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Fedora Linux 39 Accepted System-Wide Changes

Remove pam_console

Remove pam_console as it is not enabled by default, can be replaced by systemd and has security issues.

Owners

• Owner: Iker Pedrosa

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-02
• Tracking bug: #2166692
• Release Notes tracker: #965
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze.
• Status: Change accepted

Boost 1.81 upgrade

This change brings Boost 1.81 to Fedora. This will mean Fedora ships with a recent upstream Boost release.

Owners

• Owner: Thomas Rodgers

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-01-04
• Tracking bug: #2158241
• Release Notes tracker: #946
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Add Fedora Auto Firstboot Services to desktop variants

Add fedora-autofirstboot to desktop variants to run a predetermined set of tasks on first boot after post installation, notably installing codecs and cleaning up installer packages from the installed system.

Owners

• Owner: Neal Gompa

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-10
• Tracking bug: #2152200
• Release Notes tracker: #936
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Python 3.12

Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12, the newest major release of the Python programming language.

Owners

• Owner: Lumír Balhar

Tracking

• Last updated: 2022-11-11
• Tracking bug: #2135404
• Release Notes tracker: #903
• Contingency deadline: TBD
• Status: Change accepted

Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)

Continue the work done in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer but in an officially stable format, and expanded to cover more OSTree-based editions. This goes "all in" on being container-native and significantly changes the technology and user emphasis.

Owners

• Owner: Colin Walters, Joseph Marrero, Brent Baude

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-22
• Tracking bug: #2151321
• Release Notes tracker: #933
• Contingency deadline: Dunno
• Status: Change accepted

KTLS implementation for GnuTLS

Acceleration of GnuTLS with software Kernel TLS (KTLS)

Owners

• Owner: František Krenželok, Daiki Ueno

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-10
• Tracking bug: #2130000
• Release Notes tracker: #881
• Contingency deadline: 2023-02-21
• Status: Change accepted

Make DNF5 The Default

Make DNF5 the new default packaging tool. The change will replace DNF, YUM, and DNF-AUTOMATIC with the new DNF5 and new Libdnf5 library. The change will mainly impact command-line users of DNF. It is a second step after https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodnf.

Owners

• Owner: Jaroslav Mracek, Vendula Poncova

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-01-31
• Tracking bug: #2166026
• Release Notes tracker: #962
• Contingency deadline: Branch Fedora Linux 39 from Rawhide
• Status: Change accepted

Changes/LegacyXorgDriverRemoval

This change removes the xorg-x11-drv-vesa and xorg-x11-drv-fbdev driver packages, and associated support code from the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package.

Owners

• Owner: Adam Jackson

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-22
• Tracking bug: #2078921
• Release Notes tracker: #822
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze seems fine.
• Status: Change accepted

DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants

RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as it reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in btrfs, which is the default filesystem starting from Fedora 33 for most variants. Note that this behavior is not being turned on by default for this Change.

Owners

• Owner: Matthew Almond, Davide Cavalca, Manu Bretelle

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-02-10
• Tracking bug: #1915976
• Release Notes tracker: #634
• Contingency deadline: Final freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora Linux 39 Accepted Self-Contained Changes

Mass Retire Golang Leaves

As of Jan 2023, 275/1660 (17%) library only Go source packages are leaves. Overall, these packages are maintained by 35 different maintainers along with the Go SIG. These leaves (by maintainer) will be mass retired in Fedora 39.

• Owner: Maxwell G; Alejandro Sáez Morollón; the Go SIG
• Last updated: 2023-02-17
• Status: Change accepted

Modular GNOME Keyring services

The monolithic daemon provided by GNOME Keyring will be split into dedicated sub-daemons, so that they can be consistently managed by systemd.

• Owner: Daiki Ueno, Benjamin Berg
• Last updated: 2023-02-13
• Status: Change accepted