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Fedora Linux 35 was released on 2021-11-02. The release notes are on docs.fedoraproject.org.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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