Fedora developers are busy preparing for the Fedora 23 Release. At this point in the release cycle, major changes are planned using a scheme called a "Change". Changes are either "Self-Contained", where the impact is limited to the proposed packages and coordination with other developers or Fedora teams is minimal, or "System Wide", which affects a number of interrelated packages and requires coordination from other teams such as QA or release engineering.
For both types, the Fedora Docs team will follow the development and implementation of each Change and summarize it for the Release Notes. Volunteer writers 'own' each change by taking the Docs Contact designation in the Change tracking bug, and coordinating documentation with the Change owners.
Writing these up is a relatively straightforward, well defined task that's ideally suited for new Docs contributors. The proposals are discussed at length on the devel@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list and in FESCo meetings. Some topics might be unfamiliar to you, but don't let that be a roadblock - the writing is targeting uninitiated readers, so your perspective is in a good place.
Without further editorializing, I present the list of approved Changes so far. Please take the opportunity to get started early!
Fedora 23 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee for the Fedora 23 Release as System Wide Changes.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SystemWideChange Harden All Packages https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
Hardening is the process of securing a system/application by reducing its unnecessary functions, or restricting access. In Fedora 22 and before, it was up to the package maintainer to add %global _hardened_build 1 to their spec file to ensure their program was hardened. Beginning with Fedora 23 this will now become the defaults for all packages. You can compare the security by running the following as root: Owners
- Owner: Till Maas | Moez Roy | Florian Weimer - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-02-12 - Tracking bug: #1215939 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215939 - Original tracking bug: #1199775 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199775 - Status: Change accepted
Mono 4 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mono_4
Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.* Owners
- Owner: Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: April 29, 2015 - Tracking bug: #1221559 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221559 - Status: Change accepted
Disable SSL3 and RC4 by default https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveSSL3andRc4
This change will disable by default the SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher in components which use the system wide crypto policy. That is, gnutls and openssl libraries, and all the applications based on them. Owners
- Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28 - Tracking bug: #1220679 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220679 - Status: Change accepted
Perl 5.22 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/perl5.22
A new perl 5.22 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.22 should be released 5/20/2015. See 5.21.11 perldelta for more details about preparing release. Owners
- Owner: Petr Písař - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28 - Tracking bug: #1220680 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220680 - Status: Change accepted
Default Local DNS Resolver https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Resolver
To install a local DNS resolver trusted for the DNSSEC validation running on 127.0.0.1:53. This must be the only name server entry in /etc/resolv.conf. Owners
- Owner: P J P | Pavel Šimerda | Tomas Hozza | Petr Špaček - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-05-28 - Tracking bug: #1182488 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182488 - Status: Change accepted
Fedora 23 Boost 1.59 Uplift https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F23Boost159
This change brings Boost 1.58.0 or later to Fedora 23. We generally aim to ship 1.59.0, as that seems likely to make it (hence the Change name), but 1.58.0 is out and available now. Owners
- Owner: Jon Wakely - Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-06-07 - Tracking bug: #1229030 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229030 - Status: Change accepted
Fedora 23 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee for the Fedora 23 Release as Self Contained Changes. Cinnamon Spin https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Cinnamon_Spin
A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.
- Owner: Dan Book - Last updated: 2015-05-06 - Completed: no https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225865
System Firmware Updates https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SystemFirmwareUpdates
This change is to add the ability to perform firmware updates on UEFI machines.
- Owner: Richard Hughes - Last updated: 2015-06-03 - Completed: no https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230554
Cockpit GUI for Domain Controller Role https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Cockpit_Domain_Controller_GUI
Provide a graphical mechanism for deploying a FreeIPA Domain Controller on Fedora Server through the Cockpit administrative console.
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher, Stef Walter - Last updated: 2015-06-18 - Completed: no https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233098
Containerized Server Roles https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Containerized_Server_Roles
Enhance rolekit to be able to deploy Server Roles using the Nulecule Container Specification.
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher - Last updated: 2015-06-18 - Completed: no https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233099
Frappe Framework https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/frappe-framework
A full-stack web framework based on Python and Javascript to help you build powerful business apps and nifty extensions.
- Owner: Eduardo Mayorga , William Moreno - Last updated: 2015-06-18 - Completed: no https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233101
Category:ChangeAcceptedF23 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:ChangeAcceptedF23 and Category:SelfContainedChange https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SelfContainedChange
-- Pete