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Fedora Linux 41 Accepted System-Wide Changes

Reproducible Package Builds

A post-build cleanup is integrated into the RPM build process so that common causes of build irreproducibility in packages are removed, making most of Fedora packages reproducible.

Owners

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-05-08
• Tracking bug: #2279765
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: No limit really.
• Status: Change accepted

Deprecate Openssl engine support

We disable building the packages using ENGINE API in OpenSSL without breaking ABI.

Owners

• Owner: Dmitry Belyavskiy

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug: #2276420
• Release Notes tracker:
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Switch to dnf5

Change the default package manager from dnf to dnf5.

Owners

• Owner: Jaroslav Mracek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-12
• Tracking bug: #2274810
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

RPM 4.20

Update RPM to the up coming 4.20 release.

Owners

• Owner: Florian Festi

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug: #2276421
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

The /usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin, which means paths like /usr/bin/foo and /usr/sbin/foo point to the same place. /bin and /sbin are already symlinks to usr/bin and usr/sbin, so effectively /bin/foo and /sbin/foo also point to the same place. /usr/sbin will be removed from the default $PATH. The same change is also done to make /usr/local/sbin point to bin, effectively making /usr/local/bin/foo and /usr/local/sbin/foo point to the same place. The definition of %_sbindir will be changed to %_bindir, so packages will start using the new directory after a rebuild without any further action. Maintainers may stop using %_sbindir, but don't need to.

Owners

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-29
• Tracking bug: #2267022
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: in principle can be done at any time, but would require a rebuild of some or all affected packages.
• Status: Change accepted

GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 14+, binutils 2.42+, glibc 2.40, gdb 14+)

Update the Fedora 41 GNU Toolchain to gcc 14.1+, binutils 2.42+, glibc 2.40 and gdb 14+.

Owners

• Owner: Carlos O'Donell

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-12
• Tracking bug: #2274811
• Release Notes tracker: <-- will be added by wrangler -->
• Contingency deadline: Fedora mass rebuild on 2024-07-17.
• Status: Change accepted

Remove Python Mock Usage

python-mock has been deprecated since Fedora 34 - 6 releases ago, but is still in use in many packages. We plan to go through the remaining usages and clean them up, with the goal of retiring python-mock from Fedora.

Owners

• Owner: Maxwell G

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2258085
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Upgrade systems to createrepo_c 1.0 and change repositories metadata settings

This is a proposal for upgrading systems which produce composes to createrepo_c > 1.0 and changing some options used to create Fedora repositories metadata. Note that some of these changes are inevitable due to createrepo_c >= 1.0 behavioral change. We aim to change both Rawhide/F41, then move all following releases to the new settings, while preserving most of the current settings for releases <= 40.

Owners

• Owner: Mattia Verga, Kevin Fenzi

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug: #2276422
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: F41-beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Enable systemd service hardening features for default system services

Improve security by enabling some of the high level systemd security hardening settings that isolate and sandbox default system services.

Owners

• Owner: Rahul Sundaram

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-03-25
• Tracking bug: #2260082
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: N/A
• Status: Not being worked on

SPDX License Phase 4 (The last one)

The fourth phase of transition from using Fedora's short names for licenses to SPDX identifiers in the License: field of Fedora package spec files. This phase focuses on migrating the remaining packages.

Owners

• Owner: Miroslav Suchý, Jilayne Lovejoy, David Cantrell, Richard Fontana

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-03-19
• Tracking bug: #2270363
• Release Notes tracker: to be filled by the wrangler
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze. But it is expected that not all packages will be converted by that time and the change will continue in the next release.
• Status: Change accepted

Changes/Python3.13

Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.12 to Python 3.13, the newest major release of the Python programming language.

Owners

• Owner: Karolina Surma

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-04-12
• Tracking bug: #2244836
• Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Contingency deadline: beta freeze
• Status: Not being worked on

Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default

The new PatternFly-based UI has been developed by the Anaconda team for some time now and we would like to make it available for users of Fedora to enhance and modernize installation experience. As the first step in this user adoption process, we are targeting Fedora Workstation only.

Owners

• Owner: Fedora Workstation SIG

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2231339
• Release Notes tracker: #1033
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: 100% code completed

Modernize Live Media

Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.

Owners

• Owner: Neal Gompa, Matt Coleman

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2139918
• Release Notes tracker: #898
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)

Continue the work done in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer but in an officially stable format, and expanded to cover more OSTree-based editions. This goes "all in" on being container-native and significantly changes the technology and user emphasis.

Owners

• Owner: Colin Walters, Joseph Marrero, Brent Baude

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2151321
• Release Notes tracker: #933
• Contingency deadline: Dunno
• Status: Change accepted

KTLS implementation for GnuTLS

Acceleration of GnuTLS with software Kernel TLS (KTLS)

Owners

• Owner: František Krenželok, Daiki Ueno

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2130000
• Release Notes tracker: #881
• Contingency deadline: 2023-02-21
• 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, Manu Bretelle

Tracking

• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #1915976
• Release Notes tracker: #634
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora Linux 41 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

Pytest 8

Update to a new upstream release of pytest that is not completely compatible with previous releases. Pytest 8 is a major upstream release removing a lot of deprecated functions and introducing breaking changes.

• Owner: Miro Hrončok
• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug:
• Status: Unknown

Enable Consistent Device Naming in Cloud Images

This proposal aims to remove the net.ifnames=0 kernel command line entry from the Fedora cloud kickstarts so that consistent device naming is enabled for cloud instances. This change brings Fedora Cloud in line with Fedora Server, Workstation, and CoreOS.

• Owner: Major Hayden
• Last updated: 2024-04-12
• Tracking bug: #2274818
• Status: Change accepted

PHP 64-bit only

Drop support for 32-bit builds

• Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug: #2274819
• Status: Change accepted

Add bpfman to Fedora (Self-Contained Change proposal)

bpfman: An eBPF Manager bpfman operates as an eBPF manager, focusing on simplifying the deployment and administration of eBPF programs. Its notable features encompass:

• Owner: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
• Last updated: 2024-03-26
• Tracking bug: #2271633
• Status: Change accepted

Haskell GHC 9.6 and Stackage LTS 22

Update the GHC Haskell compiler from major version 9.4 to 9.6 and Haskell packages from Stackage LTS 21 to LTS 22 versions.

• Owner: Jens Petersen
• Last updated: 2024-02-26
• Tracking bug: #2258070
• Status: Change accepted

Multiple Versioned Kubernetes Packages

Provide all maintained Kubernetes releases in Fedora as multiple, versioned packages. Current practice is a separate Kubernetes release matched with each Fedora release.

• Owner: Brad Smith
• Last updated: 2024-04-22
• Tracking bug:
• Status: Unknown

Enable auto-updates by default in Fedora Kinoite

On Fedora Kinoite, Plasma Discover supports automatically updating the system in a safe fashion via rpm-ostree staged updates. We want users to benefit from bug fixes and updates in general by default thus we want to enable auto-updates by default. Users will still have the option of disabling that or tuning the frequency at which updates happen.

• Owner: Timothée Ravier, Neal Gompa
• Last updated: 2024-02-20
• Tracking bug: #2233192
• Status: Change accepted

mkosi-initrd

mkosi-initrd is an alternative builder for initrds. It will be packaged in Fedora, so that users can use it to build initrds locally. A kernel-install plugin will be provided to build the initrd when a kernel package is installed. As a stretch goal, initrds will be build in koji and delivered via rpm packages. As a further stretch goal, pre-built initrds will be used in Unified Kernel Images that can be delivered via rpm packages.

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Lukáš Nykrýn , Daan De Meyer
• Last updated: 2024-02-21
• Tracking bug: #2203221
• Status: Change accepted