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Fedora 11 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 11 Release.
| % Complete | Name | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 20 Second Startup | Make Fedora boot and shut down faster. The goal is to be at the login screen in 20 seconds and then to be as fast as possible after the login (gnome-session). | 2009-04-14 |
| 100% | Anaconda Storage Rewrite | New storage code to use udev for detection of block devices and rewritten modules for management of partitions (pyparted), LVM, Software RAID, and block device encryption (pycryptsetup). The rewrite does not change the user interface. | 2009-04-14 |
| 100% | Archer | Archer is a gdb development branch focusing on better C++ support. It also includes Python scripting capabilities. | 2009-03-04 |
| 100% | Supported Architectures | Change supported architectures and default installed kernels. 32bit x86 binaries will be rebuilt for i586. The PAE kernel will be used on 32-bit hardware, where appropriate. | 2009-03-05 |
| 100% | Automatic Fonts & Mime Installer | Allows programs on the desktop to automatically install applications, fonts, multimedia codecs and clipart. | 2009-02-26 |
| 100% | ControlGroups | Allows system administrator to partition the system resources into different sub groups, and dedicate these sub groups resources to different applications' need. | 2009-04-14 |
| 100% | ABRT | Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: Help non-power users with bug reporting, making it as easy as a few mouse clicks | 2009-03-05 |
| 100% | Cups PolicyKit Integration | Use PolicyKit to define policies for accessing the cups functionality. Cups policies can be configured with the same tools that are used for other PolicyKit-enabled parts of the system. | 2009-03-05 |
| 100% | DBusPolicy | Increase security settings of DBus | 2009-03-05 |
| 100% | DeviceKit | A simple, modular system service to manage devices and designed to partially replace hal. Users gain a graphical disk management application called palimpsest which integrates nicely into the desktop. |
2009-03-06 |
| 100% | DNS Security | DNSSEC (DNS SECurity) is mechanism which can prove integrity and authenticity of DNS data. | 2009-04-15 |
| 100% | DRI2 | Improve Direct Rendering Infrastructure | 2009-03-02 |
| 100% | Eclipse Profiling Tools | Add the power of various native profiling tools into the Eclipse IDE and integrate with the rest of the development environment. Specifically add Linux Tools, OProfile, and Valgrind integration. | 2009-02-19 |
| 100% | Evdev2.2 | Update to version 2.2 of the X.Org X11 evdev driver (xorg-x11-drv-evdev) | 2009-03-09 |
| 100% | ext4 Default file system | Make ext4 the default files system for anaconda-driven installs (replacing ext3). User should notice generally better performance, and benefit from things like persistent preallocation when using updated torrent clients, etc. | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Fingerprint | Better Out-of-the-box experience for systems with fingerprint readers. Support for one more piece of frequently found hardware. Configuration now available through graphical Authentication Configuration (authconfig). | 2009-03-05 |
| 100% | Firefox 3.1 | Upgrade Firefox to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series (Firefox 3.1). | 2009-03-03 |
| 100% | gcc 4.4 | Switch GCC in Fedora 11 to 4.4.x Rebuild all packages with gcc 4.4.x | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | GFS2 | A cluster filesystem allowing simultaneous access to shared storage from multiple nodes and designed for SAN environment. | 2009-03-30 |
| 100% | Gnome 2.26 | Update to Gnome 2.26 to ensure that Fedora stays in sync with the upstream version of the Gnome desktop. The user experience should be largely unchanged. | 2009-03-18 |
| 100% | IBus | A new default input method framework under active development which is designed to overcome the limitations of SCIM. | 2009-04-15 |
| 100% | InputDeviceProperties | X server 1.6 input devices provide a generic mechanism to change driver settings at runtime. The same mechanism may be used by applications to store information directly on device. | 2009-02-26 |
| 100% | IntelKMS | Enable kernel modesetting by default for Intel chipsets | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | K12Linux | Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP.org) was integrated into Fedora 10, in a convenient LiveUSB or DVD media installer. Now updated for Fedora 11. | 2009-02-05 |
| 100% | KDE4.2 | Rebase to KDE 4.2 and offer new features such as PolicyKit-KDE, NetworkManager plasma applet etc. | 2009-03-04 |
| 100% | KVM PCI Device Assignment | Assign PCI devices from your KVM host machine to guest virtual machines. | 2009-03-11 |
| 100% | KVM and QEMU Merge | Combine the kvm and qemu packages into a single package | 2009-03-26 |
| 100% | Minimal Platform | Enable small installations for a server or desktop appliance | 2009-03-17 |
| 100% | NetBeans 6.5 | NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a significant update of NetBeans IDE 6.1 which ensures that the latest version is available to developers. | 2009-01-26 |
| 100% | NewTextUI | A simplified and easier to maintain Text UI installer for Anaconda. Text mode is now the truly minimal install experience that a lot of people have requested. | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Nouveau as Default | Make Nouveau the default driver for NVIDIA graphics chipsets | 2009-03-06 |
| 100% | Nouveau Modesetting | Currently, modes are initialised by the 2D driver on X server startup. Kernel Modesetting (KMS) moves all of this into the kernel | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | OpenChange | Natively access Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange. | 2009-02-28 |
| 100% | PAM GDM | Improve GDM's interaction with PAM so that it works with multiple simultaneous stacks at once | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Power Management | Improve the current state of power management, especially in regard to userland. | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Presto | The presto plugin for yum adds support for downloading deltarpms and using them to generate new packages. | 2009-03-02 |
| 100% | Python 2.6 | Include Python 2.6 in Fedora. | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Radeon3DUpdate | Update the radeon r100/r200 3D drivers to work with kernel modesetting and DRI2 | 2009-04-11 |
| 100% | rpm 4.7 | Update RPM to 4.7 in Fedora 11 to benefit from performance enhancements | 2009-04-14 |
| 100% | System Security Services Daemon | Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. | 2009-03-16 |
| 100% | Stronger Hashes | Support hashes stronger than MD5 and SHA-1 | 2009-04-14 |
| 100% | SVirt Mandatory Access Control | sVirt integrates SELinux with the Fedora virtualization stack to allow Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security be applied to guest virtual machines | 2009-03-04 |
| 100% | Synaptics Update | Update Fedora to ship xorg-x11-drv-synaptics version 1.x | 2009-02-26 |
| 100% | Thunderbird 3 | Upgrade Thunderbird to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series which is Thunderbird 3 | 2009-03-03 |
| 100% | TigerVNC | Make TigerVNC the default VNC client in Fedora. | 2009-03-03 |
| 100% | UEFI | provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications | 2009-04-17 |
| 100% | Virt Improved Console | improve the user experiance for virtual guests' graphical console, by providing an accurate mouse pointer and higher screen resolution, without requiring manual configuration | 2009-02-27 |
| 100% | Virt VNC Authentication | A mapping of SASL authentication into the VNC protocol for QEMU and GTK-VNC | 2009-03-09 |
| 100% | VolumeControl | The multimedia experience of Fedora users is improved by an easily understandable and much more flexible volume control model. | 2009-04-11 |
| 100% | Windows Cross-compiler | Build and test full-featured Windows programs, from the comfort of the Fedora system, without needing to use Windows. | 2009-03-11 |
| 100% | Xfce4.6 | Update Xfce to the upstream 4.6 release with many new improvements and features. | 2009-02-28 |
| 100% | Xserver 1.6 | Update the X server in to 1.6 | 2009-04-17 |
Customized Fedora 11 Spins
Fedora 11 Release Schedule
Feature Process
- The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Fedora is on the Feature Process page.
- The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the Fedora 11 Schedule
- Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete