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Fedora Linux 36 Accepted System-Wide Changes

Autoconf-2.71

Autoconf upgrade from version 2.69 to the last upstream version 2.71 in Fedora.

Owners

• Owner: Ondrej Dubaj

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-26
• Tracking bug: #1936597
• Release Notes tracker: #661
• Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide (2021-08-10)
• Status: 100% code completed

DNS Over TLS

Fedora will attempt to use DNS over TLS (DoT) if supported by configured DNS servers.

Owners

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-10-12
• Tracking bug: #1889901
• Release Notes tracker: #590
• Contingency deadline: can be done at any time, before F34 beta freeze would be best
• Status: Change accepted

Install only newly recommended packages on upgrades with dnf/PackageKit/microdnf

We would like to change a default behavior dnf/PackageKit/microdnf to install only newly recommended packages on upgrades. Internally we will change exclude_from_weak_autodetect configuration option to True. exclude_from_weak_autodetect enables autodetection of unmet weak dependencies (Recommends or Supplements) of installed packages and blocks installation of packages satisfying already unmet dependencies. In other words: When you don't have the recommended package installed, it won't be automatically installed with future upgrades of the recommending package.

Owners

• Owner: Jaroslav Mracek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-10-12
• Tracking bug: #2013327
• Release Notes tracker: #743
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

MinGW debug symbols location change

Store debug files of mingw PE binaries below /usr/lib/debug.

Owners

• Owner: Sandro Mani

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-25
• Tracking bug: #1997493
• Release Notes tracker: #742
• Contingency deadline: Before release
• Status: 100% code completed

Golang 1.17

Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.17 in Fedora 36, including the rebuild of all dependent packages(the pre-release version of Go will be used for the rebuild if released version will not be available at the time of the mass rebuild).

Owners

• Owner: Alejandro Sáez Morollón, Jakub Čajka

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-24
• Tracking bug: #1982396
• Release Notes tracker: #713
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze(?)
• Status: Change accepted

libffi 3.4

Update libffi in Fedora 36 from libffi 3.1 to libffi 3.4 (released June 28 2021), and provide a libffi3.1 compatibility package to handle the library SONAME transition.

Owners

• Owner: Carlos O'Donell

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-05
• Tracking bug: #1990553
• Release Notes tracker: #736
• Contingency deadline: 2021-08-24
• Status: Change accepted

Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL

Fix Fedora upgradability issues when upgrading systems with module streams enabled.

Owners

• Owner: Daniel Mach

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-24
• Tracking bug: #1834844
• Release Notes tracker: #506
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

OpenSSL3.0

The OpenSSL package is rebased to version 3.0 and the dependent packages are rebuilt.

Owners

• Owner: Sahana Prasad

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-04
• Tracking bug: #1825937
• Release Notes tracker: #494
• Contingency deadline:
• 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

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-08-10
• Tracking bug: #1915976
• Release Notes tracker: #634
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora Linux 36 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

glibc 32 Build Adjustments

The glibc32 package is a special package used by gcc and a few other packages to work around the lack of RPM multilib repository support in Koji. It is difficult to maintain, and the current approach raises questions regarding (L)GPL compliance.

• Owner: Florian Weimer
• Last updated: 2021-08-10
• Status: Unknown

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: Benjamin Berg
• Last updated: 2021-08-10
• Status: Change accepted

Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module

Change the openldap-servers package so that BDB and HDB backends are required to be dynamically loaded.

• Owner: Simon Pichugin
• Last updated: 2021-08-11
• Status: Change accepted

PHP 8.1

Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 8.1.x

• Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
• Last updated: 2021-10-15
• Status: 100% code completed

Remove nscd

This proposal intends to remove the nscd cache for named services in Fedora 35. nscd is already planned for deprecation in Fedora 34. The functionality it currently provides can be achieved by using systemd-resolved for DNS caching and the sssd daemon for everything else.

• Owner: Arjun Shankar
• Last updated: 2021-07-14
• Status: Change accepted

Retired Packages

Easy the task of removing packages, which were retired and no longer receives updates.

• Owner: Miroslav Suchý
• Last updated: 2021-10-28
• Status: Change accepted

Setuptools 58+

Update to a new upstream release of python-setuptools that is not completely compatible with previous releases. Since version 58+ upstream removed support for 2to3 during builds. This is a breaking change and projects are encouraged to port to a unified codebase.

• Owner: Tomáš Hrnčiar
• Last updated: 2021-10-20
• Status: 100% code completed

SOF as default audio driver for Intel LPE hardware

Intel LPE audio hardware has 2 drivers in the mainline kernel the SST driver and the SOF driver, switch the default driver from SST to SOF.

• Owner: Hans de Goede
• Last updated: 2021-08-10
• Status: Change accepted