accepting the use of UEFI boot, it would be consistent to add hybrid boot in support of both unifying the legacy (BIOS) and UEFI boot to the Fedora Linux cloud base images.

Owners

• Owner: David Duncan, Chris Murphy, Michel Alexandre Salim, Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa, Dusty Mabe

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-21
• Tracking bug: #1972377
• Release Notes tracker: #703
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Testable

Filtered Flathub Applications

Enabling third-party repositories will now create a Flathub remote that is a filtered view of Flathub.

Owners

• Owner: Owen Taylor, Neal Gompa [on behalf of the KDE SIG]

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1982741
• Release Notes tracker: #717
• Contingency deadline: release candidate
• Status: Change accepted

Update firewalld to v1.0.0

Firewalld upstream is about to release v1.0.0. As indicated by the major version bump this includes behavioral changes.

Owners

• Owner: Eric Garver

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Tracking bug: #1982395
• Release Notes tracker: #712
• Contingency deadline: July 27, 2021
• Status: Change accepted

More flexible use of SSSD fast cache for local users

Allow to switch SSSD’s fast cache for local users on and off at runtime and do not start it by default anymore.

Owners

• Owner: Sumit Bose

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-05-19
• Tracking bug: #1962086
• Release Notes tracker: #699
• Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.37, gdb 10.2)

Switch the Fedora 35 GNU Toolchain to gcc 11 (latest point release), binutils 2.37, and glibc 2.34.

Owners

• Owner: Carlos O'Donell

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1982744
• Release Notes tracker: #718
• Contingency deadline: Upstream glibc ABI freeze deadline of 2021-07-01.
• Status: Change accepted

Golang 1.17

Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.17 in Fedora 35, including the rebuild of all dependent packages(the pre-release version of Go will be used for the rebuild if released version will not be available at the time of the mass rebuild).

Owners

• Owner: Alejandro Sáez Morollón, Jakub Čajka

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Tracking bug: #1982397
• Release Notes tracker: #713
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze(?)
• Status: Change accepted

IBus 1.5.25

IBus 1.5.25 will use transfiletriggerin script to generate the cache file instead of posttrans script in each engine package, support the include directive in the user compose file, IBus compose feature will follow the GTK4 compose pre-edit style, the emoji shortcut key will be changed to Ctrl-period, IBus GTK4 module will proceed the key events synchronistically to follow GTK4 specification.

Owners

• Owner: Takao Fujiwara

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1982747
• Release Notes tracker: #719
• Contingency deadline: Beta release
• Status: Change accepted

LLVM 13

Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora to version 13.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Tracking bug: #1982397
• Release Notes tracker: #714
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

LTO Build Improvements

Currently all packages that are not opted out of LTO include -ffat-lto-objects in their build flags. This proposal would remove -ffat-lto-objects from the default LTO flags and only use it for packages that actually need it.

Owners

• Owner: Jeff Law

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-01-18
• Tracking bug: #1916921
• Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler, not user-facing> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler, not user-facing>
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Testable

Memory Constraints macros for RPM

Introduce macros, similar to openSUSE's memory-constraints), for optionally limiting build parallelism for build-time memory-bound packages

Owners

• Owner: Michel Alexandre Salim

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1982748
• Release Notes tracker: <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - no external impact> <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - no external impact>
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL

Fix Fedora upgradability issues when upgrading systems with module streams enabled.

Owners

• Owner: Daniel Mach

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-02-08
• Tracking bug: #1834844
• Release Notes tracker: #506
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Node.js 16.x by default

The latest release of Node.js to carry a 30-month lifecycle is the 16.x series. As with 14.x, 12.x, 10.x and 8.x before it, Fedora 35 will carry 16.x as the default Node.js interpreter for the system. The 14.x and 12.x interpreters will remain available as non-default module streams.

Owners

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-05-17
• Tracking bug: #1961211
• Release Notes tracker: #697
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

OpenSSL3.0

The OpenSSL package is rebased to version 3.0 and the dependent packages are rebuilt.

Owners

• Owner: Sahana Prasad

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-23
• Tracking bug: #1825937
• Release Notes tracker: #494
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Patches in Forge macros - Auto macros - Detached rpm changelogs

redhat-rpm-config will be updated to add patching support to forge macros, a plug-able framework to register macros to execute in specific sections, and rpm changelogs in detached files.

Owners

• Owner: Nicolas Mailhot

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-02-24
• Tracking bug: #1866896
• Release Notes tracker: #545
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Perl 5.34

A new perl 5.34 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.34 will be released in May 20th 2021. See 5.34.0 perldelta for more details about new release.

Owners

• Owner: Michal Josef Špaček

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-22
• Tracking bug: #1962075
• Release Notes tracker: #698
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Python 3.10

Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.9 to Python 3.10, the newest major release of the Python programming language.

Owners

• Owner: Miro Hrončok

Tracking

• Last updated: 2020-11-03
• Tracking bug: #1890881
• Release Notes tracker: #603
• Contingency deadline: TBD
• Status: 100% code completed

Python Packaging Guidelines overhaul

The Python Packaging guidelines will be rewritten, with the major changes being PyPI parity and usage of upstream metadata.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Viktorin, Python SIG

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-30
• Tracking bug: #1977883
• Release Notes tracker: <will not be assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing> <will not be assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing>
• Contingency deadline: N/A (Any time until old guidelines are retired, in a separate Change)
• Status: Change accepted

Reduce dependencies on python3-setuptools

We'll do two things to reduce the number of Python packages unnecessarily Requiring python3-setuptools:

Owners

• Owner: Miro Hrončok

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-04-19
• Tracking bug: #1946642
• Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: mass rebuild
• Status: 100% code completed

Remove authselect-compat package

Authselect replaced authconfig tool in Fedora 28. To enable some level of backwards compatibility, it ships the authconfig command as a wrapper around authselect calls in package "authselect-compat". Authselect is now well adopted and the shim compatibility layer should be removed by removing the authselect-compat package.

Owners

• Owner: Pavel Březina

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-06
• Tracking bug: #1979622
• Release Notes tracker: #707
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

RPM 4.17

Update RPM to the 4.17 release.

Owners

• Owner: Panu Matilainen

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-23
• Tracking bug: #1951105
• Release Notes tracker: #684
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Testable

rpmautospec - removing release and changelog fields from spec files

The goal of this change is to deploy in production the rpmautospec project.

Owners

• Owner: Pierre-Yves Chibon, Nils Philippsen

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-06-18
• Tracking bug: #1945406
• Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: N/A (this isn't tied to a Fedora release)
• Status: Testable

DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants

RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as it reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in btrfs, which is the default filesystem starting from Fedora 33 for most variants.

Owners

• Owner: Matthew Almond, Davide Cavalca

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-06
• Tracking bug: #1915976
• Release Notes tracker: #634
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Third-party Software Mechanism

Update mechanism for opting-in to "Third-Party Software Repositories" so that the repositories are immediately enabled.

Owners

• Owner: Owen Taylor

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-15
• Tracking bug: #1982749
• Release Notes tracker: #720
• Contingency deadline: beta freeze
• Status: Not being worked on

Use yescrypt as default hashing method for shadow passwords

Make the yescrypt hashing method the default method used for new user passwords stored in /etc/shadow.

Owners

• Owner: Björn Esser

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-07-02
• Tracking bug: #1975402
• Release Notes tracker: #706
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: 100% code completed

Fedora 35 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

Debuginfod By Default

Fedora users / developers who need to debug/trace distro binaries can make use of the recently activated elfutils-debuginfod servers to automatically fetch debugging data and source code, instead of having to use # sudo dnf commands.

• Owner: Aaron Merey
• Last updated: 2021-06-10
• Status: 100% code completed

Erlang 24

Update Erlang/OTP to version 24.

• Owner: Peter Lemenkov, Fedora Erlang SIG, Randy Barlow, Jeremy Cline
• Last updated: 2021-04-21
• Status: Change accepted

Add Fedora Kinoite as a variant

Introduce Fedora Kinoite as a variant of Fedora alongside Fedora Silverblue.

• Owner: Timothée Ravier
• Last updated: 2021-06-02
• Status: Testable

glibc 32 Build Adjustments

The glibc32 package is a special package used by gcc and a few other packages to work around the lack of RPM multilib repository support in Koji. It is difficult to maintain, and the current approach raises questions regarding (L)GPL compliance.

• Owner: Florian Weimer
• Last updated: 2021-04-19
• Status: Unknown

libmemcached-awesome

Switch from libmemcached to libmemcached-awesome

• Owner: Remi Collet
• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Status: Change accepted

Libvirt Modular Daemons

Historically all libvirt functionality was provided in the monolithic libvirtd daemon. Upstream has developed a new modular architecture for libvirt where each driver is run in its own daemon. Primarily this provides better robustness as a flaw in a secondary daemon will not affect the QEMU daemon and vica-versa. It should also have slightly lower host startup overhead, because only the installed hypervisor daemon(s) will need to be fully started on boot, the other daemons can be socket activated on demand.

• Owner: Daniel Berrange
• Last updated: 2021-07-07
• Status: Change accepted

Optimal LUKS Encryption Sector Size

Autodetect optimal encryption sector size during Fedora installation with LUKS/dm-crypt encryption. On devices with 4k (physical) sector size, this will make sure we use 4096 sector size which is optimal for these devices.

• Owner: Ondrej Kozina, Vojtech Trefny
• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Status: Change accepted

Modular GNOME Keyring services

The monolithic daemon provided by GNOME Keyring will be split into dedicated sub-daemons, so that they can be consistently managed by systemd.

• Owner: Benjamin Berg
• Last updated: 2021-02-17
• Status: Change accepted

Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module

Change the openldap-servers package so that BDB and HDB backends are required to be dynamically loaded.

• Owner: Simon Pichugin
• Last updated: 2021-02-10
• Status: Change accepted

PHP 8.0

Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 8.0.x

• Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
• Last updated: 2021-03-05
• Status: 100% code completed

Rename libusb packages and deprecate old API

Rename libusb to libusb-compat-0.1 and libusbx to libusb1. Do not provide an automated update path for the old libusb build dependency as packages should–and likely can–be updated to use libusb1.

• Owner: Benjamin Berg
• Last updated: 2021-03-03
• Status: Testable

Replace the Anaconda product configuration files with profiles

In Anaconda, we would like to introduce profile configuration files and remove the support for product configuration files.

• Owner: Vendula Poncova
• Last updated: 2021-07-01
• Status: Testable

Retire python3.5

The python3.5 package will be retired without replacement from Fedora 35. Python 3.5 has been End of Life since September 2020 and was kept around only to test software targeting Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” LTS and Debian 9 “Stretch” LTS. The removal is more or less aligned with Debian 9 EOL (2022-06-30) -- Fedora 34 EOLs on 2022-05-17. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS EOLs sooner, in April 2021.

• Owner: Miro Hrončok
• Last updated: 2021-02-03
• Status: Change accepted

Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0

This Change proposes to replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0.

• Owner: Neal Gompa
• Last updated: 2021-06-10
• Status: Testable

Smaller Container Base Image (remove sssd-client, util-linux)

This change proposes to remove 2 packages (sssd-client, util-linux) from the Container Base Image (including the minimal image). The Fedora Base Image is still quite large compared to other distributions and the tools offered by these packages are not essential in base image.

• Owner: Clément Verna
• Last updated: 2021-04-19
• Status: Change accepted

SOF as default audio driver for Intel LPE hardware

Intel LPE audio hardware has 2 drivers in the mainline kernel the SST driver and the SOF driver, switch the default driver from SST to SOF.

• Owner: Hans de Goede
• Last updated: 2021-04-21
• Status: Change accepted

Sphinx 4

Sphinx 4, popular Python documentation generator and framework, has been released in May 2021. It brings many bug fixes, new features including breaking changes and removes long deprecated functions.

• Owner: Karolina Surma
• Last updated: 2021-06-18
• Status: 100% code completed