FESCo Approves A Big Round Of Fedora 28 Features
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved of a number of feature requests for the Fedora 28 release due out in May.
Features granted approval this week included:
- Avoiding /usr/bin/python in RPM builds in order to be more specific about Python2 or Python3 dependence.
- Reducing the redundancy between the Anaconda installer and GNOME Initial Setup for configuring a freshly-installed Fedora Workstation system.
- Moving ahead with plans to modularize the Anaconda installer.
- The Golang 1.10 upgrade will happen for Fedora 28.
- Modernizing Kerberos in Python by replacing usage of python-krbV/PyKerberos with Python-GSSAPI.
- Removal of Sun RPC interfaces from Glibc.
- Promoting AArch64 to a primary server architecture.
- Moving to the GNU MPFR 4.0 library release for multi-precision floating-point computations.
- Upgrading to the Binutils 2.29.1 point release and separately also GNU C Library 2.27.
- The initial steps on Fedora's revised modularity concept.
- Upgrading to Boost 1.66 as the latest release for these popular C++ libraries.
- Shipping Fedora 28 with the GCC 8 toolchain.
- Better support around IBus Unicode typing.
- OpenLDAP improvements.
- Replacing glibc's libcrypt with libxcrypt on Fedora.
The complete list of agreed upon Fedora 28 changes at this week's FESCo meeting can be found via the Fedora devel list.
Features granted approval this week included:
- Avoiding /usr/bin/python in RPM builds in order to be more specific about Python2 or Python3 dependence.
- Reducing the redundancy between the Anaconda installer and GNOME Initial Setup for configuring a freshly-installed Fedora Workstation system.
- Moving ahead with plans to modularize the Anaconda installer.
- The Golang 1.10 upgrade will happen for Fedora 28.
- Modernizing Kerberos in Python by replacing usage of python-krbV/PyKerberos with Python-GSSAPI.
- Removal of Sun RPC interfaces from Glibc.
- Promoting AArch64 to a primary server architecture.
- Moving to the GNU MPFR 4.0 library release for multi-precision floating-point computations.
- Upgrading to the Binutils 2.29.1 point release and separately also GNU C Library 2.27.
- The initial steps on Fedora's revised modularity concept.
- Upgrading to Boost 1.66 as the latest release for these popular C++ libraries.
- Shipping Fedora 28 with the GCC 8 toolchain.
- Better support around IBus Unicode typing.
- OpenLDAP improvements.
- Replacing glibc's libcrypt with libxcrypt on Fedora.
The complete list of agreed upon Fedora 28 changes at this week's FESCo meeting can be found via the Fedora devel list.
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