Fedora Linux 35 was released on 2021-11-02. The release notes are on docs.fedoraproject.org.
Fedora 35 Accepted System-Wide Changes
Switching Cyrus Sasl from BerkeleyDB to GDBM
cyrus-sasl package was built with libdb requirement, now it is replaced by gdbm.
Owners
- Owner: Dmitry Belyavskiy
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-05-03
- Tracking bug: #1952926
- Release Notes tracker: #688
- Contingency deadline: F35 branch date (2021-08-10)
- Status: Finished
Changes/Binutils 2.36
Rebase the binutils package from version 2.35.1 to version 2.36.
Owners
- Owner: Nick Clifton [1]
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-25
- Tracking bug: #1920226
- Release Notes tracker: #641
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Finished
Broken RPATH will fail rpmbuild
Enable broken RPATH detection buildroot policy script by default. This will make the RPM build fail once a broken RPATH was detected within a binary or a shared library file. An opt-out mechanism will be provided as well.
Owners
- Owner: Charalampos Stratakis
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-09
- Tracking bug: #1964548
- Release Notes tracker: #700
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: Finished
CompilerPolicy Change
Fedora has historically forced packages to build with GCC unless the upstream project for the package only supported Clang/LLVM. This change proposal replaces that policy with one where, given a good technical reason, a packager may:
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-05-13
- Tracking bug: #1960295
- Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler: not externally facing> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler: not externally facing>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Boost 1.76 upgrade
This change brings Boost 1.76 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.
Owners
- Owner: Thomas Rodgers
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-08-04
- Tracking bug: #1982394
- Release Notes tracker: #711
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
MinGW environment and toolchain update
Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.
Owners
- Owner: Sandro Mani
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-08
- Tracking bug: #1980422
- Release Notes tracker: #709
- Contingency deadline: Before release
- Status: 100% code completed
"Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release
"Fedora" is the name of our project. Our general-purpose Linux distribution is "Fedora Linux". Let's refer to it that way in the OS itself.
Owners
- Owner: Matthew Miller
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-03-29
- Tracking bug: #1944428
- Release Notes tracker: #664
- Contingency deadline: Decision should be made at beta, but in the unlikely event of disaster this could be reverted right up until the last minute.
- Status: 100% code completed
Make btrfs the default file system for Fedora Cloud
For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.
Owners
- Owner: David Duncan, Chris Murphy, Josef Bacik, Michel Alexandre Salim, Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa, Dusty Mabe, Matthew Almond
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-15
- Tracking bug: #1972376
- Release Notes tracker: #702
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
Build Fedora Cloud Images with Hybrid BIOS+UEFI Boot Support
With recent changes in public cloud widely accepting the use of UEFI boot, it would be consistent to add hybrid boot in support of both unifying the legacy (BIOS) and UEFI boot to the Fedora Linux cloud base images.
Owners
- Owner: David Duncan, Chris Murphy, Michel Alexandre Salim, Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa, Dusty Mabe
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-21
- Tracking bug: #1972377
- Release Notes tracker: #703
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
Adding Selected Flathub Applications
Enabling third-party repositories will now include selected Flathub applications via a filtered Flathub remote.
Owners
- Owner: Owen Taylor, Neal Gompa [on behalf of the KDE SIG]
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-10-06
- Tracking bug: #1982741
- Release Notes tracker: #717
- Contingency deadline: release candidate
- Status: 100% code completed
Update firewalld to v1.0.0
Firewalld upstream is about to release v1.0.0. As indicated by the major version bump this includes behavioral changes.
Owners
- Owner: Eric Garver
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-14
- Tracking bug: #1982395
- Release Notes tracker: #712
- Contingency deadline: July 27, 2021
- Status: 100% code completed
More flexible use of SSSD fast cache for local users
Allow to switch SSSD’s fast cache for local users on and off at runtime and do not start it by default anymore.
Owners
- Owner: Sumit Bose
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-05-19
- Tracking bug: #1962086
- Release Notes tracker: #699
- Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 beta freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
Gconv package split in glibc
Most Gconv modules with the exception of unicode and similar essential ones have been split into a separate package called glibc-gconv-extra. Currently, the core package glibc has a strong (Requires) dependency on glibc-gconv-extra making this change transparent to users. This proposal is to weaken this dependency to Recommends so that it is possible to remove glibc-gconv-extra from installations that do not need it.
Owners
- Owner: Siddhesh Poyarekar
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-16
- Tracking bug: #1983145
- Release Notes tracker: #721
- Contingency deadline: 2021/08/24 (Beta freeze)
- Status: 100% code completed
GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.37, gdb 10.2)
Switch the Fedora 35 GNU Toolchain to gcc 11 (latest point release), binutils 2.37, and glibc 2.34.
Owners
- Owner: Carlos O'Donell
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-08-02
- Tracking bug: #1982744
- Release Notes tracker: #718
- Contingency deadline: Upstream glibc ABI freeze deadline of 2021-07-01.
- Status: 100% code completed
IBus 1.5.25
IBus 1.5.25 will use transfiletriggerin script to generate the cache file instead of posttrans script in each engine package, support the include directive in the user compose file, IBus compose feature will follow the GTK4 compose pre-edit style, the emoji shortcut key will be changed to Ctrl-period, IBus GTK4 module will proceed the key events synchronistically to follow GTK4 specification.
Owners
- Owner: Takao Fujiwara
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-09-08
- Tracking bug: #1982747
- Release Notes tracker: #719
- Contingency deadline: Beta release
- Status: 100% code completed
LLVM 13
Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora to version 13.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-14
- Tracking bug: #1982397
- Release Notes tracker: #714
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
LTO Build Improvements
Currently all packages that are not opted out of LTO include -ffat-lto-objects in their build flags. This proposal would remove -ffat-lto-objects from the default LTO flags and only use it for packages that actually need it.
Owners
- Owner: Jeff Law
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-01-18
- Tracking bug: #1916921
- Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler, not user-facing> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler, not user-facing>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Testable
Memory Constraints macros for RPM
Introduce macros, similar to openSUSE's memory-constraints), for optionally limiting build parallelism for build-time memory-bound packages
Owners
- Owner: Michel Alexandre Salim
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-15
- Tracking bug: #1982748
- Release Notes tracker: <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - no external impact> <will not be assigned by the Wrangler - no external impact>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
Node.js 16.x by default
The latest release of Node.js to carry a 30-month lifecycle is the 16.x series. As with 14.x, 12.x, 10.x and 8.x before it, Fedora 35 will carry 16.x as the default Node.js interpreter for the system. The 14.x and 12.x interpreters will remain available as non-default module streams.
Owners
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-05-17
- Tracking bug: #1961211
- Release Notes tracker: #697
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
Perl 5.34
A new perl 5.34 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.34 will be released in May 20th 2021. See 5.34.0 perldelta for more details about new release.
Owners
- Owner: Michal Josef Špaček
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-16
- Tracking bug: #1962075
- Release Notes tracker: #698
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
Python 3.10
Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.9 to Python 3.10, the newest major release of the Python programming language.
Owners
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-09-30
- Tracking bug: #1890881
- Release Notes tracker: #603
- Contingency deadline: TBD
- Status: 100% code completed
Python Packaging Guidelines overhaul
The Python Packaging guidelines will be rewritten, with the major changes being PyPI parity and usage of upstream metadata.
Owners
- Owner: Petr Viktorin, Python SIG
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-30
- Tracking bug: #1977883
- Release Notes tracker: <will not be assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing> <will not be assigned by the Wrangler: not user-facing>
- Contingency deadline: N/A (Any time until old guidelines are retired, in a separate Change)
- Status: 100% code completed
Reduce dependencies on python3-setuptools
We'll do two things to reduce the number of Python packages unnecessarily Requiring python3-setuptools:
Owners
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-04-19
- Tracking bug: #1946642
- Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: mass rebuild
- Status: 100% code completed
Remove authselect-compat package
Authselect replaced authconfig tool in Fedora 28. To enable some level of backwards compatibility, it ships the authconfig command as a wrapper around authselect calls in package "authselect-compat". Authselect is now well adopted and the shim compatibility layer should be removed by removing the authselect-compat package.
Owners
- Owner: Pavel Březina
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-06
- Tracking bug: #1979622
- Release Notes tracker: #707
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
Restart User Services after Upgrade
User services (units running under systemd user instances) can be restarted as part of the rpm upgrade, if configured so in package scriptlets. This mirrors what is done for system services running under the the main systemd instance.
Owners
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-08-12
- Tracking bug: #1993244
- Release Notes tracker: #738
- Contingency deadline: any time
- Status: 100% code completed
RPM 4.17
Update RPM to the 4.17 release.
Owners
- Owner: Panu Matilainen
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-23
- Tracking bug: #1951105
- Release Notes tracker: #684
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
rpmautospec - removing release and changelog fields from spec files
The goal of this change is to deploy in production the rpmautospec project.
Owners
- Owner: Pierre-Yves Chibon, Nils Philippsen
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-06-18
- Tracking bug: #1945406
- Release Notes tracker: <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler> <will NOT be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: N/A (this isn't tied to a Fedora release)
- Status: 100% code completed
Third-party Software Mechanism
Update mechanism for opting-in to "Third-Party Software Repositories" so that the repositories are immediately enabled.
Owners
- Owner: Owen Taylor
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-28
- Tracking bug: #1982749
- Release Notes tracker: #720
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Not being worked on
Use yescrypt as default hashing method for shadow passwords
Make the yescrypt hashing method the default method used for new user passwords stored in /etc/shadow.
Owners
- Owner: Björn Esser
Tracking
- Last updated: 2021-07-02
- Tracking bug: #1975402
- Release Notes tracker: #706
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: 100% code completed
Fedora 35 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
Debuginfod By Default
Fedora users / developers who need to debug/trace distro binaries can make use of the recently activated elfutils-debuginfod servers to automatically fetch debugging data and source code, instead of having to use # sudo dnf commands.
- Owner: Aaron Merey
- Last updated: 2021-06-10
- Status: 100% code completed
Enhanced Inscript as default Indic IM
The recommended default input method for Indic languages will be changed from Inscript to Enhanced Inscript keymaps.
- Owner: Mike Fabian
- Last updated: 2021-08-17
- Status: 100% code completed
Erlang 24
Update Erlang/OTP to version 24.
- Owner: Peter Lemenkov, Fedora Erlang SIG, Randy Barlow, Jeremy Cline
- Last updated: 2021-04-21
- Status: Testable
Add Fedora Kinoite as a variant
Introduce Fedora Kinoite as a variant of Fedora alongside Fedora Silverblue.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier
- Last updated: 2021-06-02
- Status: 100% code completed
GHC 8.10 and Stackage lts-18
The GHC Haskell compiler will be updated from major version 8.8 to 8.10, and Haskell packages will be updated from Stackage LTS 16 to LTS 18 versions.
- Owner: Jens Petersen (Haskell SIG)
- Last updated: 2021-08-10
- Status: 100% code completed
libmemcached-awesome
Switch from libmemcached to libmemcached-awesome
- Owner: Remi Collet
- Last updated: 2021-07-14
- Status: 100% code completed
Libvirt Modular Daemons
Historically all libvirt functionality was provided in the monolithic libvirtd daemon. Upstream has developed a new modular architecture for libvirt where each driver is run in its own daemon. Primarily this provides better robustness as a flaw in a secondary daemon will not affect the QEMU daemon and vica-versa. It should also have slightly lower host startup overhead, because only the installed hypervisor daemon(s) will need to be fully started on boot, the other daemons can be socket activated on demand.
- Owner: Daniel Berrange
- Last updated: 2021-07-07
- Status: 100% code completed
Optimal LUKS Encryption Sector Size
Autodetect optimal encryption sector size during Fedora installation with LUKS/dm-crypt encryption. On devices with 4k (physical) sector size, this will make sure we use 4096 sector size which is optimal for these devices.
- Owner: Ondrej Kozina, Vojtech Trefny
- Last updated: 2021-07-14
- Status: 100% code completed
PHP 8.0
Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 8.0.x
- Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
- Last updated: 2021-03-05
- Status: 100% code completed
Use power-profiles-daemon on Workstation
We will install power-profiles-daemon in Fedora Workstation and enable it by default. power-profiles-daemon allows the user to choose between optimizing for system performance or battery life.
- Owner: Bastien Nocera, Michael Catanzaro, Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2021-08-09
- Status: 100% code completed
Rename libusb packages and deprecate old API
Rename libusb to libusb-compat-0.1 and libusbx to libusb1. Do not provide an automated update path for the old libusb build dependency as packages should–and likely can–be updated to use libusb1.
- Owner: Benjamin Berg
- Last updated: 2021-03-03
- Status: 100% code completed
Replace the Anaconda product configuration files with profiles
In Anaconda, we would like to introduce profile configuration files and remove the support for product configuration files.
- Owner: Vendula Poncova
- Last updated: 2021-07-01
- Status: 100% code completed
Retire python3.5
The python3.5 package will be retired without replacement from Fedora 35. Python 3.5 has been End of Life since September 2020 and was kept around only to test software targeting Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” LTS and Debian 9 “Stretch” LTS. The removal is more or less aligned with Debian 9 EOL (2022-06-30) -- Fedora 34 EOLs on 2022-05-17. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS EOLs sooner, in April 2021.
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
- Last updated: 2021-02-03
- Status: 100% code completed
Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0
This Change proposes to replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0.
- Owner: Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2021-06-10
- Status: 100% code completed
Smaller Container Base Image (remove sssd-client, util-linux)
This change proposes to remove 2 packages (sssd-client, util-linux) from the Container Base Image (including the minimal image). The Fedora Base Image is still quite large compared to other distributions and the tools offered by these packages are not essential in base image.
- Owner: Clément Verna
- Last updated: 2021-04-19
- Status: 100% code completed
Sphinx 4
Sphinx 4, popular Python documentation generator and framework, has been released in May 2021. It brings many bug fixes, new features including breaking changes and removes long deprecated functions.
- Owner: Karolina Surma
- Last updated: 2021-06-18
- Status: 100% code completed
Switch to WirePlumber as the PipeWire session manager
PipeWire currently uses a simple example session manager. This proposal is to move to the more powerful WirePlumber session manager.
- Owner: Wim Taymans
- Last updated: 2021-08-04
- Status: 100% code completed