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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.


Beat Name Writer Developer PoC Use only if there is a writer who is not a subject expert
Welcome Docs
OverView RahulSundaram Open
Feedback Docs
Installer LuyaTshimbalanga JeremyKatz, PaulNasrat
ArchSpecific JasonMatthewTaylor Open
PPC Specific Content DavidWoodhouse Open
x86 Specific Content JasonMatthewTaylor Open
x86_64 Specific Content JasonMatthewTaylor Open
Docs/Beats/Live Open Open
Package Notes Open Open
Kernel Open DaveJones
Desktop RahulSundaram KevinKofler (KDE), ChristopherAillon
Printing Open TimWaugh
Server Configuration Tools ChrisLennert Open
File Systems DavidNalley Open
File Servers SteveDickson Open
Web Servers JoeOrton Open
Docs/Beats/MailServers Open Open
Docs/Beats/Devel Open Open
Docs/Beats/Devel/Runtime Open Open
Developer Tools JohnMcDonough Open
GCC JohnMcDonough UlrichDrepper
Docs/Beats/Devel/Tools/Eclipse Open Open
Docs/Beats/Devel/Tools/NetBeans Open Open
Security JoshBressers (Lead), KarstenWade
SELinux JoshBressers (Lead), KarstenWade DanWalsh (SELinux), JoshBressers
Java MarkWielaard Open
Samba Open Open
System Daemons (cron, etc.) Open Open
Multimedia Open Open
Entertainment Open Open
Networking Open ChristopherAillon
Virtualization DaleBewley Open
Xorg (X Window System) BobJensen AdamJackson
Database Servers Open Open
I18n JensPetersen Open
Backwards Compatibility Open Open
KDE 3 Development Platform / Libraries KevinKofler Open
Package Changes RahulSundaram ElliotLee
Docs/Beats/ProjectOverview Docs
Docs/Beats/Colophon Docs
Docs/Beats/Legal Docs
FAQ Docs

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.

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Read DocsProject/Writing_Using_The_Wiki before editing Release Notes pages. This ensures that you write content we can convert into DocBook for the published Release Notes.

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.

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Links go directly to separate Wiki page.

If you feel a beat is missing, put it in where you think it fits best, and the editors will work with you from there.

Beat Aggregator

Below are all the beats on one page. Use the links from the Table of Contents above to go directly to beat pages.

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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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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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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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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.
  • Package-x-generic-16.pngibus moved the emoji feature from IBus XKB engines to IBus GTK panel:
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  • The shortcut key Ctrl- Shift-e can be customized with ibus-setup
  • The language of emoji annotation can be selected with ibus-setup besides 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 emoji command 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
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Package Changes

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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

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.

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Colophon

As we use the term, a colophon:

  • recognizes contributors and provides accountability, and
  • explains tools and production methods.

Contributors

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Out of date content.
This content is out of date, it has not been updated since the Fedora 9 release notes.

...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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