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Stable Release, GPG keys

Fedora 43 is the latest stable release of Fedora for Power. It was announced on 28 October, 2025. Please see Release announcement for additional details or Download directly from Here.

Fedora for Power uses now primary architectures GPG keys.

Release Notes

  • Fedora 43 (same release notes as referenced above, not specific for PowerPC)

Supported Architectures and Features

  • Only 64bit machines (little endian Power8 or newer) are supported now.

KVM Virtualization Support on PowerPC

PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) hardware supports virtualization via KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on Fedora. KVM provides a full virtualization layer within the Linux kernel and enables Fedora hosts running on Power systems to create and run virtual machines using standard open-source virtualization tooling such as QEMU and libvirt. Find more in Powerpc/virtualization

Previous Releases

You can find information about previous Fedora for Power releases at Architectures/PowerPC/PreviousReleases.

Build System & Resources

Koji

On October 29, 2016 announcement was made to ppc64le koji builds of packages with primary|koji.

To make a scratch build of package for ppc64le in Fedora rawhide, run: 

  koji build --scratch --arch-override=ppc64,ppc64le rawhide yourpkg.src.rpm

PPC Shell access for debugging

Dan Horák (sharkcz) can provide you access to a PPC box for build debugging purposes. Just send him an e-mail with a request and a public SSH key. fedora-infra team is also working on providing easier access to a PowerPC VM for debugging build issues. Once we have it ready, we will update this section.

Bugzilla

Links

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