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Fedora 17 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 17 Release.
| % Complete | Name | Summary | Updated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | Boost 1.48 | Update Boost to the upstream (latest) 1.48 release. | 2011-12-17 | |
| 0% | BTRFS Default File system | Make BTRFS the default file system for normal installs. | 2011-11-15 | |
| 77% | ConsoleKit Removal and Automatic Seat Support | A grab-bag of little cleanups and improvements all related to session and seat handling. | 2012-01-17 | |
| 50% | DIET | An open source middleware for High Performance Computing implementing the Grid RPC model. | 2012-01-21 | |
| 75% | DNSSEC on Workstations | The DNS Root zone was signed in July 15, 2010 and there are more than 20 TLDs signed via DNSSEC. Fedora will bring benefit of this important feature to the end users and their workstations. | 2012-01-06 | |
| 90% | DRI2 Drivers Only | Ship only DRI2 3D drivers in F17. | 2011-12-15 | |
| 10% | Eclipse Juno | An update of Fedora's Eclipse stack to Juno releases. | 2012-01-06 | |
| 0% | Erlang R15 | Update Erlang/OTP to R15. | 2012-01-11 | |
| 80% | Ext4 support beyond 16T | Support for ext4 filesystems larger than 16T (2^32 blocks). | 2012-01-09 | |
| 70% | D Programming Language | Updates to D programming language environment. | 2012-01-09 | |
| 40% | Font Configuration Tool | A tool for customizing fonts per language on desktops using fontconfig. | 2012-01-19 | |
| 50% | GCC 4.7.x | An update of GCC to 4.7.x, including a rebuild of all packages with it. | 2011-12-30 | |
| 80% | GIMP 2.8 | The 2.8 version of GIMP will have a wealth of new features, including Single-Window Mode, Layer Groups, and On-Canvas Text Editing. | 2011-12-14 | |
| 50% | GNOME 3.4 | An update of the GNOME desktop to the latest upstream release. | 2012-01-26 | |
| 60% | Gnome-Shell software rendering | Make gnome-shell work with software-rendering on most hardware]] | 2012-01-13 | |
| 80% | [[Features/HaskellPlatform2011.4 | Haskell Platform 2011.4]] | An update of the Haskell Platform, supporting ghc-7.0.4 and updating 10 platform libraries. | 2012-01-18 |
| 100% | Inscript 2 Keymaps | m17n keymaps for Indic languages follow new Enhanced Inscript draft standard(Inscript2). | 2011-11-15 | |
| 50% | IPA v3 | The new version of IPA includes features such as trusts to Active Directory domains, SELinux management, and SSH public keys management. | 2012-01-23 | |
| 80% | Java 7 | Java 7 (OpenJDK7) is the default Java runtime and Java build tool set. | 2012-01-06 | |
| 80% | Kernel Target | Enable use of kernel target (LIO) for iSCSI and FCoE. | 2011-12-16 | |
| 75% | KDE 4.8 | A rebase to KDE Plasma Workspace 4.8. including Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. | 2012-01-04 | |
| 75% | Multitouch support | Multitouch support in the plumbing layers of the desktop stack. | 2012-01-05 | |
| 85% | ns-3 Network Simulator | A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. | 2012-01-18 | |
| 90% | [[Features/Opa09 | Opa 0.9]] | Opa is a unified programming language designed to build rich Web applications in an agile and secure way. | 2012-01-22 |
| 42% | OpenNebula | Open source cloud IaaS for Fedora | 2012-01-16 | |
| 70% | Password quality checking | Provide unified and configurable way to check quality of new passwords on the system. | 2011-12-12 | |
| 100% | (KDE) Plasma Dependency Generation and PackageKit Integration | Add automatically-generated RPM dependencies for services related to KDE Plasma and PackageKit hooks to use them to Plasma. | 2011-12-03 | |
| 50% | Thin Provisioning | Provide the thin provisioning Device Mapper (DM) target and supporting userspace utilities. | 2011-12-08 | |
| 50% | Move all to /usr | Provide a simple way of mounting almost the entire installed operating system read-only, atomically snapshot it, or share it between multiple hosts to save maintenance and space. | 2011-11-22 | |
| 35% | Riak NoSQL database | Add Riak NoSQL database to the Fedora repositories. | 2012-01-11 | |
| 30% | SysV to Systemd | Porting from sysVinit init scripts to systemd unit files. | 2011-11-04 | |
| 40% | virtio-scsi | A new storage architecture for KVM based on SCSI. | 2011-07-14 |
Fedora 17 Spins
Feature Process
- The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
- The deadline for proposing new features is the Feature Submission Deadline Fedora 17 Schedule
- Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete