Fedora 20 Will Ship With The Linux 3.11 Kernel

[finalzone]

The matter of the default Linux kernel version for Fedora 20 has been brought up multiple times now on the mailing lists and forums. Here's one such instance of Fedora users being confused or disgruntled by no Linux 3.12 by default. Due to the original release schedule and in terms of test coverage, the Linux 3.11 kernel is being used by default in Fedora 20 while the Linux 3.12 kernel will likely be pushed down as a launch-day update to Heisenbug.

Here is the highlight of why kernel 3.12 did not make as default:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-December/192669.html

if you find out too late that the new kernel has regressions
which are affecting too much users there is no way to fix
that and they all maybe are impossible to install the new
release from the ISO image

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-November/004635.html

We have a slight issue with the 3.12 kernel timing in that it is too
late to push it into Fedora 20, but too far away from the Fedora 20
release to just ignore the 3.13 development cycle until we can push
3.12.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 20 Will Ship With The Linux 3.11 Kernel

While Fedora 20 isn't going to be released until at least the middle of the month and the Linux 3.12 kernel has been stable since the start of November, the bleeding-edge Fedora Linux will not be shipping with Linux 3.12 by default...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNzI