<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Robinson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM<br>Subject: Fedora 22 for aarch64 is here!<br>To: <a href="mailto:arm@lists.fedoraproject.org">arm@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>, <a href="mailto:devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org">devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>, <a href="mailto:announce@lists.fedoraproject.org">announce@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>, <a href="mailto:secondary@lists.fedoraproject.org">secondary@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br><br>We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22 for aarch64,<br>
the 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://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation</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 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>
<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>
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://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation</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>
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