Greetings! This is a summary of FESCo's accepted Fedora 21 Changes for week 12 (2014-03-19 meeting). Reminder: the Change Submission deadline for System Wide Change is due in less than two weeks! = System Wide Changes = * u-boot syslinux by default URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/u-boot_syslinux Announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196448.html Add syslinux support to u-boot enabling both pxelinux and extlinux support. simplifying booting arm machines, making anaconda installs easy and overall providing for a better user experience. Default u-boot to using syslinux config files for booting. pxelinux for network and extlinux for local booting. u-boot is the bootloader used on ARM systems in Fedora so the scope of this change is limited to ARM hardware only. * jQuery URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/jQuery Announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196411.html jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript? library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript?. Traditionally, a copy of jQuery has been included with every web application that requires it. This change will migrate many of those applications to a shared system copy of jQuery. Both the 1.x branch of jQuery that supports Internet Explorer 6 and the 2.x branch of jQuery that only works with modern web browsers will be provided. * Xorg without root rights URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XorgWithoutRootRights Announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196534.html The Xorg xserver is a large piece of software which currently runs as root, making it a potential vector for attacks against the system. With recent changes made to systemd-logind it is possible for the xserver to let systemd- logind do device management for it, at which point the xserver will no longer need root rights. Initially this will likely be implemented as the xserver dropping root rights early on. = Self Contained Changes = * Allwinner sunxi (A10 / A13 / A20) ARM SoC support URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport Announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196231.html Allwinner A10 / A13 / A20 SoCs? are used in a number of popular low cost arm development boards and arm mini computers. Currently Fedora ARM is supported on these devices through a Remix. Allwinner kernel support is progressing rapidly upstream, and with this upstream kernel support it should be possible to support Allwinner SoCs? in the official Fedora ARM images, without the need for a remix. * Add amd map parser to autofs URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Add_amd_map_parser_to_autofs Announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196372.html The am-utils package provides automount services for automount maps that use an amd format. However, the am-utils project has not been actively maintained for quite a while now. The am-utils package in Fedora has significant problems that are not easily resolved so an amd format parser is to be added to the autofs package. * CUPS Journal Logging URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CupsJournalLogging Announcement: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CupsJournalLogging By default, CUPS will send log output to the system journal rather than /var/log/cups/error_log. _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
