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Fedora Linux 42 Accepted System-Wide Changes
RPM Support For Systemd Sysusers.d
RPM supports creating users and groups according to configuration provided in sysusers.d snippets shipped in package payload.
Owners
- Owner: Michal Sekletar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Panu Matilainen
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-21
- Tracking bug: #2337007
- Release Notes tracker: #145
- Contingency deadline: Mass Rebuild of RPMs on Wed 2025-01-15.
- Status: Testable
Protobuf 5.x/6.x
Update Protobuf to the latest version (5.x), and 6.x if it arrives in time before freeze in Q1 2025. Note that Protobuf's versioning is complicated, C++ and Python are at version 5, other language bindings at version 4, and they all embed the version of protoc; we are using the C++ version here so we can reference its support policy.
Owners
- Owner: Michel Lind, Jonathan Wright, Neal Gompa
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-23
- Tracking bug:
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Unknown
Golang 1.24
Update of Go (golang package) to the upcoming version 1.24 in Fedora 42.
Owners
- Owner: Alejandro Sáez Morollón
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337583
- Release Notes tracker: #142
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Automated onboarding to Packit release automation for new packages
To ease the onboarding process for package maintainers and their release workflows, we propose to automatically create pull requests with the initial Packit configuration file for newly created projects at src.fedoraproject.org. Once merged, this configuration will enable Packit to automate the release process, reducing repetitive tasks for maintainers.
Owners
- Owner: Laura Barcziová, František Lachman, Nikola Forró, Maja Massarini, Matej Focko
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-10
- Tracking bug: #2337008
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Tcl/Tk 9.0
Tcl/Tk rebase to version 9. There are some major incompatibilities and it's unrealistic to port all depending packages, thus the compat Tcl/Tk 8 packages will be provided.
Owners
- Owner: Jaroslav Škarvada
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337584
- Release Notes tracker: #141
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Managing expired PGP keys in DNF5
Implementing new logic in DNF5 to remove expired and obsolete repository keys from the system.
Owners
- Owner: Jan Kolarik
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337585
- Release Notes tracker: #143
- Contingency deadline: Fedora 42 branching from Rawhide
- Status: Change accepted
LLVM 20
Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora Linux to version 20.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337586
- Release Notes tracker: #144
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Ruby 3.4
Ruby 3.4 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 3.3 in Fedora 41 to Ruby 3.4 in Fedora 42, Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform.
Owners
- Owner: Mamoru Tasaka
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-06
- Tracking bug: #2335929
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: Mass Rebuild
- Status: Finished
Firewalld IPv6_rpfilter default to loose on Workstations
Default firewalld to using IPv6_rpfilter=loose for Workstation installs.
Owners
- Owner: Eric Garver
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337587
- Release Notes tracker: #146
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Status: Finished
NumPy2
Update the numpy package from 1.x to 2.x (1.26.4 to 2.1.3 currently).
Owners
- Owner: Gwyn Ciesla
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2332647
- Release Notes tracker: #147
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Status: Finished
GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 15, binutils 2.44, glibc 2.41, gdb 15+)
Update the Fedora 42 GNU Toolchain to gcc 15, binutils 2.44, glibc 2.41 and gdb 15+.
Owners
- Owner: Carlos O'Donell
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2337588
- Release Notes tracker: #148
- Contingency deadline: Fedora mass rebuild on 2025-01-15.
- Status: Change accepted
Retire zbus v1
The packages for v1 of the zbus crate (and the packages for v2 of the zvariant crate) will be retired from Fedora 42. Dependent packages are to be ported to a non-obsolete version of these libraries (i.e. zbus v4 or v5) or to be retired as well.
Owners
- Owner: Fabio Valentini for the Rust SIG
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2325879
- Release Notes tracker: 149
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Update Zlib-ng to version 2.2.x
Update Zlib-ng on Fedora 42 to version 2.2.x. Currently, Fedora distributes Zlib-ng 2.1.7.
Owners
- Owner: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, Lukas Javorsky, Ali Erdinc Koroglu
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-12-16
- Tracking bug: #2325880
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Setuptools 74+
Update to a new upstream release of python-setuptools that is not completely compatible with previous releases. Most notably, version 72.0.0 removed support for the setup.py test command (deprecated for 5 years). This is a breaking change and Fedora packages that use the setup.py test command during the build need to be adapted to use a different test runner, such as unittest, pytest, etc. There might be other breaking changes. We estimate 142 to 196 Fedora Rawhide packages to fail to build due to this upgrade (as of Sep 2024).
Owners
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2319387
- Release Notes tracker: #150
- Contingency deadline: mass rebuild
- Status: Testable
Adjust java/java-devel requires to multi-vendor JDK world and replace legacy JDKs by third party Eclipse Temurin repositories
Adjust java/java-devel provides/requires to multivendor world and obsolete all non-system LTS JDKs (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk in time of writing) by appropriate, properly integrating, RPMs from Eclipse Adoptium repositories.
Owners
- Owner: Jiri Vanek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Tracking bug: #2319402
- Release Notes tracker: #151
- Contingency deadline: 1. December 2024
- Status: Finished
Anaconda as native Wayland application
Currently, Anaconda is still an X11 application, which we would like to fix and make Anaconda Wayland native application to allow us drop of the X11 dependencies from installation ISO images. However, this change is not just a simple switch and we need to do some adjustments during the path which will impact user experience.
Owners
- Owner: Anaconda team ( Jiří Konečný)
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2307282
- Release Notes tracker: #156
- Contingency deadline: 100% code completion deadline
- Status: Change accepted
LLVM 19
Update all llvm sub-projects in Fedora Linux to version 19.
Owners
- Owner: Tom Stellard
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-10-02
- Tracking bug: #2293629
- Release Notes tracker: #114
- Contingency deadline:
- Status: Change accepted
Anaconda Web UI partitioning
The Anaconda OS installer project needs to have a new approach for partitioning with the new web UI. This approach needs to be easy to control for users who don’t understand details of the Linux storage but still allows more complex requirements.
Owners
- Owner: Jiri Konecny
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-12-16
- Tracking bug: #2332648
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
The /usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin, which means paths like /usr/bin/foo and /usr/sbin/foo point to the same place. /bin and /sbin are already symlinks to usr/bin and usr/sbin, so effectively /bin/foo and /sbin/foo also point to the same place. /usr/sbin will be removed from the default $PATH. The same change is also done to make /usr/local/sbin point to bin, effectively making /usr/local/bin/foo and /usr/local/sbin/foo point to the same place. The definition of %_sbindir will be changed to %_bindir, so packages will start using the new directory after a rebuild without any further action. Maintainers may stop using %_sbindir, but don't need to.
Owners
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-08-02
- Tracking bug: #2267022
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: in principle can be done at any time, but would require a rebuild of some or all affected packages.
- Status: Testable
Remove Python Mock Usage
python-mock has been deprecated since Fedora 34 - 6 releases ago, but is still in use in many packages. We plan to go through the remaining usages and clean them up, with the goal of retiring python-mock from Fedora.
Owners
- Owner: Michel Lind, Maxwell G
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-08-26
- Tracking bug: #2258085
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Enable systemd service hardening features for default system services
Improve security by enabling some of the high level systemd security hardening settings that isolate and sandbox default system services.
Owners
- Owner: Rahul Sundaram
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-10-02
- Tracking bug: #2260082
- Release Notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Contingency deadline: N/A
- Status: Not being worked on
Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default
The new PatternFly-based UI has been developed by the Anaconda team for some time now and we would like to make it available for users of Fedora to enhance and modernize installation experience. As the first step in this user adoption process, we are targeting Fedora Workstation only.
Owners
- Owner: Fedora Workstation SIG
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-08-13
- Tracking bug: #2231339
- Release Notes tracker: #1033
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Status: 100% code completed
Modernize Live Media
Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
Owners
- Owner: Neal Gompa, Matt Coleman
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-08-22
- Tracking bug: #2139918
- Release Notes tracker: #898
- Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
- Status: Change accepted
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS
Acceleration of GnuTLS with software Kernel TLS (KTLS)
Owners
- Owner: František Krenželok, Daiki Ueno
Tracking
- Last updated: 2025-01-13
- Tracking bug: #2130000
- Release Notes tracker: #881
- Contingency deadline: 2023-02-21
- Status: Change accepted
DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants
RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as it reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in btrfs, which is the default filesystem starting from Fedora 33 for most variants. Note that this behavior is not being turned on by default for this Change.
Owners
- Owner: Matthew Almond, Davide Cavalca, Manu Bretelle
Tracking
- Last updated: 2024-10-16
- Tracking bug: #1915976
- Release Notes tracker: #634
- Contingency deadline: Final freeze
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora Linux 42 Accepted Self-Contained Changes
Retire PyO3 v0.19, v0.20, and v0.21
The Rust SIG currently maintains five (5) versions of PyO3, the Rust bindings for CPython / PyPy. This proposal is about dropping the three oldest versions (v0.19, v0.20, and v0.21), while keeping the two most recent ones (v0.22, v0.23).
- Owner: Michel Lind
- Last updated: 2025-01-23
- Tracking bug:
- Status: Unknown
Django 5.x
Update the default Django stack in Fedora from 4.2 to 5.x
- Owner: Michel Lind, Neal Gompa, Carl George
- Last updated: 2025-01-23
- Tracking bug:
- Status: Unknown
Fedora COSMIC Spin
Create an official Fedora Spin with the upcoming COSMIC desktop environment.
- Owner: Ryan Brue, Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338435
- Status: 100% code completed
Retire python3.8
The python3.8 package will be retired without replacement from Fedora Linux 42. Python 3.8 reached upstream End of Life 2024-10-07. RHEL 8 Python 3.8 Stream has been retired since May 2023. Debian Buster had Python 3.7, Bullseye has 3.9. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) has Python 3.8, but standard support ends in April 2025. Fedora 42 release date is in April 2025 as well.
- Owner: Miro Hrončok
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338436
- Status: Change accepted
Deprecate gtk3-rs
The Rust bindings for GTK3 (and related libraries) are unmaintained upstream, and are no longer updated in lockstep with bindings for GLib and other related libraries. This Change to mark the packages for the gtk3-rs crates as deprecated reflects this status.
- Owner: Rust SIG
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338437
- Status: Change accepted
Intel Compute Runtime - Upgrade with HW cut-off
Intel Compute Runtime parts are currently stuck at a legacy branch that isn't undergoing an active development. Newer branches did significantly cut hardware support (for GPU Generations prior to the 12th), and the aim of this change is to do the leap of faith, and rebase intel-compute-runtime and intel-igc to the latest upstream releases, and remove compute support for Intel GPU generations released prior to 2020 (full list is available in the "Detailed Description" section here).
- Owner: Frantisek Zatloukal, Ali Erdinc Koroglu
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338438
- Status: Change accepted
Stop building Atomic Desktops for PPC64LE
We will stop building the Fedora Atomic Desktops for the PowerPC 64 LE architecture. According to the count me statistics, we don't have any Atomic Desktops users on PPC64LE.
- Owner:
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338439
- Status: 100% code completed
Split opendmarc with tools subpackage
opendmarc package includes some supporting optional binaries that are not required to configure the service.
- Owner: Mikel Olasagasti
- Last updated: 2025-01-06
- Tracking bug: #2335932
- Status: Change accepted
Replace SDL 2 with sdl2-compat using SDL 3
This Change proposes to replace SDL 2 with sdl2-compat, which uses SDL 3.
- Owner: Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2025-01-06
- Tracking bug: #2335933
- Status: 100% code completed
Remove pam-ssh-agent component
Drop pam_ssh_agent_auth component from Fedora 42
- Owner: Dmitry Belyavskiy
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338440
- Status: Change accepted
Xfce-4.20
Xfce 4.20 is a stable release with proven components, provide features to both new and power users alike. This change proposal is submitted to sync fedora packages with the latest upstream release.
- Owner: Mukundan Ragavan, Kevin Fenzi
- Last updated: 2024-12-16
- Tracking bug: #2332653
- Status: Change accepted
LXQt 2.1
Upgrade LXQt in Fedora to version 2.1.
- Owner: Steve Cossette, Neal Gompa, Shawn W Dunn
- Last updated: 2024-12-16
- Tracking bug: #2332654
- Status: Change accepted
Retirement of PostgreSQL 15
PostgreSQL version 15 will be retired from Fedora 42 since there are newer versions like 16 and 17. Version 16 is already the default version (announced in PostgreSQL16 change), and version 17 would be the alternative.
- Owner: Lukas Javorsky, Filip Janus
- Last updated: 2024-12-16
- Tracking bug: #2332655
- Status: Finished
Ansible 11
Update to Ansible 11 and Ansible Core 2.18, which no longer supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 target nodes, including EL 7 and EL 8 hosts.
- Owner: Maxwell G; Kevin Fenzi
- Last updated: 2024-12-03
- Tracking bug: #2330175
- Status: 100% code completed
Distributing Kickstart Files as OCI Artifacts
Fedora distributed as bootable container ships via OCI registry. Installation is typically done by conversion into a VM image or ISO installer via osbuild (image builder), however, booting from network is a useful workflow for bare-metal fleet deployments. Required files to perform such installation are not available in the OCI repository that could be fetched from registry in a similar manner as the bootable container.
- Owner: Ina Panova, Lukáš Zapletal
- Last updated: 2024-10-31
- Tracking bug: #2320145
- Status: Change accepted
Integrate FEX in Fedora Linux
FEX is a fast emulator that allows one to run x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 Linux host. FEX requires a number of supporting components, including a RootFS image, and integration with muvm to support 16k page-size hosts. The purpose of this Change is to integrate FEX itself and its supporting components into Fedora Linux, to provide a delightful out-of-box experience for users that want to run x86 and x86-64 binaries on their aarch64 systems. This also includes integration into the AArch64 Fedora KDE spin as a non-blocking component of the spin.
- Owner: Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa, Alyssa Rosenzweig
- Last updated: 2024-10-14
- Tracking bug: #2318566
- Status: Change accepted
PHP 8.4
Update the PHP stack in Fedora to the latest version 8.4.x
- Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
- Last updated: 2024-11-21
- Tracking bug: #2318567
- Status: 100% code completed
Enabling composefs by default for Atomic Desktops
We want to enable composefs by default for Fedora Atomic Desktops. This makes the root mount of the system (/) a truly read only filesystem, increasing the system integrity and robustness. This is the first step toward a full at runtime verification of filesystem integrity.
- Owner:
- Last updated: 2024-08-26
- Tracking bug: bug)
- Status: Unknown
Enable Drm Panic
Drm_panic is a new feature in the Linux kernel that displays a panic screen when a kernel panic occurs. This proposal is to enable DRM_PANIC in the Fedora kernel, to improve the kernel panic user experience.
- Owner: Jocelyn Falempe, Javier Martinez Canillas
- Last updated: 2024-09-02
- Tracking bug: #2309205
- Status: Change accepted
Reduce the amount of "dontaudit" rules pertaining to unlabeled_t
Reduce the amount of rules that prevent reporting of SELinux denials pertaining to unlabeled_t. This could influence the amount of SELinux-related logs on some systems, but will not cause any new permission denials.
- Owner: Miloš Malík
- Last updated: 2024-09-09
- Tracking bug: #2300338
- Status: Change accepted
Tomcat 10.1.x
This change involves upgrading the Apache Tomcat application server from versions 9.0.x to 10.1.x. This update will enhance the application server's performance, security, and support for the latest specifications. The affected packages include tomcat and related libraries and services that rely on the Tomcat server for web application deployment and management.
- Owner: Sokratis Zappis
- Last updated: 2024-09-02
- Tracking bug: #2309206
- Status: Change accepted
Confidential Virtualization Host with AMD SEV-SNP
This enables Fedora virtualization hosts to launch confidential virtual machines using AMD's SEV-SNP technology. Confidential virtualization prevents admins with root shell access, or a compromised host software stack, from accessing memory of any running guest. SEV-SNP is an evolution of previously provided SEV and SEV-ES technologies providing stronger protection and unlocking new features such as a secure virtual TPM.
- Owner: Daniel P. Berrangé
- Last updated: 2024-09-13
- Tracking bug: #2298853
- Status: Finished
Create Fedora Windows Subsystem for Linux Images
Recent versions of Windows support running Linux guests via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). These can be distributed via tarballs, Appx packages, or via the Windows Store. The purpose of this change is to start producing Fedora images for users of WSL.
- Owner: Cloud SIG
- Last updated: 2025-01-16
- Tracking bug: #2338441
- Status: Change accepted
Add bpfman to Fedora
bpfman: An eBPF Manager bpfman operates as an eBPF manager, focusing on simplifying the deployment and administration of eBPF programs. Its notable features encompass:
- Owner: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
- Last updated: 2024-08-22
- Tracking bug: #2271633
- Status: Testable
Enable auto-updates by default in Fedora Kinoite
On Fedora Kinoite, Plasma Discover supports automatically updating the system in a safe fashion via rpm-ostree staged updates. We want users to benefit from bug fixes and updates in general by default thus we want to enable auto-updates by default. Users will still have the option of disabling that or tuning the frequency at which updates happen.
- Owner: Timothée Ravier, Neal Gompa
- Last updated: 2024-09-09
- Tracking bug: #2233192
- Status: Change accepted
mkosi-initrd
mkosi-initrd is an alternative builder for initrds. It will be packaged in Fedora, so that users can use it to build initrds locally. A kernel-install plugin will be provided to build the initrd when a kernel package is installed. As a stretch goal, initrds will be build in koji and delivered via rpm packages. As a further stretch goal, pre-built initrds will be used in Unified Kernel Images that can be delivered via rpm packages.
- Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Lukáš Nykrýn , Daan De Meyer
- Last updated: 2024-08-27
- Tracking bug: #2203221
- Status: Change accepted