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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

Default To Noto Fonts

Changing the default fonts for various languages to Noto Fonts as much as possible, to make consistency on the text rendering.

Owners

• Owner: Akira TAGOH

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-18
• Tracking bug: #2041929
• Release Notes tracker: #788
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

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

Drop NIS(+) support from PAM

This change is about dropping user-authentication using NIS(+) from PAM.

Owners

• Owner: Björn Esser, Iker Pedrosa

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-11-09
• Tracking bug: #2021660
• Release Notes tracker: #762
• Contingency deadline: At beta freeze. Documentation and/or migration tools must be prominently available, per FESCo.
• Status: Change accepted

ELN-Extras

ELN-extras will be a new build target and compose similar in behavior to ELN, but closer to EPEL in function. It will be a place to prepare and maintain packages that may be desired for EPEL N+1 while RHEL N+1 is still being incubated in ELN.

Owners

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-12-01
• Tracking bug: #2028161
• Release Notes tracker: #773
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• 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

Switch GnuTLS to allowlisting

Presently, crypto-policies controls GnuTLS in a way that "hard-disables" select algorithms, leaving no option for the applications using GnuTLS to reenable said algorithms back. We propose switching to more future-proof allowlisting-based configuration method and offering API within GnuTLS to loosen the system defaults for specific processes.

Owners

• Owner: Alexander Sosedkin, Daiki Ueno

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-12-21
• Tracking bug: #2034631
• Release Notes tracker: #782
• Contingency deadline: Fedora 36 Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Golang 1.18

Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.18 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: 2022-01-06
• Tracking bug: #2037868
• Release Notes tracker: #713
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze(?)
• Status: Change accepted

Hunspell Dictionary dir change

Update Hunspell Dictionary system directory from /usr/share/myspell/ to /usr/share/hunspell/

Owners

• Owner: Parag Nemade

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-18
• Tracking bug: #2041930
• Release Notes tracker: #789
• Contingency deadline: Beta
• Status: Change accepted

java-17-openjdk as system JDK in F36

Update the system JDK in Fedora from java-11-openjdk to java-17-openjdk.

Owners

• Owner: Jiri Vanek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-12-14
• Tracking bug: #2024265
• Release Notes tracker: #770
• Contingency deadline: Announce release blocking deliverables Tue 2022-02-01 Tue 2022-02-01 0 (8days before branching, 22 before 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

LLVM 14

Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora Linux to version 14.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-13
• Tracking bug: #2040428
• Release Notes tracker: #786
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Enforce Authselect Configuration Consistency

This change wants to make authselect required to configure authentication and identity sources and forcefully update non-authselect configuration to the sssd authselect profile to eliminate any existing non-authselect setups.

Owners

• Owner: Pavel Březina

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-11-01
• Tracking bug: #2019052
• Release Notes tracker: #760
• Contingency deadline: Beta
• Status: 100% code completed

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

Openldap-2.5+

OpenLDAP upgrade from version 2.4.59 to the latest upstream version 2.6.0 in Fedora.

Owners

• Owner: Simon Pichugin

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-11-09
• Tracking bug: #2021662
• Release Notes tracker: #763
• Contingency deadline: Fedora 36 branching from Rawhide (2022-02-08)
• 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

ostree native containers / CoreOS layering

Enhance the (rpm-)ostree stack to natively support OCI/Docker containers as a transport and delivery mechanism for operating system content.

Owners

• Owner: Colin Walters

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-12-09
• Tracking bug: #2030707
• Release Notes tracker: #777
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Package information on ELF objects

All binaries (executables and shared libraries) are annotated with an ELF note that identifies the rpm for which this file was built. This allows binaries to be identified when they are distributed without any of the rpm metadata. systemd-coredump uses this to log package versions when reporting crashes.

Owners

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Lennart Poettering

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-13
• Tracking bug: #1956946
• Release Notes tracker: #769
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze.
• Status: Change accepted

Relocate RPM database to /usr

Currently, the RPM databases is located in /var. Let's move it to /usr. The move is already under way in rpm-ostree-based installations, and in (open)SUSE.

Owners

• Owner: Chris Murphy, Michel Alexandre Salim, Neal Gompa

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-18
• Tracking bug: #2042099
• Release Notes tracker: #791
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer

This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer.

Owners

• Owner: Javier Martinez Canillas, Peter Robinson

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-11-11
• Tracking bug: #2022385
• Release Notes tracker:
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Testable

Retire the NIS(+) user-space utility programs

This change is about retiring the ypbind, yp-tools, and ypserv packages, and removal of the {nis,yp}domainname user-space utility programs from the hostname package.

Owners

• Owner: Björn Esser

Tracking

• Last updated: 2021-11-11
• Tracking bug: #2022386
• Release Notes tracker: #766
• Contingency deadline: At beta freeze.
• 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

Ruby 3.1

Ruby 3.1 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 3.0 in Fedora 35 to Ruby 3.1 in Fedora 36, Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform.

Owners

• Owner: Vít Ondruch

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-13
• Tracking bug: #2040429
• Release Notes tracker: #787
• Contingency deadline: Mass Rebuild
• Status: Change accepted

%set_build_flags for %build, %check, and %install phases

Call %set_build_flags macro automatically at the beginning of the %build, %check, and %install phases of RPM builds in Fedora Linux. This will ensure that the compiler flag environment variables are set for every RPM build.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-13
• Tracking bug: #2040430
• Release Notes tracker: <will be not assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing> <will be not assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing>
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver

Enable Wayland sessions by default in GDM even with the NVIDIA proprietary driver.

Owners

• Owner: Olivier Fourdan

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-01-05
• Tracking bug: #2037387
• Release Notes tracker: #783
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora Linux 36 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

Ansible 5

The ansible project has re-organized how they release and distribute ansible. This change moves Fedora to be in sync with those changes and retires the old 'ansible classic/2.9.x' package in favor of a 'ansible' package that pulls in ansible-core (the engine) and includes all the collections in upstream ansible releases.

• Owner: Kevin Fenzi and User:dmsimard
• Last updated: 2021-11-02
• Status: Change accepted

New requirements for akmods binary kernel modules for Silverblue / Kinoite support

In order to improve the current support for akmods based binary kernel modules in Silverblue/Kinoite, this change introduces a new dependency in akmods to a meta package that strongly links the version of a kernel package with its -devel sub-package.

• Owner: Timothée Ravier, Nicolas Chauvet, Tomáš Popela
• Last updated: 2022-01-26
• Status: Change accepted

Django 4.0

Update Django to version 4.0.

• Owner: Matthias Runge
• Last updated: 2022-01-21
• Status: Testable

GHC compiler parallel version installs

Introduce ghcX.Y packages to Fedora which can be parallel installed, in addition to the main ghc package.

• Owner: Jens Petersen
• Last updated: 2022-01-05
• Status: Testable

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

Ibus-table cangjie default for zh_HK

Make ibus-table cangjie the default input method for zh_HK (Hongkong) locale.

• Owner: Mike Fabian
• Last updated: 2022-01-26
• Status: Not being worked on

Keylime subpackaging and agent alternatives

The keylime package will be split into subpackages per role (agent, registrar, verifier, and admin components), while allowing the alternative agent implementation in Rust.

• Owner: Sergio Correia, Daiki Ueno
• Last updated: 2022-01-25
• Status: Change accepted

LXQt 1.0.0

Update LXQt to 1.0.0 in Fedora.

• Owner: Zamir SUN
• Last updated: 2021-12-15
• Status: 100% code completed

Malayalam Default Fonts Update

This change will update existing default Malayalam fonts and also rename to new upstream source, which brings improved text shaping, better glyphs for readability, Unicode 13 support, Appstream data amongst other improvements.

• Owner: Rajeesh K V, Parag Nemade
• Last updated: 2022-01-26
• Status: Change accepted

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

No ifcfg by default

Do not include NetworkManager support for legacy network configuration files by in new installations.

• Owner: Lubomir Rintel, Ana Cabral, Thomas Haller, Till Maas
• Last updated: 2022-01-25
• 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: 2021-11-25
• Status: 100% code completed

Plocate as the default locate implementation

The venerable mlocate program is replaced by plocate — a compatible reimplementation that is faster and uses less disk space.

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Michal Sekletár
• Last updated: 2021-12-09
• Status: 100% code completed

PostgreSQL 14

Update of PostgreSQL (postgresql and libpq components) in Fedora from version 13 to version 14 in the non-modular (main) builds.

• Owner: Filip Januš
• Last updated: 2021-12-13
• Status: Change accepted

Remove .la files from buildroot

Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in .la in their make install. These files are usually unwanted. Many projects therefore end up with a variation of find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.la" -delete in their %install section.

• Owner: Timm Bäder
• Last updated: 2022-01-26
• Status: Change accepted

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

Remove Wire Extensions Support

The legacy wireless extensions interface was replaced by the new mac80211/cfg80211 interface in 2007. The legacy Wireless Extensions support has been long deprecated and only supports long EOL WiFi encryption like WEP so it's time to disable it and remove it.

• Owner: Peter Robinson
• Last updated: 2021-12-01
• Status: 100% code completed

Retired Packages

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

• Owner: Miroslav Suchý
• Last updated: 2021-11-24
• Status: Change accepted

Rubygem Cucumber 7.1.0

Rubygem-cucumber 7.1.0 is the latest version of the popular integration BDD testing framework for Ruby.

• Owner: Jaroslav Prokop, Pavel Valena
• Last updated: 2021-11-11
• Status: Testable

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

Stratis 3.0.0

Stratis 3.0.0 includes many internal improvements, bug fixes, and user-visible changes.

• Owner: Dennis Keefe, Anne Mulhern, John Baublitz
• Last updated: 2021-11-17
• Status: Change accepted

Unit Names in Systemd Messages

The default format of messages printed by systemd to the console and the journal is changed from "Starting Frobnicating Daemon..." / "Started Frobnicating Daemon" to "Starting frobnicator.service — Frobnicating Daemon..." / "Started frobnicator.service — Frobnicating Daemon".

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
• Last updated: 2021-12-01
• Status: 100% code completed

Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI

The Anaconda installer GUI will have the administrative rights checkbox on the User screen ticked by default.

• Owner: Vladimir Slavik
• Last updated: 2021-12-15
• Status: Change accepted