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Fedora 31 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 31 Release as System Wide Changes.

Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .got.plt isolation

Fedora 23 enabled hardening for all packages. However, some ELF binaries still use lazy binding. This change proposes additional hardening for them.

Owners

• Owner: Florian Weimer
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-03-11
• Tracking bug: #1598149
• Status: Change accepted

Automatic strict inter-package dependencies

Implement feature in RPM which will enforce strict dependencies between subpackages automatically (right now packagers have to do it themselves).

Owners

• Owner: Igor Gnatenko
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-03-08
• Tracking bug: #1686975
• Status: Change accepted

Move Gold Into A SubpackageOf Binutils

Move the GOLD linker from the main binutils package into its own sub-package.

Owners

• Owner: Nick Clifton [1]
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-03-08
• Tracking bug: #1686976
• Status: Change accepted

DNF Better Counting

Right now, we estimate installed Fedora systems by counting unique IP addresses which show up in our updates mirror statistics. We need better data than that. There are some proposals for more complicated systems, but a quick thing we can do now to greatly improve what we have without a gigantic new infrastructure.

Owners

• Owner: Matthew Miller
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-04-10
• Tracking bug: #1672504
• Status: Change accepted

Disable Root Password Login in SSH

The upstream OpenSSH disabled password logins for root back in 2015. The Fedora should follow to keep security expectation and avoid users surprises with this configuration.

Owners

• Owner: Jakub Jelen, OpenSSH maintainer
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-06-24
• Tracking bug: #1722828
• Status: 100% code completed

DynamicBuildRequires

Add possibility to generate build-time dependencies within RPM spec file and teach RPM and mock how to handle this.

Owners

• Owner: Igor Gnatenko, Florian Festi, Miroslav Suchý
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-06-27
• Tracking bug: #1704773
• Status: Change accepted

F31 Mass Python 2 Package Removal

Python 2 is reaching end of life, and the current maintainers would like to orphan it.

Owners

• Owner: Neal Gompa
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-04-20
• Tracking bug: #1698500
• Status: Change accepted

The GNU C Library version 2.30

Switch glibc in Fedora 31 to glibc version 2.30.

Owners

• Owner: Florian Weimer
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-07-03
• Tracking bug: #1726770
• Status: Change accepted

Gating Rawhide Packages

We want to gate packages on test results before they can land in rawhide. This will reduce the amount of broken dependency, uninstallable packages and broken composes leading to a more stable rawhide as well as less work on the infrastructure and rel-eng teams to keep composes working.

Owners

• Owner: Pierre-Yves Chibon
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-04-10
• Tracking bug: #1698501
• Status: Change accepted

Changes/MinGW environment and toolchain update

Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.

Owners

• Owner: Sandro Mani
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-05-28
• Tracking bug: #1714684
• Status: Testable

Node.js 12.x by default

The latest release of Node.js to carry a 30-month lifecycle is the 12.x series. As with 10.x and 8.x before it, Fedora 31 will carry 12.x as the default Node.js interpreter for the system. The 10.x interpreter will remain available as a non-default module stream.

Owners

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-06-12
• Tracking bug: #1719968
• Status: Change accepted

RPM 4.15

Update RPM to the 4.15.0 release.

Owners

• Owner: User:pmatilai, User:ffesti, User:ignatenkobrain
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-06-27
• Tracking bug: #1718430
• Status: Testable

Set skip_if_unavailable default to false

Dnf team wants to change a default setting for the repo option skip_if_unavailable to FALSE.

Owners

• Owner: Jaroslav Mracek
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-05-03
• Tracking bug: #1706160
• Status: Change accepted

Update Sphinx to version 2 and drop Python 2 support from Sphinx

The version 2.0.x of Sphinx, popular Python documentation generator and framework, is expected to be released in early 2019. It drops support for Python 2. As part of Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3, we update python-sphinx to 2.0.x and we drop python2-sphinx and related packages from Fedora 31 and further.

Owners

• Owner: Charalampos Stratakis as the python-sphinx maintainer
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-03-06
• Tracking bug: #1685211
• Status: 100% code completed

No More i686 Kernels or bootable images

Stop building i686 kernels, reduce the i686 package to a kernel-headers package that can be used to build 32bit versions of everything else. No kernel means we would stop producing i686 bootable images as well.

Owners

• Owner: Justin Forbes
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-07-10
• Tracking bug: #1728779
• Status: Change accepted

Switch RPMs to zstd compression

Binary RPMs are currently compressed with xz level 2. Switching to zstd would increase decompression speed significantly.

Owners

• Owner: Daniel Mach
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-06-14
• Tracking bug: #1720729
• Status: Change accepted

Perl 5.30

A new perl 5.30 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.30 was released 5/22/2019. See 5.30.0 perldelta for more details about preparing release.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Písař
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-07-03
• Tracking bug: #1715528
• Status: 100% code completed

Fedora 31 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals

Adopt new Go Packaging Guidelines

The current Go packaging guidelines have been in a draft state for several years now, and they do not reflect the current practices from the Go SIG. As a result of new RPM macros developed by Nicolas Mailhot, some members of the Go SIG wishes to formally adopt new Go Packaging Guidelines, which aim at automation, reliability and simplicity.

• Owner: Elliott Sales de Andrade
• Last updated: 2019-07-09
• Completed: no

Cloud Provider Image Updates

Provide monthly updates to cloud provider images.

• Owner:
• Last updated: 2019-02-14
• Completed: no

Custom Crypto Policies

This new feature of crypto-policies allows system administrators and third party providers to modify and adjust the existing system-wide crypto policies to enable or disable algorithms and protocols.

• Owner: Tomáš Mráz
• Last updated: 2019-07-08
• Completed: no

Firefox Wayland By Default On Gnome

Firefox is going to run natively on Gnome Wayland session and won't use XWayland/X11 Gtk+ backend by default. The XWayland/X11 Gtk+ backend can be still used via additional firefox-x11 package. This change affects Gnome only and won't be enabled for other Wayland compositors (KDE Plasma, Sway).

• Owner: Martin Stransky
• Last updated: 2019-03-18
• Completed: no

Improved GRUB menu

Improve the GRUB menu by only having the default boot option for each installed operating system in the main menu, and the other options into a sub-menu. This would better organize the boot options and lead to an easier and seamless boot experience.

• Owner: Javier Martinez Canillas
• Last updated: 2019-02-20
• Completed: no

Include several modules in the EFI build of Grub2 for security use-cases

Include Grub's "verify," "cryptodisk" and "luks" modules in grubx64.efi of the 'grub2-efi-x64' package.

• Owner: Javier Martinez Canillas
• Last updated: 2019-06-21
• Completed: no

Minimal GDB in buildroot

Create gdb-minimal package (without XML support, Python support, Syntax Highlight and such) and switch to it in buildroot.

• Owner: Igor Gnatenko, Sergio Durigan Junior
• Last updated: 2019-05-03
• Completed: no

Move test.support module to python3-test subpackage

Move test.support from python3-libs to python3-test subpackage.

• Owner: Lumír Balhar
• Last updated: 2019-07-10
• Completed: no

Changes/Remove389Console

Remove all the deprecated 389-console packages: 389-console, 389-ds-console, 389-admin-console, 389-dsgw, 389-admin, and 389-adminutil. These packages are for the old JAVA UI for 389 Directory Server. We have a new web UI that is replacing these java packages.

• Owner: Mark Reynolds
• Last updated: 2019-03-20
• Completed: no

Retire YUM 3

Remove the YUM (version 3) package manager stack from Fedora.

• Owner: Michal Domonkos
• Last updated: 2019-02-26
• Completed: no

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: 2019-03-11
• Completed: no

Changes/Xfce-4.14

Xfce desktop environment has version 4.13.x which is currently available in Fedora. Significant work has been completed to migrate the DE to GTK-3 completely. The obvious benefit to this migration is the use of a modern and actively maintained toolkit.

• Owner: Gerd Pokorra
• Last updated: 2019-07-03
• Completed: no