Announcing the release of Fedora 14
| From: | "Jared K. Smith" <jsmith-AT-fedoraproject.org> | |
| To: | announce <announce-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org>, devel-announce <devel-announce-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org> | |
| Subject: | Announcing the release of Fedora 14 | |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:27:41 -0400 | |
| Message-ID: | <AANLkTim22hdsRdDh8vPmSF1jzRA3ba5vJsAqVJ3z63xv@mail.gmail.com> |
It's here! It's here! It's really here! Fedora 14 has been officially released! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release approximately every six months. Fedora 14, codename Laughlin, is now available for download. Join us and share the joy of free software and the community with friends and family. We know you can't wait to get started with Fedora 14, so simply follow this link to download it today: http://get.fedoraproject.org?anF14 If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Talking_Points?anF14 For more information including common and known bugs, and tips on how to report bugs, please refer to the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 You can also find this announcement text at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement?anF14 === What's New in Fedora 14? === ==== For desktop users ==== A universe of new features for end users: * libjpeg-turbo: Users can load and save images faster in Fedora 14 than in previous releases. * Spice: Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) provides users with an enhanced remote desktop experience. Currently, it provides the rudimentary foundation to take advantage of things like Accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and hardware cursor support. ==== For developers ==== For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * D: Fedora 14 introduces support for D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python. * Python 2 upgrade: The system python 2 stack has been upgraded to 2.7. * GNUStep: A GUI framework based of the Objective-C programming language which is part of the gcc. * Memory Debugging Tools: The new "gdb-heap" package adds a new "heap" command to /usr/bin/gdb which allows you to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory. * Rakudo Star: An implementation of Perl version 6, based on the Parrot VM. * Support for Milkymist: Developers can enjoy developing for Milkymist, an open hardware embedded board, on Fedora 14. Thanks to the Fedora Electronic Lab for their work in this regard. ==== For system administrators ==== And don't think we forgot about the system administrators: * Fedora is now available for users of the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud service, released concurrently with the traditional release. * virt-v2v assists in the easy migration of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines. * A Virtualization Technology Preview Repo allows users to test the very latest developments in virtualization related packages. * Varnish has been updated and includes improved scalability and a new log function. * Apache has been updated and includes a number of module and security fixes. And that's only the beginning. Updated versions of many packages, as usual, will be available in Fedora 14. A more complete list with more details of the new features on board Fedora 14 is available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?anF14 OK, so what are you waiting for? Go download it! You know you can't wait. http://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF14 In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 14. Fedora 14 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 Fedora 14 common bugs are documented at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs?anF14 === Fedora Spins === Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 == Contributing Back to Fedora == There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 today! == Fedora 15 == Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 14 experience, our next release, Fedora 15, 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 April 2011 release: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule?anF14 == Contact information == If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF14 -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader -- announce mailing list announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
Posted Nov 2, 2010 21:04 UTC (Tue)
by sjj (guest, #2020)
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Posted Nov 2, 2010 22:54 UTC (Tue)
by sbakker (subscriber, #58443)
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Posted Nov 3, 2010 3:33 UTC (Wed)
by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
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[shrug]
Posted Nov 3, 2010 6:56 UTC (Wed)
by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
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This new Anaconda interface is... disconcerting.
Posted Nov 3, 2010 15:19 UTC (Wed)
by Pc5Y9sbv (guest, #41328)
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starting from a Fedora 13 install, and it seemed to work OK, though I then did a full re-install on the laptop, using the net-install ISO, as I originally intended to make drastic changes to partitioning.
In general, I've always found the direct yum upgrade path to be pretty smooth (skipping any anaconda involvement) everywhere from around Fedora Core 2 to present. I usually wait longer for others to work out any weird bits (e.g. with package version regressions) and post a HOWTO, but figured I'd try early since I was going to wipe the disk anyway. In the worst cases, I've had to use yum shell and construct some transactions to remove a "newer" package version from the previous Fedora install and install an "older" package version from the new Fedora repo, before I could get the rest of the upgrade to run.
For RAID systems, I would usually do yum upgrade and expect to boot with a rescue image afterward to rerun dracut nee mkinitrd, rerun grub-install, adjust fstab and/or grub.conf if in case it didn't boot on its own.
Posted Nov 4, 2010 2:39 UTC (Thu)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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# yum --releasever=14 update --skip-broken
Posted Nov 3, 2010 13:21 UTC (Wed)
by robinst (guest, #61173)
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Posted Nov 4, 2010 15:14 UTC (Thu)
by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
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The way it works in Fedora-land is that community members add themselves to the feature list at some point early in the process (the features for F15 are starting about now).
The standard for a Feature is pretty minimal: it has to be something at least new, and it has to be finished in time for the release, and someone has to champion the feature during various interminable IRC meetings. Some features are huge overhauls, and others mere package upgrades, as you can see if you run down the F14 feature list.
And then those (and pretty much only those) get put in the release notes. There are tons of other things which have changed in Fedora 14, but they're not likely to be in the release notes unless someone went through the process above.
FWIW you can read about the new libguestfs features in Fedora 14 here (I didn't bother with the feature process, so they're not in the official release notes).
Rich.
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Preupgrade from Constantine failed, apparently as I've got /boot on mdraid 1 and it can't write an install image. Upgrade from Install DVD fails as well, apparently upon yet another Anaconda change.
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Worked around the Install DVD upgrade problem by selecting "Enterprise" from the installation disk menu, rather than "Normal". Taking this path ended up in the same place, but without requiring a boot drive be selected, and the subsequent "unhandled exception". Joys of mdraid boot/install partitions oh well.
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Did you try yum upgrade?
Did you try yum upgrade?
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Announcing the release of Fedora 14