Beat Assignments
This page lists all of the writing beats for the release notes, and who is assigned to them.
Beat writers should be subscribed to the content flow mailing list.
Status key:
- + == Ready for conversion to XML
- 0 == Not ready for conversion to XML
- - == Not including in conversion to XML
* - Needs to be confirmed.
Fedora Release Notes Beats
Content in the beats may be derived from bugzilla reports and mailing list discussions.
Each beat has one or more beat writers, as assigned on the release notes beats page. The beat writer(s) are in charge of the beat pages. These pages are open for all to contribute. If you know something that should be in the release notes, this is the place to put it.
Writers can learn about how this works on the Docs/Beats/HowTo page.
The page Docs/Beats uses a Wiki include that pulls in the content from the separate beat pages. The actual beat page is located at Docs/Beats/Beatname.
The current version we are writing for is Fedora Final.
Interested in contributing? Read DocsProject/Join.
Below are all the beats on one page. Use the links from the Table of Contents above to go directly to beat pages.
Welcome to Fedora 11
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What is New for Installation and Live Images
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Upfront About Multimedia
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What is the Latest on the Desktop
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Package Notes
The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora 11. For easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the installation system.
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Input Methods
- In ibus-libpinyin, press "Ctrl-Shift-d" to remove the remembered user phrase; and in double pinyin mode, press "I" to use lua script extension.
- XKB option ISO_Level3_Shift key is not available in control-center Keyboard panel, one needs to use 'gnome-tweak-tool' to enable 3rd level chooser key.
ibus
- The shortcut key Ctrl-⇧ Shift-e can be customized with
ibus-setup - The language of emoji annotation can be selected with
ibus-setupbesides English - The emoji font can be selected with
ibus-setup(You might like Noto Color Emoji font) - All IBus engines can use the emoji feature from the panel
- The emoji dialog can output emojis with keyboard without mouse for CLI users
- Now Ctrl-⇧ Shift-e is available in non-GNOME desktops since GNOME uses the own panel indicator instead of IBus GTK panel
ibus emojicommand is available for GNOME desktop and the shortcut of the command can be registered with gnome-control-center by manual- Furthermore info: https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/ibus-1-5-16-is-released/
New Packages
Fonts
- adobe-source-serif-pro-fonts : Source Serif Pro is a set of OpenType fonts to complement the Source Sans Pro family.
- oflb-coval-fonts : Derivation of other free of charge fonts
- astigmatic-grand-hotel-fonts - Script retro style fonts
- typetype-molot-fonts - Display sans-serif fonts
Libraries
- sharpfont : Cross-platform FreeType bindings for .NET
- libXfont2 - X11 font support library
- nodejs-os-locale : To get the system locale
- nodejs-y18n : The bare-bones internationalization library used by yargs
What is New for Gamers, Scientists, and Hobbyists
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Power Users Get What Features and Fixes
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How are Things for Developers
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Perl 5.24
Perl has been updated to the latest stable version, 5.24, for Fedora 25. Changes include:
- New features:
- Unicode 8.0 is now supported.
- An exception will be raised when closing an in-place output file fails.
- (?[ ]) will successfully compile when use locale is in effect.
- Integer shift (<< and >>) now more explicitly defined. Negative shifts are reverse shifts.
- printf and sprintf now allow reordered precision arguments.
- When passing the SA_SIGINFO flag to sigaction, the errno, status, uid, pid, addr and band fields are included in the hash passed to the handler, if supported by the platform.
- Hashbang redirection was extended also to Perl 6.
- Changes:
- Postfix dereferencing is no longer experimental.
- Remove duplicate environment variables from environ.
- More regular expression patterns are now checked for validity at compilation time, and invalid ones will cause the program to not compile.
- Using \N{} is a fatal error under experimental feature "'strict' mode" in re.
- A my, our, or state declaration is no longer allowed inside of another my, our, or state declaration.
- The /\C/ character class has been removed.
- Using chdir(\'\') or chdir(undef) to change working directory to a home directory fails now. Use chdir() instead.
- ASCII characters in variable names must now be all visible.
- $Carp::MaxArgNums is supposed to be the number of arguments to display.
- Only blanks and tabs are now allowed within [...] within (?[...]).
- Matching fixed string regular expression is now faster in most cases.
- Removed features:
- The autoderef feature has been removed.
- Lexical $_ has been removed.
- PPPort.so no longer get installed, as they are not used by PPPort.pm.
- Using code points above the platform's IV_MAX is now deprecated.
- Bitwise operations on strings containing code points above 0xFF is deprecated. Instead, encode these strings to byte strings first.
- sysread(), syswrite(), recv() and send() are deprecated on :utf8 handles.
Node.js 6.x
Fedora 25 offers Node.js 6.x, the latest LTS release of the platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.
This replaces the older Node.js 4.x libraries found in legacy Fedora releases. Users of Node.js applications should notice no problems from this change, although developers should review the upstream release notes and API changes:
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KDE 3 Development Platform / Libraries
TBD
What Do System Administrators Care About
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storaged replaces udisks2
The udisks2 package provides dynamic storage management functionality to legacy Fedora systems. Most prominently, desktop environments like GNOME udisks to handle removable media, such as USB thumb drives, via a dbus interface.
Because udisks2 does not support more complex storage technologies such as LVM or iSCSI, it is being replaced in Fedora 25 by storaged, an enhanced fork of the udisks project. storaged is a drop-in replacement for udisks2, and the additional functionality allows administrators to use software like Cockpit in Fedora Server to manage these advanced storage resources.
Detailed information on the storaged project is available from the upstream site at https://storaged.org .
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Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.
Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.
Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.
Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.
Package Changes
This list is automatically generated. It is not a good choice for translation.
This list is generated for the release and posted on the wiki only. It is made using the repodiff utility from the yum-utils package, ran as repodiff --old=<base URL of the old SRPMS repository> --new=<base URL of the new SRPMS repository>.
For a list of which packages were updated since the previous release, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageChanges/UpdatedPackages. You can also find a comparison of major packages between all Fedora versions at http://distrowatch.com/fedora.
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Bash 4.0
- Fedora 11 includes bash 4.0
Are There Hideous Bugs and Terrible Tigers
Legal Stuff and Administrivia
Fedora Project
The goal of the Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general-purpose operating system exclusively from free and open source software. The Fedora Project is driven by the individuals that contribute to it. As a tester, developer, documenter, or translator, you can make a difference. Refer to http://join.fedoraproject.org for details. For information on the channels of communication for Fedora users and contributors, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.
In addition to the website, the following mailing lists are available:
- fedora-list@redhat.com, for users of Fedora releases
- fedora-test-list@redhat.com, for testers of Fedora test releases
- fedora-devel-list@redhat.com, for developers, developers, developers
- fedora-docs-list@redhat.com, for participants of the Documentation Project
To subscribe to any of these lists, send an email with the word "subscribe" in the subject to <listname>-request, where <listname> is one of the above list names. Alternately, you can subscribe to Fedora mailing lists through the Web interface at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/.
The Fedora Project also uses several IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels. IRC is a real-time, text-based form of communication, similar to Instant Messaging. With it, you may have conversations with multiple people in an open channel, or chat with someone privately one-on-one. To talk with other Fedora Project participants via IRC, access the Libera.chat IRC network. Refer to the Libera.chat website at https://libera.chat/ for more information.
Fedora Project participants frequent the #fedora[?] channel, while Fedora Project developers may often be found on the #fedora-devel[?] channel. Some of the larger projects may have their own channels as well. This information may be found on the webpage for the project, and at Communicate.
In order to talk on the #fedora[?] channel, you need to register your nickname, or nick. Instructions are given when you /join the channel.
The Fedora Project and Red Hat have no control over the Fedora Project IRC channels or their content.
Colophon
As we use the term, a colophon:
- recognizes contributors and provides accountability, and
- explains tools and production methods.
Contributors
We need to finish writing and translating the notes to know who has worked on them.
This content is out of date, it has not been updated since the Fedora 9 release notes.
- Alain Portal (translator - French)
- Amanpreet Singh Alam (translator - Punjabi)
- Andrew Martynov (translator - Russian)
- Andrew Overholt (beat contributor)
- Anthony Green (beat writer)
- Brandon Holbrook (beat contributor)
- Bob Jensen (beat writer)
- Chris Lennert (beat writer)
- Dale Bewley (beat writer)
- Dave Malcolm (beat writer)
- David Eisenstein (beat writer)
- David Woodhouse (beat writer)
- Deepak Bhole (beat contributor)
- Diego Búrigo Zacarão (translator)
- Dimitris Glezos (beat writer, translator - Greek)
- Domingo Becker (translator - Spanish)
- Fabian Affolter (translator - German)
- Francesco Tombolini (translator - Italian)
- Gavin Henry (beat writer)
- Geert Warrink (translator - Dutch)
- Guido Grazioli (translator - Italian)
- Hugo Cisneiros (translator - Brazilian Portuguese)
- Igor Miletic (translator - Serbian)
- Jason Taylor (beat writer, editor-in-training)
- Jeff Johnston (beat contributor)
- Jesse Keating (beat contributor)
- Jens Petersen (beat writer)
- Joe Orton (beat writer)
- José Nuno Coelho Pires (translator - Portuguese)
- Josh Bressers (beat writer)
- Karsten Wade (beat writer, editor, co-publisher)
- Kevin Kofler (beat writer)
- Kyu Lee (beat contributor)
- Lenka Čelková (translator - Slovak)
- Licio Fonseca (translator - Brazilian Portuguese)
- Lubomir Rintel (beat contributor, translator - Slovak)
- Luya Tshimbalanga (beat writer)
- Magnus Larsson (translator - Swedish)
- Marek Mahut (translator - Slovak)
- Mathieu Schopfer (translator - French)
- Matthieu Rondeau (translator - French)
- Maxim Dziumanenko (translator - Ukrainian)
- Martin Ball (beat writer)
- Nikos Charonitakis (translator - Greek)
- Orion Poplawski (beat contributor)
- Panagiota Bilianou (translator - Greek)
- Patrick Barnes (beat writer, editor)
- Paul W. Frields (tools, editor)
- Pavol Šimo (translator - Slovak)
- Pawel Sadowski (translator - Polish)
- Patrick Ernzer (beat contributor)
- Piotr Drąg (translator - Polish)
- Rahul Sundaram (beat writer, editor)
- Sam Folk-Williams (beat writer)
- Sekine Tatsuo (translator - Japanese)
- Simos Xenitellis (translator - Greek)
- Steve Dickson (beat writer)
- Teta Bilianou (translator - Greek)
- Thomas Canniot (translator - French)
- Thomas Graf (beat writer)
- Tommy Reynolds (tools)
- Valnir Ferreira Jr. (translator - Brazilian Portuguese)
- Ville-Pekka Vainio (translator - Finnish)
- Will Woods (beat contributor)
- Yoshinari Takaoka (translator, tools)
- Yuan Yijun (translator - Simplified Chinese)
- Zhang Yang (translator - simplified Chinese)
...and many more translators. Refer to the Web-updated version of these release notes as we add translators after release:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/
Production Methods
Beat writers produce the release notes directly on the Fedora Project Wiki. They collaborate with other subject matter experts during the test release phase of Fedora to explain important changes and enhancements. The editorial team ensures consistency and quality of the finished beats, and ports the Wiki material to DocBook XML in a revision control repository. At this point, the team of translators produces other language versions of the release notes, and then they become available to the general public as part of Fedora. The publication team also makes them, and subsequent errata, available via the Web.
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