Christian Schaller, heading Fedora Desktop Team and the Development Group of Red Hat, Published The report on the work and development plans for the Fedora Workstation distribution in 2025.
The most interesting points:
- Integration of AI capacities implemented using a large language model granite , open company IBM under the Apache 2.0 license and covering 8 billion parameters . IBM is preparing a new version of Granite with advanced application developers that will allow the use of Granite as an code generation engine in integrated development environment. , Simplification of the setting of hardened AI tools in the environment on the basis toolbx and tools for conducting experiments with AI (for example, adding ramalama for deploying containers with AI models).
- Using the experimental protocols Wayland. Starting with the Wayland -Protocols 1.39 version, a new phase of promotion of the Wayland protocols – “Experimental”, aimed at accelerating the bringing of protocols to developers and stimulating early implementation in existing projects. A working group has been created in Fedora, which will analyze experimental protocols and track the appearance of protocols of interest to the distribution.
- Work is underway to support the Wayland Protocol to use the expanded dynamic range (HDR) in GNOME Shell and GTK, which is in cooperation with KDE and KWIN developers. For the Gnome Control Center prepared for switching and configuring HDR. The composition of the next release is fedora.
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