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====Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!
====Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!====
Dennis Gilmore<ref>Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us</ref> on Tue Sep 28 14:26:26 UTC 2010 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002864.html</ref>,
Dennis Gilmore<ref>Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us</ref> on Tue Sep 28 14:26:26 UTC 2010 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002864.html</ref>,



Revision as of 15:40, 29 September 2010

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

Dennis Gilmore[1] on Tue Sep 28 14:26:26 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November. Fedora is the leading-edge, community-developed, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months.

But... what's that, you say? November is oh, so, far away? Never fear - Beta is here! Checking out the latest and greatest in Fedora's cutting-edge technologies is just a click away.

Stand out from the crowd. Get your taste of Fedora 14 now, by trying out our Beta release:[3]

What is the Beta Release?

The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 14. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 14, scheduled to be released in early November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 14 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the Common F14 bugs page.

If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at [4]. Thank you!

Features

Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:

  • Faster loading and saving of JPEG images. The libjpeg-turbo feature nearly halves the time to load and save JPEG images on most modern machines - meaning you'll be seeing your digital photos even faster.
  • Easier virtualization for end users. From the creators of KVM comes Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This framework allows end-users to enjoy the features they enjoy, such as accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and audio playing and recording, all while working in a virtualized environment.

Are you a sysadmin? Check out the new features we have for you!

  • Additional IPMI support. Enjoy using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) to manage your servers? The new ipmiutil feature adds more functionality to existing IPMI capabilities, including SOL (Serial-over-

LAN) and identity LED management.

  • Tech preview of systemd. Looking to the future? Check out systemd, a next-generation replacement for Upstart and SystemV init. With faster boot times, the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets, and system state snapshotting, this preview of systemd will have you prepped for the future.Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:
  • D Programming. Statically typed and compiling directly to machine code, the D systems programming language combines the power and performance of languages like C and C++ with the productivity of languages like Ruby and Python.
  • GNUstep is a GUI framework based on the Objective-C programming language, and is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment.
  • Memory debugging tools. Unique to Fedora 14, the gdb-heap package allows developers to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory - and can do unplanned memory usage debugging by attaching to runaway memory hogs, mid-process.
  • Python 2.7 capabilities increases Fedora's commitment to improving portability and migration paths for developers to move to Python 3. Enhanced debugging and integration with GCC continue to be available in Fedora 14, and Python-related enhancements such as fixing common problems with GObject introspection and SWIG are also introduced.
  • Rakudo Star is the most actively developed implementation of Perl 6, and is based on the Parrot virtual machine. Perl 6 is a major revision to this sysadmin and developer toolbox standby, introducing elements of many modern and historical languages.

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 14 is available here: [5]

We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [6]

Fedora 14 / Beta is for Carotene / Let's Push for Final!

Contributing

For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:[7]

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit [8] today!"

Fedora Development News

The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1]

  • Acceptable Types of Announcements

- Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers. - Schedule changes - Freeze reminders

  • Unacceptable Types of Announcements

- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion - Anything else not mentioned above

We have reached Fedora 14 Feature Complete

By John Poelstra

John Poelstra [1] on Wed Sep 15 22:46:50 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 14 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end!

As a follow-up to last week's reminder [3]

ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% completion. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and are being sent to FESCo ([4]) for re-evaluation for inclusion in the Fedora 14 feature list if they remain incomplete:

[5] (yes, a mere technicality at 99% done) [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] "

David Malcolm

To continue the thread, David Malcolm </ref>David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.comCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag,

"On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:46 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 14 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! > > As a follow-up to last week's reminder > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000676.html > > ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% completion. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and are being sent to FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/468) for re-evaluation for inclusion > in the Fedora 14 feature list if they remain incomplete:

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MemoryDebuggingTools

I held off on saying "100%" there as I hoped to add C++ support to the "what is this RAM being used for" heuristics. Unfortunately that part of it needs some optimization work before it can be enabled. The rest of the feature works, but has bugs, so I've marked it as 100%; C++ support deferred; I've updated the feature page accordingly, and I'm working on improving the docs.

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7</ref>

This is essentially done (given the caveat in the release notes on that page), but a few stragglers are left to rebuild; some of them are fiddly. I believe that there's no significant risk to the release as a whole from those; I hope to look at them later tonight/tomorrow.

Sorry about this (got bogged down in RHEL work)"


Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline Reached 2010-09-14

John Poelstra[1] on Wed Sep 15 22:59:53 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"As a reminder, we have reached the Beta Change Deadline for Fedora 14.

"At the change deadlines for Alpha and Beta, pushes to the branched development repository (e.g. /pub/fedora/linux/development/14), are suspended until the Release Candidate has been successfully tested and staging has started to the mirrors."

More details are located here: [3]"

Fedora 14 Beta Release Date at Risk

John Poelstra[1] on Thu Sep 16 22:31:14 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"We have missed the Fedora 14 Beta RC compose scheduled today because of unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker bugs.

[3](NEW or ASSIGNED)

As soon as these bugs are resolved with new packages we will request an RC compose from Release Engineering."

bodhi v0.7.9 deployed

Luke Macken[1] on Mon Sep 20 18:19:06 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number of bugfixes and enhancements. [3]

Web UI Changes
  • Improved editing functionality
   - Only unpush edited updates when builds are altered
   - Make a note in the comments of which builds were added/removed
  • Allow people to revert their karma vote more than once
  • Add mouseover tooltips to the update status with more details
  • Prevent different versions of a package from being added to the same update
  • Handle more types of bugzilla auto-linking in comments (ex: rhbz#1234)
  • Link to the newer update in the obsoleted ones
  • Link to gitweb instead of viewvc
  • Set default (un)stable karma values if re-enabled
  • Anonymous karma has never effected karma, so we now mark them as being ignored in the interface to make it obvious
  • Get the 'suggest reboot' flag working again
  • Allow non-critpath updates to be pushed to stable after meeting our critpath requirements
  • Allow maintainers to request that their update be pushed to stable before the automatic approval job runs, if it already meets the time-in-testing requirements.
Client Changes
  • Add --stablekarma, --unstablekarma, and --disable-autokarma client arguments
  • Fix a bug in using bodhi --push-build= on multi-build updates
  • Add a --bodhi-url command-line option
  • Instead of requiring only one argument with a comma separated list of updates, support several builds as several arguments.
API Changes
  • Remove our API pagination query limit of 1000
  • Add a new 'author_group' field to each comment in our JSON API
Backend Changes
  • Add the new 'dist-fN-updates{-testing,}-pending' tags to builds so AutoQA can start testing them before they get pushed
  • List security & critpath testing updates in our updates-testing digest emails
  • Download and inject the pkgtags sqlite db into our repodata from the pkgdb (which will be utilized by yum search)
  • Email the proventesters about stale unapproved critical path updates
  • Update the bug titles for all security updates before pushing (since security bug titles frequently change after the update is submitted to reflect the CVE id)
  • Improved sanity checking in the masher when resuming pushes
  • Properly capture & log stderr from our mash subprocess
  • Improved metrics report generator (soon to be integrated into the web interface)
Bugs & RFEs

Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here: [4]"

Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC

John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 21 18:59:05 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see: [3]

In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Beta Blocker list and help us get the testing matrix completed by testing.

[4] [5]"

Fedora Events

Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010)

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