Fedora Linux 38 Accepted System-Wide Changes
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. Note that this behavior is not being turned on by default for this Change.
Owners
- Owner: Matthew Almond, Davide Cavalca, Manu Bretelle
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-08-10
- Tracking bug: #1915976
- Release Notes tracker: #634
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
z13 as the Baseline for IBM Z Hardware
Move the minimal architecture level for IBM Z hardware (the s390x architecture) to z13 to benefit from the new features and better performance in the newer CPU.
Owners
- Owner: Dan Horák
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-08-03
- Tracking bug: #2115105
- Release Notes tracker: #872
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora Linux 38 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
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: 2022-08-15
- Status: Unknown
Haskell GHC 9.0 & Stackage LTS 19
The GHC Haskell compiler will be updated from major version 8.10 to 9.0, and Haskell packages will be updated from Stackage LTS 18 to LTS 19 versions.
- Owner: Haskell SIG
- Last updated: 2022-07-18
- Status: Change accepted
Major upgrade of Microdnf
A major upgrade of Microdnf is the first step in the evolution of package management in Fedora. The new package manager (provided by dnf5 package) has ambitions to provide all major features of DNF without losing its minimal footprint.
- Owner: Jaroslav Mracek
- Last updated: 2022-05-29
- 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: Daiki Ueno, Benjamin Berg
- Last updated: 2022-08-11
- Status: Change accepted
SPDX License Phase 1
Introduce tooling and data allowing package maintainers to transition from Fedora's existing short license names to standardized SPDX license expressions. Update and improve Fedora-legal documentation related to licensing, and move off of wiki.
- Owner: Matthew Miller
- Last updated: 2022-07-18
- Status: Change accepted