Fedora Linux 37 Accepted System-Wide Changes
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: 2022-03-18
- Tracking bug: #1889901
- Release Notes tracker: #590
- Contingency deadline: can be done at any time, before F34 beta freeze would be best
- Status: Testable
Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards
java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk and java-latest-openjdk packages will no longer build i686 subpackages
Owners
- Owner: Jiri Vanek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-05-10
- Tracking bug: #2083750
- Release Notes tracker:
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Drop NIS(+) support from PAM
This change is about dropping user-authentication using NIS(+) from PAM.
Owners
- Owner: Björn Esser, Iker Pedrosa
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-02-16
- Tracking bug: #2021660
- Release Notes tracker: #762
- Contingency deadline: At beta freeze. Documentation and/or migration tools must be prominently available, per FESCo.
- Status: Change accepted
ELN-Extras
ELN-extras will be a new build target and compose similar in behavior to ELN, but closer to EPEL in function. It will be a place to prepare and maintain packages that may be desired for EPEL N+1 while RHEL N+1 is still being incubated in ELN.
Owners
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-02-09
- Tracking bug: #2028161
- Release Notes tracker: #773
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Boost 1.78 upgrade
This change brings Boost 1.78 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.
Owners
- Owner: Thomas Rodgers
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-03-10
- Tracking bug: #2062915
- Release Notes tracker: #812
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
MinGW toolchain update
Update the MinGW toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.
Owners
- Owner: Sandro Mani
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-03-02
- Tracking bug: #2060050
- Release Notes tracker: #809
- Contingency deadline: Before release
- Status: 100% code completed
Changes/LegacyXorgDriverRemoval
This change removes the xorg-x11-drv-vesa and xorg-x11-drv-fbdev driver packages, and associated support code from the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package.
Owners
- Owner: Adam Jackson
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-04-26
- Tracking bug: #2078921
- Release Notes tracker: #822
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze seems fine.
- Status: Change accepted
Node.js 18.x by default
The latest release of Node.js to carry a 30-month lifecycle is the 18.x series. As with 16.x, 14.x, 12.x, 10.x and 8.x before it, Fedora 37 will carry 18.x as the default Node.js interpreter for the system. The 16.x, and 14.x interpreters will remain available as non-default module streams.
Owners
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-05-17
- Tracking bug: #2087185
- Release Notes tracker: #838
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Status: In progress
Perl 5.36
A new perl 5.36 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.36 will be released in May 20th 2022. See 5.36.0 perldelta for more details about new release.
Owners
- Owner: Jitka Plesníková, Michal Josef Špaček
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-05-18
- Tracking bug: #2088002
- Release Notes tracker: #840
- Contingency deadline: branching Fedora 37 from Rawhide.
- Status: Change accepted
Python 3.11
Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.10 to Python 3.11, the newest major release of the Python programming language.
Owners
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-10-20
- Tracking bug: #2016048
- Release Notes tracker: #746
- Contingency deadline: TBD
- Status: Change accepted
Retire the NIS(+) user-space utility programs
This change is about retiring the ypbind, yp-tools, and ypserv packages, and removal of the {nis,yp}domainname user-space utility programs from the hostname package.
Owners
- Owner: Björn Esser
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-02-16
- Tracking bug: #2022386
- Release Notes tracker: #766
- Contingency deadline: At beta freeze.
- Status: Change accepted
RetireARMv7
Retire the ARMv7 architecture AKA arm32 or armhfp architecture.
Owners
- Owner: Peter Robinson
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-12-01
- Tracking bug: #2028172
- Release Notes tracker: #776
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
RPM 4.18
Update RPM to the 4.18 release.
Owners
- Owner: Panu Matilainen
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-04-26
- Tracking bug: #2079029
- Release Notes tracker: #823
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: Testable
DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants
RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as it reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in btrfs, which is the default filesystem starting from Fedora 33 for most variants. Note that this behavior is not being turned on by default for this Change.
Owners
- Owner: Matthew Almond, Davide Cavalca, Manu Bretelle
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-02-14
- Tracking bug: #1915976
- Release Notes tracker: #634
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Signed RPM Contents
We want to add signatures to individual files that are part of shipped RPMs.
Owners
- Owner: Peter Robinson, Patrick Uiterwijk
Tracking
- Last updated: 2022-04-18
- Tracking bug: #2076296
- Release Notes tracker: #819
- Contingency deadline: The signing should be turned on before a mass rebuild, and is ready to go if the change is approved.
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora Linux 37 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686
Package maintainers are empowered to stop building their packages for i686 — especially if supporting this architecture requires significant investment of time or resources. This will not apply to packages which are still depended on by other i686 packages, or which get used in a "multilib" context (i.e. for running 32-bit applications on x86_64). Dropping i686 architecture support from a leaf package will no longer be considered a breaking change, will not require any announcements, or tracker bugs.
- Owner: Fabio Valentini
- Last updated: 2022-03-29
- Status: Change accepted
MinGW OpenSSL 3.x update
Update OpenSSL for MinGW to version 3.x
- Owner: Sandro Mani
- Last updated: 2022-02-17
- Status: Finished
MinGW UCRT target
This proposal is to add the UCRT target & support from Fedora to the MinGW cross-toolchains.
- Owner: Marc-André Lureau
- Last updated: 2022-02-16
- Status: Testable
Support FIDO Device Onboarding
Package and enable the FIDO Device Onboarding software stack for Zero Touch Onboarding on Fedora IoT.
- Owner: Peter Robinson, Antonio Murdaca
- Last updated: 2022-04-14
- 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: 2022-03-02
- Status: Unknown
Haskell GHC 9.0 & Stackage LTS 19
The GHC Haskell compiler will be updated from major version 8.10 to 9.0, and Haskell packages will be updated from Stackage LTS 18 to LTS 19 versions.
- Owner: Haskell SIG
- Last updated: 2022-04-29
- Status: Change accepted
Build Fedora IoT Artifacts with osbuild
Build the key Fedora IoT artifacts such as the raw images and the traditional anaconda installer with osbuild.
- Owner: Paul Whalen, Christian Kellner, Ondřej Budai, Peter Robinson
- Last updated: 2022-04-14
- 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: 2022-02-10
- Status: Change accepted
Python Dist RPM provides to only provide PEP503-normalized names
The legacy python3dist(NAME) and python3.11dist(NAME) RPM provides with dots (.) in NAME will no longer be automatically provided. NAME will only be normalized according to PEP 503. E.g. on Fedora 36 a package provides both python3dist(ruamel-yaml) and python3dist(ruamel.yaml), on Fedora 37+ it will only provide python3dist(ruamel-yaml) (and similarly, python3.11dist(ruamel-yaml)).
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
- Last updated: 2022-02-10
- Status: In progress
Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation
Fedora Workstation product core group includes jwhois package. Replace it with whois package which is more actively developed.
- Owner: Oğuz Ersen
- Last updated: 2022-05-04
- Status: Change accepted
Enable read only /sysroot for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite
This change is about enabling an opt-in ostree feature that re-mounts /sysroot as read only to avoid accidental changes.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier, Tomáš Popela, Jiří Konečný
- Last updated: 2022-03-04
- Status: Change accepted
Wayland by Default for SDDM
Change the default display server mode for SDDM to use a Wayland-based greeter rather than an X11-based one.
- Owner: Neal Gompa, Rex Dieter, Jan Grulich
- Last updated: 2022-03-14
- Status: Change accepted