LWN: Comments on "Fedora 30 released"

Fedora 30 released

nix — Tue, 21 May 2019 23:45:20 +0000

People using bcache should avoid this release for now, since it contains a kernel compiled with GCC 9: there is apparent miscompilation causing btree damage and correspondingly disastrous disk corruption with writes directed to the wrong places on backing store currently being tracked down. (Whether it is a GCC bug or undefined behaviour in the bcache code confusing the optimizer is not yet clear.)

Fedora 30 released

bkircher — Sun, 05 May 2019 07:45:13 +0000

Ah, thanks for the link. Didn’t know these existed.

Cool thing is you can even look what’s up next:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/31/ChangeSet

Fedora 30 released

swilmet — Sat, 04 May 2019 09:57:09 +0000

As usual there is also the ChangeSet for a detailed list of changes.

I'm especially excited with:

Make dbus-broker the default DBus implementation
Make BootLoaderSpec-style configuration files the default