Releases/16/FeatureList

Fedora 16 Accepted Features

These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 16 Release.

Category:FeatureAcceptedF16

% Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
70%	Ada developer tools	Tools and bindings for Ada developers.	2011-07-12
100%	Aeolus Conductor	The Aeolus Conductor is a web UI and tools to create and manage cloud instances across a wide variety of cloud types.	2011-05-25
90%	Blender 2.5	Updating Blender to the most recent version. Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.	2011-05-17
90%	Boost 1.47	Update Boost to the upstream (latest) 1.47 release.	2011-07-26
75%	ConsoleKit Removal / Automatic Multi-seat support	Miscellaneous improvements related to session and seat handling.	2011-07-27
67%	1000 System Accounts	Standardize on login.defs as authority for UID/GID space allocation, and move boundary between system and user accounts from 500 to 1000.	2011-08-09
100%	Chrony	Make chrony the default NTP client.	2011-07-22
98%	CloudFS	A "cloud ready" version of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy.	2011-08-01
2%	Cloudstack	Cloudstack is an mature, enterprise-grade, fault tolerant, multi-hypervisor, production-ready IaaS platform.	2011-05-27
98%	Condor Cloud	An IaaS cloud implementation using Condor and the Deltacloud API.	2011-07-26
0%	Eclipse Indigo	Update Fedora's Eclipse stack to Indigo releases.	2011-07-21
90%	GCC Python Plugin	GCC plugin that embeds Python within GCC.	2011-07-26
98%	GHC 7.0.4 and Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1	Glasgow Haskell Compiler update, and accompanying Haskell Platform update.	2011-07-22
25%	GNOME 3.2	Update GNOME 3 to the latest upstream release.	2011-07-26
85%	GNOME Input Integration	Provide a unified input indictator for gnome-shell, allowing users to switch seamlessly between keyboard layouts and input methods.	2011-08-10
85%	GRUB2	Switch to using grub2 instead of grub legacy for boot loading an installed x86 system.	2011-05-24
96%	HAL Removal	Obsoleting HAL daemon (replaced by udisks, upower, libudev).	2011-08-09
99%	KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7	Rebase to KDE Plasma Workspace 4.7. including Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform.	2011-07-26
90%	libvirt networking support enhancements	Enhanced Networking support in libvirt.	2011-07-08
100%	Matahari	Matahari is a collection of APIs accessible over remote and local interfaces for system monitoring and management.	2011-07-07
30%	New mkdumprd for kdump	A replacement for mkdumprd of kexec-tools, to switch to dracut to generate the initrd for kdump kernel.	2011-07-11
100%	nss-myhostname	Enable nss-myhostname by default on all installations.	2011-08-10
95%	pacemaker-cloud	Application service high availability in a cloud environment.	2011-07-05
99%	Perl 5.14	Update Perl to 5.14.	2011-07-26
100%	Sheepdog	Simple, object based storage, that is distributed and replicated.	2011-07-19
75%	Spice 0.10	Spice aims to provide a complete open source solution for virtualized desktops. Spice 0.10 addsfeatures such as USB sharing between guests, and audio volume messages between guest and client.	2011-07-12
40 or 80%	Static analysis of CPython extensions	Static analysis tool for detecting common mistakes made in Python extension modules written in C.	2011-07-11
0%	SysV to Systemd	Porting from sysVinit init scripts to systemd unit file.	2011-05-18
0%	Sugar 0.94	Provide the latest Sugar Learning Environment, including an enhanced activity set to provide an stable demo environment for Sugar as well as an environment for developers.	2011-07-11
70%	TigerVNC 1.1	Newest release of TigerVNC, which includes support for VNC traffic encryption and PAM integration.	2011-06-12
75%	Trusted Boot	Trusted boot (tboot) is a pre-kernel/ VMM module for performing measured and verified launches of OS kernels/VMMs.	2011-08-18
75%	USB Network Redirection	Allow redirection of USB devices to other machines over the network.	2011-06-27
90%	Unified Problem Reporting UI	Unification of the UI for all problem reporting programs (mechanisms) in Fedora, so as to provide the user only one UI when reporting a problem.	2011-08-09
90%	Use Ext4 driver for Ext3 and Ext2 filesystems	Enable the ext4 driver to register ext3 and ext2 filesystems as well, and to mount those filesystems unchanged.	2011-08-09
60%	Virtual Machine Lock Manager	Virtual machine lock manager daemon.	2011-05-07
86%	Virt-manager Guest Inspection	Virt-manager displays the operating system and applications within a guest, and allows the filesystems and Windows Registry of a guest to be browsed (read-only).	2011-08-09
15%	Virtualization Sandbox	The 'virt-sandbox' tool can be used to run applications inside a sandbox built with one or more of the libvirt virtualization drivers.	2011-05-07
75%	Xen Pvops Dom0	pvops-based kernel to serve as dom0 for a Xen-based system.	2011-07-24

Fedora 16 Spins

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Spins

Feature Process

• The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
• The deadline for proposing new features is the Feature Submission Deadline Fedora 16 Schedule
• Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete