Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by RahulSundaram: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/OverView?action=diff&rev2=284&rev1=283 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fedora continues to improve it's many proactive [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features security features] and FORTIFY_SOURCE has now been [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-September/msg00015.html enhanced] to cover C++ in addition to C which prevents many security exploits. + * Glibc in Fedora 8 has now [http://people.redhat.com/drepper/sha-crypt.html support] for passwords using SHA256 and SHA512 hashing. Before only DES and MD5 were available. The tools to create passwords are not yet extended but if such passwords are created in others ways Glibc will recognize that and work with it. + + * Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 [http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/08/fedora-8-virtualization-work-in virtualization]. + * Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), a new release of the great IDE and development platform, is available as part of this release. * Package management now features much better performance via `yum` and friends. @@ -74, +78 @@ * Add/Remove Programs (Pirut) introduces a new graphical interface for managing software repositories. You can go to 'Edit'->'Repositories' to enable/disable any of the installed software repositories. * Live installations are faster and require a smaller root filesystem. The file system layout has also changed somewhat. System files for the Live images are now under `LiveOS/`, and a new `README` file has been provided as a short introduction to the live image. - - * Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 [http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/08/fedora-8-virtualization-work-in virtualization]. * [https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/ Transifex] provides a web-based translation interface to allow users to contribute translation work for Fedora hosted projects as well as being able to provide translations to upstream directly to any upstream project. -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
