Releases/13/FeatureList

Fedora 13 Accepted Features

These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 13 Release.

Category:FeatureAcceptedF13

% Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
90%	Anaconda Storage Filtering	Final pieces of Anaconda storage rewrite	2010-01-26
80%	Automatic Print Driver Installation	Packages like gutenprint-cups, hpijs, and pbm2l2030 should be installed on-demand when hardware requiring those drivers is detected	2010-01-15
50%	Better Webcam Support	More webcams supported out of the box with a special focus on dual mode cameras	2009-12-29
80%	BFO	Use very small images (iso, floppy, disk) to bootstrap a machine that then contacts a remote server for boot information to continue the installation process	2010-01-22
90%	Boost 1.41 Uplift	This feature brings version 1.41.0 of Boost to Fedora 13, together with Boost.MPI. As a side effect, Boost will be built with CMake (instead of BJam)	2010-01-26
100%	Dogtag Certificate System	Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management	2010-02-04
90%	ColorManagement	GNOME Color Manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop	2010-01-08
0%	Easier Python Debugging	The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can report detailed information on the internals of the Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes	2010-01-19
50%	Gnome 2.30	Include Gnome 2.30	2010-01-20
100%	Implicit DSO Linking	Change ld default to --no-add-needed	2010-01-18
33%	IntelliJ IDEA	Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories	2009-11-20
80%	KDE44	Rebase to KDE 4.4 and offers new features such as PolicyKit 1 KAuth backend and improved PulseAudio integration	2010-01-21
95%	KDE PolicyKit One Qt	This feature adds PolicyKit One support to Qt/KDE applications and the KDE desktop	2010-01-28
100%	KDE PulseAudio Integration	Fedora 13 features improved PulseAudio integration in KDE's Phonon and KMix	2010-01-21
100%	KVM Stable PCI Addresses	Allow devices in KVM guest virtual machines to retain the same PCI address allocations as other devices are added or removed from the guest configuration	2010-01-26
85%	Moblin-2.2	Update Moblin support in Fedora to Moblin 2.2 Netbook Environment	2010-02-08
90%	Modprobe Whitelist	Add a whitelist of allowed modules and commands to modprobe, to allow the system administrator to limit the amount of (potentially vulnerable) code that can run in the kernel	2010-01-26
90%	MultipathInstall	Correctly identify and set up multipath devices for use as installation targets	2010-01-26
20%	NetBeans_6.8	Re-base to the NetBeans 6.8	2010-01-16
95%	NetworkManager Bluetooth DUN	NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support	2010-01-29
50%	NetworkManager Command Line	Control NetworkManager without a GUI	2010-01-27
50%	NetworkManager Mobile Status	The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, cellular technology (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected for cards where this functionality is supported	2010-01-26
100%	NFSv4 Default	Change the default NFS protocol to version 4	2010-01-18
95%	NFS Client IPv6	Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6	2010-01-18
50%	Nouveau DisplayPort	Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for NVIDIA hardware	2010-01-17
20%	Python 3	A packaged version of python 3 that installs in parallel with the Python 2 stack	2010-01-13
100%	Radeon DisplayPort	Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for Radeon hardware	2010-01-18
100%	RPM4.8	Update to RPM 4.8	2010-01-08
100%	SIP Witch Domain Telephony	This feature enables an entirely free software alternative to Skype using standard IETF protocols along with support for direct peer-to-peer secure communications such as possible with ZRTP capable softphones and without need for a mitigating "service provider"	2010-02-07
95%	SSSD By Default	Include SSSD the default set of base Fedora 13 packages and configure it through authconfig,and firstboot	2009-12-02
80%	System Rollback With Btrfs	Allow automatic and manual disk partition backups	2010-01-15
50%	Systemtap Static Probes	Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted	2010-01-18
50%	Sugar_0.88	Provide the latest Sugar Learning Environment, as well as an enhanced activity set, which can be used as a choice in the login screen and possibly a live spin	2010-01-15
66%	Udisks Improvements	Add support for LVM (and various other improvements) to the udisks and gnome-disk-utility stack	2010-01-19
95%	Upstart0.6.0	Move to the the lastest supported version of Upstart	2009-12-03
75%	User Account Dialog	A new user account dialog tool to create new users and edit user-related information in single-user systems or small deployments.	2010-01-24
100%	VHostNet	Enable kernel acceleration for kvm networking	2010-01-26
90%	Virtx2apic	x2apic is an x86 feature that improves performance, especially on large systems. Virt x2apic is a port of this feature for KVM, improving guest performance, especially for guests with many virtual processors	2010-01-26
90%	Virtio-Serial	Expose multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces	2010-01-14
85%	Yum Language Package Plugin	A yum plugin that allows langpacks to be automatically installed for your native language when base packages with langpacks get installed	2010-01-27

Fedora 13 Spins

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Spins

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 13 Schedule
• Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete