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Fedora 27 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 27 Release as System Wide Changes.

Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

This change is to enable package maintainers to build Flatpaks of their applications and make those Flatpaks available for installation.

Owners

• Owner: Owen Taylor
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-07-25
• Tracking bug: #1474769
• Status: Change accepted

perl Package to Install Core Modules

dnf install perl will install all core Perl modules that come with Perl upstream sources.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Písař
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-06-26
• Tracking bug: #1464903
• Status: Change accepted

Node.js 8.x

Fedora 27 will be updated to Node.js 8.x, the latest LTS release of the platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.

Owners

• Owner: Zuzana Svetlikova
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-06-13
• Tracking bug: #1461012
• Status: Change accepted

Ruby on Rails 5.1

Ruby on Rails 5.1 is the latest version of well known web framework written in Ruby.

Owners

• Owner: Pavel Valena, Vít Ondruch, Jun Aruga
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-06-05
• Tracking bug: #1458667
• Status: Change accepted

Arbitrary Branching

Tooling changes to support the new way of branching for Fedora 27

Owners

• Owner: Matt Prahl
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-06-05
• Tracking bug: #1458665
• Status: Change accepted

Switch libcurl back to OpenSSL

libcurl in Fedora currently uses the NSS (Network Security Services) library for TLS and cryptography. After implementing this change, libcurl will use OpenSSL instead of NSS.

Owners

• Owner: Kamil Dudka
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-04-25
• Tracking bug: #1445153
• Status: Change accepted

Switch libidn-using applications to IDNA2008

The proposed change is about deprecating libidn, which supports IDNA2003, and switch all applications using libidn, to libidn2 2.0.0, which supports IDNA2008.

Owners

• Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, Robert Scheck
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-04-25
• Tracking bug: #1445151
• Status: Change accepted

No More Alphas

Fedora will no longer produce Alpha releases.

Owners

• Owner: Dennis Gilmore, Adam Williamson
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2017-03-16
• Tracking bug: #1432874
• Status: Change accepted

Category:ChangeAcceptedF27 and Category:SystemWideChange

Fedora 27 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 27 Release as Self Contained Changes.

Making sudo pip Safe (Again)

At the present time, running sudo pip3 in Fedora is not safe. Pip shares its installation directory with dnf, can remove dnf-managed files and generally break the Python 3 interpreter. We propose a series of measures that will make it safe to use.

• Owner: Miro Hroncok
• Last updated: 2017-02-13
• Completed: no

Java 9

Add a tech preview preview of the the upcoming version of Java (OpenJDK9) to Fedora 27

• Owner: Jiri Vanek
• Last updated: 2017-04-18
• Completed: no

Replace Yumex-DNF with dnfdragora

Replace the current alternative graphical package manager.

• Owner: Christian Dersch, Christian Dersch
• Last updated: 2017-04-04
• Completed: no

Bodhi Non-RPM Artifacts

Bodhi, the Fedora Updates System, should be able to process more than just RPMs.

• Owner: Randy Barlow
• Last updated: 2017-03-21
• Completed: no

True Noarch Erlang Packages

Erlang packages are currently all installed into %{_libdir}/erlang/lib, despite most of them being noarch packages. This proposal is to modify Erlang to search %{_datadir}/erlang/lib in addition to %{_libdir}/erlang/lib when searching for dependencies.

• Owner: Randy Barlow
• Last updated: 2017-03-21
• Completed: no

Category:ChangeAcceptedF27 and Category:SelfContainedChange