Fedora 34 Accepted System-Wide Changes
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 34 release as System-Wide Changes.
Changes/Binutils 2.36
Rebase the binutils package from version 2.35.1 to version 2.36.
Owners
- Owner: Nick Clifton [1]
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1854613
- Release Notes tracker: #526
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Route all Audio to PipeWire
This change proposal is to route all audio from PulseAudio and JACK to the PipeWire Audio daemon by default.
Owners
- Owner: Wim Taymans
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-12-09
- Tracking bug: #1906086
- Release Notes tracker: #611
- Contingency deadline: 2021-02-16 (one week before beta freeze)
- Status: Change accepted
DNS Over TLS
Fedora will attempt to use DNS over TLS (DoT) if supported by configured DNS servers.
Owners
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-10-20
- Tracking bug: #1889901
- Release Notes tracker: #590
- Contingency deadline: can be done at any time, before F34 beta freeze would be best
- Status: Change accepted
Enable systemd-oomd by default for all variants
Provide a better experience for Fedora users in out-of-memory (OOM) situations by enabling systemd-oomd by default. Actions taken by systemd-oomd operate on a per-cgroup level, aligning well with the life cycle of systemd units. systemd-oomd primarily uses Linux pressure stall information (PSI) to make decisions based on wasted productivity due to resource shortages; in addition to that, it also supports swap based actions.
Owners
- Owner: Anita Zhang, Davide Cavalca, Michel Salim, Tejun Heo, Rik van Riel
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1913794
- Release Notes tracker: #627
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Boost 1.75 upgrade
This change brings Boost 1.75 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.
Owners
- Owner: Thomas Rodgers
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-04
- Tracking bug: #1912501
- Release Notes tracker: #621
- Contingency deadline:
- 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
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1913795
- Release Notes tracker: #628
- Contingency deadline: Before release
- Status: Change accepted
GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.33)
Switch the Fedora 34 GNU Toolchain to gcc 11, binutils 2.35, and glibc 2.33.
Owners
- Owner: Carlos O'Donell, Jeff Law
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-12-09
- Tracking bug: #1906093
- Release Notes tracker: #612
- Contingency deadline: Upstream glibc ABI freeze deadline of 2021-02-01.
- Status: Change accepted
Golang 1.16
The Go compiler is updated to the upcoming version 1.16 in Fedora 34, and all golang packages are rebuilt. (The pre-release version of Go will be used for the rebuild if released version will not be available at the time of the mass rebuild).
Owners
- Owner: Jakub Čajka, Alejandro Sáez Morollón
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1913835
- Release Notes tracker: #629
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze(?)
- Status: Change accepted
ibus-anthy for default Japanese IME
The current default Japanese IME(input method engine) is ibus-kkc and the default is going to change to ibus-anthy to develop Japanese IME more effectively.
Owners
- Owner: Takao Fujiwara
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-12-17
- Tracking bug: #1908887
- Release Notes tracker: #617
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Use ibus-m17n as the default IME for Sinhala
The current default input method for Sinhala is ibus-sayura. This should change to the ibus-m17n input method “m17n:si:sayura - sayura (m17n)”
Owners
- Owner: Mike Fabian
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1913836
- Release Notes tracker: #630
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Use ibus-m17n as the default IME for Vietnamese
The current default input method for Vietnamese is ibus-bogo. This should change to the ibus-m17n input method “m17n:vi:telex - telex (m17n)”
Owners
- Owner: Mike Fabian
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-06
- Tracking bug: #1913431
- Release Notes tracker: #625
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Ignore Anaconda kernel boot parameters without 'inst.' prefix
Right now Anaconda allows usage of boot options both with the 'inst' prefix (inst.stage2=) and without (stage2=). We would like to ignore the use of Anaconda kernel boot parameters which do not contain the 'inst.' prefix.
Owners
- Owner: Jiří Konečný
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-04
- Tracking bug: #1912502
- Release Notes tracker: #622
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
LLVM 12
Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora to version 12.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-06
- Tracking bug: #1913432
- Release Notes tracker: #626
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL
Fix Fedora upgradability issues when upgrading systems with module streams enabled.
Owners
- Owner: Daniel Mach
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-27
- Tracking bug: #1834844
- Release Notes tracker: #506
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change
Because of changes to the PKCS #11 spec in PKCS #11 v3.0, NSS needs to change the definition of the CK_GCM_PARAMS structure in a source incompatible way. Upstream made this change in NSS 3.52. This change does not affect the ABI. Old programs compiled with older versions of NSS will still work. Only packages that use NSS and directly call AES GCM are affected.
Owners
- Owner: Bob Relyea
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-06
- Tracking bug: #1866878
- Release Notes tracker: #544
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries
OpenLDAP will not ship non-threaded version of libldap. Instead, symlinks will be provided for runtime libraries to keep working, and all software built with libldap will be effectively built with libldap_r.
Owners
- Owner: Matus Honek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-22
- Tracking bug: #1537260
- Release Notes tracker: #198
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze.
- Status: Testable
OpenSSL3.0
The OpenSSL package is rebased to version 3.0 and the dependent packages are rebuilt.
Owners
- Owner: Tomáš Mráz
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-06-03
- Tracking bug: #1825937
- Release Notes tracker: #494
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Patches in Forge macros - Auto macros - Detached rpm changelogs
redhat-rpm-config will be updated to add patching support to forge macros, a plug-able framework to register macros to execute in specific sections, and rpm changelogs in detached files.
Owners
- Owner: Nicolas Mailhot
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-22
- Tracking bug: #1866896
- Release Notes tracker: #545
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Remove make from BuildRoot
This change will remove make from the default buildroot in Koji and mock.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-12-27
- Tracking bug: #1900006
- Release Notes tracker: <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - not user-facing> <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - not user-facing>
- Contingency deadline: 2021-02-23 (F34 Beta Freeze)
- Status: Change accepted
Remove support for SELinux runtime disable
Remove support for SELinux runtime disable so that the LSM hooks can be hardened via read-only-after-initialization protections.
Owners
- Owner: Ondrej Mosnacek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-09-24
- Tracking bug: #1882464
- Release Notes tracker: #555
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Restart services at end of rpm transaction
Scriptlets to restart each service that should be restarted in each rpm package will be replaced by a declaration in the unit file and an rpm transaction trigger that fires at the end and restarts all services.
Owners
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-19
- Tracking bug: #1792468
- Release Notes tracker: #435
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Ruby 3.0
Ruby 3.0 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 2.7 in Fedora 33 to Ruby 3.0 in Fedora 34, Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform.
Owners
- Owner: Vít Ondruch, Pavel Valena
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Tracking bug: #1909786
- Release Notes tracker: #620
- Contingency deadline: Mass Rebuild
- Status: Change accepted
Rust Crate Packages For Release Branches
This Change proposal aims to enable shipping Rust crate packages (rust-$CRATE_NAME) on release branches of fedora. Currently, they are only available for rawhide, which makes building Rust packages for release branches difficult.
Owners
- Owner: Fabio Valentini
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-10-07
- Tracking bug: #1886170
- Release Notes tracker:
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze (removing packages from koji will no longer be possible after this point)
- Status: Finished
Use update-alternatives for /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++
Modify the gcc package so that the /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ symlinks are managed by update-alternatives.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-08-22
- Tracking bug: #1790581
- Release Notes tracker: #431
- Contingency deadline: If the changes are not complete by 2 weeks before the mass rebuild, then we will consider postponing to the next Fedora release and back out any changes that were made.
- Status: Change accepted
Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop
Change the default session selection in SDDM to prefer the Wayland-based KDE Plasma Desktop session over the X11-based one.
Owners
- Owner: Neal Gompa, Rex Dieter, Jan Grulich, Erich Eickmeyer
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-10-31
- Tracking bug: #1882465
- Release Notes tracker: #556
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Testable
Xwayland as a standalone package
Move Xwayland to a standalone package built from current code upstream rather than the stable branch.
Owners
- Owner: Olivier Fourdan, Michel Dänzer
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-03
- Tracking bug: #1908881
- Release Notes tracker: #616
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 34 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
Add an AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop spin images to the set of deliverables in Fedora 34.
- Owner: Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2020-12-07
- Status: Testable
Move deprecated bluetooth utilities to subpackage
Move deprecated bluez bluetooth utilities to a sub package to indicate their status.
- Owner: Peter Robinson
- Last updated: 2020-10-12
- Status: 100% code completed
Compress Kernel Firmware
Compress Kernel Firmwares to reduce on disk size
- Owner: Peter Robinson
- Last updated: 2020-10-15
- Status: Change accepted
Deprecate nscd
This proposal intends to deprecate the nscd cache for named services. Fedora already uses systemd-resolved by default for caching the hosts database, while the sssd daemon provides caching for the other named services.
- Owner: Arjun Shankar
- Last updated: 2020-12-07
- Status: Change accepted
i3 Spin
Create an official Fedora Spin shipping the popular i3 window manager. This Spin would be the first Fedora Spin to feature a tiling/window manager instead of a traditional desktop environment.
- Owner: Nasir Hussain, Justin W. Flory, Eduard Lucena, Dan Čermák, Fedora i3 SIG
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Status: Change accepted
GitRepos-master-to-main
This Change will move Fedora git repositories to use "main" as the default git branch instead of "master". Specific repositories will be manually moved and default git branch for new projects will be set to use "main". src.fedoraproject.org/rpms (packages) will have a "rawhide" branch for rawhide with a symref (link) of "main".
- Owner: Kevin Fenzi, Ben Cotton, pingou, Mohan Boddu, Till Maas
- Last updated: 2021-01-05
- Status: Change accepted
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: 2020-07-24
- Status: Unknown
kasumi-unicode
kasumi-unicode will be generated newly with kasumi.spec in kasumi project.
- Owner: Takao Fujiwara
- Last updated: 2020-12-14
- Status: Change accepted
MariaDB 10.5
Update of MariaDB ('mariadb' package) in Fedora from 10.4 to 10.5 version.
- Owner: Michal Schorm
- Last updated: 2020-11-30
- Status: Change accepted
Modular GNOME Keyring services
The monolithic daemon provided by GNOME Keyring will be split into dedicated sub-daemons, so that they can be consistently managed by systemd.
- Owner: Benjamin Berg
- Last updated: 2020-11-20
- Status: Change accepted
Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN
Establish a set of rules for Modular content in Fedora to ensure an optimal user and packager experience. At present, these rules will apply only to Fedora ELN, but are written in such a way as to be reusable for Fedora and EPEL in the future through another Change Proposal.
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
- Last updated: 2020-09-04
- Status: Change accepted
Stop Shipping Individual Nodejs Library Packages
For Nodejs, Fedora should only package:
- Owner: [Nodejs SIG]
- Last updated: 2021-01-04
- Status: Change accepted
ntp replacement
The ntp package is replaced with ntpsec.
- Owner: Miroslav Lichvar
- Last updated: 2021-01-06
- Status: Change accepted
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: 2020-08-22
- Status: Change accepted
Reduce installation media size by eliminating the intermediate EXT4 filesystem in the SquashFS
Change the process of building installation images such that the Squash filesystem image, which is present on netinstall and DVD ISO images, doesn't contain the EXT4 filesystem image. As a result of implementation of this change, files will be stored directly in SquashFS.
- Owner: Bohdan Khomutskyi
- Last updated: 2020-10-20
- Status: Testable
Python Upstream Architecture Names
Use CPython upstream architecture naming in Fedora's Python ecosystem (mostly in filenames) instead of the previously patched Fedora names. For example, have /usr/lib64/python3.9/lib-dynload/array.cpython-39-powerpc64le-linux-gnu.so instead of /usr/lib64/python3.9/lib-dynload/array.cpython-39-ppc64le-linux-gnu.so. This makes packaging of Python itself a tad trickier, but it moves Fedora's Python closer to upstream and solves interoperability problems with ppc64le manylinux wheels. The change has impact only on ppc64le and armv7hl (considering the architectures built by koji.fedoraproject.org). Packages assuming the filenames always contain %{_arch}-linux%{_gnu} will need to be adapted.
- Owner: Lumír Balhar
- Last updated: 2021-01-03
- Status: 100% code completed
Rename libusb packages and deprecate old API
Rename libusb to libusb-compat-0.1 and libusbx to libusb1. Do not provide an automated update path for the old libusb build dependency as packages should–and likely can–be updated to use libusb1.
- Owner: Benjamin Berg
- Last updated: 2020-12-10
- Status: Change accepted
Ruby on Rails 6.1
Ruby on Rails 6.1 is the latest version of well known web framework written in Ruby.
- Owner: Pavel Valena, Vít Ondruch, Jun Aruga
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Status: Change accepted
Stratis 2.3.0
Stratis 2.3.0 adds additional flexibility to its encryption support via Clevis.
- Owner: Dennis Keefe, Anne Mulhern, John Baublitz
- Last updated: 2021-01-07
- Status: Change accepted
X.org Utility Deaggregation
The collection packages xorg-x11-{apps,font-utils,resutils,server-utils,utils,xkb-utils} will be retired, and the individual utilities within them will be packaged separately.
- Owner: Adam Jackson
- Last updated: 2020-11-05
- Status: Change accepted