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Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration.

What's New in Fedora 15?

For desktop users

A universe of new features for end users:

  • GNOME 3 Fedora 15 is the first major distribution to include GNOME 3 by default. GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers and GNOME 3 is well integrated in Fedora 15. GNOME Shell, the new user interface of GNOME 3 is polished, robust and extensible and Fedora includes several GNOME Shell Extensions and GNOME Tweak Tool in the repository. Thanks to the Fedora desktop team developers and community volunteers.
  • Dynamic Firewall Fedora 15 includes a dynamic firewall background service called firewalld that is powerful and can maintain persistent connections while simultaneously offering the flexibility to change firewall settings without restarting the firewall. It also has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes. firewall-cmd is a user space alternative to iptables command. Thanks to Thomas Woerner from Red Hat for developing this feature.
  • Indic Typing Booster Indic Typing Booster is a predictive input method for ibus platform. It suggests complete words based on partial input. One can then simply select word from suggestion list and improve typing speed with more accuracy and convenience. Thanks to the development lead by Pravin Satpute and Naveen Kumar, Red Hat I18N team engineers in Pune, India.
  • LibreOffice LibreOffice is community-driven and developed, free and open source personal productivity suite which is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation. It is a fork of Openoffice.org with a diverse community of contributors including developers from Red Hat, Novell and many volunteers. Thanks to Caolán McNamara from Red Hat for his upstream participation and maintaining LibreOffice in Fedora.

For developers

For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:

For system administrators

And don't think we forgot the system administrators:

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new features on board Fedora 15 is available at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList

OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

For an quick tour of features in Fedora 15 and pictures of many friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes

Fedora 15 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Fedora 15 common bugs are documented at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs

Fedora Spins

Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. Fedora 15 includes four completely new spins in addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information on these spins and much more is available at

http://spins.fedoraproject.org

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:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org

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 today!

Fedora 16

Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 15 experience, our next release, Fedora 16, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of Oct 2011 release:

Contact information

If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press