<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Miller</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org">mattdm@fedoraproject.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:49 AM<br>Subject: Fedora 22 is here!<br>To: <a href="mailto:announce@lists.fedoraproject.org">announce@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br><br>We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the<br>
community-driven and community-built operating system now available<br>
in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions.<br>
<br>
If that's all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download<br>
-- or for current users, run the FedUp upgrade tool.<br>
<br>
* <a href="https://getfedora.org/" target="_blank">https://getfedora.org/</a><br>
* <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp</a><br>
<br>
In addition to the latest versions of all your favorite free and<br>
open source software, Fedora 22 marks our second release with<br>
distinctly-targeted offerings for cloud computing, the server room,<br>
and the desktops and laptops of software developers and creators<br>
everywhere. Thanks to the hard work of developers, designers,<br>
packagers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and<br>
everyone else, we're incredibly confident in saying that this is<br>
our best and most polished release yet.<br>
<br>
Also with this release, we return to our traditional six-month<br>
cadence -- we'll see you back here sometime around Halloween!<br>
<br>
<br>
Highlights in the Fedora 22 release<br>
===================================<br>
<br>
Every Fedora release has its own character. If this release had a<br>
human analogue, it'd be Fedora 21 after it'd been to college,<br>
landed a good job, and kept its New Year's Resolution to go to the<br>
gym on a regular basis. What we're saying is that Fedora 22 has<br>
built on the foundation we laid with Fedora 21 and the work to<br>
create distinct editions of Fedora focused on the desktop, server,<br>
and cloud (respectively). It's not radically different, but there<br>
are a fair amount of new features coupled with features we've<br>
already introduced but have improved for Fedora 22.<br>
<br>
Fedora Cloud<br>
------------<br>
<br>
Fedora 22 Cloud edition has a number of interesting updates that should<br>
be exciting for users and developers.<br>
<br>
* Updated Docker Images – The Fedora 22 release includes updated<br>
Docker images that you can use as the base of your containerized<br>
applications.<br>
<br>
* Vagrant Boxes – One of the oft-requested features for Fedora is<br>
an “official” Vagrant box that developers can use to spin up<br>
images using the popular Vagrant tool for building development<br>
environments. With the Fedora 22 release we now offer Vagrant<br>
Boxes for libvirt and VirtualBox, so developers on Linux, Mac OS<br>
X, and Windows can spin up Fedora-based development environments<br>
with ease. Users can choose a Vagrant box for Fedora 22 Atomic<br>
Host and Fedora 22 Cloud base edition.<br>
<br>
* Atomic Improvements – Fedora 22 Atomic Host includes a number of<br>
interesting improvements, including the Atomic command, updated<br>
Docker, Kubernetes, Flannel, and rpm-ostree packages.<br>
<br>
* Dockerfiles – Fedora 22 also includes a fedora-dockerfiles<br>
package (and up-to-date git repository) for building applications<br>
with the base Fedora 22 Dockerfile and additional packages.<br>
<br>
Fedora Server<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
* Database Server Role -- The Fedora Server edition focuses on easy of<br>
different server roles. Fedora 21 debuted with an Domain Controller<br>
Role featuring FreeIPA. For this release, we've added a Database<br>
Server role, built around PostgreSQL.<br>
<br>
* Default to XFS filesystem -- The default file system type for<br>
Fedora Server installs will be XFS running atop LVM for all<br>
partitions except /boot. The /boot partition will remain a non-LVM,<br>
ext4 partition due to technological limitations of the bootloader.<br>
<br>
* Cockpit will be compatible between OS releases -- Cockpit is a<br>
server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux<br>
servers via a web browser.<br>
<br>
- Easy to use. Cockpit is perfect for new sysadmins, allowing<br>
them to easily perform simple tasks such as storage<br>
administration, inspecting journals and starting and stopping<br>
services.<br>
<br>
- No interference. Jumping between the terminal and the web<br>
tool is no problem. A service started via Cockpit can be<br>
stopped via the terminal. Likewise, if an error occurs in the<br>
terminal, it can be seen in the Cockpit journal interface.<br>
<br>
- Multi-server. You can monitor and administer several servers<br>
at the same time.<br>
<br>
Fedora Workstation<br>
------------------<br>
<br>
* Better notifications.<br>
<br>
Thanks both to work done in GNOME 3.16 and other projects like<br>
the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), notifications keep you<br>
better informed, but interfere less with your work. They now<br>
appear anchored to the center of the top bar, and no longer cover<br>
up the bottom of the screen where you are often reading a<br>
terminal or browser. An unobtrusive marker appears in the<br>
calendar to let you know you have unread notifications. If ABRT<br>
detects a serious bug, a friendly notification appears and allows<br>
you to report the bug information, but doesn't overload you with<br>
details. And if you're a serious Terminal user, longer background<br>
jobs now notify you when they're done, so you can get on with<br>
other work and pick up the results when you're ready.<br>
<br>
* Refined themes.<br>
<br>
The GNOME Shell and other themes and design are refined and<br>
improved. Now you can more easily identify information on the<br>
screen, adjust window size and placement, and navigate your files<br>
and folders. Improved bridging between desktop environment themes<br>
allows apps from other environments like KDE to look and feel<br>
more like native apps as they're updated to take advantage of<br>
this feature. Standard scrollbars have been replaced by a<br>
minimal, overlaid indicator, while a scrollbar trough is shown<br>
when needed. This create a cleaner, less distracting view which<br>
helps you focus on window content. These “overlay scrollbars” are<br>
also better suited to mouse scroll wheels and touchpad scrolling.<br>
<br>
* Application improvements.<br>
<br>
- Software: The Software app has more and better data than<br>
ever before, and makes it easy for you to find a wide variety of<br>
useful free software. It also makes keeping your system up to<br>
date a snap. The Software app also can install all sorts of<br>
extras such as fonts or media helpers.<br>
<br>
- Files: The updated layout in Files gives a better view of<br>
your files and folders, and a new view popover makes it easy to<br>
change the zoom level and sort order from a single place. You<br>
can also now move files and folders to the trash intuitively<br>
using the Delete key, rather than the Ctrl+Delete keyboard<br>
combination.<br>
<br>
- Image Viewer: The Image Viewer has been redesigned to reduce<br>
the amount of window chrome and give more space to images.<br>
<br>
- Boxes: The user interface for Boxes, the application for<br>
virtual and remote machines, has a large number of improvements,<br>
including new preferences dialogs, a revamped box creation<br>
assistant, a feature to send keyboard shortcuts to a box, and<br>
display scaling by default.<br>
<br>
- Vagrant: Developers will appreciate the addition of software<br>
development environment software Vagrant into Fedora -- it'll<br>
work using our included virtualization technology, with no need<br>
to install third-party virtualization (like VirtualBox). Use<br>
this to work on top of the Cloud images mentioned above, or<br>
launch your own Vagrant boxes.<br>
<br>
<br>
Spins, Labs, and ARM<br>
====================<br>
<br>
Spins are alternative desktop environments for Fedora, including KDE,<br>
Xfce, LXDE, MATE-Compiz, and SOAS (Sugar on a Stick). We have a new<br>
website presenting these at <a href="https://spins.fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">https://spins.fedoraproject.org/</a>. Of<br>
particular note for F22:<br>
<br>
Fedora 22 KDE Plasma<br>
--------------------<br>
<br>
Plasma 5, the successor to KDE Plasma 4, is now the default<br>
workspace in the Fedora KDE spin. It has a new theme called Breeze,<br>
which has cleaner visuals and better readability, improves certain<br>
work-flows and provides overall more consistent and polished<br>
interface. Changes under the hood include switch to Qt 5 and KDE<br>
Frameworks 5 and migration to a fully hardware-accelerated graphics<br>
stack based on OpenGL(ES).<br>
<br>
Fedora 22 Xfce<br>
--------------<br>
<br>
The Xfce spin has been updated to Xfce 4.12. This release has an<br>
enormous number of improvements, including HiDPI support,<br>
improvements to window tiling, support for Gtk3 plugins, and many<br>
improvements for multi-monitor support.<br>
<br>
Fedora Labs<br>
-----------<br>
<br>
We also have a new site, presenting functional bundles of software<br>
which were previously also collected as Spins. Visit<br>
<a href="https://labs.fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">https://labs.fedoraproject.org/</a> for collections focusing on gaming,<br>
audio production, robotics, security, and more.<br>
<br>
ARM Architecture<br>
----------------<br>
<br>
Previously, images for the ARM architecture were mixed into the<br>
Spins page. They now have their own home at<br>
<a href="https://arm.fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">https://arm.fedoraproject.org/</a>, with downloads for Fedora Server,<br>
Fedora Workstation, and for several Spins as well. Note that this<br>
currently covers 32-bit ARM; Aarch64 will be released as a<br>
secondary architecture later today.<br>
<br>
<br>
Other changes of note<br>
=====================<br>
<br>
Faster and better dependency management with DNF<br>
------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
With Fedora 22, we're introducing a major change under the hood.<br>
Specifically, we're now using DNF and hawkey to manage packages.<br>
DNF is much like the Yum software package manager (it's largely<br>
command-line compatible), but re-written and re-engineered to<br>
provide optimal performance and (along with Hawkey) provide a<br>
strict API definition for plugins and extending projects. DNF also<br>
makes use of the libsolv library initially pioneered by the<br>
openSUSE Project to provide faster and better dependency<br>
management.<br>
<br>
It also boasts a better performance and memory footprint vs. Yum,<br>
and is designed to have a cleaner codebase and be easier to<br>
maintain.<br>
<br>
If you're using the Fedora 22 Workstation edition, and managing<br>
packages with the Software Application, odds are you won't notice a<br>
difference. Server and Cloud users who fall back on Yum commands<br>
will receive a reminder (courtesy of dnf-yum) that Yum is<br>
deprecated and DNF is now the default package manager. DNF has been<br>
in development for quite some time, so we're confident it's ready<br>
for prime time. The classic Yum command line tool has been renamed<br>
to yum-deprecated as a transitional step for tools still using it.<br>
See Read The Docs for compatibility changes from Yum to DNF in<br>
detail.<br>
<br>
Elasticsearch<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
Elasticsearch is full-featured and very popular self-standing<br>
open source indexing server, and now it's available by with just a<br>
`yum install elasticsearch` -- no, wait, make that `dnf install<br>
elasticsearch`!<br>
<br>
GNU Compiler Collection 5<br>
-------------------------<br>
<br>
Fedora 22 comes with GCC 5.1 as the primary compiler suite.<br>
<br>
<br>
Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs<br>
==================================================<br>
<br>
You can start by downloading Fedora 22:<br>
<br>
* <a href="https://getfedora.org/" target="_blank">https://getfedora.org/</a><br>
<br>
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading</a><br>
<br>
Fedora's FedUp utility enables an easy upgrade to Fedora 22 from<br>
previous releases. See the FedUp page on the Fedora wiki for more<br>
information:<br>
<br>
* <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp</a><br>
<br>
Documentation<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
Read the full release notes for Fedora 22, guides for several languages,<br>
and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</a><br>
<br>
Fedora 22 common bugs are documented at:<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs</a><br>
<br>
This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in<br>
Fedora 22. Please be sure to read it before installing!<br>
<br>
Read this announcement in glorious full color on Fedora Magazine, at<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-22-released" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-22-released</a><br>
<br>
and follow the Magazine for regular user-focused articles covering<br>
all things Fedora.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Matthew Miller<br>
<<a href="mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org">mattdm@fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
Fedora Project Leader<br>
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