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| The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html</ref> | | The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</ref> |
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| ==== Announcing the release of Fedora 14 ==== | | ==== New regional Ambassador Mentors ==== |
| | [[User:Jsimon|Joerg Simon]]<ref>Joerg Simon jsimon at fedoraproject.org</ref> on Fri Nov 5 22:12:24 UTC 2010 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002880.html</ref>, |
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| Fedora Project leader [User:jared|Jared K. Smith] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002875.html</ref> the release of Fedora 14:
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| "It's here! It's here! It's really here! Fedora 14 has been officially released! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release approximately every six months.
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| Fedora 14, codename Laughlin, is now available for download. Join us and share the joy of free software and the community with friends and family.
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| We know you can't wait to get started with Fedora 14, so simply follow
| | * [[User:Kaio|Caius 'kaio' Chance]] - <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaio</ref> |
| this link to download it today:
| | * [[User:Gbraad|Gerard Braad]] - <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gbraad</ref> |
| http://get.fedoraproject.org?anF14
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| If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out:
| | for the EMEA Region - two contributors who already mentored new Ambassadors together with existing Mentors and Membership Administration: |
| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Talking_Points?anF14
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| For more information including common and known bugs, and tips on how to report bugs, please refer to the release notes<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14</ref>
| | * [[User:Biertie|Bert Desmet]] - <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Biertie</ref> |
| | * [[User:Ppapadeas|Pierros Papadeas]] - <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ppapadeas</ref>" |
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| You can also find this announcement text<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement?anF14</ref>
| | From APAC region, [[User:gbraad|Gerard BraadGerard]]<ref>Braad gbraad at fedoraproject.org</ref> on Sat Nov 6 01:51:21 UTC 2010 thanked and congratulated to Kaio and the other chosen mentors of Fedora with is delighted expressions<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002881.html</ref>. |
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| ==== What's New in Fedora 14? ====
| | Meanwhile,From EMEA region, [[User:Ppapadeas|Pierros Papadeas]]<ref>ppapadeas at gmail.com<ref> on Sat Nov 6 02:00:14 UTC 2010also thanked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002882.html</ref> FAmSCo and everyone for letting him contribute more to Fedora through mentorship of new Ambassadors :) and he would make sure that they would keep up with the exellant job mentors had have done already!" |
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| ===== For desktop users =====
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| A universe of new features for end users:
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| * libjpeg-turbo: Users can load and save images faster in Fedora 14 than in previous releases.
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| * Spice: Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) provides users with an enhanced remote desktop experience. Currently, it provides the rudimentary foundation to take advantage of things like Accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and hardware cursor support.
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| ===== For developers =====
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| For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
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| * D: Fedora 14 introduces support for D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.
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| * Python 2 upgrade: The system python 2 stack has been upgraded to 2.7.
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| * GNUStep: A GUI framework based of the Objective-C programming language which is part of the gcc.
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| * Memory Debugging Tools: The new "gdb-heap" package adds a new "heap" command to /usr/bin/gdb which allows you to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory.
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| * Rakudo Star: An implementation of Perl version 6, based on the Parrot VM.
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| * Support for Milkymist: Developers can enjoy developing for Milkymist, an open hardware embedded board, on Fedora 14. Thanks to the Fedora Electronic Lab for their work in this regard.
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| ===== For system administrators =====
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| And don't think we forgot about the system administrators:
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| * Fedora is now available for users of the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud service, released concurrently with the traditional release.
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| * virt-v2v assists in the easy migration of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines.
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| * A Virtualization Technology Preview Repo allows users to test the very latest developments in virtualization related packages.
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| * Varnish has been updated and includes improved scalability and a new log function.
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| * Apache has been updated and includes a number of module and security fixes.
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| And that's only the beginning. Updated versions of many packages, as usual, will be available in Fedora 14. A more complete list with more details of the new features on board Fedora 14 is available at:
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| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?anF14
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| OK, so what are you waiting for? Go download it! You know you can't wait.
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| http://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF14
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| If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to
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| In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 14.
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| Fedora 14 full release notes and guides for several languages are available<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14</ref>
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| Fedora 14 common bugs are documented<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs?anF14</ref>
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| ===== Fedora Spins =====
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| Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF14
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| ===== Contributing Back to Fedora =====
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| 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, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 today!
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| ===== Fedora 15 =====
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| Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 14 experience, our next release, Fedora 15, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
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| development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of April 2011 release<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule?anF14</ref>
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| ===== Contact information =====
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| If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF14</ref>
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| ==== ATrpms for Fedora 14; upcoming EOL for Fedora 12 ==== | | ===Fedora Development News=== |
| | The development list<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce</ref> is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. |
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| Axel Thimm announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002876.html</ref>:
| | '''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 |
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| "ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 14 support<ref>http://ATrpms.net/dist/f14/</ref>
| | '''Unacceptable Types of Announcements''' |
| | | * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) |
| * The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed<ref>http://ATrpms.net/documentation/mirrors/</ref>
| | * Discussion |
| | | * Anything else not mentioned above |
| * "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding".
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| ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently
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| * F14/i386, F14/x86_64, F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64
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| * RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64
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| F12 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. in about a month's time).
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| Installation instructions can be found under<ref>http://ATrpms.net/documentation/install/</ref>
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| As a quickstart here are common configuration settings for various package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 as needed). Installing via the atrpms-repo package method is recommended, though.
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| you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists<ref>http://lists.atrpms.net/</ref>, or the common bug tracker<ref>http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/</ref>.
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| Enjoy!
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| ==== Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 14 ==== | | ==== Reminder: Fedora 12 end of life on 2010-12-02 ==== |
| | | Kevin Fenzi<ref>Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com</ref> on Wed Nov 10 21:24:09 UTC 2010 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000718.html</ref>, |
| Ben Liblit announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002877.html</ref>:
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| "The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 14. CBI<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/</ref> is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like
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| you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.
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| We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/</ref>. We support PackageKit, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html</ref> for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-14-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-14-10.i686.rpm</ref> to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository.
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| It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.
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| We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 14, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable
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| -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"
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| ==== Fedora 15 Release Name ====
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| Fedora Project Leader [User:jsmith|Jared K. Smith] announced:
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| "The voting has concluded for the Fedora 15 release name, and the results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name suggestions and participated in the voting.
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| The Fedora 15 release name is: Lovelock
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| Voting period: Tuesday 2010-10-26 00:00:00 to Monday 2010-11-01 23:59:59
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| Number of valid ballots cast: 296
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| Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of (296*5) = 1480 votes.
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| | Fedora 12 will reach end of life on 2010-12-02, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 14, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 12 collection. |
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| | Please see <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades</ref> for more information on upgrading from Fedora 12 to a newer release." |
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Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Fedora Announcement News
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]
New regional Ambassador Mentors
Joerg Simon[1] on Fri Nov 5 22:12:24 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"Dear Fellows,
it is my pleasure to announce that FAmSCo approved the following Contributors as Regional Ambassador Mentors[3],
for the APAC Region - to consider the growth in China:
for the EMEA Region - two contributors who already mentored new Ambassadors together with existing Mentors and Membership Administration:
From APAC region, Gerard BraadGerard[8] on Sat Nov 6 01:51:21 UTC 2010 thanked and congratulated to Kaio and the other chosen mentors of Fedora with is delighted expressions[9].
Meanwhile,From EMEA region, Pierros PapadeasCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag FAmSCo and everyone for letting him contribute more to Fedora through mentorship of new Ambassadors :) and he would make sure that they would keep up with the exellant job mentors had have done already!"
Fedora Development News
The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.
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
Reminder: Fedora 12 end of life on 2010-12-02
Kevin Fenzi[1] on Wed Nov 10 21:24:09 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 12.
Fedora 12 will reach end of life on 2010-12-02, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 14, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 12 collection.
Please see [3] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 12 to a newer release."
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)
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
Additional information
- Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
- Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
- Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
- Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
- Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
- LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
