Fedora 28 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 28 Release as System Wide Changes.
Switch libcurl to use libssh instead of libssh2
libcurl currently uses libssh2 to implement the SSH layer of SCP and SFTP protocols. After implementing this change, libcurl will use the libssh library instead.
Owners
- Owner: Kamil Dudka
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2018-01-05
- Tracking bug: #1531483
- Status: Change accepted
Improved Laptop Battery Life
Improve Fedora (Workstation) Battery Life by enabling various hardware power-saving features by default.
Owners
- Owner: Hans de Goede
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-12-05
- Tracking bug: #1520902
- Status: Change accepted
time-1.8
A new time tool version 1.8 has changed output format.
Owners
- Owner: Petr Písař
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-12-05
- Tracking bug: #1520903
- Status: Change accepted
Ruby 2.5
Ruby 2.5 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 2.4 in Fedora 26 to Ruby 2.5 in Fedora 28, Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform.
Owners
- Owner: Vít Ondruch
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-11-21
- Tracking bug:#1515518
- Status: Change accepted
NSS Default File Format SQL
Change the NSS library default to use the sqlite based data storage, when applications don't specify their preferred storage file format.
Owners
- Owner: Kai Engert
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-11-06
- Tracking bug: #1474771
- Status: Not being worked on
Annotated Binaries
This change causes extra information to be stored in binary files compiled by gcc. This information can be used by scripts to check on various features of the file, such as the hardening options used or potential ABI conflicts.
Owners
- Owner: Nick Clifton
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-10-16
- Tracking bug: #1502660
- Status: Change accepted
Deprecate TCP wrappers
TCP wrappers is a simple tool to block incoming connection on application level. This was very useful 20 years ago, when there were no firewalls in Linux. This is not the case for today and connection filtering should be done in network level or completely in application scope if it makes sense. After recent discussions I believe it is time to go for this package, if not completely, than at least as a dependency of modern daemons in system by default.
Owners
- Owner: Jakub Jelen
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-09-25
- Tracking bug: #1495181
- Status: Change accepted
Switch libidn-using applications to IDNA2008
The proposed change is about deprecating libidn, which supports IDNA2003, and switch all applications using libidn, to libidn2 2.0.0, which supports IDNA2008.
Owners
- Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, Robert Scheck
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2017-04-25
- Tracking bug: #1488806
- Status: Change accepted
Category:ChangeAcceptedF28 and Category:SystemWideChange
Fedora 28 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 28 Release as Self Contained Changes.
Category:ChangeAcceptedF28 and Category:SelfContainedChange
OpenLDAP: Drop TCP wrappers support
As per [1], TCP wrappers are being deprecated in Fedora. Also, as per [2], upstream discourages its usage in favour of other means of protection (e.g. firewall). After this change OpenLDAP will no longer be affected by TCP wrappers configuration.
- Owner: Matus Honek
- Last updated: 2018-01-05
- Completed: no
Stratis Storage
Add initial support for Stratis, a local storage management solution. This will allow initial testing and user feedback that will guide Stratis's development and stabilization.
- Owner: Andy Grover, Igor Gnatenko
- Last updated: 2018-01-05
- Completed: no
Erlang 20
Update Erlang/OTP to version 20.
- Owner: Peter Lemenkov, Fedora Erlang SIG, Randy Barlow, Jeremy Cline
- Last updated: 2017-11-21
- Completed: no
PHP 7.2
Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 7.2.x
- Owner: Remi Collet and PHP SIG
- Last updated: 2017-12-05
- Completed: yes
Sugar 0.112
Update Sugar to the new upstream 0.112 stable feature release.
- Owner: Peter Robinson
- Last updated: 2017-11-02
- Completed: no
Packaging Rust applications/libraries
Add required tools/instructions for packaging applications/libraries written in Rust. Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
- Owner: Igor Gnatenko (on behalf of Rust SIG)
- Last updated: 2017-10-30
- Completed: no
Facter3
This is an update of the Facter package from 2.X to 3.X. It is a self contained changed which will impact puppet directly and potentially any other tools that make use of facter to gather information.
- Owner: James Hogarth
- Last updated: 2017-10-16
- Completed: no
MinGW MiniDebugInfo
Analogously to the MiniDebugInfo change for native packages, install minimal debuginfos by default also for MinGW packages.
- Owner: Sandro Mani
- Last updated: 2017-09-18
- Completed: yes