Greetings!
We can say with great certainty the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the
release of Fedora 20 ("Heisenbug"), which coincides with the 10th anniversary
of the creation of the Fedora Project.
Download this leading-edge, free and open source operating system now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/index.html
*** Dedicated to Seth Vidal ***
On July 8, the Fedora Project lost Seth Vidal, a dedicated, tireless, and
brilliant contributor. Seth was a lead developer of Yum and the Fedora update
repository system. He worked to ensure that the technical and community
infrastructure of Fedora worked well and consistently for users and
contributors around the world. Seth touched the lives of hundreds of Fedora
contributors directly and millions of others indirectly by improving the
experience of using and updating Fedora.
The Fedora Project dedicates the Fedora 20 release to Seth and asks that you
join us in remembering his generous spirit and incredible work that helped make
Fedora what it is today. We miss you, Seth.
*** 10 Years of Fedora ***
The Fedora 20 release coincides with Fedora's tenth anniversary. The first
Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003. The
Fedora Project community has grown into an active and vibrant one that produces
a new version of this leading-edge, free and open source operating system
around every six months.
*** Desktop Environments and Spins ***
The Fedora Project strives to provide the best desktop experiences possible for
users, from desktop environment to application selection. We also produce
nearly a dozen spins tailor-made for desktop users, hardware design, gaming,
musicians, artists, and early classroom environments.
Spins are available for download here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins
== GNOME 3.10 ==
Fedora 20 comes with GNOME 3.10, which has several new applications and
features that will please GNOME-lovers. This release includes a new music
application (gnome-music), a new maps application (gnome-maps), a revamp for
the system status menu, and Zimbra support in Evolution.
== KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 ==
The Fedora KDE SIG has rebased to KDE 4.11 for Fedora 20. This release includes
faster Nepomuk indexing, improvements to Kontact, KScreen integration in KWin,
Metalink/HTTP support for KGet, and much more.
== Spins ==
Spins are alternate versions of Fedora. In addition to various desktop
environments for Fedora, spins are also available as tailored environments for
various types of users via hand-picked application sets or customizations.
See all of the Fedora 20 Release Spins here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins
*** ARM as a Primary Architecture ***
While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the years,
x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users and for the
Linux community in general.
ARM, however, has been making massive strides. It already dominates the mobile
market, is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, and is showing
enormous promise for the server market as well.
In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community has
been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs of users
and developers targeting the ARM platform.
*** Cloud and Virtualization Improvements ***
The Fedora 20 release continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and
integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. This release
includes features that will make working with virtualization and cloud
computing much easier.
== First-Class Cloud Images ==
The Fedora Cloud SIG has been working hard to provide images that are
well-suited for running as guests in public and private clouds like Amazon Web
Services (AWS) and OpenStack.
If you're using public or private cloud, you should grab one of the
downloadable Cloud Images or find a supported EC2 image, here:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#clouds
== VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager ==
Taking VM snapshots is now much easier. Though qemu and libvirt have all the
major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, there isn't
any simple, discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to
virt-manager and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved,
including adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to
external snapshots.
== ARM on x86 with libvirt/virt-manager ==
You can now run ARM VMs on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools: libvirt
virsh, virt-manager and virt-install.
*** Big Data ***
The Fedora 20 release includes all the packages you need to run Apache Hadoop
2.2.0. Hadoop is a widely used, increasingly complete big data platform with a
strong, growing community and ecosystem. The Hadoop packages included with
Fedora 20 will provide a foundation for immediate use of Hadoop and a base for
the rest of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
*** Developer Goodness ***
As always, Fedora 20 includes new features and updated packages that will be of
interest to all manner of developers.
== WildFly 8 ==
WildFly 8 is the next version of the application server previously known as
JBoss Application Server. With WildFly 8, it's possible to run your Java EE 7
applications with unparalleled speed.
WildFly 8 boasts a optimized boot process that starts services concurrently to
eliminate unnecessary waits and taps into the power of multi-core processors.
At the same time, WildFly takes an aggressive approach to memory management and
keeps its memory footprint exceptionally small compared to other JVMs.
== Ruby on Rails 4.0 ==
This update supports Ruby on Rails developers by providing system-packaged Ruby
on Rails of the latest version. Apart from that, Rails 4.0 also brings improved
functionality, speed, security, and better modularization.
*** Maturity and Advanced Features ***
Sometimes it's not the big, new features that make a user's experience better;
it's the little enhancements or long-awaited tricky features that really help
make a new release the bee's knees.
== NetworkManager Improvements ==
NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be
welcome additions for power users and system administrators.
Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate network
connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make life much easier
for non-desktop uses of Fedora.
NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and bridging
interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise setups and are
necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.
== No Default Sendmail, Syslog ==
In the interests of paring down services that are generally not used on desktop
systems, Fedora 20 removes and replaces some services that many users find
unnecessary from the Live Desktop DVD. They will remain available as
installable packages for users who might need them.
The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution for
minimal and other selected installation methods, such as the Live Desktop DVD,
having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog.
Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora installs
have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
*** Even More Changes ***
Fedora prides itself on bringing cutting-edge technologies to users of open
source software around the world, and this release continues that tradition. No
matter what you do, Fedora 20 has the tools you need to help you get things
done.
A complete list with details of each new change is available here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/ChangeSet
*** Documentation ***
Read the full release notes for Fedora 20, guides for several languages, and
learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora 20 common bugs are documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs
This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in Fedora 20;
please be sure to read it before installing!
*** Contributing ***
We hope that you're excited to have Fedora 20 in your hands and are looking
forward to using it and exploring its new features and many improvements over
Fedora 19. But that's not all! Fedora never stands still, we're always working
towards a new and better release and sharing our work with the world. Want to
be part of the fun? It's easy to get involved!
There are many ways to contribute to Fedora, even if it's just bug reporting.
You can also 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 today!
Cheers,
-robyn
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