Fedora 18

Release Notes

Release Notes for Fedora 18

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Abstract

This document provides the release notes for Fedora 18. It describes major changes offered in the Spherical Cow as compared to Fedora 17. For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical Notes.

1. Welcome to Fedora 18

1.1. Welcome to Fedora

You can help the Fedora Project community continue to improve Fedora if you file bug reports and enhancement requests. Refer to Bugs And Feature Requests, on the Fedora wiki, for more information about bug and feature reporting. Thank you for your participation.

To find out more general information about Fedora, refer to the following pages, on the Fedora wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/):

1.1.1. Need Help?

There are a number of places you can get assistance should you run into problems.

If you run into a problem and would like some assistance, go to http://ask.fedoraproject.org. Many answers are already there, but if you don't find yours, you can simply post a new question. This has the advantage that anyone else with the same problem can find the answer, too.

You may also find assistance on the #fedora channel on the IRC net irc.freenode.net. Keep in mind that the channel is populated by volunteers wanting to help, but folks knowledgable about a specific topic might not always be available.

1.2. Overview

As always, Fedora continues to develop (RedHat contributions) and integrate the latest free and open source software (Fedora 18 Features). The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora.

For more details about the features that are included in Fedora 18 refer to the individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList.

1.3. Feedback

Thank you for taking the time to provide your comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the Fedora community; this helps improve the state of Fedora, Linux, and free software worldwide.

1.3.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software

To provide feedback on Fedora software or other system elements, please refer to Bugs And Feature Requests. A list of commonly reported bugs and known issues for this release is available from Common F18 bugs, on the wiki.

1.3.2. Providing Feedback on Release Notes

If you feel these release notes could be improved in any way, you can provide your feedback directly to the beat writers. There are several ways to provide feedback, in order of preference:

If you have a Fedora account, edit content directly at Docs-Beats page on the wiki.
Fill out a bug request using this template - This link is ONLY for feedback on the release notes themselves. Refer to the admonition above for details.
E-mail the Release-Note mailing list at relnotes@fedoraproject.org

1.4. Release Notes Directory Change

Release Notes to Move

Beginning with this release, the Fedora Release Notes have a new location.

Traditionally, the Release Notes have been installed in /usr/share/doc/HTML/fedora-release-notes/. Over time, most of the documentation stored in the /usr/share/doc/HTML/ directory tree have moved out of that tree to application_specific directories.

For most users, this change will be invisible because the Release Notes are viewed by selecting the menu choice. However, some users go directly to the file, or may have their own internal links. For these users, changing the location without warning before the release could be a problem, so the Release Notes are not being moved this release.

Beginning with Fedora 18, the Release Notes are stored in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-notes-18.0/.

2. Changes in Fedora for System Administrators

2.1. Kernel

Fedora 18 features the 3.6.0 kernel.

2.2. Installation

2.2.1. Dual booting with Windows 8

Windows 8 `Fast Restart`

Using the fast restart feature of Windows 8 and rebooting into Fedora may lead to data loss. Files written to the Windows partition by Fedora may be deleted when rebooting into Windows 8. This may be avoided by disabling the fast restart feature in Windows 8.

The ntfs-3g driver used by Fedora 18 for NTFS filesystems will attempt to detect the dangerous situation and prevent mounting to avoid data loss. This is less true of previous Fedora releases, and fast restart should still be disabled to ensure proper function and prevent data loss.

2.2.2. New Installer User Interface

The anaconda installer has been totally redesigned for Fedora 18. Users will now have more flexibility in how they configure their installation. Some tasks will run in the background to speed the installation process. Consult the Fedora 18 Installation Guide at https://docs.fedoraproject.org for more information.

2.2.3. Changed package group names

For those doing kickstart installs, many package group names have changed in Fedora 18. In particular, the Base group has been renamed to Standard. In order to install this group, it must be explicitly specified in the kickstart file.

2.2.4. `--nobase`

The --nobase flag used to supress the installation of the Base package group has been deprecated.

2.2.5. Upgrade with fedUP

2.2.5.1. What is fedUP ?

Fedup is a new tool for upgrading Fedora installations that is replacing preupgrade and the DVD methods of upgrading that have been used in previous Fedora releases. It utilizes systemd for much of the upgrade functionality and will eventually be able to source packages from a DVD and use the regular install repos instead of needing a specially created side repo.

2.2.5.2. Doing an Upgrade

This is the current process for doing an upgrade from F17 to F18 using fedup. This documentation will change over time as the process evolves.

sudo or root

The commands listed below use sudo but could also be run as root

It is possible to install fedup on an Fedora 17 system using yum:

yum install fedup

2.2.5.3. Using fedUP

Using the fedup-cli command, prepare the upgrade using the following command:

Using the correct URL

To use the public Fedora resources to upgrade to Fedora 18 Beta, replace [insert-arch-here] below with the arch that you're upgrading - either x86_64 or i386. The final release should not require --instrepo to be explicitly declared.

sudo fedup-cli --network 18 --debuglog fedupdebug.log --instrepo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/18-Beta/Fedora/[insert-arch-here]/os/

At this point, the Fedora 17 system is ready for upgrade.

2.2.5.4. Running the Upgrade

Once you reboot, there will be a 'System Upgrade' boot option at the grub prompt. Note that it is not the default and will need to be selected manually in order for the upgrade process to continue. Adding plymouth.splash=fedup to boot arguments for the Beta will show a graphical progress screen during upgrade. This will be the default for the final release. If all goes as it should, you might see a few boot messages but will eventually see the fedup plymouth theme.

Go get some coffee

The upgrade process usually takes a while (anywhere from 45-90 minutes, depending on the system), be patient and wait for it to finish. The system will boot into the new version of Fedora when the upgrade is complete.

2.2.5.5. Enabling the Upgrade Shell

In order to enable the Upgrade debug shell, select the System Upgrade boot option, and append rd.upgrade.debugshell to the end of the kernel boot arguments.

Advanced logging during upgrade

In addition to the debug shell, these kernel boot parameters can be useful for debugging :

rd.debug systemd.log_target=console systemd.jounald.forward_to_console=1 systemd.log_level=debug console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8

You can access the debug shell by switching to VT2 (ctl-alt-F2). Note that you won't be able to access the debug shell until after the upgrade process has started, so you'll want to wait a minute or two before switching.

Once you've switched to VT2, you should see the dracut prompt:

dracut#

In order to get into the actual upgrade debug shell, you may need to exit the currently running shell (another will start up right afterwards) so that you can access all the binaries present in the initramfs.

exit

To view the upgrade progress, use:

cat /sysroot/var/log/upgrade.out

If you want to see the system logs, use journalctl

journalctl -a -o cat

2.3. Boot

2.3.1. Offline System Updates

PackageKit and systemd join forces to provide a stable offline environment for applying critical system updates. By booting into a special target, these updates can be applied without causing conflicts in a running system.

2.3.2. Some `/etc/sysconfig` files have been depricated

A number of files in /etc/sysconfig have been depricated. These changes should be transparent to most applications.

2.3.2.1. `/etc/sysconfig/clock` replaced by `/etc/localtime`

The time zone is now configured by creating an appropriate /etc/localtime symlink to the relevant timezone.

To list available timezone run the following command:

timedatectl list-timezone

To set timezone run the following command:

timedatectl set-timezone Atlantic/Reykjavik

Systemd uses UTC for the hardware clock by default, but some systems are configured for local time. Users can verify that setting in their BIOS. To set the system clock directly run this command, using the current time and date:

set-time "2012-10-27 01:02:03"

To set the clock to use local time instead of UTC, use the command

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1

For more informatino on how systemd deals with time, see man timedatectl and man localtime.

2.3.2.2. `/etc/sysconfig/i18n` has been replaced by `/etc/locale.conf`

Environment variables and configuration directives now belong in /etc/locale.conf. The locale settings configured here are system wide and inherited by every service or user, unless overridden or unset by individual programs or users. For more information, see man locale.conf

2.3.2.3. `/etc/sysconfig/keyboard` has been change to `/etc/vconsole.conf`

The virtual console configuration is now in /etc/vconsole.conf

2.3.2.4. Hostname configuration moved from `/etc/sysconfig/network` to `/etc/hostname`

There are now three seperate classes of hostnames in use on a given system. The pretty hostname is the high level hostname often presented to users by their desktop environment or shell. The static hostname is used by the kernel at boot, and is usually the system's fully qualified domain name. A system may also have a transient hostname assigned by a dhcp server. hostnamectl is provided for administering these hostnames:

Command	Function
`hostnamectl set-hostname fedorasystem --pretty`	Set pretty hostname.
`hostnamectl set-hostname fedorasystem.example.org --static`	Set static hostname.
`hostnamectl set-hostname fedora-dhcp-client.example.org --transient`	Set transient hostname.
`hostnamectl set-hostname fedorasystem.example.org`	Without arguments, hostnamectl will apply to all hostname types.
`hostnamectl status`	Show current hostname settings

For more information on hostnames, see man hostname and man hostnamectl

2.4. Security

2.4.1. Active Directory made easy

Fedora can be used on an Active Directory domain (or other Kerberos realms, such as IPA) out of the box. It should be easy to configure domain logins on a Fedora machine, and then it should be intuitive and uneventful to login with those credentials.

These improvements will also increase reliability and ease usage for any Kerberos realm, not just Active Directory. Improvement has been made in much of the login and authentication stack, which now includes realmd and adcli.

The GNOME User Accounts Settings GUI features support for enterprise logins.

With Fedora 18 it is possible to create a trust relationship between an IPA and an Active Directory domain which would allow users from one domain to access resources of the other domain. The FreeIPA project has documented the feature at http://freeipa.org/page/IPAv3_testing_AD_trust.

2.4.2. Secure Boot

UEFI Secure Boot will be supported in Fedora 18. This will allow Fedora to boot on systems that have Secure Boot enabled. Tools are available for administrators to create custom certificates to sign local changes to GRUB or the kernel.

2.4.3. rngd

Random number generation is improved by enabling rngd by default.

2.4.4. Secure Containers

Using SELinux and virt-sandbox, services can be run in secure sandboxes, even as root. The virt-sandbox-service package will create mount points and a libvirt container.

2.4.5. SELinux boolean renaming

In order to clarify the purpose of SELinux booleans, all settings that begin with allow will be renamed to reflect their domain. Existing policy booleans will continue to be supported.

2.4.6. SELinux Systemd Access Control

Support has been added to systemd to check unit files against SELinux settings before allowing a process to start or stop the service.

2.4.7. System calls restricted

The libseccomp library is now available, which provides applications with an easy way to reduce the potential damage of exploits by using kernel syscall filters. Virtual machines benefit from this as QEMU/KVM now uses libseccomp.

2.4.8. usermode

usermode, a wrapper to provide superuser privileges to unprivileged users, is being phased out in favor of polkit.

2.4.9. Kerberos credentials moved and improved

Fedora 18 changes the standard location of Kerberos credential caches to /run/user/$UID in order to increase security and simplify locating the caches for NFSv4. Fedora's Kerberos support will now allow users to maintain credentials for multiple identities and for the GSSAPI client code to automatically select credentials based on the target service and hostname.

2.4.10. `halt`, `poweroff`, and `reboot` Configuration Moved

The ability to use halt(8), poweroff(8) and reboot(8) commands by unprivileged users is now controlled using polkit. See the actions in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy. The PAM configuration files in /etc/pam.d/{halt,poweroff,reboot} are no longer used and their content, if any, is ignored.

2.5. File Systems

2.5.1. FedFS

Fedora 18 adds FedFS, a mechanism to provide a coherent namespace across multiple file servers.

The code provided in this package is a technology preview. The intent is to provide a full and supported Linux FedFS client and server implementation based on this code. Programming and user interfaces may change significantly for the next few releases.

The components in this package are used for managing file system referrals in order to create a global network file system namespace. Installable components include:

An automounter program map to manage the FedFS domain namespace on FedFS enabled clients.
A mount command to mount parts of a FedFS domain namespace.
A plug-in library that allows programs outside of FedFS to resolve junctions on local file systems.
An ONC RPC service daemon that runs on file servers enabling the management by remote FedFS ADMIN clients of FedFS junctions.
A tool called nfsref to manage local junctions without requiring fedfsd.
A set of command-line clients that can access fedfsd instances on remote file servers.
A set of command-line clients that can manage FedFS entries on an LDAP server acting as a FedFS NSDB.
A tool to manage NSDB connection parameters on the local host.
An LDIF format schema to enable an LDAP server to support FedFS objects.

For more information refer to the FedFS project page and the FedFS Documentation page.

2.5.2. /tmp on tmpfs

By default, /tmp on Fedora 18 will be on a tempfs. Storage of large temporary files should be done in /var/tmp. This will reduce the I/O generated on disks, increase SSD lifetime, save power, and improve performance of the /tmp filesystem.

2.6. Virtualization

2.6.1. Live Snapshotting of Virtual Machines

The virtualization stack in Fedora has provided the ability to take "snapshots" of a virtual machine for many releases. These functions have however always required that the virtual machine be paused or stopped while the storage snapshot was created. Recent updates included in Fedora 17 allowed for qemu and libvirt to create snapshots of a virtual machine without requiring any downtime.

Live snapshot creation now works even for virtual machines using disk images stored in RAW format. In these cases libvirt creates snapshots using external QCOW2 files - transparently switching the virtual machine to run on the new external image(s) once created.

2.6.2. KVM supports hibernating and suspending guests

Suspend and hibernate now works from within KVM virtual machines. These can also be invoked on virtual machines from the host using virsh.

2.6.3. Manage Virtualized Environments with oVirt 3.1

Fedora 17 included the packages required to support a minimal installation of the oVirt virtualization management platform. This initial offering has been significantly expanded in Fedora 18. In addition to the existing functionality, it is now possible to use a Fedora installation as a fully fledged oVirt "Engine" - providing a graphical management console for your virtualized environments.

Project homepage: http://ovirt.org.

2.6.3.1. oVirt `Engine` Installation

The oVirt Engine provides a browser accessible management console for creating, provisioning, and using virtual machines. It also provides facilities for managing the networking and storage needs of the virtualized environment. For users who want to experience the management console but do not have a spare machine to act as a virtualization host an 'all in one' plugin is provided. The 'all in one' plugin allows a system to act as both the oVirt Engine and as a virtualization host.

To install the oVirt Engine:

Log in to the Fedora system on which you wish to host oVirt Engine as the root user.
Install the ovirt-engine package with yum install ovirt-engine.
Run the engine-setup script and follow the prompts to complete installation of oVirt Engine.
Once the Engine has been installed successfully the script will provide instructions for accessing the web Administration Portal.

2.6.3.2. Virtualization Host Installation

For each system you wish to use as a virtualization host:

Install Fedora 18. A minimal installation is sufficient. Ensure that you set password for the root user and that SSH is enabled.
Log in to your oVirt Engine installation using your web browser.
Select Add from the Hosts tab.
Enter a name for the Fedora host.
Provide the hostname or IP address and root password for the Fedora host
Click OK.

There will be a short delay as your host downloads and installs required packages. Your Fedora host will then be added to the environment.

2.6.3.3. Additional Information

A Quick Start Guide for oVirt 3.1 is available at http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Quick_Start_Guide.

2.7. Web Servers

2.7.1. httpd

The Apache httpd package has been upgraded to version 2.4.3-1, which contains numerous security and performance fixes.

2.7.2. lighttpd

The lighttpd package has been upgraded to version 1.4.32-2.

2.8. Cloud

2.8.1. Eucalpytus

eucalyptus allows the creation of private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds that are compatible with Amazon Web Services.

2.8.2. OpenShift Origin

OpenShift Origin brings Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) support to Fedora 18.

2.8.3. OpenStack

Fedora 18 includes the latest version of the OpenStack IaaS cloud service, codenamed Folsom.

2.8.3.1. Heat

Heat was added to provide an AWS CloudFormation API for OpenStack. Heat provides a standardized method for OpenStack users to launch multiple applications in an OpenStack cloud from a template file describing the cloud application. Administrators are encouraged to read the project's getting started guide or the browse their Wiki.

2.9. Database Servers

Riak, a scalable and reliable noSQL data store written in Erlang, is available in Fedora 18.

2.10. File Servers

2.10.1. vsftpd

Fedora 18 includes the newest vsftpd release, version 3.0, which includes the following changes:

A new highly restrictive seccomp filter sandbox.
A fix for passive mode connections under high loads.
A few timeout fixes, particularly with SSL.
Make listen mode the default.

2.10.2. NFSometer

NFSometer is a performance measurement framework for running workloads and reporting results across NFS protocol versions, NFS options and Linux NFS client implementations. More detailed information can be found at http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFSometer

2.10.3. StorageManagement

Fedora 18 provides a number of libraries enabling users to programmatically manage their storage, namely libstoragemgmt and targetd. Documentation is included in the packaged manpages and READMEs.

2.10.4. ssm: System Storage Manager

Fedora 18 includes ssm, a tool to ease common storage management tasks by providing a unified command line experience. man ssm describes the new functionality provided by the utility.

2.11. Samba

Fedora 18 includes Samba4, which provides improved cross-platform file server support. The release supports the new SMB2.2 and SMB3 protocols and includes an LSA Service Daemon for FreeIPA trust relationship support. Administrators leaning on python will be pleased with the new Samba4 scripting interface, which allows Python programs access to Samba internals.

2.12. System Daemons

2.12.1. SysVinit to systemd

Additional SystemV init scripts are migrated to systemd unit files to improve readability and boot times.

2.12.2. Expanding the admin toolkit with procps-ng

Fedora 18 brings the migration of legacy procps tools to procps-ng. This provides better maintainability, expanded functionality, and better compatibility with scripts run on other distributions. Users should consult the documentation in /usr/share/doc/procps-* for more information.

2.13. Server Configuration Tools

2.13.1. dnf greets Fedora

dnf is a fork of the venerable yum package manager. It is build on hawkey, a library allowing clients to query and resolve dependencies of RPM packages based on the current state of RPMDB and yum repositories.

dnf in Fedora 18 is a technical preview, and is installed alongside yum. It should not yet be used on critical production machines, but early adopters are promised a more efficient, faster package management utility.

2.13.2. systemctl assumes it works with services

systemctl, the utility used to administer services and other systemd targets, will now assume that it is working with a service. Administrators will no longer have to append .service to the name of the daemon they are administering. For example, systemctl restart dhcpd will now just work, but previous releases required systemctl restart dhcpd.service.

2.13.3. Terminals get more colorful

Fedora now features supporting terminal emulators using 256 colors by default. With new environment variables, applications such as gnome-terminal, konsole, and screen will automatically be enabled with 256 color support. Other applications can display 256 colors but must be configured. While still disabled by default, users can enable color terminals for connecting remote systems with the environment variable SEND_256_COLORS_TO_REMOTE. These configurations can be found in /etc/profile.d/256color.sh.

2.13.4. Remote management gets better with Agent-Free Systems Management

On systems that contain IPMI compliant Service Processors, it is now possible to have closer integration of OS and Service Processor without the need for 3rd party software. This will enable better management of the system remotely.

2.13.5. `CIM` management tools improved

Administrators managing large numbers of systems get a running start with Fedora 18's improvements on WEBM and CIM offerings.

Users can build applications using new and enhanced CPMI providers to monitor and administer network interfaces, storage objects, services, power state, users, and software packages. They can also monitor system load, usage, and more. The toolkit also includes yawn, a web based browser for navigating and working within the CIM object model.

These features ease the task of managing large numbers of systems, laying the foundation for robust management infrastructure. Experienced users and system administrators are invited to review the sample python scripts and documentation provided with the sblim-cmpi-* or openlmi-* packages.

2.14. Xorg

2.14.1. Server Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) Drivers

Many servers ship with only basic GPU hardware. Despite the basic nature of such hardware a fully fledged X.org driver has historically still been required to manage it. Fedora 18 introduces Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) drivers which provide enhanced support for the GPUs commonly found in servers. Users of these GPUs are now able to utilize the additional features provided by KMS drivers, including enhanced graphics in virtual consoles. Chipsets supported by these new KMS drivers include AST and MGA based ServerEngines.

2.14.2. GPU Hot Plug Support

The X.org server has been rewritten to support 'hot' plugging and unplugging of GPUs. Specifically, this allows Fedora to provide better support for USB connected graphics devices exposed by many modern systems and laptop docking stations. The user is no longer required to restart the X.org server for such devices to be recognised.

3. Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users

3.1. Desktop

3.1.1. General

3.1.1.1. `mdns` available by default

When installing the "Graphical Desktop" software selection, an MDNS client is included. This allows out of the box discovery of devices on the local network. No private information is published via MDNS by default.

3.1.1.2. systemd handles display managers

Switching display managers is no longer done by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop. Instead use systemctl enable --force displaymanager.service to enable the installed display manager of your choice.

3.1.2. Cinnamon

Fedora users now have the option of using Cinnamon, an advanced desktop environment based on GNOME3. Cinnamon takes advantage of advanced features provided by the GNOME backend while providing users with a more traditional, accessible desktop experience.

3.1.3. GNOME

Fedora 18 includes the newest GNOME release, version 3.6. You will notice these changes:

More Accessible User Interface: Previous GNOME3 releases add accessibility features, such as the screen reader and on-screen keyboard. GNOME 3.6 enables these features by default. To use accessibility features, simply choose the "Universal Access" icon from the GNOME Shell. GNOME 3.6 also adds brightness, contrast, and inversion capabilities to Magnifier
Better Integration with Distributed ("Cloud-Based") Document Systems: The GNOME Documents application for file management already integrates with Google Docs. GNOME 3.6 adds support for Microsoft SkyDrive, for users with a Windows Live account.
Support for ActiveSync Accounts: You can use the GNOME online accounts feature to connect your desktop with your online accounts. GNOME already includes a connector for Google™ accounts, and GNOME 3.6 adds a connector for ActiveSync (or Microsoft Exchange) accounts.
Improved Text Shaping: GNOME 3.6 uses an improved text shaping engine. You will notice higher-quality text rendering and memory savings. The new text shaping engine allows further improvements in future GNOME versions.
More Efficient Input Source Selection: GNOME 3.6 uses only the IBus input method framework. You can choose an input device (like a keyboard) and the key layout, and all GNOME applications will use these settings.
Initial Setup from GNOME: When you acquire a new computer or install a new operating system, GNOME 3.6 will help you with the following important tasks:
- Connect to a network
- Make a user account
- Set your time zone and location
- Integrate with online accounts
- Learn basic information about GNOME Shell
Improved Notification System: GNOME 3.0 included a new way for applications to send notifications to users, called Message Tray. GNOME 3.6 enhances the Message Tray to help users remain focused and know whether notifications are urgent. For more information, refer to the GNOME documentation.
Easier Printer Management: GNOME 3.6 includes improvements to the Printer panel in GNOME Control Center. You can more easily find and configure local and network printers, choose drivers, and set default options.
More Useful Lock Screen: When you "lock" your desktop or return from the "Sleep" state, the lock screen in GNOME 3.6 offers more information and new abilities:
- See the date and time
- Control music and media players, and adjust the volume level
- View whether you have new message and notifications
- Change basic network connection settings
- Choose how to unlock your desktop
Integrated Enterprise Login Information: Users connected to large ("enterprise") networks can view and potentially modify user account settings in the GNOME 3.6 Control Center. This feature integrates the Fedora 18 realmd feature so you can view and potentially manage Active Directory deployments.

3.1.4. KDE Software Compilation

Fedora 18 features KDE 4.9, with many new features and improved stability and performance. The KDE Project Quality team has taken the initiative to ensure that this release is the best one yet. The KDE release notes reveal a number of exiting changes:

3.1.4.1. Platform

The KDE Platform release includes bugfixes, other quality improvements, networking, and preparation for Frameworks 5.

3.1.4.2. Plasma Workspace

Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include substantial improvements to the Dolphin File Manager, Konsole X Terminal Emulator, Activities, and the KWin Window Manager.

Dolphin File Manager: The powerful file manager Dolphin now includes back and forward buttons and in-line file renaming is back. Dolphin can show metadata such as ratings, tags, image and file sizes, author, date, and more as well as grouping and sorting by metadata properties. The new Mercurial plugin handles this versioning system in the same convenient way git, SVN and CVS are supported, so users can do pulls, pushes and commits right from the file manager. The Dolphin user interface has seen several smaller improvements, including a better Places panel, improved search support and synchronization with the terminal location.
Konsole X Terminal Emulator: The workhorse Konsole now has the ability to search for a text selection using KDE Web Shortcuts. It offers the Change Directory To context option when a folder is dropped on the Konsole window. Users have more control for organizing terminal windows by detaching tabs and dragging them to create a new window with just that tab. Existing tabs can be cloned into new ones with the same profile. Visibility of the menu and tab bars can be controlled when starting Konsole. For those handy with scripting, tab titles can be changed through an escape sequence.
KWin Window manager: The KDE Window Manager, KWin has seen a lot of work. Improvements include subtle changes like raising windows during window switching and help for Window Specific Settings, as well as more visible changes such as an improved KCM for box switching and better performance with Wobbly Windows. There are changes to make KWin deal better with Activities, including the addition of Activity related window rules. There has been a general focus on improving KWin quality and performance.
Activities: Activities are now integrated more thoroughly throughout the Workspaces. Files can be linked to Activities in Dolphin, Konqueror and Folder View. Folder View can also show only those files related to an Activity on the desktop or in a panel. An Activity KIO is new, and encryption for private activities is now possible.
Workspaces introduce MPRIS2 support, with KMix having the ability to handle streams and a Plasma data engine for handling this music player control protocol. These changes tie in with MPRIS2 support in Juk and Dragon, the KDE music and video players. There are many smaller changes in Workspaces, including several QML ports. The improved Plasma miniplayer includes a track properties dialog and better filtering. The Kickoff menu can now be used with only a keyboard. The Network Management plasmoid has seen layout and usability work. The Public Transport widget has also seen considerable changes.

3.1.4.3. Applications

Kontact Suite: The world’s most complete PIM suite Kontact received many bugfixes and performance improvements.
KDE Education: KDE-Edu introduces Pairs, a new memory game. Rocs, the graph theory application for students and teachers, gained a number of improvements. Algorithms can now be executed step-wise, the undo and cancel-construction system works better, and overlay graphs are now supported. Kstars has improved sorting by meridian transit time / observation time and better Digital Sky Survey image retrieval. Marble received speed optimizations and threading support, and its user interface has been enhanced. Marble routing extensions now include OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine), support for bicycle and pedestrian routing, and an offline data model to manage offline routing and offline search data. Marble can now show positions of aircraft in the FlightGear simulator.
KDE Games: KDE Games have been upgraded. There has been a lot of polish to Kajongg, the KDE Mahjongg game, including tooltip playing hints, improved robot AI and chat if players are on the same server (kajongg.org now has one!). KGoldrunner has a number of new levels (a contribution by Gabriel Miltschitzky) and KPatience retains game history upon saving. KSudoku has seen small improvements such as better hints, as well as seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes and three new 3-D shapes.

3.1.5. MATE

This is the initial release of MATE Desktop for Fedora 18. It brings back a classic, intuitive, and easy to use desktop that users have been long requesting. Support for MATE> in Fedora is provided in #fedora-mate or #mate on irc.freenode.net or through the Fedora bugzilla.

3.1.6. Xfce

Fedora 18 sees the introduction of Xfce 4.10. This new release remains true to the goal of providing a fast, lightweight yet user-friendly desktop environment and was mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Highlights of this release are:

New application finder: a new application finder that has been completely rewritten and combines the functionality of the old xfce4-appfinder and xfrun4
Improved panel: the panel now has an alternative vertical display mode (a deskbar). What's more, panel plugins can be arranged in multiple rows, whicsh is particularly useful in the deskbar mode;
Improved functionality: a new MIME type editor that allows you to easily change applications used for opening different file types. Extended functionality for the settings editor and the mouse and touchpad settings dialog which now supports tablets in a much better way;
Improved desktop handling: it is now possible to launch applications and open files on the desktop with a single click of the mouse. In addition, the 4.10 desktop can display thumbnails and automatically advance through the wallpaper list
Tiling windows: the window manager can be configured to tile windows when dragging them to the screen edges. The tab window (Alt+Tab) supports more flexible theming and cursor key navigation;
Better choice of default applications: the Xfce group of packages and the Xfce spin now feature the lightdm display manager and Yum Extender package manager conforming with the desktop environment's goals.

An online tour of the upstream changes in Xfce 4.10 can be viewed here.

3.1.7. Sugar

Educational users and developers in the space alike can enjoy the Sugar Learning Environment "Sucrose" version 0.98 from Fedora 18.

3.1.7.1. The Sugar Experience

Touching Sugar: The newest version of Sugar has excellent support for touchscreens, providing touch friendly user interfaces and taking advantage of improved touch support in X.
Changing Sort: Users will notice that icons in the home view are now in alphabetical order.
Cooking with Sugar:Developers building activities for Sugar will discover an updated toolkit based on GTK3.

3.2. Productivity

The par package is new to Fedora. par is a filter to reformat paragraphs. Command line options allow precise control of the output format.

3.3. Networking

3.3.1. Consistent network device naming

Fedora 18 continues the previous releases' use of biosdevname to set network device names in a deterministic manner. Ethernet ports embedded on server motherboards will be named emport_number, while ports on PCI cards will be named pslot_numberpport_number, corresponding to the chassis labels. This feature may be disabled by passing biosdevname=0 on the kernel command line, in which case, behavior will revert to using ethX names.

3.3.2. Better network security with firewalld

The firewall daemon firewalld will be the default firewall solution for Fedora 18, replacing iptables. Using firewalld will allow for application of policy changes without reloading, allowing connection states to stay unbroken when rules are changed.

A D-BUS interface allows approved applications to communicate thier status and present complex or temporary needs to the firewall without requiring hand configuration by an administrator. This improves support for dynamic environments such as libvirtd, which previously had to be restarted when iptables rules were changed.

Manual administration can be done with firewall-cmd. Documentation on firewalld can be found in the included manpages: firewall-cmd(1), firewalld(1), firewalld.conf(5), firewalld.icmptype(5), firewalld.service(5), firewalld.zone(5).

3.3.3. Team Driver improves NIC bonding

Fedora 18 includes Team Driver which facilitates grouping of multiple network interfaces together so they act like a single network interface. This extends teaming possibilities provided by the existing bonding driver. It also provides a userspace driven, modular alternative to the existing bonding driver. Usage information can be found in the included manpages: teamd.conf(5), teamd(8), and teamdctl(8).

3.3.4. Bring your own Hotspot

NetworkManager now supports an enhanced Hotspot or Internet Connection Sharing mode for Wi-Fi, which enables a much smoother connection sharing experience and is better supported by hardware. This mode is automatically enabled only for new connections to ensure existing configurations are unchanged.

3.4. Internationalization

3.4.1. Input Methods

$HOME/.xinputrc has been moved to $HOME/.config/imsettings/xinputrc.

$HOME/.imsettings.log has been moved to $HOME/.cache/imsettings/log.

The default engine for Simplified Chinese has been changed to ibus-libpinyin (see Features/ibus-libpinyin for more details).

On the GNOME Desktop, im-chooser is now deprecated except in fallback mode and with non-ibus input methods, since GNOME 3.6 supports ibus as the default input method system. Users should now use gnome-control-center to setup their input methods:

click on the user menu at the upper right corner of the panel.
select System Settings from the menu.
click on the Region & Language icon.
open the Input Sources tab.
click on + icon to add input sources.
choose one or more input sources you want to add.

If you can't find an input source you are looking for in the list, try running the following command in a terminal and restart the desktop:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true

There may be no shortcut key to turn the input method on and off by default. you can enable it with the following steps:

click the shortcut settings link in the Input Sources tab on System Settings or click the Keyboard icon at the top and the Shortcuts tab, the Typing section at the left pane.
click on the Switch to next source, press Control + space.

If no input source is configured by default for your native language, you can add it using the above steps as a workaround. Here is a table of input sources corresponding to the input method engines:

Input source name	Input method engine
Chinese (Chewing)	ibus-chewing
Chinese (Intelligent Pinyin)	ibus-libpinyin
Japanese (Anthy)	ibus-anthy
Korean (Korean)	ibus-hangul
* (inscript (m17n))	ibus-m17n
* (itrans (m17n))	ibus-m17n
* (phonetic (m17n))	ibus-m17n

ibus-libpinyin provides a new input frontend for Simplified Chinese providing an intelligent pinyin input method that speeds up the user input of Chinese characters. It can replace ibus-pinyin which is also still available in Fedora.

ibus-typing-booster is a predictive input method for the ibus platform. It predicts complete words based on partial input. One can then simply select the desired word from a list of suggestions and improve one's typing speed and spelling. ibus-typing-booster currently supports the following Asian and European languages:

Assamese, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
English, Danish, French

If you want to use non-ibus input method such as fcitx and uim etc., remove the ibus package from the system first and restart the desktop. im-chooser will get back to work on even GNOME.

3.4.2. Fonts

fonts-tweak-tool now supports the language ordering to decide what language has precedence to display the text, and the font properties to change the sub-pixel rendering and hinting configuration per fonts.

Liberation fonts have been rebased to a fork of Google Croscore fonts with OFL license, better coverage, and some small enhancements.

The Paktype fonts have been updated with enhancements for better coverage.

New fonts lohit-tamil-classical-fonts for Tamil and kalapi-fonts for Gujarati have been added.

madan-fonts for Nepali, navilu-fonts and gubbi-fonts for Kannada now support the minimum required characters as per fontconfig file for their respective languages.

$HOME/.fonts.conf is deprecated. Users are encouraged to move it to $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.

$HOME/.fonts.conf.d is deprecated. Users are encouraged to move it to $HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d

All the disabled fontconfig config files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail have been moved to /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail. If you have any local symbolic links from the old location, please update them.

4. Changes in Fedora for Developers

4.1. Development

4.1.1. Perl

4.1.1.1. Perl updated to 5.16

Perl 5.16 introduces a number of significant changes:

4.1.1.1.1. New Features

Unicode 6.1
More consistent eval controlled with unicode_eval and evalbytes feature
2- and 3-argument substr called in left-value context is evaluted even after changing original string
New T_*REF_REFCOUNT_FIXED XS typemap fixing reference counter decremetion
New is_utf8_char_buf XS-callable function replaces broken is_utf8_char function
$$ variable is writable
Improved debugger: tracing mode can be restricted to certain level, breakpoints can be disabled temporarily, breakpoints can be set by file name
sort subroutines can be autoloaded
$[ variable is provided by arybase module
mmaped PerlIO layer is now a separate module PerlIO::mmap

4.1.1.1.2. Deprecated Features

Accessing Unicode database files directly is deprecated now; use Unicode::UCD instead
Version::Requirements is deprecated in favor of CPAN::Meta::Requirements

4.1.1.1.3. Incompatible Changes

Special blocks (e.g. BEGIN) are called in void context
Unoverloaded stringification of regular expression does not return the expression literal
T_DATAUNIT and T_CALLBACK XS typemaps removed
User defined case-changing has been removed in favor of Unicode::Casing
XSUB C functions are static now and they are not exported from their object files
Read-only references cannot be weaken
$$, $<, $>, $(, and $) do not cache their value
Devel::DProf, Shell have been removed from Perl core
perl4 libraries removed: abbrev.pl, assert.pl, bigfloat.pl, bigint.pl, bigrat.pl, cacheout.pl, complete.pl, ctime.pl, dotsh.pl, exceptions.pl, fastcwd.pl, flush.pl, getcwd.pl, getopt.pl, getopts.pl, hostname.pl, importenv.pl, lib/find{,depth}.pl, look.pl, newgetopt.pl, open2.pl, open3.pl, pwd.pl, hellwords.pl, stat.pl, tainted.pl, termcap.pl, timelocal.pl

4.1.1.2. PCRE Libraries updated to 8.30

Fedora 18 will provide PCRE ( Perl-Compatible Regular Expression ) libraries of version 8.30 or newer . This brings UTF-16 support and API changes, which are documented by the changelog and NEWS provided in /usr/share/doc/pcre*

4.1.2. Python updated to 3.3

The system Python 3 stack has been upgraded to 3.3 (the system Python 2 stack remains at 2.7 ), bringing in hundreds of fixes and tweaks; for a list of changes see http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html

4.1.3. Ruby on Rails framework updated

Fedora 18 will provide Ruby on Rails 3.2, the latest version of the Ruby on Rails framework. Developers are able to use the latest Ruby on Rails features, which are documented in the project's release notes at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_2_release_notes.html and http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html

4.1.4. Clojure joined by Leiningen and tools

Fedora 18 now ships a more complete Clojure programming stack, including the build tool Leiningen. This will make it easier to package other Clojure libraries in the future.

4.2. Development Tools

4.2.1. boost gets up to speed

Fedora 18 will include Boost version 1.50 . The popular collection of C libraries is updated to the newest available version with each Fedora release.

4.2.2. Systemtap 2.0

Systemtap 2.0 includes a new prototype backend, which uses DynInst to instrument a user's own binaries at runtime. This optional alternative backend does not use kernel modules, and does not require root privileges, but is restricted with respect to the kinds of probes and other constructs that a script may use.

4.2.3. Tracing with LTTng

Developers looking to improve their applications will find that Fedora 18's lttng-tools and ltt-ust packages provide fast and efficient tracing. The tracer allows easy correlation of userspace and kernel traces, if the latter is available. Boasting a nanosecond-precision timestamp, LTTng is especially useful when searching for elusive latencies. Get started with the project's documentation at http://lttng.org/quickstart

4.2.4. Improved Crash reports

4.2.4.1. `Debuginfo` included by default

Fedora 18 ships with a small subset of debug information by default. Full debug information is still available in the debuginfo packages.

4.2.4.2. `Debuginfo` compressed by DWARF

Debuginfo will be post-processed by the DWARF compressor tool dwz to reduce size of the *.debug files. Developers may run this same program on their binaries.

4.2.4.3. Simplified crash reporting via ABRT Server

Fedora's bug reporting tool, ABRT, now uses new, simplified way of reporting user problems. These reports are now handled by ABRT Server, which also provides statistics and clustering of the reports, giving maintainers more accurate data about the problem.

4.2.5. IPython updated

IPython has been updated to version 0.13 and notable features and head-ups are: The Notebook has a new user interface and has many new features like auto-folding of very long lines, uploading new notebooks to the dashboard, manage started clusters and improved tooltips. The notebook format has changed and when you want to share your notebook with users of older version, there is a conversion script available. New cell magics like %%bash, %%ruby, %%timeit and many others. The Qt console has improved menus and can directly display jpeg images.

4.3. GCC Tools

4.3.1. DragonEgg optimizes GCC

DragonEgg is a plugin for the GCC compilers to allow use of the LLVM optimization and code generation framework. DragonEgg provides software developers with more optimization and code generation options for use with the GCC compilers. DragonEgg also allows GCC to be used for cross-compilation to target architectures supported by LLVM without requiring any special cross-compilation compiler packages.

4.4. D

The D programming language is available in Fedora 18. D is a modern language with high performance near C/C++ with a simple syntax. C/C++ and Java developers can easily migrate to D. Fedora 18 provides more updates to the D toolkit:

ldc compiler to latest stable compiler
build against llvm 3.1
update standard library to dmd front-end 2.060
update gtkd package to support gtk3
update derelict package to version 3
add DSQLITE package for use with sqlite in D
add gl3n package for OpenGL Maths for D
add glamour package: an OpenGL wrapper for the D programming language.

4.5. Haskell

GHC has been updated to version 7.4.1, haskell-platform to 2012.2.0.0, and many of the rest of the 200 packages have been updated.

Newly added packages include Agda, cabal-rpm, and snap-server.

5. Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences

5.1. Amateur Radio

5.1.1. CQRLOG

CQRLOG, an amateur radio general contact logging program, is making its introduction in Fedora 18. CQRLOG not only maintains a record of your contacts but also integrates with the ARRL Logbook of The World (LoTW), generates statistics on award completion, includes a DXCluster client, and many other features.

A. Contributors

A large number of people contribute to Fedora each release. Among these are a number of writers and translators who have prepared these release notes. The following pages list those contributors.

A.1. Writers

Akira Tagoh < tagoh AT redhat DOT com >
Ben Cotton < bcotton AT fedoraproject DOT org >
Romain Forlot < rforlot AT yahoo DOT com >
Christopher R. Antila < crantila AT fedoraproject DOT org >
Chuck Frain < linux AT chuckfrain DOT net >
Daiki Ueno < dueno AT redhat DOT com >
Jens Petersen < petersen AT redhat DOT com >
John J. McDonough < jjmcd AT fedoraproject DOT org >
Johnathon Mercier < bioinfornatics AT gmail.com >
Peng Wu < pwu AT redhat DOT com >
Pravin Satpute < pravins AT fedoraproject DOT org >
Romain Forlot < rforlot AT yahoo DOT com >
Ruth Suehle < rsuehle AT gmail DOT com >
Stephen Gordon < sgordon AT redhat DOT com >
Tian Shixiong < tiansworld AT fedoraproject.org >
Yuri Chornoivan < yurchor AT ukr DOT net >
Yuri Khabarov < b00blik AT fedoraproject DOT org >
Valentin Laskov < laskov AT festa.bg >
Pete Travis < immanetize AT fedoraproject.org >

A.2. Translators

alex_pe < aeperezt AT fedoraproject.org >
Cheng-Chia Tseng < pswo10680 AT gmail.com >
Constantin Drabo < panda.constantin AT gmail.com >
Daniel Cabrera < logan AT fedoraproject.org >
Damien Gourbiere < dgourbiere AT gmail.com >
Domingo Becker < domingobecker AT gmail.com >
dominique bribanick < chepioq AT gmail.com >
Dorian < munto AT free.fr >
Eduardo Villagrán M < gotencool AT gmail.com >
Geert Warrink < geert.warrink AT onsnet.nu >
Guido Grazioli < guido.grazioli AT gmail.com >
Hajime Taira < htaira AT redhat.com >
Jérôme Fenal < jfenal AT gmail.com >
Kévin Raymond < shaiton AT fedoraproject.org >
Motohiro Kanda < kanda.motohiro AT gmail.com >
Nick Bebout <nick AT bebout.net>
Richard E. van der Luit < nippur AT fedoraproject.org >
Silvio Pierro < perplesso82 AT gmail.com >
simonyanix < simonyan AT fedoraproject.org >
Tiansworld < tiansworld AT fedoraproject.org >
Tommy He < lovenemesis AT gmail.com >
Tomoyuki Kato < tomo AT dream.daynight.jp >
Valentin Laskov <laskov AT festa.bg>
Walter Cheuk < wwycheuk AT gmail.com >
Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor AT ukr.net>

B. Revision History

Revision History

Revision 17.98

Wed Nov 7 2012

Prepare for Fedora 18 Beta

Revision 17.95

Sun Oct 28 2012

Initial revision for F18

Pull in and proofread content from wiki

Revision 17.1

Tue May 29 2012

Refer to A.1 Writers

64 bit default BZ#821168

Release Notes directory change BZ#821412

Typo in Sci/Tech (EMWA) BZ#821413

D language BZ#824529

Update contributors

Remove Cloudstack reference

Revision 17.0

Tue May 8 2012

Refer to A.1 Writers

Remove draft tag

Add translation contributors

Revision 16.97

Mon May 7 2012

Refer to A.1 Writers

BZ#817295 - various typos and broken links

BZ#817553 - Typos and broken formatting in Amateur Radio and Scientific and Technical sections

gimp has been updated to 2.8.0

Section on multi-seat

Changes to direct kernel boot

BZ#819160 - Typo in Circuit Design

BZ#819161 - Correct URL in Circuit Design

BZ#819164 - typo in Embedded Development section

Bump kernel version to 3.3.4

Revision 16.96

Tue Mar 27 2012

Refer to A.1 Writers

Added list of writers

Added Desktop section

Added index entries

Added note on btrfs

Revision 16.95

Wed Mar 21 2012

Refer to A.1 Writers

Released Beta F17 notes

Revision 16.93

Tue Mar 20 2012

John McDonough

Start beta F17 notes

Revision 16.3

Tue Nov 29 2011

John McDonough

Minimum RAM correction - BZ#754439

Service name changes - BZ#754145

Change verbiage around CPU requirements - BZ#499585

Revision 16.2

Mon Nov 7 2011

John McDonough

Trusted boot didn't make it to F16 (Overview, Boot)

Added Ask Fedora - BZ#748653

Added list of contributors

Revision 16.1

Mon Oct 23 2011

John McDonough

Various typos - BZ#741975

Better prose on systemd database handling - BZ#743614

Improved prose in setting up multiple PostgreSQL servers - BZ#743618

Warning about GRUB user - BZ#737187

Include mention of D2 - BZ#743960

Warning about UID/GID change - BZ#739661

Clean up links

rc.local no longer packaged - BZ#745235

Virtualization security - BZ#746015

GTK capitalization - BZ#747940

QEMU capitalization - BZ#746672 against VG

Dedication to Dennis Ritchie

Revision 16.0

Mon Oct 10 2011

John McDonough

Release

Revision 15.99

Mon Oct 10 2011

John McDonough

Mentions of F16 - BZ#741830

Typo in Grub - BZ#743981

Additional index terms

Revision 15.98

Fri Aug 16 2011

John McDonough

Release for F16 Beta

Revision 15.2

Thu Jun 23 2011

John McDonough

Required memory for installation (BZ#699770)

Revision 15.1

Fri Jun 3 2011

John McDonough

Typo in Virtualization (BZ#705928)

gnuplot not GNU plot (BZ#707318)

device naming (BZ#707730)

Correct version number of boost (BZ#707786)

Remove reference to disappeared GS-Theme-Selector (BZ#708085)

Revision 15.0

Sun May 8 2011

John McDonough

Memory (BZ#699770, 701780)

Xfce case (BZ#699977)

Wireshark permission changes (BZ#680165)

Powering off with systemd (BZ#701638)

Revision 14.98

Fri Apr 15 2011

John McDonough

Remove Dom0

Remove dnssec

Remove riak

Add warning about Network Connections

Add prose on IcedTea

Revision 14.97

Mon Apr 11 2011

John McDonough

Add index entries

Revision 14.96

Tue Apr 5 2011

John McDonough

Point Kernel to kernelnewbies (Kernel)

Point features to F15 instead of general feature page (Overview)

Correct boxgrinder URL (Virtualization)

Correct Python URL (Developer Tools)

Correct Rails URL (Developer Tools)

Correct avr-gcc URL (Embedded Development)

Correct avr-c++ URL (Embedded Development)

Correct avr-binutils URL (Embedded Development)

Correct dfu-programmer URL (Embedded Development)

Correct xlog URL (Amateur radio)

Correct splat URL (Amateur radio)

Remove redundant systemd and add administrative user per Rahul

Revision 14.95

Tue Apr 5 2011

John McDonough

Converted beats

Revision 14.90

Tue Mar 22 2011

John McDonough

Empty Fedora 15 skeleton

Index

B

Bug Reporting, Welcome to Fedora

F

FAQ

Fedora, Welcome to Fedora

H

Help, Welcome to Fedora

K

kernel, Kernel

L

Linux kernel, Kernel

R

Reporting

Bug and Feature Request, Welcome to Fedora

W

Wiki

Fedora, Welcome to Fedora

Release Notes

Release Notes for Fedora 18

Edited by

The Fedora Docs Team

Legal Notice

Abstract

1. Welcome to Fedora 18

1.1. Welcome to Fedora

1.1.1. Need Help?

1.2. Overview

1.3. Feedback

1.3.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software

1.3.2. Providing Feedback on Release Notes

1.4. Release Notes Directory Change

Release Notes to Move

2. Changes in Fedora for System Administrators

2.1. Kernel

2.2. Installation

2.2.1. Dual booting with Windows 8

Windows 8 Fast Restart

2.2.2. New Installer User Interface

2.2.3. Changed package group names

2.2.4. --nobase

2.2.5. Upgrade with fedUP

2.2.5.1. What is fedUP ?

2.2.5.2. Doing an Upgrade

sudo or root

2.2.5.3. Using fedUP

Using the correct URL

2.2.5.4. Running the Upgrade

Go get some coffee

2.2.5.5. Enabling the Upgrade Shell

Advanced logging during upgrade

2.3. Boot

2.3.1. Offline System Updates

2.3.2. Some /etc/sysconfig files have been depricated

2.3.2.1. /etc/sysconfig/clock replaced by /etc/localtime

2.3.2.2. /etc/sysconfig/i18n has been replaced by /etc/locale.conf

2.3.2.3. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard has been change to /etc/vconsole.conf

2.3.2.4. Hostname configuration moved from /etc/sysconfig/network to /etc/hostname

2.4. Security

2.4.1. Active Directory made easy

2.4.2. Secure Boot

2.4.3. rngd

2.4.4. Secure Containers

2.4.5. SELinux boolean renaming

2.4.6. SELinux Systemd Access Control

2.4.7. System calls restricted

2.4.8. usermode

2.4.9. Kerberos credentials moved and improved

2.4.10. halt, poweroff, and reboot Configuration Moved

2.5. File Systems

2.5.1. FedFS

2.5.2. /tmp on tmpfs

2.6. Virtualization

2.6.1. Live Snapshotting of Virtual Machines

2.6.2. KVM supports hibernating and suspending guests

2.6.3. Manage Virtualized Environments with oVirt 3.1

2.6.3.1. oVirt Engine Installation

2.6.3.2. Virtualization Host Installation

2.6.3.3. Additional Information

2.7. Web Servers

2.7.1. httpd

2.7.2. lighttpd

2.8. Cloud

2.8.1. Eucalpytus

2.8.2. OpenShift Origin

2.8.3. OpenStack

2.8.3.1. Heat

2.9. Database Servers

2.10. File Servers

2.10.1. vsftpd

2.10.2. NFSometer

2.10.3. StorageManagement

2.10.4. ssm: System Storage Manager

2.11. Samba

2.12. System Daemons

2.12.1. SysVinit to systemd

2.12.2. Expanding the admin toolkit with procps-ng

2.13. Server Configuration Tools

Windows 8 `Fast Restart`

2.2.4. `--nobase`

2.3.2. Some `/etc/sysconfig` files have been depricated

2.3.2.1. `/etc/sysconfig/clock` replaced by `/etc/localtime`

2.3.2.2. `/etc/sysconfig/i18n` has been replaced by `/etc/locale.conf`

2.3.2.3. `/etc/sysconfig/keyboard` has been change to `/etc/vconsole.conf`

2.3.2.4. Hostname configuration moved from `/etc/sysconfig/network` to `/etc/hostname`

2.4.10. `halt`, `poweroff`, and `reboot` Configuration Moved

2.6.3.1. oVirt `Engine` Installation

2.13.5. `CIM` management tools improved

3.1.1.1. `mdns` available by default

4.2.4.1. `Debuginfo` included by default

4.2.4.2. `Debuginfo` compressed by DWARF