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This page documents the release names for current and previous releases of Fedora. In much older releases the name was decided by a small group of people internal to Red Hat, but has become a community process in later releases.

Release name relationships

Name n and n+1 must share an is-a (not a has-a) relationship, but n and n+2 must not share the same is-a relationship as n and n+1. The release names we put up for vote tend to have multiple meanings so as to allow us to select a new name with a different relationship for the next release. It is part of the fun!

Guidelines for release names

Release name history

Fedora 12 (Constantine)

  • Constantine is the name of Township in St. Joseph County, Michigan in the United States, as well as a name of a bay in the United Kingdom.

There are several other connections listed at

Fedora 11 (Leonidas)


Fedora 10 (Cambridge)

Fedora 9 (Sulphur)

Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

Fedora 7 (Moonshine)

Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux)

Fedora Core 4 (Stentz)

Fedora Core 3 (Heidelberg)

Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang)

Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow)