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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

Hardening is the process of securing a system/application by reducing its unnecessary functions, or restricting access. 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
• Status: Change accepted
• Original tracking bug: #1199775

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

Default Local DNS Resolver

To install a local DNS resolver trusted for the DNSSEC validation running on 127.0.0.1:53. This must be the only name server entry in /etc/resolv.conf.

Owners

• Owner: P J P | Pavel Šimerda | Tomas Hozza | Petr Špaček
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-05-28
• Tracking bug: #1182488
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora 23 Boost 1.59 Uplift

This change brings Boost 1.58.0 or later to Fedora 23. We generally aim to ship 1.59.0, as that seems likely to make it (hence the Change name), but 1.58.0 is out and available now.

Owners

• Owner: Jon Wakely
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-06-07
• Tracking bug: #1229030
• Status: Change accepted

Glibc locale subpackaging

This change should make it possible to install or uninstall locales individually.

Owners

• Owner: Mike Fabian, Siddhesh Poyarekar, Carlos O’Donell
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: (2015-06-17)
• Tracking bug: #1238406
• Status: Change accepted

SELinux policy store migration

The newest SELinux userspace project release 2015-02-02 includes a change of the location of the SELinux policy store, which defaults to /var/lib/selinux/.

Owners

• Owner: Miroslav Grepl
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-06-10
• Tracking bug: #1238407
• Status: Change accepted

Two Week Atomic

Fedora Atomic Host is an implementation of the Project Atomic pattern for a specialized operating system for the deployment of containerized applications. For the past two Fedora releases, we've included an Atomic Host cloud image as a non-blocking deliverable. However, upstream Atomic is moving very fast — by the end of the alpha, beta, final stabilization cycle Fedora uses, the released artifact is basically obsolete. Additionally, the Project Atomic team at Red Hat would like to do their ongoing development work in the Fedora upstream, and the six-month release cycle does not lend itself to that.

Owners

• Owner: Matthew Miller, Colin Walters, Joe Brockmeier, Kushal Das, Adam Miller, Dennis Gilmore
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-07-01
• Tracking bug: #1238411
• Status: Change accepted

Unicode 8.0 support

Unicode 8.0 got release on 17th June 2015. It includes 41 new emoji characters (including five modifiers for diversity), 5,771 new ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the new Georgian lari currency symbol, and 86 lowercase Cherokee syllables. It also adds letters to existing scripts to support Arwi (the Tamil language written in the Arabic script), the Ik language in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte d’Ivoire, and other languages of Africa. In total, this version adds 7,716 new characters and six new scripts.

Owners

• Owner: Mike Fabian Pravin Satpute Siddhesh Poyarekar
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 22 Jun 2015
• Tracking bug: #1238412
• Status: Change accepted

IBus 1.5.11

IBus 1.5.11 will have the features of XKB prefix language icons on the panel in KDE 5 and support $HOME/.XCompose file in all desktops.

Owners

• Owner: Takao Fujiwara
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-06-12
• Tracking bug: #1242925
• Status: Change accepted

Node.js 0.12

Fedora 23 will be updated to Node.js 0.12, the latest release of the platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.

Owners

• Owner: T.C. Hollingsworth
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-07-14
• Tracking bug:
• Status: Change accepted

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.

Owners

• Owner: T.C. Hollingsworth, Jamie Nguyen
• Release notes owner: simon.richard.clark@gmail.com

Tracking

• Last updated: 2015-06-23
• Tracking bug: #1078903
• 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.

Category:ChangeAcceptedF23 and Category:SelfContainedChange

Cinnamon Spin

A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.

• Owner: Dan Book
• Last updated: 2015-05-06
• Completed: no

System Firmware Updates

This change is to add the ability to perform firmware updates on UEFI machines.

• Owner: Richard Hughes
• Last updated: 2015-06-03
• Completed: no

Cockpit GUI for Domain Controller Role

Provide a graphical mechanism for deploying a FreeIPA Domain Controller on Fedora Server through the Cockpit administrative console.

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher, Stef Walter
• Last updated: 2015-06-18
• Completed: no

Containerized Server Roles

Enhance rolekit to be able to deploy Server Roles using the Nulecule Container Specification.

• Owner: Stephen Gallagher
• Last updated: 2015-06-18
• Completed: no

Frappe Framework

A full-stack web framework based on Python and Javascript to help you build powerful business apps and nifty extensions.

• Owner: Eduardo Mayorga , William Moreno
• Last updated: 2015-06-18
• Completed: no

Cloud MOTD

After logging in the running Cloud instance, the user should get the pending updates (including security) details as MOTD (message of the day).

• Owner: Kushal Das
• Last updated: 2015-07-01
• Completed: no

Cloud Systemd Networkd

We will use systemd-networkd to configure network in Cloud base image.

• Owner: Kushal Das
• Last updated: 2015-07-01
• Completed: no

Local Test Cloud

testcloud is a small tool to download and boot cloud images locally.

• Owner: Mike Ruckman
• Last updated: (2014-01-20)
• Completed: no

RPM MPI Requires Provides

Add dependency generators to encode the MPI compiler name in the provides string of a binary to distinguish otherwise identical provides between packages $foo, $foo-openmpi and $foo-mpich.

• Owner: Sandro Mani
• Last updated: 2015-06-17
• Completed: no

Sugar 0.106

Update Sugar to the new upstream 0.106 stable feature release.

• Owner: Peter Robinson
• Last updated: 2015-06-17
• Completed: no

ibus-libzhuyin

Make ibus-libzhuyin as the default Fedora 23 Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) input method.

• Owner: Peng Wu
• Last updated: 2015-06-12
• Completed: no

npm 2

Fedora 23 features npm 2, the latest version of the package manager for node.js and other JavaScript platforms.

• Owner: T.C. Hollingsworth
• Last updated: 2015-07-01
• Completed: no

Astronomy Spin

A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and professional astronomers.

• Owner: Christian Dersch
• Last updated: 2015-07-14
• Completed: no

io.js Technology Preview

io.js is an npm compatible platform originally based on Node.js™ that supports version 6 of the ECMAScript standard and additional features, developed with an open governance model. io.js will be offered as an optional replacement for /usr/bin/node on Fedora systems as a Technology Preview. node.js will remain the default implementation of /usr/bin/node in Fedora 23.

• Owner: T.C. Hollingsworth
• Last updated: 2015-07-14
• Completed: no