2026-09-28 Anaconda F45 features

Anaconda F45 features


Date	2026-09-28 to 2026-10-02
Time	all day

Website	QA/Test Days
Matrix	#anaconda:fedoraproject.org^{(other clients\|?)}
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on new features in the Anaconda installer in Fedora 45 - WebUI for Atomic desktops, Remote WebUI and Stratis support (see a Stratis article).

Who's available[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:

Development - Katerina Koukiou (kkoukiou), Martin Kolman (mkolman)
Quality - Lukáš Růžička (lruzicka), Kamil Paral (kparal), Adam Williamson (adamw), Petr Sklenář (psklenar), Jaroslav Groman (jgroman)

You can chat with us on Matrix. See the infobox on top of the page to learn where to join.

Prerequisite for Test Day[edit]

A virtual machine or a bare metal machine
A flash drive with the latest nightly image (alternative download locations: local mirror, master mirror).
- If possible, please download 20260930 or newer image.
- If you have an aarch64 device, you need to pick an installer image (iso) and not a disk image (raw/qcow2).
- Use Fedora Media Writer to write the ISO to the flash drive.
A bare metal or a virtual machine available for installation.
- Make sure you have no important data on that system. Things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!

How to test?[edit]

Visit the results page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the ➕ (plus) button for that test case.

Please also try to experiment and explore and perform tasks not mentioned in any of the pre-defined test cases.

Reporting bugs[edit]

Perhaps you've found an already-reported bug. Please look at:

All new bugs should be reported into Red Hat Bugzilla, in most cases against the anaconda or anaconda-webui (for UI problems) components.

We really need bug reports!
Please note that just mentioning your problem into the comments section on the results page is not very helpful. Very often those problems only happen in specific circumstances, or with specific steps taken. We need the logs and screenshots, and we need to be able to ask you followup questions. Please file bug reports, it's much more useful than a short comment. Thank you!

When filing the bug, it's very helpful to include:

exact steps you've performed (and whether you can reproduce it again)
screenshots or videos, if applicable
system journal (log), which you can retrieve by journalctl -b > journal.txt
all output in a terminal, if started from a terminal
your system description

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask us.

Please make sure to link to the bug when submitting your test result, thanks!

Extra test cases[edit]

Guided partitioning exploration[edit]

In the guided partitioning workflow (that means using only the options in the Installation method tab, without visiting the manual storage editor), try to perform some exploratory testing with one or more disks with some contents.

If you don't feel like exploring and need some particular steps, you can try some of these:

Please add a short comment explaining what you tested when submitting the result. Feel free to test and submit multiple results!

Custom partitioning exploration[edit]

In the custom partitioning workflow (that means visiting the storage editor from the Installation method tab and configuring all your partitioning there), try to perform some exploratory testing with one or more disks with some contents.