Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Mid-Jan-Features

[anarki2]

Good stuff. Hoping for more Asahi improvements as well.

[Malsabku]

Am I the only one who feels like Silverblue is stagnating, or is there something planned for Silverblue too?

[spicfoo]

Am I the only one who feels like Silverblue is stagnating, or is there something planned for Silverblue too?

There seems to be some related backend work

[Anvil]

Am I the only one who feels like Silverblue is stagnating, or is there something planned for Silverblue too?

Silver blue I don't think ever took off. I think there main focus is workstation

[NEOalquimista]

Python Mock is deprecated? Couldn't find anything about it.

[spicfoo]

Python Mock is deprecated? Couldn't find anything about it.

Read the associated change proposal linked. Python mock is a third party backport of unittest.mock. After Python 3.3 mock is part of the standard library, so the distribution packages themselves can just use that instead of relying on a third party module.

[JEBjames]

@Michael

There's an odd typo. You may wish to add a correction.

"enabling UKIs on AArch64, and odding a UEFI-only cloud image variant based on UKIs." should be "adding"

[Danny3]

Enabling IPv4 address conflict detection by default

I thought that this was already the default on most if not all Linux distros.

[spicfoo]

I thought that this was already the default on most if not all Linux distros.

Not aware of any. Which ones did you check? The change proposal has the details