Releases/12/FeatureList

Fedora 12 Accepted Features

These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 12 Release.

Category:FeatureAcceptedF12

% Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
40%	Abrt 1.0	The tool to help non-power users with bug reporting, making it as easy as a few mouse clicks	2009-07-17
100%	Anaconda MDRaid	Use mdraid instead of dmraid for certain BIOS-RAID types (currently only Intel BIOS-RAID using imsm meta-data).	2009-07-16
90%	Better Webcam Support	Add support for more Webcams	2009-07-16
10%	DisplayPort	Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers	2009-07-15
90%	Dracut	Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd	2009-07-15
75%	Empathy	Set Empathy as the default IM client	2009-07-15
80%	FCoE	Add Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to anaconda's storage code	2009-07-15
25%	Fedora Studio	Classify multimedia applications into subgroups for easy access	2009-07-18
30%	GFS2 Clustered Samba	Support for clustered samba (including active/active configuration) over GFS2 using CTDB	2009-07-20
50%	Gnome2.28	Re-base to GNOME 2.28	2009-07-16
90%	KDE 4.3	Rebase to KDE 4.3 and offers new features such as DeviceKit support and Phonon Gstreamer backend as the default	2009-07-23
93%	KSM	Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages	2009-07-23
90%	KVM Huge Page Backed Memory	Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure	2009-07-23
40%	KVM NIC Hotplug	Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest.	2009-07-09
80%	KVM qcow2 Performance	Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format	2009-07-16
80%	KVM Stable Guest ABI	Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same ABI across QEMU upgrades.	2009-07-22
80%	libguestfs	Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images	2009-07-08
60%	liblvm	Add liblvm, a userspace library for application interface to LVM	2009-07-16
20%	Lower Process Capabilities	This feature will lower the capabilities of all root daemons and many setuid apps. File and directory permissions may be reworked to require DAC_OVERRIDE for any system update	2009-07-10
75%	Mobile Broadband Enhancements	Extended support of mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including display of signal strength when connected, network scanning, network selection, etc.	2009-07-15
20%	Moblin	Add support to Fedora for the Moblin NetBook/NetTop/MID desktop environment.	2009-07-26
25%	NetBeans_6.7	Re-base to NetBeans 6.7	2009-07-14
60%	NetworkManagerIPv6	Add full IPv6 support to NetworkManager.	2009-07-20
80%	NetworkManager System Connections	Add full support for system-wide connections to NetworkManager.	2009-07-09
80%	NFS Client IPv6	Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6	2009-07-15
80%	Open Shared Root	The open sharedroot project provides abilities to boot multiple linux systems with the same root filesystem providing a single system filesystem based cluster.	2009-07-02
90%	PolicyKit 1.0	PolicyKit provides a flexible framework for granting users access to privileged operations. It is meant to replace the old userhelper approach, and overcome some of its shortcomings. PolicyKit 1.0 addresses architectural shortcomings of the initial PolicyKit design.	2009-07-20
60%	Power Management F12	improve and extend the functionality of tuned, merge it with ktune from RHEL 5 and introduce a new and easy way to switch between various predefined and extendible tuning settings for your system	2009-07-20
90%	Virtual Network Interface Management	Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts.	2009-07-16
30%	NFSv4Default	Changed the default NFS protocol to version 4	2009-07-15
80%	Ovirt_Node	oVirt Node is a small scaled down version of Fedora used solely to host virtual machine guests	2009-07-23
90%	PackageKitBrowserPlugin	The PackageKit browser plugin allows people browsing online to install missing applications	2009-07-16
99%	PackageKitCommandNotFound	The PackageKit command not found functionality allows command line users to automatically install missing commands, or to suggest spelling replacements	2009-07-16
80%	SR-IOV	Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF)	2009-07-08
75%	Systemtap Tracing Refresh	New and improved systemtap with much better documentation, examples and tools. Updated to take advantage of modern gcc debuginfo (dwarf) output, kernel tracepoints.	2009-07-17
95%	Virt Privileges	Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users	2009-07-22
100%	VirtgPXE	Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe.	2009-06-27
60%	VirtioSerial	This feature adds a virtio-serial device to guests running on top of qemu and kvm. It exposes multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces.	2009-07-15
80%	Virt Storage Management	Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage, issue NPIV operations and do basic configuration of multipath devices	2009-07-16
45%	XI2	XI2 is the second major release of the X Input Extension and allows the simultaneous use of multiple independent input devices.	2009-07-21
60%	XZ Rpm Payloads	Switch RPM to use XZ (the new LZMA format) as default payload compression	2009-07-17
33%	x86 Support	Changing the base architecture to i686 and optimizing for current 32-bit processors	2009-07-17
30%	YumLangpackPlugin	A yum plugin that allows langpacks to be automatically installed for your native language when base packages with langpacks get installed.	2009-07-24

Fedora 12 Spins

"Permanent" Spins

Name	Summary	Updated
Desktop Spin	No description available	unknown
KDE Spin	No description available	unknown

Official Fedora Spins

Name	Summary	Updated	Status
AOS Spin	Appliances are pre-installed, pre-configured, system images. This Spin is intended to make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances. The AOS (The Appliance Operating System) is a scaled down version of Fedora with a small footprint containing only the packages necessary to run an appliance.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring
BrOffice.org Spin	Due to a brand layer introduced in OpenOffice.org 3.0, Fedora now has the BrOffice.org brand for the office suite, starting with Fedora 10. This spin is intended to be a Brazilian Portuguese localized spin that provides the legal brand for OpenOffice.org in Brazil. It will be based on Fedora 12 Desktop Spin.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring
Education Spin	The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring
Electronic Lab Spin	Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware design flows based on the semiconductor industry's current trend. FEL maps in three methodologies {design, simulation and verification} with opensource EDA software.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring
Games Spin	The Fedora Games spin offers a perfect show-case of the best games available in Fedora. The included games span several genres, from first person shooters to real-time and turn based strategy games to puzzle games. Not all the games available in Fedora are included on this spin, but trying out this spin will give you a fair impression of Fedora's abilities to run great games.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring
LXDE Spin	The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.	2009-07-27	Trademark approval requested from Board, pending
XFCE Spin	The Fedora Xfce spin showcases the Xfce desktop, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. Xfce is a full fledged desktop using the freedesktop.org standard.	2009-07-27	APPROVED, recurring

Upcoming Spins

Name	Summary	Status
Geo Spin	Fedora Geo Spin is a collection of mapping tools that run on Fedora. This includes tools for map making, integration into OpenStreetMap, and components that can be run on a GPS enabled device.	.ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release
Haskell Spin	This spin provides GHC, libraries, cabal-install, Hugs and other related tools. It could be used in Uni CS labs, etc and by people who want a portable Haskell development environment.	.ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release
Security Spin	Provides a fully functional LiveCD based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing.	Not yet approved by Spins SIG at July 27th 2009, but wants to go the full 9 yards

Feature Process

• The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
• The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the Fedora 12 Schedule
• Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete