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Fedora 21 Alpha Release Announcement

The Fedora 21 alpha release has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside!

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

What is the Alpha Release?

The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 21's products in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 21 is expected in November.

We need your help to make Fedora 21 the best release yet, so please take some time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. (See the end of this announcement for more information on how to help.)

Fedora.Next and Fedora 21 Products

Fedora 21 marks a departure from the standard "one-size-fits-all" Fedora release. As part of the Fedora.next initiative, Fedora 21 will actually boast three products: cloud, server, and workstation.

Fedora 21 Base

Fedora 21 Cloud

Fedora 21 Server

Fedora 21 Workgroup

Known Issues

Testing and Reporting Problems

Release Schedule

The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki. The current schedule calls for a beta release in mid-October, and a final release in mid-November.

These dates are subject to change, pending any major bugs or issues found during the development process.

Note on performance

Fedora development releases use a kernel with extra debug information to help us understand and resolve issues faster; however, this can have a significant impact on performance. Refer to the kernel debug strategy for more details. You can boot with slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to disable the extra debug info.