Fedora Linux 41 Accepted System-Wide Changes
Remove Python Mock Usage
python-mock has been deprecated since Fedora 34 - 6 releases ago, but is still in use in many packages. We plan to go through the remaining usages and clean them up, with the goal of retiring python-mock from Fedora.
Owners
- Owner: Maxwell G
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2258085
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Changes/Python3.13
Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.12 to Python 3.13, the newest major release of the Python programming language.
Owners
- Owner: Karolina Surma
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-12-04
- Tracking bug: #2244836
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Not being worked on
Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default
The new PatternFly-based UI has been developed by the Anaconda team for some time now and we would like to make it available for users of Fedora to enhance and modernize installation experience. As the first step in this user adoption process, we are targeting Fedora Workstation only.
Owners
- Owner: Fedora Workstation SIG
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2231339
- Release Notes tracker: #1033
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
Modernize Live Media
Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
Owners
- Owner: Neal Gompa, Matt Coleman
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2139918
- Release Notes tracker: #898
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)
Continue the work done in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer but in an officially stable format, and expanded to cover more OSTree-based editions. This goes "all in" on being container-native and significantly changes the technology and user emphasis.
Owners
- Owner: Colin Walters, Joseph Marrero, Brent Baude
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2151321
- Release Notes tracker: #933
- Contingency deadline: Dunno
- Status: Change accepted
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS
Acceleration of GnuTLS with software Kernel TLS (KTLS)
Owners
- Owner: František Krenželok, Daiki Ueno
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2130000
- Release Notes tracker: #881
- Contingency deadline: 2023-02-21
- Status: Change accepted
Make DNF5 The Default
Make DNF5 the new default packaging tool. The change will replace DNF, YUM, and DNF-AUTOMATIC with the new DNF5 and new Libdnf5 library. The change will mainly impact command-line users of DNF. It is a second step after https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodnf.
Owners
- Owner: Jaroslav Mracek (DNF)
Tracking
- Last updated: 2023-08-21
- Tracking bug: #2166026
- Release Notes tracker: #962
- Contingency deadline: Branch Fedora Linux 41 from Rawhide
- Status: Change accepted
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: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #1915976
- Release Notes tracker: #634
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora Linux 41 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
Enable auto-updates by default in Fedora Kinoite
On Fedora Kinoite, Plasma Discover supports automatically updating the system in a safe fashion via rpm-ostree staged updates. We want users to benefit from bug fixes and updates in general by default thus we want to enable auto-updates by default. Users will still have the option of disabling that or tuning the frequency at which updates happen.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier, Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2024-02-20
- Tracking bug: #2233192
- Status: Change accepted
mkosi-initrd
mkosi-initrd is an alternative builder for initrds. It will be packaged in Fedora, so that users can use it to build initrds locally. A kernel-install plugin will be provided to build the initrd when a kernel package is installed. As a stretch goal, initrds will be build in koji and delivered via rpm packages. As a further stretch goal, pre-built initrds will be used in Unified Kernel Images that can be delivered via rpm packages.
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Lukáš Nykrýn , Daan De Meyer
- Last updated: 2024-02-21
- Tracking bug: #2203221
- Status: Change accepted