Planning For Fedora 8

Fedora 7 isn't even a day old but there's already preparations beginning for Fedora 8. The release of Fedora 8 is very tentatively planned for October 31, 2008 while the first test release is planned for July 1. According to the Fedora 8 release schedule there will be four test releases (like we saw with Fedora 7). Some of the features for Fedora 8 that were proposed very early include an improved startup experience, Bigboard as an alternative to the GNOME panel, completing Codec Buddy, Network Manager improvements, implementing PolicyKit, and use pulseaudio as the default audio server. The planned Network Manager improvements are for wpa_supplicant over D-Bus, implementing a configuration interface, and support for multiple devices. KDE 4.0 will also hopefully see the light of day in Fedora 8. Planning for a FUDConHack this summer in either Boston or Raleigh is also underway.