Fedora 23 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 23 Release as System Wide Changes.
Category:ChangeAcceptedF23 and Category:SystemWideChange
Harden All Packages
In Fedora 22 and before, it was up to the package maintainer to add %global _hardened_build 1 to their spec file to ensure their program was hardened. Beginning with Fedora 23 this will now become the defaults for all packages. You can compare the security by running the following as root:
Owners
- Owner: Till Maas | Moez Roy | Florian Weimer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-02-12
- Tracking bug: #1215939
- Original tracking bug: #1199775
- Status: Change accepted
Mono 4
Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.*
Owners
- Owner: Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: April 29, 2015
- Tracking bug: #1221559
- Status: Change accepted
Disable SSL3 and RC4 by default
This change will disable by default the SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher in components which use the system wide crypto policy. That is, gnutls and openssl libraries, and all the applications based on them.
Owners
- Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28
- Tracking bug: #1220679
- Status: Change accepted
Perl 5.22
A new perl 5.22 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.22 should be released 5/20/2015. See 5.21.11 perldelta for more details about preparing release.
Owners
- Owner: Petr Písař
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28
- Tracking bug: #1220680
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 23 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 23 Release as Self Contained Changes.