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Fedora Linux 39 Accepted System-Wide Changes

Retire AWS CLI version 1 package awscli

As a result of the publication of the awscli2 package, the original version of 'awscli' is no longer necessary. This would mark the retirement of the original AWS CLI package version in favor of the awscli version 2. The AWS CLI version 2 is the most recent major version of the AWS CLI and supports all of the latest features. Some features introduced in version 2 are not backported to version 1 and users must upgrade to access those features.

Owners

• Owner: David Duncan Gwyn Ciesla

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216761
• Release Notes tracker: #993
• Contingency deadline: 2023-06-13
• Status: Not being worked on

No fedora-repos-modular in default installation

No longer include fedora-repos-modular in default installations.

Owners

• Owner: Jens Petersen

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216762
• Release Notes tracker: #994
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Change Proposal Name Changes/LIBFFI_34_static_trampolines

Libffi is currently configured to use dynamic trampolines, which require some source of memory which is both writable and executable. This is an obvious security issue, and selinux and system defaults have made it more and more difficult to safely provide this memory to libffi clients. With this change, libffi will be configured to use static trampolines, which do not require such memory, and will not pose those security and administrative risks.

Owners

• Owner: DJ Delorie

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216763
• Release Notes tracker: #995
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

Flatpaks without Modules

Change how we build Flatpaks in Fedora to remove the dependency on modularity. Instead of using modules to rebuild Fedora packages with prefix=/app, there will be a separate build target that is used for that.

Owners

• Owner: Owen Taylor

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216764
• Release Notes tracker: #996
• Contingency deadline: By 2023-08-01 we should have runtimes built and a number of applications or we'll plan on using modules for F39 Flatpaks.
• Status: Change accepted

Perl 5.38

A new perl 5.38 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.38 will be delayed and probably released at the end of June 2023. See perldelta for 5.38.0-RC1 for more details about new release.

Owners

• Owner: Jitka Plesníková, Michal Josef Špaček

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-19
• Tracking bug: #2203264
• Release Notes tracker: #987
• Contingency deadline: branching Fedora 39 from Rawhide.
• Status: Change accepted

Increase vm.max_map_count value

This change aims at increasing the default value of the vm.max_map_count sysctl

Owners

• Owner: Alessandro Astone

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216765
• Release Notes tracker: #997
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria

Up to date fedora-toolbox OCI images must be published on registry.fedoraproject.org as release-blocking deliverables, and there must be release-blocking test criteria to ensure usable toolbox RPMs.

Owners

• Owner: Debarshi Ray, Sumantro Mukherjee

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-22
• Tracking bug: #2216766
• Release Notes tracker: #998
• Contingency deadline: We need this by the Change completion deadline or before Fedora 39 is branched from Rawhide, whichever is earlier. As per the schedule, both of those are currently set to happen on the 8th of August 2023.
• Status: Change accepted

RPM 4.19

Update RPM to the 4.19 release.

Owners

• Owner: Florian Festi

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-06-01
• Tracking bug: #2187480
• Release Notes tracker: #979
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Status: Change accepted

Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0

Update createrepo_c to 1.0.0, new release will include change of default compression to zstd, no longer generating metadata in sqlite database format by default and simplified comps xml type in repodata.

Owners

• Owner: Aleš Matěj

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-04-10
• Tracking bug: #2185617
• Release Notes tracker: #977
• Contingency deadline: 2023-08-01
• Status: Change accepted

MinGW toolchain update

Update the MinGW toolchain to the latest upstream stable releases.

Owners

• Owner: Sandro Mani

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-03-09
• Tracking bug: #2176849
• Release Notes tracker: #970
• Contingency deadline: Before release
• Status: 100% code completed

Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39

Fedora is currently shipping version 2020.3 (released July 10, 2020) of the Thread Building Blocks library. The current upstream version is 2021.8 (released December 22, 2022). The Fedora community has expressed interest in moving the TBB package to track a more modern version of the upstream.

Owners

• Owner: Thomas Rodgers

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-03-06
• Tracking bug: #2175941
• Release Notes tracker: #969
• Contingency deadline:
• Status: Change accepted

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: Testable

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

Modernize Live Media

Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.

Owners

• Owner: Neal Gompa, Matt Coleman

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-03-16
• Tracking bug: #2139918
• Release Notes tracker: #898
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• 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

SPDX License Phase 2

Second phase of transition from using Fedora's short names for licenses to SPDX identifiers in the License: field of Fedora package spec files. This phase addresses how to update the License: field for existing packages, including documenting more specific guidance on how to find licenses in a package.

Owners

• Owner: Miroslav Suchý, Jilayne Lovejoy, Neal Gompa, David Cantrell, Richard Fontana, Matthew Miller

Tracking

• Last updated: 2023-04-03
• Tracking bug: #2184184
• Release Notes tracker: #974
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze. But it is expected that not all packages will be converted by that time and the change will continue in the next release.
• 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: 2023-03-09
• 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

Fedora Onyx

Creation of an official Fedora immutable variant with a Budgie Desktop environment, complementing Fedora Budgie Spin and expanding the immutable offerings of Fedora.

• Owner: Joshua Strobl
• Last updated: 2023-05-25
• Status: Change accepted

Man-pages-ru Retirement

Retiring man-pages-ru because it is already part of the man-pages-l10n.

• Owner: Lukas Javorsky
• Last updated: 2023-05-24
• Status: 100% code completed

BiggerESP

The Fedora installer includes an EFI System Partition of between 200MB and 600MB by default, of which the lower size is much too small for firmware updates on modern hardware and also for future bootloader features like UKI. This change will increase the minimum size of the ESP to be 500MB, which is also the same value used by Microsoft for Windows 10 and newer.

• Owner: Richard Hughes
• Last updated: 2023-05-18
• Status: Change accepted

Lazarus repackaging

Split the lazarus package (the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal) into several sub-packages (built from the same spec file) and enable building the Lazarus Component Library for multiple widget sets, instead of just the default GTK2.

• Owner: Artur Frenszek-Iwicki
• Last updated: 2023-05-11
• Status: Change accepted

Fedora Images on Azure

Azure is a massive public cloud and offering an official Fedora Cloud image there would expand Fedora's user base. It also gives Fedora Cloud users more options when selecting public clouds.

• Owner: Major Hayden, David Duncan
• Last updated: 2023-05-11
• Status: Change accepted

Remove standard storage option from Fedora EC2 images

AWS offers multiple types of block storage depending on the needs of the individual user. Fedora images are uploaded with standard and gp2 currently (gp3 will replace gp2 very soon with another approved change).

• Owner: Major Hayden
• Last updated: 2023-05-03
• Status: 100% code completed

Register EC2 Cloud Images with uefi-preferred AMI flag

A new feature of EC2 is to be able to register AMIs with a boot mode of uefi-preferred rather than picking one of bios or uefi. In EC2, aarch64 has always been UEFI, while x86-64 started out as BIOS only and some instance types have recently begun to support booting in UEFI mode. Previously, an AMI had to pick if it was UEFI or BIOS. With uefi-preferred it allows an AMI to launch with whatever firmware stack is available for the instance type, preferring UEFI when UEFI is an option.

• Owner: Stewart Smith, David Duncan
• Last updated: 2023-05-05
• Status: Change accepted

FontAwesome6

Update the FontAwesome package in Fedora to version 6.x, with a compatibility package for packages still needing 4.x.

• Owner: Jerry James
• Last updated: 2023-03-24
• Status: Change accepted

EC2 AMIs default to the gp3 EBS volume type

In Amazon EC2, Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes can be one of several types. These can be specified at volume creation time, including for the default volumes that are created on instance launch. An AMI will have default volumes and volume types configured. Fedora currently defaults to the gp2 volume type. This proposal is to switch to gp3 as the default volume type for Fedora. The gp3 volume type is both more flexible than gp2, and can be up to 20% cheaper per GB.

• Owner: Stewart Smith David Duncan
• Last updated: 2023-04-07
• Status: Change accepted

Register EC2 Cloud Images with IMDSv2-only AMI flag

In November 2019, AWS launched IMDSv2 (Instance Meta-Data Store version 2 - see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/defense-in-depth-open-firewalls-reverse-proxies-ssrf-vulnerabilities-ec2-instance-metadata-service/ ) which provides "belt and suspenders" protections for four types of vulnerabilities that could be used to try to access the Instance Meta-Data Store available to EC2 instances. In that announcement, AWS recommended adopting IMDSv2 and restricting access to IMDSv2 only for added security. This can be done at instance launch time, or (more recently in October 2022) by providing a flag when registering an AMI to indicate that the AMI should by default launch with IMDSv1 disabled, and thus require IMDSv2.

• Owner: Stewart Smith David Duncan
• Last updated: 2023-04-07
• Status: 100% code completed

mkosi-initrd

mkosi-initrd is an alternative builder for initrds. It will be packaged in Fedora, so that users can use it to build initrds locally. A kernel-install plugin will be provided to build the initrd when a kernel package is installed. As a stretch goal, initrds will be build in koji and delivered via rpm packages. As a further stretch goal, pre-built initrds will be used in Unified Kernel Images that can be delivered via rpm packages.

• Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Lukáš Nykrýn , Daan De Meyer
• Last updated: 2023-05-11
• Status: Change accepted

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: 2023-05-11
• Status: Change accepted

Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite

By design, ostree does not manage bootloader updates as they can not (yet) happen in a safe fashion. To solve this issue, bootupd (https://github.com/coreos/bootupd) was created. bootupd is a small socket activated program that takes care of updating the bootloader. It currently only supports EFI booted systems and rpm-ostree based systems. The updates are triggered by an administrator and are not (yet) automated for safety reasons. This change is about enabling bootupd integration in Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite to make bootloader updates easier. bootupd is already used in Fedora CoreOS.

• Owner: Timothée Ravier, Tomáš Popela, Colin Walters
• Last updated: 2023-02-23
• Status: In progress

LXQt image for aarch64

Generate LXQt image (both iso and disk image) for aarch64 architecture.

• Owner: Zamir SUN
• Last updated: 2023-04-10
• Status: Testable

Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode

rpm-ostree upstream development is focusing on the "unified core" mode and the previous mode is being deprecated. Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite are currently building using the old mode and we've wanted to move over for a while. The main advantage of the unified core mode is that it is stricter and safer, while enabling some post processing steps to happen during or after the image build.

• Owner: Timothée Ravier, Tomáš Popela, Colin Walters
• Last updated: 2023-02-23
• Status: In progress

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