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Fedora 9 Feature List
Fedora 9 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 9 Release.
| 100% | Bluetooth | Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements | 2008-03-26 |
| 100% | Clock Applet | Improve the support for multiple timezones/locations in the clock applet | 2008-03-03 |
| 100% | Dictionary Support | Fix the proliferation of dictionaries in Fedora | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | Full Virt Kernel Boot | Xen fully virtualized guests will be able to directly boot a kernel and initrd image and pass kernel boot args | 2008-03-15 |
| 100% | ext4 filesystem | Add ext4 filesystem support | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | Encrypted Filesystems | Add built in encrypted file system support | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | Fast X start up and shutdown | Increase response time to 1 second from exec to accepting clients | 2008-04-11 |
| 100% | Firefox 3 | Upgrade to Firefox 3 | 2008-04-10 |
| 100% | Free IPA | Make Identity, Policy and Audit centrally and more easily managed | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | gcc4.3 | Update Fedora to gcc 4.3 | 2008-03-12 |
| 100% | gdm | Update to new upstream Gnome Desktop Manager (gdm) | 2008-04-09 |
| 100% | Gvfs | Gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem with backends for things like sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obexftp, etc. It is the replacement/successor of gnome-vfs | 2008-03-17 |
| 100% | jigdo | Provide jigdo support for obtaining Fedora | 2008-03-15 |
| 100% | KDE4 | Replace KDE3.5 with 4.0 and upgrade modules | 2008-04-16 |
| 100% | Live Persistence | Live USB images persist between booting | 2008-04-08 |
| 100% | More NetworkManager | Expand the situations in which NetworkManager can be used and make it more robust | 2008-03-19 |
| 100% | NetworkManager Mobile Broadband | Proper support of GSM and CDMA mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including first-class device support like Ethernet and WiFi devices | 2008-03-19 |
| 100% | PackageKit | Provide alternative package management system | 2008-04-06 |
| 100% | Partition Resizing | Partition resizing at install time | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | perl5.10 | Update perl in Fedora 9 to 5.10.0 | 2008-03-10 |
| 100% | Pre Upgrade | Allow users to depsolve and download only the pkgs they need to upgrade their distro while using the older version | 2008-04-10 |
| 100% | Randr Support | Use the capabilities offered by the Xrandr X extension throughout the desktop | 2008-04-09 |
| 100% | Second Stage Install Source | Move install selection to second stage of installer | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | TeXLive | Replace teTeX with TeXLive | 2008-04-10 |
| 100% | Update X Server | Update X server to at least version 1.5 | 2008-04-11 |
| 100% | Upstart | Replacement for SysVinit that allows service management and event-driven initialization | 2008-04-09 |
| 100% | Virtual Authentication | Extend remote authentication to use Kerberos and PAM | 2008-03-15 |
| 100% | Virtual Manager PolicyKit | Enable virt-manager to run as a unpriveledged user | 2008-03-15 |
| 100% | Xen paravirt_ops | Replacing the current forward-ported XenSource code in kernel-xen with the paravirt_ops based implementation from upstream | 2008-04-07 |
| 100% | XULRunner | Introducing and ensuring that all the applications that need only the Gecko browser engine are using XULRunner | 2008-04-10 |
Fedora 9 Proposed Features
- The status of proposed features is at the Features Dashboard
- The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the Fedora schedule
- Features proposed, but not yet accepted for Fedora 9 are here: CategoryProposedFedora9
- Not proposed for a specific release: CategoryProposedFeature
Feature Process
- The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is here: Feature Process .