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Fedora 12 Accepted Features
These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 12 Release.
| % Complete | Name | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40% | Abrt 1.0 | The tool to help non-power users with bug reporting, making it as easy as a few mouse clicks | 2009-07-17 |
| 100% | Anaconda MDRaid | Use mdraid instead of dmraid for certain BIOS-RAID types (currently only Intel BIOS-RAID using imsm meta-data). | 2009-07-16 |
| 90% | Better Webcam Support | Add support for more Webcams | 2009-07-16 |
| 10% | DisplayPort | Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers | 2009-07-15 |
| 90% | Dracut | Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd | 2009-07-15 |
| 75% | Empathy | Set Empathy as the default IM client | 2009-07-15 |
| 80% | FCoE | Add Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to anaconda's storage code | 2009-07-15 |
| 25% | Fedora Studio | Classify multimedia applications into subgroups for easy access | 2009-07-18 |
| 30% | GFS2 Clustered Samba | Support for clustered samba (including active/active configuration) over GFS2 using CTDB | 2009-07-20 |
| 50% | Gnome2.28 | Re-base to GNOME 2.28 | 2009-07-16 |
| 90% | KDE 4.3 | Rebase to KDE 4.3 and offers new features such as DeviceKit support and Phonon Gstreamer backend as the default | 2009-07-23 |
| 93% | KSM | Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages | 2009-07-23 |
| 90% | KVM Huge Page Backed Memory | Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure | 2009-07-23 |
| 40% | KVM NIC Hotplug | Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest. | 2009-07-09 |
| 80% | KVM qcow2 Performance | Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format | 2009-07-16 |
| 80% | KVM Stable Guest ABI | Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same ABI across QEMU upgrades. | 2009-07-22 |
| 80% | libguestfs | Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images | 2009-07-08 |
| 60% | liblvm | Add liblvm, a userspace library for application interface to LVM | 2009-07-16 |
| 20% | Lower Process Capabilities | This feature will lower the capabilities of all root daemons and many setuid apps. File and directory permissions may be reworked to require DAC_OVERRIDE for any system update | 2009-07-10 |
| 75% | Mobile Broadband Enhancements | Extended support of mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including display of signal strength when connected, network scanning, network selection, etc. | 2009-07-15 |
| 20% | Moblin | Add support to Fedora for the Moblin NetBook/NetTop/MID desktop environment. | 2009-07-26 |
| 25% | NetBeans_6.7 | Re-base to NetBeans 6.7 | 2009-07-14 |
| 60% | NetworkManagerIPv6 | Add full IPv6 support to NetworkManager. | 2009-07-20 |
| 80% | NetworkManager System Connections | Add full support for system-wide connections to NetworkManager. | 2009-07-09 |
| 80% | NFS Client IPv6 | Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6 | 2009-07-15 |
| 80% | Open Shared Root | The open sharedroot project provides abilities to boot multiple linux systems with the same root filesystem providing a single system filesystem based cluster. | 2009-07-02 |
| 90% | PolicyKit 1.0 | PolicyKit provides a flexible framework for granting users access to privileged operations. It is meant to replace the old userhelper approach, and overcome some of its shortcomings. PolicyKit 1.0 addresses architectural shortcomings of the initial PolicyKit design. | 2009-07-20 |
| 60% | Power Management F12 | improve and extend the functionality of tuned, merge it with ktune from RHEL 5 and introduce a new and easy way to switch between various predefined and extendible tuning settings for your system | 2009-07-20 |
| 90% | Virtual Network Interface Management | Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts. | 2009-07-16 |
| 30% | NFSv4Default | Changed the default NFS protocol to version 4 | 2009-07-15 |
| 80% | Ovirt_Node | oVirt Node is a small scaled down version of Fedora used solely to host virtual machine guests | 2009-07-23 |
| 90% | PackageKitBrowserPlugin | The PackageKit browser plugin allows people browsing online to install missing applications | 2009-07-16 |
| 99% | PackageKitCommandNotFound | The PackageKit command not found functionality allows command line users to automatically install missing commands, or to suggest spelling replacements | 2009-07-16 |
| 80% | SR-IOV | Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF) | 2009-07-08 |
| 75% | Systemtap Tracing Refresh | New and improved systemtap with much better documentation, examples and tools. Updated to take advantage of modern gcc debuginfo (dwarf) output, kernel tracepoints. | 2009-07-17 |
| 95% | Virt Privileges | Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users | 2009-07-22 |
| 100% | VirtgPXE | Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe. | 2009-06-27 |
| 60% | VirtioSerial | This feature adds a virtio-serial device to guests running on top of qemu and kvm. It exposes multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces. | 2009-07-15 |
| 80% | Virt Storage Management | Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage, issue NPIV operations and do basic configuration of multipath devices | 2009-07-16 |
| 45% | XI2 | XI2 is the second major release of the X Input Extension and allows the simultaneous use of multiple independent input devices. | 2009-07-21 |
| 60% | XZ Rpm Payloads | Switch RPM to use XZ (the new LZMA format) as default payload compression | 2009-07-17 |
| 33% | x86 Support | Changing the base architecture to i686 and optimizing for current 32-bit processors | 2009-07-17 |
| 30% | YumLangpackPlugin | A yum plugin that allows langpacks to be automatically installed for your native language when base packages with langpacks get installed. | 2009-07-24 |
Fedora 12 Spins
"Permanent" Spins
| Name | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop Spin | No description available | unknown |
| KDE Spin | No description available | unknown |
Official Fedora Spins
| Name | Summary | Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AOS Spin | Appliances are pre-installed, pre-configured, system images. This Spin is intended to make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances. The AOS (The Appliance Operating System) is a scaled down version of Fedora with a small footprint containing only the packages necessary to run an appliance. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
| BrOffice.org Spin | Due to a brand layer introduced in OpenOffice.org 3.0, Fedora now has the BrOffice.org brand for the office suite, starting with Fedora 10. This spin is intended to be a Brazilian Portuguese localized spin that provides the legal brand for OpenOffice.org in Brazil. It will be based on Fedora 12 Desktop Spin. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
| Education Spin | The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
| Electronic Lab Spin | Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware design flows based on the semiconductor industry's current trend. FEL maps in three methodologies {design, simulation and verification} with opensource EDA software. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
| Games Spin | The Fedora Games spin offers a perfect show-case of the best games available in Fedora. The included games span several genres, from first person shooters to real-time and turn based strategy games to puzzle games. Not all the games available in Fedora are included on this spin, but trying out this spin will give you a fair impression of Fedora's abilities to run great games. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
| LXDE Spin | The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. | 2009-07-27 | Trademark approval requested from Board, pending |
| XFCE Spin | The Fedora Xfce spin showcases the Xfce desktop, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. Xfce is a full fledged desktop using the freedesktop.org standard. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
Upcoming Spins
| Name | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Geo Spin | Fedora Geo Spin is a collection of mapping tools that run on Fedora. This includes tools for map making, integration into OpenStreetMap, and components that can be run on a GPS enabled device. | .ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release |
| Haskell Spin | This spin provides GHC, libraries, cabal-install, Hugs and other related tools. It could be used in Uni CS labs, etc and by people who want a portable Haskell development environment. | .ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release |
| Security Spin | Provides a fully functional LiveCD based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing. | Not yet approved by Spins SIG at July 27th 2009, but wants to go the full 9 yards |
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 12 Schedule
- Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:FeaturePageIncomplete