Releases/12/FeatureList

Fedora 12 Accepted Features

These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 12 Release.

Category:FeatureAcceptedF12

% Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
70%	Better Webcam Support	Add support for more Webcams	2009-07-09
85%	debuginfo file system	A read-only, internet-mountable filesystem that provides debuginfo (for use with gdb and other debugging tools), and a client service to mount the debuginfo filesystem when needed.	2009-04-06
85%	DisplayPort	Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers	2009-06-19
40%	Dracut	Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd	2009-04-03
75%	Empathy	Set Empathy as the default IM client	2009-06-18
70%	FCoE	Add Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to anaconda's storage code	2009-07-09
30%	KDE 4.3	Rebase to KDE 4.3 and offers new features such as DeviceKit support and Phonon Gstreamer backend as the default	2009-07-14
25%	liblvm	Add liblvm, a userspace library for application interface to LVM	2009-05-08
50%	Mobile Broadband Enhancements	Extended support of mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including display of signal strength when connected, network scanning, network selection, etc.	2009-06-22
15%	Moblin	Add support to Fedora for the Moblin NetBook/NetTop/MID desktop environment.	2009-07-13
10%	Multiseat	Make it simple to configure a system for multiseat operation, where two or more users each have their own keyboard, monitor, and mouse, and can work independently of each other	2009-01-28
25%	NetworkManagerIPv6	Add full IPv6 support to NetworkManager.	2009-07-09
80%	NetworkManager System Connections	Add full support for system-wide connections to NetworkManager.	2009-07-09
75%	NFS Client IPv6	Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6	2009-06-16
80%	Open Shared Root	The open sharedroot project provides abilities to boot multiple linux systems with the same root filesystem providing a single system filesystem based cluster.	2009-07-02
80%	PolicyKit 1.0	PolicyKit provides a flexible framework for granting users access to privileged operations. It is meant to replace the old userhelper approach, and overcome some of its shortcomings. PolicyKit 1.0 addresses architectural shortcomings of the initial PolicyKit design.	2009-07-09
50%	Systemtap Static Probes	allows for tracing specifics of an application on a higher level that is meaningful to the application user so they don't have to know the exact source code details for tracing what is happening	2009-04-28
60%	VirtioSerial	This feature adds a virtio-serial device to guests running on top of qemu and kvm. It exposes multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces.	2009-06-29
100%	VirtgPXE	Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe.	2009-06-27
30%	XI2	XI2 is the second major release of the X Input Extension and allows the simultaneous use of multiple independent input devices.	2009-06-18
25%	XZ Rpm Payloads	Switch RPM to use XZ (the new LZMA format) as default payload compression	2009-06-16
0%	x86 Support	Changing the base architecture to i686 and optimizing for current 32-bit processors	2009-06-15

Customized Fedora 12 Spins

• TBD

Feature Process

• The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
• The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the Fedora 12 Schedule
• Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete