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Fedora 13 includes a rich set of development tools including all popular programming languages, the best and latest IDEs, and an extensive set of libraries. This section addresses the major changes for Fedora 13. For a complete list of the hundreds of updated development components see the Fedora 13 Technical Notes at http://docs.fedoraproject.org.
Boost
Fedora 12 includes Boost 1.39. In Fedora 13, there is an upgrade to Boost 1.4, which, due to some improvements in the way Boost is built, allows Fedora to be in closer sync with the upstream development. The release notes for Boost can be found at http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_40_0.
Systemtap Static Probes
Systemtap has been extended to support user space tracing, and in particular to support static (dtrace compatible) markers enabled in various programs in Fedora. This enables users, developers and administrators a high level overview of what is going on with their system or deep down in a specific program or subsystem.
Systemtap comes with a tutorial, a language reference manual, a tapsets reference and an examples directory.
Python 3
Fedora now includes a Python 3 runtime, parallel-installable with our existing Python 2 runtime.
Python 3 versions of many libraries are available with more underway. For an update on the current status refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13.
Changes in Alpha
bzr
Friendly distributed version control system
Old Version: 2.0.1 -> New Version: 2.1.0
Project site: (http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/)
darcs
David's advanced revision control system
Old Version: 2.2.1 -> New Version: 2.4
Project site: (http://www.darcs.net/)
eric
Python IDE
Old Version: 4.3.7.1 -> New Version: 4.4.2
Project site: (http://eric-ide.python-projects.org)
gdb
GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
highlight
Universal source code to formatted text converter
Old Version: 2.13 -> New Version: 2.15
Project site: (http://www.andre-simon.de/)
mercurial
A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system
Old Version: 1.3.1 -> New Version: 1.5
Project site: (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/)
rpmlint
Tool for checking common errors in RPM packages
Old Version: 0.91 -> New Version: 0.95
Project site: (http://rpmlint.zarb.org/)
tolua++
A tool to integrate C/C++ code with Lua
Old Version: 1.0.92 -> New Version: 1.0.93
Project site: (http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/)