Fedora 12 Beta release notes

This is a DRAFT for feedback. Do not rely on any information here.

Beta is not released yet.

Quick notes:

• Hybrid ISO - earlier revision in Alpha release notes history. Confirm that it works well before adding it here

• Status of http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ in Fedora? How well does it work?

• Moblin - Explain in detail with potentially a screencast

• GNOME Shell - Ogg Screencast possibly with voice over

• Yum Presto - In GNOME and KDE groups. Deltarpms are being generated in Rawhide again.

• http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ClientSideWindows - Eclipse and Adobe Reader needs a workaround

• Abrt - whats the status?

• Anaconda MDRaid - Explain in detail

• Lower Process Capabilities

• http://airlied.livejournal.com/68097.html - explain the details

• http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html - Dan Walsh on SELinux sandbox

• Contact KDE SIG and gather important changes. Phonon has changed to gstreamer backend in Alpha release and was not mentioned. So call it out in the Beta release.

Additional sources:

• Look at F11 Preview release notes and use it as a template

• Read rawhide reports in between alpha and beta release for new packages as well as import changes worth noting here

• Quickly skimp through all threads in fedora-devel and fedora-test list for note worthy changes

• Read Planet Fedora and reference developer blogs when important changes are mentioned

• Consult with QA team and make sure note worth issues are mentioned. If anything needs explicit testing, highlight it

• More details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList. Read the release notes section of each of the approved feature

Unsure status:

Dennis Gilmore mentioned that one of the secondary architectures might have a beta release. Followup on that

Last step:

Once you have a good draft, send it over to the fedora-devel and fedora-test list for feedback. Do it once before a week and once again two days before beta release.