These are the Talking Points for the Fedora 29 release. For information on how these talking points were chosen, see Talking Points SOP. They are intended to help Ambassadors quickly present an overview of highlighted features when talking about the release, and to help drive content for the release, etc.
The talking points are based in part on the Change Set for this release.
Overall Release Story
Releases may slip if Fedora 29 isn't ready for our users, but the schedule calls for a beta release at the middle of September.
Fedora-Wide Changes and Improvements
Changes to talk about for regular users
Changes affecting security
Changes to talk about for developers
Fedora Atomic Host
Fedora Server
Fedora Workstation
GNOME 3.30
Fedora 29 features GNOME 3.30 as the default desktop environment. GNOME 3.30 includes a number of enhancements to the core applications, including performance improvements in GJS (this should improve GNOME Shell as well as other GJS-based applications).
For more information about all the new features and enhancements see GNOME 3.30's release announcement and release notes.
Automatic updates
GNOME Software supports automatic updates for Flatpak.
Fedora ARM (aarch64 and ARMv7)
Spins
KDE Plasma Desktop
Xfce
LXQt
Mate-Compiz
Cinnamon
Labs
Upgrading to the Latest Release
To learn how to upgrade to the latest release from a recent Fedora release using DNF, see here.
All Changes
Fedora 29 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 28 Release as System Wide Changes.
Fedora 29 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 28 Release as Self Contained Changes.