It began Testing a beta version of the Fedora distribution 35. Beta-issue marked the transition to the final testing stage at which only only Correction of critical errors. Release is scheduled on October 26. The release covers Fedora Workstation , Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT and Live assemblies supplied in the form spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon, LXDE and LXQT. Assembly are formed for architectures x86_64, POWER64, ARM64 (AARCH64) and various devices with 32-bit Arm processors.
Most significant Changes in Fedora 35:
- Fedora Workstation Desktop is updated to the release of GNOME 41, in which the application management interface is recycled. New sections have been added to the configurator to set up control of windows / desktops and connecting through cellular operators. Added a new client to remotely connect to the desktop using VNC and RDP protocols. Changed the design of the music player. GTK 4 involves a new OpenGL database engine, which allowed to reduce energy consumption and speed up the drawing.
- Proposed First Issue of the New Distribution Editor – Fedora Kinoite ,
Based on Fedora Silverblue technologies, but using KDE instead of GNOME. The Fedora Kinoite monolithic image is not divided into separate packages, updated atomically and is collected from Fedora official RPM packets using the RPM-Ostree toolkit. The basic environment (/ and / usr) is mounted in read-only mode. Data available for change is placed in the / var directory. To install and update additional applications, the Flatpak self-sufficient package system is used, with which applications are separated from the main system and run in a separate container. - Multimedia PipeWire Server, which since last release is used by default, translated to use sound sessions manager wireplumber . Wireplumber allows you to control the graph of multimedia nodes in PipeWire, configure sound devices and control the routing of sound streams.
- updated packages, including GCC 11, LLVM 13, Python 3.10-Rc, Perl 5.34, PHP 8.0, Binutils 2.36, Boost 1.76, Glibc 2.34, Binutils 2.37, GDB 10.2, Node.js 16, RPM 4.17, Erlang 24
- Implemented transition to use password handling scheme Yescrypt
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