Fedora 26 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 26 Release as System Wide Changes.
Enable systemd-coredump by default
Enable systemd-coredump by default. Core dumps will be accessible via the coredumpctl tool.
Owners
- Owner: Michael Catanzaro
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-12-19
- Tracking bug: #1405995
- Status: Change accepted
GHC 8.0
Update the GHC Haskell compiler in Fedora from version 7.10 to the current stable version 8.0, with much improved support for aarch64, ppc64, and ppc64le.
Owners
- Owner: Jens Petersen, Haskell_SIG
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-12-05
- Tracking bug: #1401438
- Status: Change accepted
Debugging Information For Static Libraries
This change proposes to ship debugging information in static libraries.
Owners
- Owner: Florian Weimer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-12-05
- Tracking bug: #1401435
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 26 Boost 1.63 upgrade
This change brings Boost 1.63.0 to Fedora 26. This will mean F26 ships with a recent upstream Boost release.
Owners
- Owner: Jonathan Wakely
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-12-05
- Tracking bug: #1401431
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 26 C/C++ Compilation Flags Updates
This change updates the default C/C++ compilation flags, as determined by the redhat-rpm-config package.
Owners
- Owner: Florian Weimer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-11-21
- Tracking bug: #1397147
- Status: Change accepted
Retire Synaptics Driver
Retire the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics driver and remove it from user's install.
Owners
- Owner: Peter Hutterer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-11-14
- Tracking bug: #1394836
- Status: Change accepted
AARCH64 - 48-bit VA
Enable 48bit VA on AARCH64
Owners
- Owner: Jeremy Linton
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-11-14
- Tracking bug: #1394837
- Status: Change accepted
OpenSSL 1.1.0
Rebase of OpenSSL package to 1.1.0 version
Owners
- Owner: Tomáš Mráz
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-10-03
- Tracking bug: #1381131
- Status: Change accepted
DNF 2.0
DNF rebase to version 2.0.
Owners
- Owner: Igor Gnatenko
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-09-19
- Tracking bug: #1377324
- Status: Change accepted
Python 3.6
Update the Python 3 stack in Fedora from Python 3.5 to Python 3.6.
Owners
- Owner: Charalampos Stratakis
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2016-09-05
- Tracking bug: #1373132
- Status: Change accepted
Category:ChangeAcceptedF26 and Category:SystemWideChange
Fedora 26 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 26 Release as Self Contained Changes.
Category:ChangeAcceptedF26 and Category:SelfContainedChange
Authconfig Cleanup
Removal of obsolete and unmaintainable code from Authconfig such as the support for configuring Hesiod and the authconfig GTK2 based GUI and TUI.
- Owner: Tomáš Mráz
- Last updated: 2016-12-19
- Completed: no
Java/OpenJDK enforces the system-wide crypto policy
As it is now, the System-wide crypto policy in F25 is enforced by the OpenSSL, GnuTLS and NSS TLS libraries. To harmonize crypto across all applications in Fedora, including the Java ones, OpenJDK is enhanced to respect the settings of the system-wide crypto policy as well.
- Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Last updated: 2016-12-12
- Completed: no
Zend Framework 3
Update Zend Framework to latest version 3.
- Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
- Last updated: 2016-12-12
- Completed: no
Modular Compose
For Fedora 26, we would like to modify the compose tools (pungi) to produce an additional experimental variant, derived from modules built in the Module Build Service.
- Owner: Ralph Bean
- Last updated: 2016-11-21
- Completed: no
Module Build Service
We will deploy an instance of the Module Build Service to production in Fedora Infrastructure. Other teams will use this service to produce some "modular" content for the Fedora 26 release.
- Owner: Ralph Bean
- Last updated: 2016-11-21
- Completed: no
Blivet-GUI in Anaconda
Add blivet-gui as an alternative option for storage configuration in Anaconda Installer.
- Owner: Vojtěch Trefný
- Last updated: 2016-11-14
- Completed: no
PHP 7.1
Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 7.1.x
- Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
- Last updated: 2016-10-25
- Completed: no
BIND version 9.11
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) version 9.11 is the latest stable major update of the widely used DNS server. Besides new features, some settings defaults have changed since the previous major version (9.10).
- Owner: Michal Ruprich
- Last updated: 2016-10-17
- Completed: no
OpenSSH Crypto Policy (Client)
OpenSSH client will follow system-wide crypto policies already followed by other cryptographic libraries and tools. It will allow to use different security levels defined system-wide.
- Owner: Jakub Jelen
- Last updated: 2016-10-17
- Completed: no