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Fedora Linux 39 Accepted System-Wide Changes
MinGW toolchain update
Update the MinGW toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.
Owners
- Owner: Sandro Mani
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-03-09
- Tracking bug: #2176849
- Release Notes tracker: #970
- Contingency deadline: Before release
- Status: 100% code completed
Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39
Fedora is currently shipping version 2020.3 (released July 10, 2020) of the Thread Building Blocks library. The current upstream version is 2021.8 (released December 22, 2022). The Fedora community has expressed interest in moving the TBB package to track a more modern version of the upstream.
Owners
- Owner: Thomas Rodgers
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-03-06
- Tracking bug: #2175941
- Release Notes tracker: #969
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Remove pam_console
Remove pam_console as it is not enabled by default, can be replaced by systemd and has security issues.
Owners
- Owner: Iker Pedrosa
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-02-02
- Tracking bug: #2166692
- Release Notes tracker: #965
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze.
- Status: Testable
Boost 1.81 upgrade
This change brings Boost 1.81 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.
Owners
- Owner: Thomas Rodgers
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-01-04
- Tracking bug: #2158241
- Release Notes tracker: #946
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Add Fedora Auto Firstboot Services to desktop variants
Add fedora-autofirstboot to desktop variants to run a predetermined set of tasks on first boot after post installation, notably installing codecs and cleaning up installer packages from the installed system.
Owners
- Owner: Neal Gompa
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-02-10
- Tracking bug: #2152200
- Release Notes tracker: #936
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Python 3.12
Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12, the newest major release of the Python programming language.
Owners
- Owner: Lumír Balhar
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-11-11
- Tracking bug: #2135404
- Release Notes tracker: #903
- Contingency deadline: TBD
- Status: Change accepted
Modernize Live Media
Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
Owners
- Owner: Neal Gompa, Matt Coleman
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-03-16
- Tracking bug: #2139918
- Release Notes tracker: #898
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)
Continue the work done in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer but in an officially stable format, and expanded to cover more OSTree-based editions. This goes "all in" on being container-native and significantly changes the technology and user emphasis.
Owners
- Owner: Colin Walters, Joseph Marrero, Brent Baude
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-02-22
- Tracking bug: #2151321
- Release Notes tracker: #933
- Contingency deadline: Dunno
- Status: Change accepted
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS
Acceleration of GnuTLS with software Kernel TLS (KTLS)
Owners
- Owner: František Krenželok, Daiki Ueno
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-02-10
- Tracking bug: #2130000
- Release Notes tracker: #881
- Contingency deadline: 2023-02-21
- Status: Change accepted
Make DNF5 The Default
Make DNF5 the new default packaging tool. The change will replace DNF, YUM, and DNF-AUTOMATIC with the new DNF5 and new Libdnf5 library. The change will mainly impact command-line users of DNF. It is a second step after https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodnf.
Owners
- Owner: Jaroslav Mracek, Vendula Poncova
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-03-09
- Tracking bug: #2166026
- Release Notes tracker: #962
- Contingency deadline: Branch Fedora Linux 39 from Rawhide
- Status: Change accepted
Changes/LegacyXorgDriverRemoval
This change removes the xorg-x11-drv-vesa and xorg-x11-drv-fbdev driver packages, and associated support code from the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package.
Owners
- Owner: Adam Jackson
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-02-22
- Tracking bug: #2078921
- Release Notes tracker: #822
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze seems fine.
- Status: Change accepted
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: 2023-02-10
- Tracking bug: #1915976
- Release Notes tracker: #634
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora Linux 39 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
FontAwesome6
Update the FontAwesome package in Fedora to version 6.x, with a compatibility package for packages still needing 4.x.
- Owner: Jerry James
- Last updated: 2023-03-24
- Status: Change accepted
Mass Retire Golang Leaves
As of Jan 2023, 275/1660 (17%) library only Go source packages are leaves. Overall, these packages are maintained by 35 different maintainers along with the Go SIG. These leaves (by maintainer) will be mass retired in Fedora 39.
- Owner: Maxwell G; Alejandro Sáez Morollón; the Go SIG
- Last updated: 2023-02-17
- Status: Change accepted
Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite
By design, ostree does not manage bootloader updates as they can not (yet) happen in a safe fashion. To solve this issue, bootupd (https://github.com/coreos/bootupd) was created. bootupd is a small socket activated program that takes care of updating the bootloader. It currently only supports EFI booted systems and rpm-ostree based systems. The updates are triggered by an administrator and are not (yet) automated for safety reasons. This change is about enabling bootupd integration in Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite to make bootloader updates easier. bootupd is already used in Fedora CoreOS.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier, Tomáš Popela, Colin Walters
- Last updated: 2023-02-23
- Status: In progress
Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode
rpm-ostree upstream development is focusing on the "unified core" mode and the previous mode is being deprecated. Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite are currently building using the old mode and we've wanted to move over for a while. The main advantage of the unified core mode is that it is stricter and safer, while enabling some post processing steps to happen during or after the image build.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier, Tomáš Popela, Colin Walters
- Last updated: 2023-02-23
- Status: In progress
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: 2023-02-13
- Status: Change accepted