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Fedora 32 Accepted System-Wide Changes

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 32 Release as System-Wide Changes.

Binutils 2.33

Rebase the binutils package from version 2.32 to version 2.33.

Owners

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

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-10-21
• Tracking bug: #1763863
• Status: Finished

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: 2019-08-29
• Tracking bug: #1672504
• Status: Change accepted

Free Pascal Compiler 3.2.0

Update the Free Pascal Compiler used within Fedora to version 3.2.0, once it is published, and enable building (previously unsupported) AArch64 and ppc64le packages using the compiler.

Owners

• Owner: Joost van der Sluis
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-10-28
• Tracking bug: #1766231
• Status: Change accepted

Freeze after branching until compose is ready

Add freeze (similar to beta or final freeze) after new Fedora is branched. This freeze will be removed as soon as a branched compose is ready.

Owners

• Owner: Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-12-03
• Tracking bug: #1779232
• Status: Change accepted

The GNU C Library version 2.31

Switch glibc in Fedora 32 to glibc version 2.31.

Owners

• Owner: Arjun Shankar
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-12-11
• Tracking bug: #1782545
• Status: Change accepted

LLVM 10

Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora to version 10.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2020-01-02
• Tracking bug: #1787374
• Status: Change accepted

Modules In Non-Modular Buildroot

This Change (colloquially referred to as "Ursa Prime") enables the Koji build-system to include the RPM artifacts provided by module default streams in the buildroot when building non-modular (or "traditional") RPMs.

Owners

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-11-13
• Tracking bug: #1771932
• Status: Change accepted

Python 3.8

Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.7 to Python 3.8.

Owners

• Owner: Miro Hrončok
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-08-21
• Tracking bug: #1686977
• Status: 100% code completed

Retire Python 2

The python2 package and all its subpackages will be removed from Fedora 32. A legacy python27 package for developers and users will be provided. All packages in Fedora that need Python 2 to run will be removed from Fedora 32 regardless of their dependencies. All packages in Fedora that need Python 2 to build will be removed from Fedora 32 regardless of their dependencies. Exceptions can be granted by FESCo.

Owners

• Owner: Miro Hrončok
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-09-12
• Tracking bug: #1708725
• Status: Change accepted

Stop shipping individual component libraries in clang-libs package

Remove the individual component libraries (e.g. libclangBasic.so, libclangAST.so, etc.) from the clang-libs package. Packages that depend on the clang libraries should instead link against libclang-cpp.so.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Stellard
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2020-01-02
• Tracking bug: #1787375
• Status: Change accepted

Translation platform migration to Weblate

This migration was decided at Flock 2019 in Budapest, it is mandatory as development and maintenance of Zanata — the previous translation platform — ceased in 2018. More information are available here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-localization-platform-migrates-to-weblate/

Owners

• Owner:
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-11-17
• Tracking bug: #1773285
• Status: Change accepted

Firewalld Default to nftables

This change will toggle the default firewalld backend from iptables to nftables. All of firewalld's primitives will use nftables while direct rules continue to use iptables/ebtables.

Owners

• Owner: Eric Garver
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-11-13
• Tracking bug: #1757513
• Status: Finished

iptables-nft-default

Make iptables-nft the preferred iptables variant.

Owners

• Owner: Phil Sutter
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-11-19
• Tracking bug: #1774046
• Status: Change accepted

mpfr-4.0.2

Update the Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library (MPFR) package to version 4.0.2.

Owners

• Owner: Jerry James
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2019-10-04
• Tracking bug: #1537252
• Status: 100% code completed

Fedora 32 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

Bundler 2.0

Upgrade to Bundler 2.0, the latest stable gem version.

• Owner: Pavel Valena, Vit Ondruch
• Last updated: 2019-09-03
• Completed: no

Comp Neuro Lab

This Change will add a new Fedora Lab image to the Fedora repertoire for users working in Computational Neuroscience.

• Owner: Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez, Danny Lee, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD", NeuroFedora SIG
• Last updated: 2019-10-03
• Completed: no

Django 3

This change is about upgrading python-django to version 3.0. A compatibility package is not planned (but it is part of the contingency plan).

• Owner: Matthias Runge
• Last updated: 2019-10-04
• Completed: no

Jekyll 4

This Change will bring the latest version of Jekyll, 4.0.0 (or later), to fedora. It includes minor backwards-incompatible changes, but also brings a lot of clean-ups and bug fixes compared to the 3.8 branch.

• Owner: Fabio Valentini (decathorpe)
• Last updated: 2019-10-17
• Completed: yes

MariaDB 10.4

Update of MariaDB ('mariadb' package) in Fedora from 10.3 to 10.4 version.

• Owner: Michal Schorm
• Last updated: 2019-09-27
• Completed: no

Switch mingw32 toolchain to dwarf-2 exceptions

Switch the mingw32 toolchain to dwarf-2 exceptions, instead of SJLJ.

• Owner: Sandro Mani
• Last updated: 2019-09-23
• Completed: yes

Rebase apt package from apt-rpm to Debian's apt

Currently the apt package in Fedora actually installs apt-rpm, starting with Fedora 32 it will provide the regular apt software backed by DPKG.

• Owner: Dridi Boukelmoune, Neal Gompa
• Last updated: 2019-12-11
• Completed: no

Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module

Change the openldap-servers package so that BDB and HDB backends are required to be dynamically loaded.

• Owner: Matus Honek
• Last updated: 2019-09-03
• Completed: no

Build Python with -fno-semantic-interposition for better performance

We add the -fno-semantic-interposition compiler/linker flag when building Python interpreters, as it provides significant performance improvement, up to 27% depending on the workload. Users will no longer be able to use LD_PRELOAD to override a symbol from libpython, which we consider a good trade off for the speedup.

• Owner: Charalampos Stratakis, Victor Stinner, Miro Hrončok
• Last updated: 2019-12-05
• Completed: yes

Replace Bazaar with Breezy

This change is about replacing the bzr package with breezy. Bzr (Bazaar) is a version control system, Breezy (brz) is a fork of Bazaar. Breezy will obsolete and replace Bazaar in Fedora 32.

• Owner: Marcel Plch
• Last updated: 2019-10-25
• Completed: yes

Track Changes in Taiga

The current process allows contributors to propose changes in upcoming Fedora releases. However, the management of those feature proposals is cumbersome and requires several manual steps. This introduces more opportunity for error and reduces the time available to the Change Wrangler for more valuable contributions to Fedora. In particular, the current process includes artifacts and discussion in the Fedora Wiki, on mailing lists, FESCo tickets, Bugzilla tickets, and Docs tickets.

• Owner: Ben Cotton
• Last updated: 2019-09-23
• Completed: yes

PHP 7.4

Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 7.4.x

• Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
• Last updated: 2019-11-27
• Completed: yes

Limit Scriptlet Usage of core packages

Remove direct scriptlet calls from "core packages" (those that are used to build minimal container image). The packages can still affect changes during installation by placing files in the correct locations to trigger registered external programs.

• Owner: James Antill
• Last updated: 2019-09-23
• Completed: no