On 05/24/11 07:38, Mike Chambers wrote: > Case anyone hadn't heard yet. So yes am top posting this one. > > Mike Chambers > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jared K. Smith<jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-to: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock) > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:04:23 -0400 > > Let the celebrations begin! Fedora 15 is officially here! > > Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that > continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new > release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and > greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy > of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have > several major new features with special focus on desktops, developers, > virtualization, security and system administration. > > === What's new in Fedora 15 (Lovelock)? === > > ==== For desktop users ==== > > A universe of new features for end users: > > * GNOME 3 desktop environment -- GNOME 3 is the next generation of > GNOME with a brand new user interface. It provides a completely new > and modern desktop that has been designed for today's users and > technologies. Fedora 15 is the first major distribution to include > GNOME 3 by default. GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive > upstream participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers, > and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15. GNOME Shell, the new > user interface of GNOME 3, is polished, robust and extensible, and > several GNOME Shell extensions and the GNOME tweak tool are available > in the Fedora software repository. Thanks to the Fedora desktop team > developers and community volunteers. > > * Btrfs filesystem -- Btrfs, the next generation filesystem is being > developed with upstream participation of Red Hat developers, Oracle > and many others. Btrfs is now available as a menu item in the > installer (only for non-live images. live images support just Ext4) > and does not require passing a special option to the installer as in > the previous releases. Btrfs availability has moved up a notch as a > incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the default filesystem > in the next release of Fedora. The btrfsck program for performing > filesystem checks is under active development upstream with > participation from Fedora but the one included in this release is > still limited and hence users are highly recommended to maintain > backups when using this filesystem (backups are a good idea anyway!). > Thanks to Josef Bacik, Red Hat Btrfs developer, for his upstream > participation and integration of this feature in Fedora including a > yum plugin (yum-plugin-fs-snapshot) that enables users to rollback > updates if necessary, taking advantage of Btrfs snapshots. > > * Indic typing booster -- Indic typing booster is a predictive input > method for the ibus platform. It suggests complete words based on > partial input, and users can simply select a word from the suggestion > list and improve their typing speed and accuracy. Thanks to the > development led by Pravin Satpute and Naveen Kumar, Red Hat I18N team > engineers in Pune, India. > > * Better crash reporting -- ABRT, a crash reporting tool in Fedora, > can now perform a part of crash processing remotely, on a Fedora > Project server. Remote coredump retracing avoids users having to > download a large amount of debug information and leads to better > quality reports. The retrace server can generate good backtraces with > a much higher success rate than local retracing. > > * Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter -- SELinux troubleshooter is a > graphical tool that watches and analyses log files and automatically > provides solutions to common issues. In this release, this tool has > been redesigned to be simpler but provide more solutions at the same > time. Thanks to Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, for leading > the development of this functionality. > > * Higher compression in live images -- Live images in this release > use XZ compression instead of gzip as in older releases, making them > smaller (about 10%) to download or providing more space for > applications to be made available by default. Thanks to Bruno Wolff > III, Fedora community volunteer, for integrating this functionality in > Fedora Live CD tools. Thanks to Phillip Lougher for his work on > squashfs and Lasse Collin for getting XZ squashfs support in the > upstream Linux kernel. > > * Better power management -- Fedora 15 includes a redesigned and > better version of powertop and newer versions of tuned and pm-utils > for better power management. The tuned package contains a daemon that > tunes system settings dynamically to balance between power consumption > and performance. It also performs various kernel tunings according to > selected profile. The new version of tuned brings several bug fixes, > improvements and profiles updates for better efficiency. Thanks to > Jaroslav Åkarvada, Red Hat developer, for integrating the newer > powertop and pm-utils, as well as performing power measurement and > benchmarking. Thanks to Jan VÄelÃk, Red Hat developer, for developing > tuned and integrating the newer version in this release. > > * LibreOffice productivity suite -- LibreOffice is a community-driven > and developed free and open source personal productivity suite which > is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document > Foundation. It is a fork of OpenOffice.org with a diverse community > of contributors including developers from Red Hat, Novell and many > volunteers. OpenOffice.org has been replaced with LibreOffice in this > release. Thanks to CaolÃn McNamara from Red Hat for his upstream > participation and for maintaining LibreOffice in Fedora. > > * Firefox 4 web browser -- A new major version of this popular browser > from the Mozilla non-profit foundation is part of this release. > Firefox 4 features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster > than the previous version, new capabilities such as Firefox Sync, > native support for the patent unencumbered WebM multimedia format, > HTML5 technologies and a completely revised user interface. Thanks to > Christopher Aillon from Red Hat and others for integrating Firefox 4 > in this release. > > * KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments -- > Fedora 15 includes new major versions of these alternative desktop > environments. Fedora also provides dedicated KDE Plasma Workspaces > and Xfce installable live images that include these desktop > environments by default. Thanks to Red Hat developers and other Fedora > community volunteers, part of KDE and Xfce special interest groups. > > * Sugar .92 learning platform -- Sugar is a desktop environment > originally designed for the OLPC project which has now evolved into a > learning platform developed by the non-profit Sugar Labs foundation. > This version provides major usability improvements for the first login > screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support > for 3G networks. Thanks to Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas, > Fedora community volunteers, for leading the integration of this > environment. > > ==== For developers ==== > > For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: > > * Robotics Suite -- Fedora 15 now includes the Robotics Suite, a > collection of packages that provides a usable out-of-the-box robotics > development and simulation environment. This ever-growing suite > features up-to-date robotics frameworks, simulation environments, > utility libraries, and device support, and consolidates them into an > easy-to-install package group. Refer to > https://rmattes.blogspot.com/2011/05/fedora-15-robotics-suite.html for > more details. Thanks to Tim Niemueller and Rich Mattes, Fedora > community volunteers for their participation. > > * GCC 4.6 -- GCC 4.6 is the system default compiler in Fedora 15 and > all the relevant packages have been rebuilt in Fedora 15 using it. > Developers can realize compiled code improvements and use the newly > added features, such as improved C++0x support, support for the Go > language, REAL*16 support in Fortran and many other improvements. > Thanks to Jakub Jelinek from Red Hat for upstream participation and > leading the integration in Fedora. > > * GDB 7.3 -- This new GDB release 7.3 together with Archer and Fedora > extensions improves the debugging experience on Fedora by making the > debugger more powerful. The majority of these features were written by > Red Hat engineers, thus benefiting all gdb users. New features for the > Fedora 15 release include support for breakpoints at SystemTap markers > (probes), support for using labels in the program's source, OpenCL > language debugging support, thread debugging of core dumps and Python > scripting improvements. Numerous important packages within Fedora are > pre-built with SystemTap static markers, and these can now be used as > the target for breakpoints in gdb. Thanks to Jan Kratochvil and other > GDB developers from Red Hat for their upstream participation and > integration of this functionality. > > * Programming language updates -- Python 3.2: The system Python 3 > stack has been upgraded to 3.2 (the system Python 2 stack remains at > 2.7), bringing in hundreds of fixes and tweaks; for a list of changes > refer to https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html. OCaml 3.12: > OCaml 3.12 is a major revision of the OCaml programming language, the > camlp4 macro language, libraries, and CDuce for XML processing. Rails > 3.0.5: Rails 3 is a large update to the Ruby on Rails web framework. > It brings many new features such as a polished routing API, new > activemailer and activerecord APIs, and many more new enhancements. > Thanks to Dave Malcolm, Richard W.M. Jones and Mo Morsi, Red Hat > developers leading the integration of the respective features in this > release. > > * Maven 3 -- Maven 3.0 offers better stability and performance > compared to previous versions and a lot of work under the hood to > simplify writing Maven plugins and further improve performance by > building projects in parallel. Refer to > https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html for more > information. Fedora still provides maven2 package to support > backward compatibility where needed. Thanks to Red Hat developer, > Stanislav Ochotnickà for the work in this feature. > > ==== For system administrators ==== > > And don't think we forgot the system administrators: > > * systemd system and session manager -- systemd is a system and > session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. > systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket > and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting > of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports > snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and > automount points and implements a powerful transactional > dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in > replacement for sysvinit. A related change is /var/run and /var/lock > are mounted from tmpfs and results in a simpler, more faster and > robust boot-up scheme and aligns to the default configuration of > several other distributions. Thanks to Lennart Poettering, Rahul > Sundaram. Michal Schmidt, Bill Nottingham and others from Red Hat for > leading development and integration of systemd as the default init > system in this release and many Fedora community volunteers for their > extensive testing and feedback. > > * Dynamic firewall -- Dynamic firewall makes it possible to change > firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and makes > persistent connections possible. This is for example very useful for > services, that need to add additional firewall rules including > virtualization (libvirtd) and VPN(openvpn). With the static firewall > model these rules are lost if the firewall gets modified or restarted. > The firewall daemon (firewalld) holds the current configuration > internally and is able to modify the firewall without the need to > recreate the complete firewall configuration; it is also able to > restore the configuration in a service restart and reload case. > Another use case for the dynamic firewall mode is printer discovery. > For this the discovery program will be started locally that sends out > a broadcast message. It will most likely get an answer from an unknown > address (the new printer). This answer will be filtered by the > firewall, because the answer is not related to the broadcast and the > port of the program that was sending out the message is dynamic and > therefore a fixed rule can not be created for this. It also has a > D-BUS interface to allow clients or services to request firewall > changes. firewall-cmd (part of firewalld package) is a very simple > yet powerful user space alternative to the iptables command: for > instance, firewall-cmd --enable --service=samba --timeout=10 opens > the appropriate ports for Samba for only ten seconds. Since the > current implementation is a proof of concept, in this release, it is > available in the Fedora software repository but not installed by > default. The plan is to make it the default firewall solution in the > next release. Thanks to Thomas Woerner from Red Hat for developing > this feature. > > * BoxGrinder appliance creator -- BoxGrinder is a set of free and > open source tools used for building appliances (images/virtual > machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2). BoxGrinder > creates appliances from simple plain text appliance definition files. > Thanks to Marek Goldmann and others from Red Hat for upstream > participation and bringing this feature into Fedora. > > * Spice integration in Virt Manager -- With Fedora 15, virt-manager > has been updated to support Spice, the complete open source solution > for interaction with virtualized desktops. It is now possible to > create a virtual machine with Spice support without touching the > command line, easily taking advantage of all the Spice enhancements > directly from virt-manager. Spice provides better performance and > additional functionality (such as copy/paste between guest and host) > compared to using VNC. Thanks to the spice-gtk library, a new client > can be developed in Python or C, or with gobject-introspection > bindings. Thanks to Marc-Andrà Lureau, Red Hat developer, for > leading development of this feature. > > * Consistent network device naming -- Servers often have multiple > Ethernet ports, either embedded on the motherboard, or on add-in PCI > cards. Linux has traditionally named these ports ethX, but there has > been no correlation of the ethX names to the chassis labels - the ethX > names are non-deterministic. Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports > will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations, > rather than ethX. By changing the naming convention, system > administrators will no longer have to guess at the ethX to physical > port mapping, or invoke workarounds on each system to rename them into > some "sane" order. This feature is enabled on all physical systems > that expose network port naming information in SMBIOS 2.6 or later. > Thanks to Jordan Hargrave, Matt Domsch and several other engineers > from Dell for their long term upstream participation and collaboration > with Fedora in integration of this feature. > > * Setuid removal -- Fedora 15 removes setuid in several applications > and instead specifically assigns the capabilities required by each > application to improve security by reducing the impact of any > potential vulnerabilities in these applications. Thanks to Daniel > Walsh from Red Hat for leading the integration of this feature. > > * Improved support for encrypted home directory -- Fedora 15 brings > in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem > for Linux. Starting from Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to > automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory > when a user logs in. Thanks to Paolo Bonzini from Red Hat for > integration of this feature. > > * RPM 4.9.0 package manager -- RPM 4.9.0 brings a number of immediate > benefits to Fedora including the pluggable dependency generator, > built-in filtering of generated dependencies, additional package > ordering hinting mechanism, performance improvements and many > bugfixes. More details at https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0, > Thanks to Panu Matilainen from Red Hat and other RPM developers for > their participation and help in integration of this feature in this > release. > > * Tryton ERP system -- Tryton is a three-tier general-purpose > application platform and basis for an ERP (Enterprise Resource > Planning) system. Currently, the main modules available for Tryton > cover accounting, invoicing, sale management, purchase management, > analytic accounting and inventory management Thanks to Dan HorÃk, > Fedora community volunteer for integration of this feature. > > And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of > all the new features on board Fedora 15 is available at: > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList?anF15 > > == Download and upgrading == > > OK, go get it. You know you can't wait. > > * https://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF15 > > If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF15 > > For a quick tour of features in Fedora 15 and pictures of many friends > of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes: > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes?anF15 > > Fedora 15 full release and technical notes and guides for several > languages are available at: > > * https://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF15 > > Fedora 15 common bugs are documented at: > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs?anF15 > > === Fedora spins === > > Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora tailored for various > types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. > Fedora spins include those providing alternative desktop environments > like KDE, Xfce and LXDE by default but also more specialized ones such > as Fedora Security Lab, Fedora Electronics Lab and Fedora Design > Suite. More information on these spins and much more is available at > > * https://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF15 > > == Looking forward to Fedora 16 (Verne) == > > Our next release, Fedora 16 codename is named after and to honor, > Jules Verne. Jules Verne is considered a father of science-fiction. > He was a science-fiction writer and futurist, best known for novels > such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". More information at > > * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jules_Verne > > Fedora's awesome design team is already busy at work creating artwork > based on this concept and you are welcome to join the team > > * https://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/design-team-imageboard-test-server-and-we-need-fedora-16-theme-artists/ > > Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes > to improve the Fedora 15 experience, our next release, Fedora 16, is > already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active > development for several months already. We have an early schedule for > an end of Oct 2011 release: > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule?anF15 > > Features planned for Fedora 16 include the default use of Btrfs as the > next generation filesystem, GRUB 2 bootloader by default, further > enhancements to systemd system and session manager, dynamic firewall > by default and much much more. Watch the feature list page for > updates. > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList?anF15 > > Join us today and help improve free and open source software and lead > the future of Linux. > > == We need your help! == > > Our rapid release cycle and innovative features are a direct result of > development of thousands of upstream projects and collaboration by a > large distributed and diverse community with many volunteers and > organizations across the globe, participating in the free and open > source software community and within Fedora. Fedora strives to bring > these thousands of upstream projects together and serves as a > integration point for them and for our users and contributors. Red > Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions is a partner in our > community and major sponsor of the Fedora project. To continue to > advance and bring you the best of free software quickly and robustly. > we are always looking for more people to join us in the Fedora > community. You don't have to be a dazzling software programmer to > participate and join us in developing Fedora although if you are one, > you are welcome too! There are many ways to contribute beyond > programming. You can report bugs, help translate software and content, > test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit > documentation, design and do artwork, perform system administration on > our infrastructure, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and > package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide > and more. Whether you are a Linux kernel hacker or just a newcomer, > there is always something for everyone to pitch in. > > To get started, visit https://join.fedoraproject.org today! > > == Contact information == > > If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at: > > * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF15 What an incredibly rapid release cycle. We just installed F14 official release last November! I will have to wait until all the packages I have installed are recompiled for F15. I think that takes a long time. I have 4235 installed rpm's. Not sure if all of them will make it into F15. Probably not, judging by past experience. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
