Fedora 33 Accepted System-Wide Changes
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 33 Release as System-Wide Changes.
Binutils 2.34
Rebase the binutils package from version 2.33 to version 2.34.
Owners
- Owner: Nick Clifton [1]
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-01-20
- Tracking bug: #1793098
- Status: Testable
ELN Buildroot and Compose
ELN is a new buildroot and compose process for Fedora that will take Fedora Rawhide dist-git sources and emulate a Red Hat Enterprise Linux compose. Feedback from this build, compose and integration testing will be provided to Fedora packagers so that they can see the potential impact of their changes on RHEL development.
Owners
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-05
- Tracking bug: #1823414
- 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
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-07
- Tracking bug: #1821868
- Status: Change accepted
java-11-openjdk as system JDK in F33
Update the system JDK in Fedora from java-1.8.0-openjdk to java-11-openjdk.
Owners
- Owner: Jiri Vanek
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-07
- Tracking bug: #1825969
- Status: Change accepted
Mark libdb as deprecated
This change should inform maintainers and developers about effort to remove libdb (with all subpackages) in future.
Owners
- Owner: Filip Januš
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-12
- Tracking bug: #1834842
- Status: Change accepted
GNU Make version 4.3
Rebase GNU make in Fedora 33 from make version 4.2 to make version 4.3.
Owners
- Owner: DJ Delorie
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-07
- Tracking bug: #1821871
- Status: Change accepted
Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL
Fix Fedora upgradability issues when upgrading systems with module streams enabled.
Owners
- Owner: Daniel Mach
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-12
- Tracking bug: #1834844
- Status: Change accepted
Modules In Non-Modular Buildroot
This Change (colloquially referred to as "Ursa Prime") enables the Koji build-system to include the RPM artifacts provided by module default streams in the buildroot when building non-modular (or "traditional") RPMs.
Owners
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-02-17
- Tracking bug: #1771932
- Status: Change accepted
OpenSSL3.0
The OpenSSL package is rebased to version 3.0 and the dependent packages are rebuilt.
Owners
- Owner: Tomáš Mráz
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-20
- Tracking bug: #1825937
- Status: Change accepted
Perl 5.32
A new perl 5.32 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.32 will be released in June 20th 2020. See 5.31.11 perldelta for more details about preparing release.
Owners
- Owner: Petr Písař
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-29
- Tracking bug: #1827798
- Status: Change accepted
Python 3.9
Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.8 to Python 3.9.
Owners
- Owner: Charalampos Stratakis
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-04
- Tracking bug: #1785415
- Status: Change accepted
Removal of the glibc-headers package
Replace the glibc-headers.i686 and glibc-headers.x86_64 package with a glibc-headers-x86.noarch package, and merge glibc-headers into glibc-devel on the other architectures.
Owners
- Owner: Florian Weimer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-27
- Tracking bug: #1828332
- Status: 100% code completed
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
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-02-28
- Tracking bug: #1792468
- Status: Change accepted
RPM 4.16
Update RPM to the 4.16.0 release.
Owners
- Owner: User:pmatilai, User:ffesti
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-12
- Tracking bug: #1818907
- Status: Testable
Sqlite RpmDB
Change format of the RPM database from Berkeley DB to a new Sqlite format.
Owners
- Owner: Panu Matilainen Florian Festi
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-12
- Tracking bug: #1818910
- Status: Testable
Strong crypto settings: phase 2
We update the current system-wide crypto policy to further disable legacy cryptographic protocols (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1), weak Diffie-Hellman key exchange sizes (1024 bit), and use of the SHA-1 hash in signatures.
Owners
- Owner: Tomáš Mráz
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-07
- Tracking bug: #1821875
- Status: Change accepted
systemd-resolved
Enable systemd-resolved by default. glibc will perform name resolution using nss-resolve rather than nss-dns.
Owners
- Owner: Michael Catanzaro
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-05-12
- Tracking bug: #1834846
- Status: Change accepted
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
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-02-24
- Tracking bug: #1790581
- Status: Change accepted
Changes/LTO by default for package builds
This is a proposal to enable link time optimization (LTO) of packages built with rpmbuild by default. It's an over-simplification, but think of LTO as deferring analysis, optimization and code generation until creation of an executable or dynamic shared object.
Owners
- Owner: Jeff Law
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2020-04-21
- Tracking bug: #1789115
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 33 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
Cloud Provider Image Updates
Provide monthly updates to cloud provider images.
- Owner:
- Last updated: 2020-02-28
- Completed: no
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: 2020-02-24
- Completed: no
Retire python26
The python26 package will be retired without replacement from Fedora 33. Python 2.6 has been End of Life since October 2013 and was kept around only to test software targeting RHEL/EPEL 6. The removal is aligned with EPEL 6 EOL.
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
- Last updated: 2020-01-27
- Completed: no
Retire python34
The python34 package will be retired without replacement from Fedora 33. Python 3.4 has been End of Life since March 2019 and was kept around only to test software targeting EPEL 6 and Debian 8 “Jessie”. The removal is aligned with EPEL 6 EOL and happens after the EOL of Debian 8.
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
- Last updated: 2020-01-27
- Completed: no
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: 2020-02-28
- Completed: no