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1. 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 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators 2 1 Kernel Fedora 17 features the 3 3 4 kernel 2 2 Installation Changes to Direct Kernel Boot There are significant changes when installing via a direct kernel boot such as PXE Normal installation from installation media is unaffected Advanced users may do any of a number of styles of network installation generally involving setting up some minimal kernel environment to perform the installation This operation has undergone significant changes in Fedora 17 In F16 it is generally only necessary to specify the kernel and initrd location and the install would work kernel initrd gets stage1 and stage1 gets stage2 With noloader this is no longer the case when doing a direct kernel boot the location for stage2 must be specified In other words pass repo or stage2 or inst repo or inst stage2 as is now preferred pointing to a repository Ifthe stage2 image is on one server but then the installation packages are on some other server stage2 must be used repo should only be used if the single server contains everything needed for the install both the stage2 image and all the packages to i http fedoraproject org wiki BugsAndFeatureRequests http
2. RCS file top level grammar frozen RCS file syntax validated earlier completely Possible to specify an empty log message with ci m rcs m Date option accepts some more date only formats Changes to rcsdiff New handling for option U N Refined same revision don t call diff optimization 4 1 11 subversion The version control system subversion has been updated from 1 6 17 to 1 7 3 Numerous changes include better use of HTTP a new remote dumpfile tool and improved console output in addition to numerous minor changes The reader is encouraged to visit htto subversion apache org docs release notes 1 7 html for more information on these improvements 4 1 12 bugzilla bugzilla 4 0 4 fixes a number of security issues with previous versions In addition the new release permits system administrators to disable autocomplete and corrects a number of minor bugs Refer to http www bugzilla org for details 4 1 13 bzr Although basically a bugfix release 2 5 of bzr represents a new stable version from which future bugfixes will be applied 4 1 14 highlight Fedora 17 includes highlight 3 7 Improvements over version 3 6 include support for Biferno support for RPL 25 Release Notes support for Ceylon fixed Ruby definition HTML font string may contain a list of fonts which is not enclosed in quotes added portable command line option to save config files in the current working directory
3. For example Unicode code point U 1D11E the musical G clef character may be expressed as U 1D11E 29 Release Notes n previous versions of PSPP in a string expressed in hexadecimal with X hh syntax the hexadecimal digits expressed bytes in the locale encoding In this version of PSPP X hh syntax always expresses bytes in UTF 8 encoding PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements Added support for non ASCII characters in strings labels and variable names A Split Window function is available which makes it easier to see different parts of a large data file Data files can now be opened by specifying their name as the first argument This means that on a properly configured desktop double clicking on an icon will open the file Output changes The new cairo output driver supports output in PostScript PDF and SVG formats Its functionality is a superset of that of the postscript driver which has been removed You must have Cairo and Pango installed to build the cairo driver Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango instead of libplot Without them the new graphing features will not work If you do not have Cairo and Pango installed you must run configure with without cairo The plain text output driver now properly supports multibyte UTF 8 characters including double width characters and combining accents The pspp program has a new option batch or b that selects batch synt
4. Now uses ALSA sound interface instead of the older and typically not working OSS Several changes to the transceiver CAT code to deal with error conditions better and to be enabled by the Receive button so that CAT is enabled only when xdemorse is actually receiving Morse signals Increased the height of the scope and waterfall displays to improve resolution Separated the Auto Speed check button into its own frame Changed the Mark Space detection scheme to measuring the average value of the Goertzel detector s slope 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 lt tagoh AT redhat DOT com gt Ben Cotton lt bcotton AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Claneys Skyne lt claneys DOT skyne AT gmail DOT com gt Christopher R Antila lt crantila AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Chuck Frain lt linux AT chuckfrain DOT net gt Daiki Ueno lt dueno AT redhat DOT com gt Jens Petersen lt petersen AT redhat DOT com gt John J McDonough jjmcd AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Johnathon Mercier lt bioinfornatics AT gmail com gt Peng Wu pwu AT redhat DOT com Pravin Satpute pravins AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Romain Forlot rforlot AT yahoo DOT com Ruth Suehle rsuehle AT gmail DOT com 40 Translators S
5. Release Notes Yuri Chornoivan lt yurchor AT ukr net gt B Revision History 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 Mon May 7 2012 Refer to A 1 Writers 16 97 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 Tue Mar 27 2012 Refer to A 1 Writers 16 96 Added list of writers Added Desktop section Added index entries Added note on btrfs Revision Wed Mar 21 2012 Refer to A 1 Writers 16 95 Released Beta F17 notes Revision Tue Mar 20 2012 John McDonough 16 93 jjmcd fedoraproject org Start beta F17 notes Revision 16 3 Tue Nov 29 2011 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org 42 Revision History 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 jjmcd fedoraproject org Trus
6. 22 D 23 Fortran 22 Haskell 23 Objective C 22 lapack 27 LaTeX 16 lemonpos 15 libguestfs 9 libpwquality 6 libreoffice 15 libvirt 7 8 8 libvirt sandbox 7 Lilypond 16 Linux kernel 5 Ivmpipe 12 Lohit 20 Longley Rice 36 LUKS 7 M m17n 20 Macintosh Picture 16 mapnik 28 Marathi 20 Marble 13 mathomatic 28 Matrox MGA 49 Release Notes G200 12 G400 12 G450 12 G550 12 Memory Requirements 4 4 mercurial 26 26 Mesa 12 METAR 37 mga 12 MIDI 21 Mikrokopter de 35 MIPS 22 monodevelop 26 Monte Carlo Quantum 26 Motion Tracking 20 Motorola QC2 37 Multi Seat 15 Multi touch 11 mysql 9 15 N Nanum 20 National Semiconductor CR16 22 navilu fonts 20 NBEMS 35 Note Taking 15 Numerical Computation 28 O OCCI 9 Ocean Simulation 20 octave 28 Okular 13 Olivia 35 Open vSwitch 9 OpenBSD 22 OpenGL 12 OpenJDK 23 OpenMP 22 OpenNebula 9 OpenStack 9 P Palette Al 16 EPS 16 GPL 16 PostScript 16 SOC 16 paraview 28 Pareto Chart 31 50 Password Quality Checking 6 Path loss 36 pcb 34 PCI Express 11 pciutils 11 Piano Keyboard 21 Plasma Workspace 12 Point of Sale 15 postgresql 9 POV Ray 16 PowerPC 22 Printed Circuit Board 34 Printing 22 Process Capability 31 Processor Requirements 4 4 Programmers FT2232 35 MPSSE 35 parallel 35 serial 35 Programming Frequencies 35 TPI 35 Propagation 36
7. 37 pspp 28 PSPPIRE 28 PTT 37 PXE Boot 5 Pypi 14 Q QEMU 8 Qpid 9 QR Factorization 27 qrq 36 QSL 39 atel 36 QtQuick 12 Quantum 9 Quantum Effective Potential 26 R R 30 R qcc 31 R qtl 31 R zoo 31 r128 12 RabbitMQ 9 rachote 15 Radio Revision History 51 Release Notes Programming 35 rcs 24 Rendering 20 Software 11 repo 5 Reporting Bug and Feature Request 2 Requirements Disk space 4 Memory 4 4 Processor 4 4 RPL 25 Ruby 25 S S3 Savage 3D 12 Savage 4 12 sandbox 7 savage 12 scribus 16 Secure Containers 7 SELinux deny ptrace 6 Shewhart Chart 31 Shoutcast 21 Signal strength 36 SIL OFL 20 Sis 12 SiS 300 12 540 12 630 12 730 12 SMILES 27 Smooth Scrolling 12 Solaris 22 Speex 36 37 splat 36 sqlite 9 15 stage2 5 Statistical Process Control 31 Statistics 30 subversion 25 26 Sugar 14 SvxLink 36 svxlink server 37 systemd 7 T Tamil 20 tdfx 12 Terrain Model 52 Irregular 36 Texas Instruments C6X 22 Tilera TILE Gx 22 TILEPro 22 Time Tracking 15 timeline 17 Tru64 UNIX 22 trustedqsl 39 U unichrome 12 V veusz 33 Via Unichrome 12 Unichrome Pro 12 virt manager 8 virtio scsi 8 vmlinuz 5 VOX 36 37 vpmk 21 vym 17 W Wacom tablet 13 WeFAX 35 WenQuanYi Zen Hei 20 WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp 20 Wiki Fedora 2 Windows Metafile 16 X xdemorse 40 Xfi
8. fedoraproject org wiki Common_F17_bugs 1 http fedoraproject org wiki Docs Beats http tinyurl com nej3u Release Notes install Note that stage2 still expects to see a repository tree you cannot just pass the path direct to a squashfs img file which is how stage2 worked when it previously existed in F15 and earlier For example label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd initrd img is no longer valid It is necessary to specify repo label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd initrd img repo http dl fedoraproject org pub fedora linux development 17 x86 64 0s or stage2 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd initrd img stage2 http my internal server 17 x86 64 0s or any other valid mirror 2 3 Security 2 3 1 Password Quality Checking Fedora now has a single configurable library libpwquality for checking the quality of new passwords used for system accounts The system wide password quality checks provided by this library are configured by modifying the etc security pwquality conf configuration file Developers wishing to call this API from their applications will find the API description in the pwquality h file provided by the ibpwquality devel package A python wrapper python pwquality is also provided 2 3 2 SELinux Deny Ptrace A new SELinux boolean deny_ptrace has been added It is recommended that users who do not plan to debug applications on their machine turn this b
9. gnome chemistry utils has been updated to the latest development release Changes include GChem3d Import from InChl or SMILES Export to GChemPaint and GChemCalc Generates InChl InChiKey and SMILES Add access to databases GChemPaint Brackets inside a molecule accept a stoichiometry coefficient GCrystal Use multiple selection in atoms and lines dialogs e GSpectrum Allow markup in combo boxes and axes titles Goffice component Add support for crystal structures 5 1 3 gnuplot In addition to a number of bug fixes gnuplot 4 4 4 includes boxxyerrors plot style now allows variable color splot with pm3d now allows variable rgb color nonuniform matrix indicates ascii data with explicit x y columnhead N is a string valued function not a keyword Demarcate plots in svg output using g id Plot_ gt lt title gt xticlabels works for binary data files as well as ascii set key maxrows now applies to 3D plots as well as 2D 5 1 4 lapack lapack has been updated to 3 4 0 27 Release Notes XGEQRT QR factorization improved interface XGEQRT is analogous to xGEQRF with a modified interface which enables better performance when the blocked reflectors need to be reused The companion subroutines xGEMQRT apply the reflectors XGEQRTS recursive OR factorization The recursive QR factorization enables cache oblivious and enables high performance on tall and skinny
10. BZ 699770 701780 Xfce case BZ 699977 Wireshark permission changes BZ 680165 Powering off with systemd BZ 701638 Revision Fri Apr 15 2011 John McDonough 14 98 jjmcd fedoraproject org Remove DomO Remove dnssec Remove riak Add warning about Network Connections Add prose on IcedTea Revision Mon Apr 11 2011 John McDonough 14 97 jjmcd fedoraproject org Add index entries Revision Tue Apr 5 2011 John McDonough 14 96 jjmcd fedoraproject org 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 Tue Apr 5 2011 John McDonough 14 95 jjmcd fedoraproject org Converted beats Revision Tue Mar 22 2011 John McDonough 14 90 jjmcd fedoraproject org 44 Revision History Empty Fedora 15 skeleton Revision 14 1 Sun Oct 31 2010 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org Remove boot section and with it all reference to systemd Revision 14 0 Fri Oct 15 2010 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org Preparation for GA Add mouse changes Add
11. MIN TIME configuration variable We don t know if it s really an identification but it S the best we can do New feature The repeater can be told to activate again if the squelch opens within a specified time from repeater close Use the new configuration variable OPEN ON SQL AFTER RPT CLOSE to set this up The TX CTCSS feature have now been extended so that CTCSS tone can be transmitted if there is incoming traffic from another logic core LOGIC a module MODULE or if an announcement is being played ANNOUNCEMENT Previously there were only two choices to send CTCSS tone when the squelch was open repeater use or to always do it 37 Release Notes New module PropagationMonitor The propagation monitor module receive emails from vhfdx net or gooddx net and announce propagation alerts on the air using voice messages New module Metarlnfo Get METAR weather information from predefined ICAO locations and announce the information on the air Usually airports give them out A hamming window was added to the tone detector and DTMF decoder to improve out of band audio rejection Now possible to issue commands to the core and to other modules even when another module is active This is achieved by prefixing the command with a If for example the EchoLink module is active and you want to check if there are any voice mails available the command to issue could look like this 3001 The connect by callsign comman
12. adapts to different computer hardware and is more visually appealing Gwenview is the image viewing application You can see your position in a zoomed in image with the new translucent position indicator You will also notice minor visual and performance improvements Okular is the text document viewing application You can now select text more easily Several bugs are fixed and multi column text is selected properly The Kate text editor features a new Search and Replace plugin indicators of changed lines and a new modelines editor that allows you to set document variables like whether to use tabs or spaces more easily Fedora 17 has new documentation for Kate accessible through the application s Help menu Cantor is an application for mathematics packages Cantor now supports Qalculate and Scilab The Marble virtual globe and atlas application is now integrated with KRunner You can search GPS coordinates and Marble bookmarks through KRunner You can also view route elevation information track earth satellites and display OpenStreetMap files in vector format 3 1 2 GNOME 13 Release Notes Fedora 17 features the GNOME 3 4 desktop environment Some highlights of GNOME 3 4 include Some applications menus are now integrated with the GNOME Shell The new menus reduce visual clutter and help unite applications appearance Boxes is a new GNOME 3 app You can use Boxes to access other computers and virtual machines
13. canvas and interaction between linked frames New features for vector objects like Boolean path operations vector effects or a line style editor Major improvements to the handling of fills like pattern fill more gradient types support for external color palette formats Al EPS GPL PostScript SOC and many new color palettes including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp studio as well as national government standards Anew frame type called Render Frame allows for rendering and subsequently exporting the output of every program that can create PostScript PDF or PNG files via the command line e g LaTeX Lilypond POV Ray inside Scribus The initial version was developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has developed to allow import of externally produced documents scientific publications and formulas More renderers can be added with a simple configuration file Vector import filters Scribus 1 4 0 provides new import filters for the following file formats Adobe Illustrator both EPS and PDF based Macintosh Picture PICT Windows Metafile WMF Xfig FIG Calamus Vector Graphics CVG Kivio Stencils SML and DIA Shapes SHAPE Regarding bitmap images the handling of Photoshop files has seen many major improvements like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers The Image Manager has been rewritten and new non destructive image effects have been added Moreover
14. including IRIX 6 5 MIPS OpenBSD Solaris Tru64 UNIX 5 1 and a number of legacy ARM platforms Support for OpenMP 3 1 on C C and Fortran More support for the C11 and C 11 standards updates New debug flexibility for Ada A number of performance improvements in Fortran Many optimizer enhancements New platforms ARM Cortex A7 e AVR XMEGA Texas Instruments C6X e National Semiconductor s CR16 e Tilera TILE Gx and TILEPro families In addition there are platform specific improvements in ARM AVR IA 32 x86 64 MIPS PowerPC PowerPC64 SH and SPARC 22 Development Tools 4 1 2 gdb Fedora 17 now includes gdb 7 4 50 20120120 To review the many new features please visit http www gnu org software gdb download ANNOUNCEMENT 4 1 3 D Language The D2 programming language will be available in Fedora 17 Dis a modern language with high performance near C C with an easy syntax C C and Java developers can easily migrate to D Updates include Idc compiler to latest stable compiler update standard library to dmd front end 2 058 add gtkd package for GUI creation add derelict package for 2D 3D environment support openGL spec v4 1 add DSQLITE package to use salite in D add gl3n package for OpenGL Math for D e add gljm package for load VBOs from various formats 4 1 4 Haskell The Haskell Platform has been updated to the latest 2011 4 0 0 release 4 1 5 JBoss AS 7 A slimmed down
15. instead of the user directory 4 1 15 mercurial mercurial has been upgraded to 2 1 The interested reader should visit http mercurial selenic com wiki WhatsNew for a detailed list of new features and bugfixes 4 1 16 monodevelop monodevelop 2 8 5 is included in Fedora 17 Among the numerous new features Project Management New Edit References dialog Improved Class and Document Outline pads e Source Editing New editor for syntax highlighting color schemes New default syntax highlighting color scheme Several fixes and enhancements to the Version Control support and to SVN support in particular adding a project which contains linked files to version control is now handled correctly Visit the project web site at http monodevelop com for further details 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences 5 1 Scientific and Technical 5 1 1 archimedes archimedes is a 2D Quantum Monte Carlo simulator for semiconductor devices New features for Fedora 17 include Quantum Effective Potential modified Bohm Potential Model implemented Calibrated Bohm Model implemented Density Gradient corrected and tested Full effective potential model implemented New tests created 26 Scientific and Technical Parabolic Kane and Full band checked e Full band Parameters for all materials Scattering phonons can be set to ON and OFF Support to Full Band approach 5 1 2 gnome chemistry utils
16. matrices XTPQRT Communication Avoiding QR sequential kernels These subroutines are useful for updating a QR factorization and are used in sequential and parallel Communication Avoiding QR These subroutines support the general case Triangle on top of Pentagon which includes as special cases so called Triangle on top of Triangle and Triangle on top of Square This is the right looking version of the subroutines and the subroutines are blocked The T matrices and the block size are part of the interface The companion subroutines xTPMORT apply the reflectors LAPACKE Standard C language APIs for LAPACK Since LAPACK 3 3 0 LAPACK includes new C interfaces With the LAPACK 3 4 0 release LAPACKE is directly integrated within the LAPACK library and has been enriched by the full set of LAPACK subroutines Refer to http www netlib org lapack lapack 3 4 0 html for more details 5 1 5 mapnik Version 2 0 0 of mapnik is a major upgrade with numerous changes Go to https github com mapnik mapnik wiki Release2 0 0 for complete details 5 1 6 mathomatic Refer to http www mathomatic org NEWS for the complete list of changes in mathomatic 15 7 3 5 1 7 octave The numerical computation language octave has been updated to 3 6 0 For details of the many new features please review http www gnu org software octave NEWS 3 6 html 5 1 8 paraview The parallel visualization application paraview has been updated to version 3 12 0 The
17. version of JBoss AS 7 jboss as is now packaged for Fedora JBoss AS 7 is a fast modular lightweight compliant Java EE application server Currently only the JBoss AS 7 Web Profile is supported support for the Full Profile will be added in a later release 4 1 6 OpenJDK OpenJDK7 is now the default Java Development Kit in Fedora replacing OpenJDK6 A full list of the features added in OpenJDK 7 is available upstream at http openjdk java net projects jdk7 features 4 1 7 doxygen In addition to numerous bugfixes doxygen 1 7 6 1 includes The selected member is now briefly highlighted in the HTML output when GENERATE TREEVIEW is enabled The navigation tree GENERATE TREEVIEW now shows the same information as the index The navindex section of layout now also controls what is shown in the navigation tree When a class structs has many gt 15 members of the same type only the first 10 are shown in the UML diagram Made the output of the JavaScript based search engine more compact 23 Release Notes Update of the French translation Added support for PHP heredoc and nowdoc constructs Added support for cross referencing in case of operator overloading This includes support for std auto ptr std smart ptr std unique ptr and std weak ptr when BUILTIN STL SUPPORT is enabled Project site http www stack nl dimitri doxygen index html 4 1 8 emacs GNU Emacs is updated to the latest prerelease from u
18. 3 doxygen 23 DRI 12 DTMF 37 Dynamic Painting 20 E e2fsprogs 7 Echolink 36 37 emacs 24 Encrypted Filesystems 7 epstool 21 Essex 9 evolution 15 EWMA 31 ext4 7 F FAQ Fedora 2 Filesystems Encrypted 7 Large 7 Fishbone Diagram 31 fldigi 35 fllog 35 flmsg 35 Fortran 22 Frequencies Programming 35 G gcc 22 GChem3d 27 GChemCalc 27 GChemPaint 27 gdb 23 Gerber Viewer 33 gerbv 33 Revision History 47 Release Notes gimp 21 git 24 GNOME 11 13 gnome chemistry utilities 27 gnuplot 27 gnuradio 36 Goffice 27 Google Earth 36 GSM 36 gtkwave 33 gubbi fonts 20 Gujarati 20 Gwenview 13 H hamlib 36 Hamming 37 Haskell 23 Help 2 highlight 25 Hindi 20 HippoCanvas 14 Horizon 9 i810 12 laaS 9 IBus 20 ibus fep 20 ibus hangul 20 ibus m17n 20 ibus pinyin 20 ICAO 37 Icecast 21 idjc 21 InChl 27 InChiKey 27 Indic Typing Booster 20 initrd 5 Installation 8 Intel i810 12 i815 12 1A32 22 x86 64 22 IRIX 22 Irregular Terrain with Obstructions Model 36 Ishikawa Diagram 31 ITM 36 ITU Zone Validating 39 ITWOM 36 48 Revision History J Java 23 JBoss 23 JTAGICEmkII 34 K Kannada 20 Kate 13 KDE 12 kernel 5 kicad 34 Kivio Stencils 16 ko han2 20 Korean 20 krb5 workstation 7 KRunner 13 kSecretService 12 KVM 8 kWallet 12 KWin 13 L Language Ada 22 C 22 C
19. 4 5 4in work too There are many other improvements which can be researched at http www gimp org release notes gimp 2 8 html 3 4 6 idjc Internet DJ Console is a project to provide a powerful yet easy to use source client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers idjc appears for the first time in Fedora 3 4 7 vpmk 21 Release Notes Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver It doesn t produce any sound by itself but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer either hardware or software internal or external vpmk is new to Fedora 3 5 Printing Fedora 17 includes support for the CUPS colord color profile service This allows the user to define color profiles that improve the fidelity of printed colors 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers 4 1 Development Tools Fedora has traditionally contained a rich set of development tools The following are highlights of the many improvements to the development tools included in this release of Fedora 4 1 1 gcc Fedora 17 includes version 4 7 0 of gcc gcc c gcc gfortran gcc objc and gcc gnat The update includes numerous changes to the gcc series of compilers not only C and C but also to Ada and Fortran For complete details refer to the GCC 4 7 Release Series Changes at http gcc gnu org gcc 4 7 changes html Some highlights Several obsoleted architectures
20. A method was added and the behaviour is now consistent with the method check names argument of merge method now defaults to FALSE Added a new as zoo method for matrix objects in order to preserve column names Also a new data frame method leverages the matrix method In rollapply width may be a list whose components are offsets ascending argument is no longer supported Use width s list form instead In rollapply new partial and fill arguments na pad argument is deprecated rollapply with FUN mean will no longer call rollmean if the data has any NA values added yax flip argument to plot method for zoo objects to be consistent with the ts method New vignette zoo read introducing read zoo including several new features see also below in read zoo if FUN is not specified but FUN2 is specified then FUN is applied in place of FUN Previously FUN2 was ignored in this case Also format and tz arguments can be NULL in which case they are treated as missing read zoo can accept a vector of filenames in which case each is read in and a single zoo object is returned formed by merging the individual ones if FUN is omitted in read zoo and index column specifies multiple columns then the columns are pasted together separated by spaces and processing continues as if there were one column in read zoo index column 0 is now valid in which case 1 2 3 is used for index read zoo can now read in a z
21. Fedora 17 Release Notes Release Notes for Fedora 17 fedora Edited by The Fedora Docs Team Copyright O 2012 Fedora Project Contributors The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 Unported license CC BY SA An explanation of CC BY SA is available at http creativecommons org licenses by sa 3 0 The original authors of this document and Red Hat designate the Fedora Project as the Attribution Party for purposes of CC BY SA In accordance with CC BY SA if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it you must provide the URL for the original version Red Hat as the licensor of this document waives the right to enforce and agrees not to assert Section 4d of CC BY SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux the Shadowman logo JBoss MetaMatrix Fedora the Infinity Logo and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat Inc registered in the United States and other countries For guidelines on the permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks refer to https fedoraproject org wiki Legal Trademark guidelines Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and or its affiliates XFS is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp or its subsidiaries in the United States and or other countries MyS
22. Pino Gwibber changes Mark systemd as preview Remove draft status Revision Mon Sep 13 2010 John McDonough 13 95 jjmcd fedoraproject org Preparation for beta release Revision 0 Sat Sep 4 2010 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org Initial creation of book by publican Initial wiki conversions Index Symbols 3dfx Voodoo 3 12 Voodoo 4 12 Voodoo 5 12 A Ada 22 ADIF 35 Adobe Illustrator 16 Amazon EC2 9 AQMP 9 archimedes 26 ARM 22 Cortex A7 22 Asian Fonts 20 ATI Rage 128 12 avarice 34 AVR 45 Release Notes ATmega 8 37 ATmega88P 168P 35 ATmega8U2 16U2 32U2 35 ATtiny4313 34 35 ATxmega16DA 34 ATxmega256A3 34 Xmega 22 avr gcc 35 avrdude 35 B Bengali 20 Biferno 25 blender 20 Bohm Potential Model 26 Boot Direct kernel 5 PXE 5 Boxes 13 Braille 11 britty 11 btrfs 8 Bug Reporting 2 bugzilla 25 bzr 25 C C 22 Calamus Vector Graphics 16 Calibre 20 Cantor 13 CAT code 40 Ceylon 25 cherrytree 15 Chinese 20 chirp 35 Codec GSM 36 Speex 36 37 Color Profile 22 Computation Numerical 28 Console Disk Jockey 21 Contestia 64 1000 35 Contour Smoothing 36 Control Chart 31 cryptsetup 7 CTCSS 37 Culmus 20 CUPS 22 Cusum 31 46 CW 35 36 40 D D 23 Debugging PDI 34 Density Gradient 26 DIA Shapes 16 Direct kernel boot 5 Disk Jockey 21 Disk space requirements 4 Docking station Plugable 15 Document 13 Dolphin 1
23. QLO is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States the European Union and other countries All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Abstract This document provides the release notes for Fedora 17 It describes major changes offered in the Beefy Miracle as compared to Fedora 16 For a detailed listing of all changes refer to the Fedora Technical Notes Release Notes 1 Welcome to Fedora 17 uta td ad 2 1 1 Welcome to ESOO mecanica na a a a a aa ana era ehe 2 iei 3 1 3 Hardware Overview Re 4 1 4 FOOODACK quem 4 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators ooocccnccccncccnnccncnncnnnonnnnncccnnaninnannnnncnnnnnnnonarcnnnnins 5 2 1 CIE 5 2 22 IMStANAUOM E PED 5 A Ane 6 LA IEEE 7 2 5 Eau peter 8 2 6 CIA ii aia 9 2 7 Database Servers cooonccconnccnncocononnnnncnonnnnnnnn nro eene ee nee heh eseh irse nente resi rn ne the sen erre nnn etre nnns 9 2 8 Release Notes Directory Change occcoccccoccccnnccconcnnnnccncnncnnnannnnnccconannnnarnonnrinnnnnnnnencnnanes 11 LAS NESVICINNBICUDS M mQ 11 MP o ra 11 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users sssssssssssseeeeemeem m enne 12 3 1 Desktop 12 3 2 nire Uo iy A 15 3 3 Inte
24. Scribus 1 4 0 now supports EXIF data in images and import of Windows and OS 2 bitmaps BMP has been re enabled Among the major enhancements to Scribus s pre press features printing marks and the display of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important In addition Scribus now enables conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript export with a single click PDF export has seen major improvements as well Scribus can now export to PDF 1 5 including PDF layers Another new feature is the option to embed EPS and PDF files in exported PDFs as an alternative to rasterizing them Also both font embedding and substitution have been improved For color management Scribus 1 4 0 now supports both littleCMS version 1 and 2 It s also possible to enable color management with a single click from the main window Additionally the Scribus Team has added a feature to emulate color blindness on screen Hundreds of minor and major usability improvements have been added 16 Productivity The included scripts have been updated including the addition of the Autoquote script in the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct quotation marks for many languages Scribus 1 4 0 is being shipped with many more templates than previous versions The content of the Help System has been rewritten and updated 3 2 7 timeline Also new to Fedora 17 is timeline a cross platform application for dis
25. able at http home gna org veusz releasenotes 1 14 txt 5 2 Circuit Design 5 2 1 gerbv gerbv has been upgraded to 2 6 0 from 2 5 0 Changes include Greater accuracy Support for panelization A number of bugfixes 5 2 2 gtkwave gtkwave http gtkwave sourceforge net has been upgraded from 3 3 25 to 3 3 31 33 Release Notes 5 2 3 kicad kicad has been upgraded from 2011 07 12 to 2012 01 19 The project s web site is at https launchpad net kicad 5 2 4 pcb pcb has been updated from 0 20100929 to 0 20110918 In addition to numerous bug fixes the following list some of the significant changes Internal coordinate space is now metric This should fix the trace nubs on metric grids issue Also units are allowed on pretty much every coordinate that PCB accepts Example 5 4in 10cm 0 55mm New configure option enable coord64 to force slower 64 bit type for coordinates on 32 bit systems if you need a board bigger than 1 meter across The internal precision is 1 nanometer New GTK layer view choose widget and other GUI enhancements GTK HID warns if the pcb file has changed on disk Enhanced grid snapping logic Select report nets by name Auto pan has been removed Zoom can zoom out beyond the edge of the board s workspace Personally identifiable information is no longer stored in the PCB Toggling vias from hole to plated is reversible Gerber exporter has options for including outlines o
26. ax mode In previous versions of PSPP this syntax mode was the default Now a new auto syntax mode is the default In auto mode PSPP interprets most syntax files correctly regardless of their intended syntax mode The pspp program has a new option syntax encoding that specifies the encoding for syntax files listed on the command line as well as the default encoding for syntax files included with INCLUDE or INSERT The default is to accept the system locale encoding UTF 8 UTF 16 or UTF 32 automatically detecting which one the system file uses A new Perl module allows Perl programs to read and write PSPP system files A tutorial chapter has been added to the user manual 5 1 10 R The statistics package R has been updated to December Snowflakes Key changes include NEW FEATURES Reference classes now keep a record of which fields are locked lock with no arguments returns the names of the locked fields HoltWinters reports a warning rather than an error for some optimization failures where the answer might be a reasonable one tools dependsOnPkg now accepts the shorthand dependencies all parallel clusterExport now allows specification of an environment from which to export tempfile on a Unix alike now takes the process ID into account This is needed with multicore and as part of parallel because the parent and all the children share a session temporary 30 Scientific and Technical director
27. ces an optional single window mode You can toggle between the default multi window mode and the new single window mode through the Single window mode checkbox in the Windows menu gimp now allows dockable dialogs in a dock window to be placed in multiple columns The docking bars have been removed and replaced with overlaid highlights The dockable drag handle has been removed and the dockable menu button has been moved up to the tabs A new Automatic tab style has been added which makes dockable tabs use the available space A rather big conceptual change is that saving and exporting images now are clearly separated activities Saving an image can only be done in the XCF format which is GIMP s native file format able to save all kinds of information necessary for works in progress For complex compositions a flat layer structure is very limiting GIMP 2 8 lets users organize their compositions better through the introduction of layer groups which allow layers to be organized in tree like structures Layer groups are fully scriptable through the GIMP plug in API Text editing with the Text Tool is now performed on canvas instead of in a separate window Enhancements have also been made to the size entry widget which is used for inputting most of the x y width height parameters For example in the scale dialog it is now possible to write 50 in the Width field to scale the image to 50 of the width Expressions such as 30in 40px and
28. d Activity using GTK 3 and gobject introspection Fixes for various bugs and improvements to several Activities 14 Productivity 3 1 4 Removable media changes mount points Removable media mounted in the user s session such as hot plugged USB drives will be mounted in a user specific directory Mount points are provisioned in run media USER with permissions allowing SUSER exclusive access 3 1 5 Multi Seat The ability to use multi seat Linux configurations has been available for some time but in the past has always required complex configuration For the first time Fedora 17 provides completely automatic multi seat configuration To use this feature simply plug in a USB dock such as the Plugable Docking Station with a monitor mouse and keyboard and a new desktop appears For additional details on this new feature refer to the following articles http Opointer de blog projects multi seat html http www phoronix com scan php page article amp item plugable multiseat kick 3 2 Productivity 3 2 1 cherrytree cherrytree is new to Fedora It is a hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting storing data in a single XML or SQLite file 3 2 2 evolution evolution has been updated to 3 3 5 This is a bugfix release 3 2 3 libreoffice libreoffice has been updated to 3 5 0 3 3 2 4 lemonpos lemonpos Lemon in short is an open source Point of Sale software targeted
29. d changed from to 6 The help module can now accept commands when not active It will read back help for the given module ID For example the command 01 will play the help message for the parrot module The parrot module can now accept commands when not active The only thing it can do is to read back the entered digits For example the command 11237 will make the parrot module say one two three The EchoLink module can now accept commands when not active The only command supported at the moment is 2 reading back the local node ID Example 222 Now users can check if there are any voice mail messages available without first logging in Idea from Martin Burkhardt The command to use is module id gt lt user id so if the module id for voice mail is 3 and your user id is 001 the command to check if there are any voice mails available is 30017 The DTMF repeater module can now accept commands when not active It will play back the entered digits For example the command 41237 will play the 1 2 and 3 DTMF digits A macro command may now be specified without a module name The colon separator is still required though If no module name is specified the command is sent in to the DTMF handler without activating a module first It now is possible to include a hash mark in a macro command by specifying H in the command string The H will be translated to a by the command parser and not interpreted as end of co
30. d navilu fonts have been added for Kannada language Culmus fonts have been update to version 0 121 with fully reworked Frank Ruehl family which now supports diacritics and kerning 3 4 Multimedia 3 4 1 blender blender has been updated to 2 6 1 This release includes many new features including a new faster rendering engine motion tracking dynamic painting an ocean simulation and much more Refer to http www blender org development release logs blender 260 and http www blender org development release logs blender 261 for additional details 3 4 2 calibre calibre has been upgraded from 0 8 11 to 0 8 39 Among the many improvements deleted books are moved to the recycle bin instead of just deleting multiple filenames can be passed on the command line there is now a preference setting for how much a font size changes when larger smaller is clicked the popup asking about converting formats can be disabled many new and improved recipes and much more 20 Multimedia 3 4 3 epris epris is a small lightweight music player epris is new to Fedora 17 For a very brief overview go to http code google com p epris 3 4 4 epstool epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps It is also new to Fedora 17 3 4 5 gimp gimp has been upgraded to 2 8 0 There are many changes some very significant Among the highlights gimp 2 8 introdu
31. d the packages selected during installation Additional disk space is required during installation to support the installation environment This additional disk space corresponds to the size of Fedora base stage2 img on Installation Disc 1 plus the size of the files in var 1ib rpm on the installed system In practical terms additional space requirements may range from as little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional 175 MiB for a larger installation Additional space is also required for any user data and at least 596 free space should be maintained for proper system operation 1 4 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 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators 1 4 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 F17 bugs on the wiki 1 4 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
32. e container is then launched by ibvirt with SELinux context that will prevent it interacting with other processes on the system including other containers while still being able to share system data This allows an administrator to run multiple instances of a service simultaneously while preventing them from breaking the host machine or other processes on the system even when run as root To use sandbox install the libvirt sandbox package 2 3 4 1 krb5 workstation Fedora 17 upgrades the Kerberos authentication system to version 1 10 This adds support for changing passwords over a NAT and support for localization The kswitch command is added to switch between credential caches Additional cache support has been added to other commands Credential choice can be controlled with the file HOME kbidentity 2 4 File Systems 2 4 1 Large filesystems Fedora 17 will support file systems larger than 16 terabytes on the default file system ext4 With the latest version of e2fsprogs ext4 file systems can now be up to 100 TB 2 4 2 Encrypted filesystems Release Notes Fedora 17 uses version 1 4 1 of the cryptsetup package which removes deprecated API calls In addition it supports placing LUKS headers on separate devices and the creation of shared non overlapping encrypted segments on a single device 2 4 3 btrfs btrfs is not available as a target file system during installation This is a temporary situation and will be
33. ease 9 1 2 html This is primarily a bugfix release 2 7 3 sqlite sglite has been upgraded to 3 7 9 Release Notes Potentially Incompatible Change If a search token on the right hand side of the MATCH operator in FTS4 begins with then that token must be the first in its field of the document There are many changes and improvements Orders of magnitude performance improvement for CREATE INDEX on very large tables Improved the windows VFS to better defend against interference from anti virus software Improved query plan optimization when the DISTINCT keyword is present Allow more system calls to be overridden in the unix VFS to provide better support for chromium sandboxes Increase the default size of a lookahead cache line from 100 to 128 bytes Enhancements to the test quota c module so that it can track preexisting files Added options SQLITE DBSTATUS CACHE HIT and SQLITE DBSTATUS CACHE MISS to the sqlite3 db status interface Removed support for SQLITE ENABLE STAT2 replacing it with the much more capable SQLITE ENABLE STATS option e Enhancements to the sglite3 analyzer utility program including the pageinfo and stats options and support for multiplexed databases Enhance the sqlite3 data count interface so that it can be used to determine if SQLITE DONE has been seen on the prepared statement Added the SQLITE FCNTL OVERWRITE file control by which the SQLite core indicates
34. ease is available upstream at http virt manager org download html Cloud 2 6 Cloud 2 6 1 OpenNebula Also new to Fedora 17 is OpenNebula OpenNebula provides an laaS platform geared toward data center virtualization Management of the environment can be done through command line or graphical interfaces Compatibility with Amazon EC2 the Open Cloud Computing Interface OCCI is included 2 6 2 OpenStack Fedora 17 includes the latest version of the OpenStack suite code named Essex Included in this new release are the latest versions of the web management interface Horizon and virtual networking Quantum The use of Qpid as an alternative to RabbitMQ for the AQMP backend is new in Fedora 17 In addition the availability of libguestfs to support multiple virtual disk formats will make Fedora s OpenStack offering more flexible 2 6 3 Open vSwitch Fedora 17 includes Open vSwitch a software based network switch used to provide networking services to virtual machines Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow for ease of management 2 7 Database Servers 2 7 1 mysql Fedora 17 includes mysql 5 5 20 updated from 5 5 14 in Fedora 16 2 7 2 postgresql postgresql has been upgraded to 9 1 2 Potentially Incompatible Change If you rely on the information_schema referential_constraints view or if you have columns of type citext you may need to take special action Refer to http www postgresgl org docs 9 1 static rel
35. easy way to make small applications applets for Qt environments like KDE KDE has Plasma QtQuick Components that help you write KDE Plasma Workspace applications quickly KSecretService is a new secure password storage system KWallet manages passwords for KDE applications and KSecretService makes those passwords available to non KDE applications 3 1 1 2 KDE Plasma Workspaces The KDE Plasma Workspaces are two desktop environments that manage how you work with applications The Plasma Desktop Workspace has a more traditional appearance and the Netbook Plasma Workspace has a modified appearance for smaller screens and mobile devices The Window Switcher now has six possible layouts You can choose between layouts in the System Settings application The KWin window manager is improved KWin offers significantly improved performance The Power Management pane of System Settings is redesigned and simplified Power management settings now work on computers with multiple display devices You can also now modify power management settings to change when you are in a certain Activity You can use the new Icon Tasks Plasma widget to manage your applications on a taskbar as an icon like in other popular operating systems 3 1 1 3 KDE Applications The KDE Applications are all of the basic applications and many advanced applications that you need Dolphin is the file management application Dolphin now displays files more accurately
36. figuration file to the new file carefully reading the updated manual page remotetrx conf 5 to get everything right Now possible to set a PTT hangtime for the local tx type This can be good to have on a link transmitter in combination with a tone squelch When the transmitter is ordered to stop transmitting the tone is immediately turned off causing the squelch to close on the other side Since the transmitter keeps transmitting for a while no squelch tail will be heard The DTMF repeater module now wait until all announcements have been played before retransmitting the digits The EchoLink module can now use the Speex audio codec on connections between two SvxLink nodes which improves the audio quality a lot Patch contributed by Steve DH1DM Added a fallback repeater mode to the RemoteTrx which can be used if using it as both RX and TX for a repeater If the network connection is lost to the repeater the RemoteTrx activates a very basic repeater mode essentially just connecting the RX to the TX Configuration variable VOX LIMIT has been renamed to VOX THRESH SvxLink system global configuration files are now by default stored in the etc svxlink directory New directory layout for event scripts and sound clips The main event scripts are now stored in usr share svxlink events d The sound clip files are now stored in usr share svxlink sounds lt langcode gt TCL modules have been separated from the event handlers and are now st
37. for micro small and medium businesses MySQL is employed for data management and storage and can be used a single database with many POS terminals on a network Lemon provides a modern themeable and easy to use interface a search panel a price checker tool an administration tool for managing your store printed reports and more 3 2 5 rachota 13 http www amazon com Plugable Universal DisplayLink 1920x1080 High Speed dp B002PONXAI ref sr_1_3 ie UTF8 amp qid 1335904746 amp sr 8 3 15 Release Notes rachota is also new to Fedora It is a portable application for timetracking different projects It runs everywhere It displays time data in diagram form creates customized reports and invoices or analyses measured data and suggests hints to improve user s time usage It is a totally portable yet personal timetracker 3 2 6 scribus Scribus has been updated to 1 4 0 a major upgrade Feature enhancements to object handling e g transform tools like in advanced drawing programs with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook and the Image Manager Many advanced options for text and typography like character styles optical margins or glyph extension Undo Redo is finally available for almost all text related actions and a new script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation marks based on language settings Usability improvements include better cursor placement and movement faster layout on
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39. hare doc fedora release notes 18 0 2 9 System Daemons 2 9 1 pciutils The pciutils package which provides tools for inspecting and configuring PCI devices has been upgraded to version 3 1 9 in Fedora 17 This adds support for reading speed and link status fields for PCI Express Generation 3 hardware 2 9 2 britty Fedora 17 includes version 4 3 of britty the Braille display daemon Version 4 3 includes new logging and configuration options as well as support for additional devices 2 10 Xorg 2 10 1 Software Rendering for GNOME Shell The GNOME Shell experience is now available on all hardware including devices that use software rendering Users still wishing to use GNOME s fallback mode can enable it manually by accessing the System Info control panel applet selecting Graphics and setting the Forced Fallback Mode option to ON 2 10 2 Multi touch Support The X server and libraries in Fedora 17 support version 2 2 of the XInput extension this includes multi touch support Applications that choose to will now be able to take advantage of multi touch support on Fedora 11 Release Notes 2 10 3 Smooth Scrolling Support The updated X server also provides smooth scrolling for drivers and devices that support it Scroll data is now exported as axis values in addition to the legacy button press events This allows applications to take velocity into account and provide a smoother scrolling experience Like multi t
40. iki Releases 1 7 FeatureList 3 http fedoraproject org wiki FAQ li http fedoraproject org wiki Communicate 3 http fedoraproject org wiki Join i http www fedoraproject org wiki Red_Hat_contributions y http fedoraproject org wiki Releases 17 FeatureList a http fedoraproject org wiki Releases 17 FeatureList Release Notes 1 3 Hardware Overview 1 3 1 Processor and memory requirements for x86 Architectures Fedora 17 may be installed on most modern x86 processors There are some secondary architectures supported by special interest groups for processors like Power PC System 390 and ARM The minimum processor speed depends on the end use the method of installation and the specific hardware Although some configurations might work on a Pentium 3 most users should consider a Pentium 4 or more modern processor or the equivalent processor from other manufacturers Fedora 17 is able to take full advantage of modern multi core architectures Minimum RAM for text mode 768 MiB Minimum RAM for graphical 768 MiB Recommended RAM for graphical 1152 MiB 1 3 2 Processor and memory requirements for x86 64 architectures Minimum RAM for text mode 768 MiB Minimum RAM for graphical 768 MiB Recommended RAM for graphical 1152 MiB 1 3 3 Hard disk space requirements for all architectures The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space Final size is entirely determined by the installing spin an
41. ime Default is 10 seconds for the subject and two minutes for the message It is now possible to have a local subdirectory in the events d directory where the TCL files in the local directory will override the TCL files in the events d directory Added a threshold to the tone detector so that it is less prone to trigger on silence This was a problem when using CTCSS squelch on a radio operated with closed squelch Implemented a signal level transmission mechanism based on multiple tones one for each signal level step in the high audio frequency spectrum 5 5 6 5kHz This can be used for linking in remote receivers via RF but still measure the signal strength at the remote receiver site To map the signal level to tone frequencies on the remote receiver side either RemoteTrx can be used or an Atmel AVR ATmega8 can be used for a more compact solution The AVR microcontroller solution take a signal level voltage and converts that to one of ten tones which should be overlayed on the link audio Note Tone transmission in RemoteTrx will only work if it has been compiled in 16kHz mode This is due to the high tone frequencies used New feature Tell repeater users that are not identifying to identify themselves The time to wait for an identification after the repeater has been activated is set using the IDENT NAG TIMEOUT configuration variable A valid identification is considered to be a transmission longer than the time set by the IDENT NAG
42. mmand This can be of use if you for example want to transmit a DTMF using the DTMF repeater module The macro specification would look something like this 10 412345H When macro 10 is activated the DTMF sequence 12345 will be transmitted Now possible to link more than one logic core together The LOGIC1 and LOGIC2 configuration variables have been replaced with one configuration variable called CONNECT LOGICS New config variable MUTE TX ON RX for a NetUplink in RemoteTrx This will stop the transmitter from transmitting if the squelch is open on the receiver Support for selcall activated functions added New config variables Logic SEL5 MACRO RANGE RepeaterL ogic OPEN ON SEL5 LocalRX SEL5 TYPE and LocalRx SEL5 DEC TYPE Have a look in the svxlink conf b manual page for more details New module SelCallEnc This module is used to send selective calling sequences out on the frequency upon user request 38 Amateur Radio One RemoteTrx application can now be used to run more than one remote transceiver Previously two RemoteTrx instances had to be run to support two transceivers This required two sound cards to be used Now only one sound card can be used to support two transceivers Due to this change the configuration have changed a bit To get everything right backup your old remotetrx conf configuration file and use the new default configuration file to start over Manually move configuration values from your old con
43. n other layers Edited footprint files are saved as footprints not pcbs Autorouter has a progress dialog PCB will no longer let you delete the last top bottom layer Via copper may overlap For additional details including a list of bug fixes refer to the NEWS page at http pcb geda project org news html 5 3 Embedded Development 5 3 1 avarice avarice has been updated from 2 10 to 2 12 The update includes New devices ATxmega256A3 ATxmegal6D4 34 Amateur Radio ATtiny4313 Implement PDI debugging JTAGICEmkII Xmega Bugfixes For additional details refer to the project s site hitp sourceforge net projects avarice 5 3 2 avr gcc Continuing to follow the development of gcc avr gcc and avr gcc c have been updated to version 4 6 2 5 3 3 avrdude Fedora 17 includes version 5 11 1 of avrdude New devices supported e ATmega88P 168P ATmega8U2 16U2 32U2 e ATtiny4313 New programmers supported TPI programming through bitbang programmers both serial and parallel ones FT2232 and relatives based programmers MPSSE bitbang mode e Wiring environment http wiring org co butterfly style bootloader of the Mikrokopter de device Bugfixes 5 4 Amateur Radio 5 4 1 chirp chirp is an application for programming various radios Frequencies splits tones etc are entered in a spreadsheet like form and downloaded to the radio The radio memories may also be read DS
44. nd Discussions e Participate in the Fedora Project 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 17 Features The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora The following are major features for Fedora 17 GNOME 3 4 and KDE 4 8 OpenStack Eucalyptus and Open Nebula CC profiles for color printing and an improved gimp e Still more virtualization improvements gt 64 bit now default When downloading the Live CD the default download is now X86 64 For 32 bit machines click on More download options For more details about other features that are included in Fedora 17 refer to their individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress http fedoraproject org w
45. ns the GSM audio codec is used 5 4 7 splat e Supplemented Longley Rice Irregular Terrain Propagation Model ITM v7 0 code with an improved Irregular Terrain with Obstructions Model ITWOM v3 0 by Sid Shumate Givens amp Bell Inc that corrects multiple errors present in the original ITM code and incorporates Radiative Transfer Engine 36 Amateur Radio RTE computations in the line of sight range The older ITM model used in previous releases of SPLAT may be invoked by using the new olditm command line switch Introduced a new sc command line option that provides contour smoothing Added path loss signal strength color keys to GoogleEarth signal contour overlays 5 4 8 svxlink server Added selective calling system Motorola QC2 New feature 1750Hz tone call muting Use the 1750 MUTING configuration variable in a local receiver configuration section to enable this new feature This feature was contributed by Adi DL1HRC Added a QSO recorder feature that can record all traffic on the channel The QSO recorder can be turned on and off using a DTMF command New configuration variables QSBO RECORDER DIR and QSO RECORDER CNMD The voice mail module now store the messages as WAV files Old messages will have to be removed or converted into WAV files Old filename format YYYYMMDD hhmmss UUU subj mesg New filename format YYYYMMDD hhmmss UUU subj mesg wav Voice mail messages are now time limited to a maximum t
46. on the same or another computer The existing Documents app is improved New features include collections support for removable devices support for sharing documents support for printing documents portrait mode and integration with the GNOME Shell overview search box The high contrast and high contrast inverse theme icons are more consistent with standard theme icons Users with low vision can customize the brightness and contrast of their display through GNOME Shell The network panel is redesigned New features include easily knowing whether you are connected to the Internet an airplane mode switch to disable network activity a forget network button to remove unwanted connections and an integrated password dialog GNOME Keyring dialogs are now integrated with GNOME Shell New features for users with Wacom graphics tablets include the ability to calibrate the tablets configure button mappings assign monitors to the device configure multiple tablets store unique configurations per device identify tablets and their capabilities More configurable settings for the built in GNOME Shell magnification feature 3 1 3 Sugar Fedora 17 features the Sugar 0 96 desktop environment Some features include Removal of HippoCanvas for move to GTK 3 Support for NetworkManager 0 9 sugar toolkit based on GTK 3 Initial support for PyPi New Browse Activity using GTK 3 webkitgtk and gobject introspection New Rea
47. oo object with an index but no data new roll r wrappers which default to align right new na fill function new na StructTS function for seasonal NA interpolation using R s StructTS rev method for zooreg objects added transform method added added frequency argument to as zooreg generic and associated methods http cran r project org web packages zoo NEWS contains the complete list of changes 32 Circuit Design 5 1 14 veusz Major changes in veusz 1 14 Added interactive tutorial Points in graphs can be colored depending on another dataset and the scale shown in a colorbar widget Improved CSV import better data type detection locale specific numeric and date formats single multiple none header modes Option to skip lines at top of file better handling of missing values Data can be imported from clipboard Substantially reduced size of output SVG files In standard data import descriptor can be left blank to generate dataset names colX Axis plotting range can be interactively manipulated If axis is in date time format show and allow the min and max values to be in date time format ImageFile widget can have image data embedded in document file Fit widget can update the fit parameters and fit quality to a label widget Allow editing of 2D datasets in data edit dialog Add copy and paste dataset command to dataset browser context menu The complete list of changes is avail
48. oolean on The boolean prevents rogue processes from being able to read the memory of or otherwise attack other processes using debugging tools including ptrace and gdb Such attacks are prevented even where the rogue process is running as the root user or attacking a process running with the same SELinux context and label To permanently enable the protection provided by the deny_ptrace boolean execute the following command as root https fedorahosted org libpwquality 6 File Systems 4 setsebool P deny_ptrace 1 To disable the protection provided by the deny_ptrace boolean temporarily execute the following command as root 4 setsebool deny ptrace 0 2 3 3 Services Private tmp A number of services managed by systemd have been modified to make use of its ability to provide them with a private tmp directory Privileged services using tmp and var tmp have previously been found to be open to being interfered with by unprivileged users potentially leading to privilege escalation Using private tmp directories for services prevents this style of exploit The directive added to the systemd unit files for the modified services is Service PrivateTmp true 2 3 4 Secure Containers A new tool sandbox has been created to streamline creation of secure libvirt containers When provided with an executable sandbox determines the mount points and libvirt container information required to run the application in a container Th
49. ored in usr share svxlink modules d New configuration variable DEFAULT LANG that points out the default language to use New squelch detector type EVDEV This squelch detector read events from a dev input eventX device node This can for example be of use if you have a USB audio device with some buttons on it If you re in luck it generates events when the buttons are pressed 5 4 9 trustedgsl When asking for the password to unlock a private key say what callsign it s for Remember certificate requests and assist the user with importing the tq6 Prompt user to save their certificate after importing a tq6 signed certificate Suppress display of superseded certificates controlled by a tqslcert preference setting Fix windows wxWidgets crashes with several wizards cert renew new cert etc Add checkbox to allow bypassing state selection Fix crash on Windows when new certificate request wizard is started Added support for validating zone numbers and requiring them Allowed batch mode x without displaying windows 39 Release Notes When double clicking an entry on the Edit Station Locations dialog open that entry for edit don t just close the modal dialog Change the OK button on the Edit Station Locations dialog to Close as that s what it does Update password dialogs to enable enter to activate when possible Add p lt password gt and o lt output file gt arguments to tqsl 5 4 10 xdemorse
50. ouch to take advantage of smooth scrolling support for it must also be actively written into client applications themselves 2 10 4 DRI2 Drivers The 810 mga r128 savage sis tdfx and unichrome DRI drivers are no longer supplied as they are no longer included by Mesa Impacted hardware includes variants of the following devices Intel i810 and i815 motherboard chipsets Matrox MGA G200 G400 G450 and G550 cards ATI Rage 128 cards e S3 Savage 3D and Savage 4 cards SiS 300 540 630 and 730 chipsets e 3dfx Voodoo 3 Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 cards VIA Unichrome and Unichrome Pro chipsets This hardware is now supported by the lvmpipe software 3D driver which unlike the older DRI drivers exposes OpenGL 2 x functionality 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users 3 1 Desktop 3 1 1 KDE Fedora 17 features the KDE 4 8 Software Compilation KDE features three components KDE Platform is the foundation for all KDE based applications KDE Plasma Workspace provides you with ways to manage how you use applications KDE Applications use the Platform and Plasma Workspace to give you a fully integrated experience 3 1 1 1 KDE Platform The KDE Platform provides services for all KDE based applications and the Plasma Workspace KDE Platform 4 8 features some new technology along with dramatic increases in performance and stability https qt nokia com qtquick 12 Desktop KDE now offers QtQuick QtQuick is an
51. playing and navigating events on a timeline It can Organize events in hierarchical categories Move and resize events with the mouse Duplicate events Search events Go to a specific date Display a different representation depending on zoom level Export to an image 3 2 8 vym vym has been updated to version 2 0 6 This upgrade include many new features General File handling Autosave Automatic backups vym now checks regularily if map has changed on disk and Multiple files can be selected while loading maps and images Restore last session Multiple mapcenters in one map Manpage added New translations Code Completely ported to Qt4 now HTML export now native code without XSLT transformation DBUS support partly Import Export Last export can be repeated 17 Release Notes Simple export to CSV spreadsheet Most important exports can be scripted now ASCII exports show URLs Import of FreeMind maps Handling Quick sorting and moving using targets Targets can be defined by a single keystroke Goto selects target Move to moves selection to target without moving view Very useful for quickly sorting things Brainstorm mode Add Delete e Insert a branch and select its children Removing children of a branch Removing a branch while keeping its children xLinks Can now be comfortably selected by clicking Very easy to follow a xlink by clicking into the co
52. pstream 24 0 93 4 1 9 git git has been updated to 1 7 9 Fedora 16 included 1 7 7 There are numerous small feature additions The interested reader should review the changes since 1 7 8 and changes since 1 7 7 in the upstream release notes 4 1 10 rcs The venerable revision control system rcs has been updated to 5 8 Updates include License now GPLv3 Change in terminology from path to file name or file name Changes to the RCS package e New documentation in Info format Dropped configure option with diffutils Configuration more strict in some ways more lax in others New configure option enable suid setreuid New configure option disable mmap New configure option enable mailer PROG New configure option enable compat2 You can make check prior to make install Bug fixes Remove all edit info when removing all revisions 18 https raw github com gitster git master Documentation RelNotes 1 7 9 txt a https raw github com gitster git master Documentation RelNotes 1 7 8 txt 24 Development Tools Code no longer uses mktemp Miscellaneous manpage tweaks fixes Other changes All commands accept help and version A string of all digits is now valid for author state e Env var RCS MEM LIMIT controls stdio threshold RCS can now work with files larger than 2 gigabytes Pass through for RCS file commitid SYMBOL now builtin
53. release notes for this application may be found at http www kitware com news home browse 367 siteid 12 5 1 9 pspp Changes for version 0 7 8 of pspp New commands ADD FILES CORRELATIONS DATAFILE ATTRIBUTES DATASET ACTIVATE 28 Scientific and Technical DATASET CLOSE DATASET COPY DATASET DECLARE DATASET DISPLAY DATASET NAME MATCH FILES MRSETS PRESERVE and RESTORE QUICK CLUSTER RELIABILITY ROC SAVE TRANSLATE to CSV and tab delimited files UPDATE VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES Changes to existing commands AUTORECODE has a new GROUP subcommand CROSSTABS has been re implemented to fix numerous bugs DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented Now when DO REPEAT contains an INCLUDE or INSERT command substitutions are not applied to the included file HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax INCLUDE and INSERT have a new ENCODING subcommand MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string variables NPAR TESTS has new KRUSKAL WALLIS SIGN WILCOXON and RUNS subcommands SET and SHOW no longer have ENDCMD NULLINE PROMPT CPROMPT and DPROMPT subcommands The defaults are now fixed values VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string variables Other language changes The new DATASET commands replace the scratch file PSPP extension which is no longer supported Strings may now include arbitrary Unicode code points specified in hexadecimal using the syntax U hhhh
54. resolved in Fedora 18 btrfs is still available after installation 2 5 Virtualization 2 5 1 QEMU The QEMU open source machine emulator has been updated to version 1 0 Notable features include QEMU now supports live migration of running guests KVM users are now able to run standard performance profiling tools within KVM guests QEMU and ibvirt now support image streaming Image streaming lets an administrator start new virtual machines quickly based on existing images virtual machines are then provisioned completely in the background as they run QEMU and KVM support a new advanced SCSI based storage stack virtio scsi Support for this new storage stack will be added to ibvirt in a later release The full list of changes included in this release is available upstream at http wiki qemu org ChangeLog 1 0 2 5 2 libvirt The libvirt toolkit for interacting with the virtualization capabilities of various hosts has been updated to version 0 9 10 The full list of changes included in this release is available upstream at hitp libvirt org news html 2 5 3 Virtual Machine Manager virt manager Virtual Machine Manager has been updated to version 0 9 1 As well as numerous bug fixes this release adds Support for adding USB redirection devices An option to change the USB controller to support USB 2 0 An option to specify the machine type for non x86 guests The full list of changes included in this rel
55. rnationalization sssssssssssssseseenee mene enne eee ane nn nnne nh ns nnne nnn nnn nn 19 m Mure mn 20 A DDL m 22 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers sssssssesssssssseeenenenenee aa ee esa enirn nennen nsns n nnn nne 22 4 1 Development Tools u srsssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn anne nn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn sane hen enne nnns 22 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences sssssssssssseee eene nens 26 5 1 Scientific and Technical ur rte rte dete rhet rhe der eR d re Ph ER x nuo pra FAEERE 26 SUNG rU WP 33 5 3 Embedded Development na a ERE M ERR RAE 34 5 4 Amateur Ratio roten ehe 35 A Contributors 40 A ERS 10 121 SERERE IIO T TU MIT 40 A2 Translators sorts ee eher 41 B Revision History 42 Index 45 1 Welcome to Fedora 17 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 Fedora Overview T http fedoraproject org wiki BugsAndFeatureRequests 2 http fedoraproject org wiki Overview 2 Overview Fedora FAQ Help a
56. rner of the branch where it begins Also the F key can be used to follow References URLs Opening of all vymLinks in a subtree Opening of all URLs in a subtree Bugzilla integration e vym can fetch data directly from Bugzilla extra package required see manual Quick checks of bugs status All bugs in a subtree can be updated with a single keystroke Support for Bugzilla queries Copy from past steps in history to current one Adding timestamp to branch Sort lexically forward backward Create new map with current selection as MapCenter Detach a branch to make it a new mapcenter Go forward backward in selection history Widgets Editors 18 Internationalization Tree editor added Heading editor added New find window Shows all hits clearly both branches and notes Makes it easy to select the hits in editors More file dialogs now can remember to switch off warnings Progress bar shows filename of currently loading map Dock Widgets Can be positioned freely Floating next to main window Integrated top left right bottom into main window Note editor Find window Graphics Animation e Panning Snap back Images Basic SVG support Images can be resized New standard flags Frames e Include subtree in frame New frametype cloud Zoom Zoom with scroll wheel press CTRL e Zoom factor is saved and restored on load e Center on selection wi
57. sed plot map to deal with a pair of maps with markers in different orders or with some markers appearing in one map and not the other and revised scantwo to allow analysis of individual chromosome pairs and reorganized the way that scantwo permutations are done first summarizing each chromosome pair and then overall For a complete list of changes and improvements visit http www rqtl org STATUS txt 5 1 13 R zoo R zoo has been updated from 1 6 to 1 7 6 Among the changes are Removed dependency on fCalendar which was only for historical purposes vignette zoo package zoo outlines how timeDate instead of fCalendar can be used together with zoo in read zoo index column can refer to column names or numbers previously only numbers 31 Release Notes fully export all as Date methods so that they can be used more easily i e without extra registration with as Date generics from other packages base in particular read zoo gains text argument similar to that in new read table Added drop TRUE argument to merge method When set to drop FALSE this allows to merge a zero column series with a zoo vector to a one column matrix The latter is the default in the cbind method Enhanced the method so that z a value works even if z is a zoo series without data as Date numeric x origin 0000 00 00 is now also accepted being equivalent to origin as Date 0000 01 01 1 for MATLAB dates
58. tar features are supported chirp is new to Fedora with this release 5 4 2 fldigi fldigi has been upgraded to 3 21 27 from 3 21 7 There are a large number of relatively minor to most people changes Some items include Additional Olivia choices Spot notifier Improvements in the configuration dialogs 35 Release Notes Ability to export the log as an ADIF Interface with fllog Many new and improved macros Several improvements to CW operation HamQTH lookup Changes to the NBEMS directories for flmsg Improvements in WeFAX Contestia 64 1000 Many L10n updates 5 4 3 gnuradio gnuradio has been upgraded from 3 4 0 to 3 5 1 Project site http www gnuradio org 5 4 4 hamlib Fedora 17 includes hamlib http hamlib sourceforge net upgraded to 1 2 15 from 1 2 14 5 4 5 qrq CW settings can be changed during attempts on the fly Attempts can be aborted without aborting the whole program 5 4 6 qtel Now possible to specify the microphone and speaker audio devices separately Info chat window split in two separate windows The character encoding for chat messages is now possible to set in the settings dialog The VOX is now disabled by default The default audio device now is alsa default Added support for using the Speex audio codec over EchoLink connections This will only at the moment work when connecting to other SvxLink applications For all other connectio
59. ted 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 jjmcd fedoraproject org 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 jjmcd fedoraproject org Release Revision Mon Oct 10 2011 John McDonough 15 99 jjmcd fedoraproject org Mentions of F16 BZ 741830 Typo in Grub BZ 743981 Additional index terms Revision Fri Aug 16 2011 John McDonough 15 98 jjmcd fedoraproject org Release for F16 Beta Revision 15 2 Thu Jun 23 2011 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org Required memory for installation BZ 699770 Revision 15 1 Fri Jun 3 2011 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org 43 Release Notes Typo in Virtualization BZ 705928 gnuplot not GNU plot BZ 707318 device naming BZz 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 jjmcd fedoraproject org Memory
60. tephen Gordon lt sgordon AT redhat DOT com gt Tian Shixiong lt tiansworld AT fedoraproject org gt Yuri Chornoivan lt yurchor AT ukr DOT net gt Yuri Khabarov bOOblik AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Valentin Laskov laskov AT festa bg A 2 Translators alex pe aeperezt AT fedoraproject org gt Cheng Chia Tseng pswo10680 AT gmail com gt Constantin Drabo lt panda constantin AT gmail com gt Daniel Cabrera lt logan AT fedoraproject org gt Damien Gourbiere lt dgourbiere AT gmail com gt Domingo Becker lt domingobecker AT gmail com gt dominique bribanick lt chepioq AT gmail com gt Dorian lt munto AT free fr gt Eduardo Villagr n M lt gotencool AT gmail com gt Geert Warrink lt geert warrink AT onsnet nu gt Guido Grazioli lt guido grazioli AT gmail com gt Hajime Taira lt htaira AT redhat com gt J r me Fenal lt jfenal AT gmail com gt K vin Raymond lt shaiton AT fedoraproject org gt Motohiro Kanda lt kanda motohiro AT gmail com gt Nick Bebout lt nick AT bebout net gt Richard E van der Luit lt nippur AT fedoraproject org gt Silvio Pierro lt perplesso82 AT gmail com gt simonyanix lt simonyan AT fedoraproject org gt Tiansworld lt tiansworld AT fedoraproject org gt Tommy He lt lovenemesis AT gmail com gt Tomoyuki Kato lt tomo AT dream daynight jp gt Valentin Laskov lt laskov AT festa bg gt Walter Cheuk lt wwycheuk AT gmail com gt 41
61. th or reset zoom with Autolayout collision detection Fonts e Set default font Branch headings may be RichText now 3 3 Internationalization 19 Release Notes 3 3 1 IBus Bus has a new input method switcher with a popup listing available input methods engines somewhat like Alt Tab in managers IBus also now has better and cleaner handling of X keyboard layouts Bus has changed the behavior to share the input method engines and the state among applications ibus m17n now excludes some m17n engines by default including zh pinyin ko han2 and most kbd engines because they overlap with other specific IMEs such as ibus pinyin and ibus hangul ibus fep is a new IBus frontend client which can be used in consoles and terminals Indic Typing Booster now supports Bengali and there are beta versions for Marathi Hindi Gujarati and Tamil languages available 3 3 2 Asian Fonts The default Korean Font has changed from Un to Nanum As the glyphs in Nanum look nicer than Un and Nanum has a monospace variant The default Simplified Chinese Font has changed from WenQuanYi Zen Hei to WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp which uses the embedded bitmap font to make Simplified Chinese render more clearly at small sizes One can use the zenheiset tool to change the default Simplified Chinese font back to the previous default Lohit fonts are now under SIL OFL license New font packages gubbi fonts an
62. to the VFS that the current transaction will overwrite the entire database file Increase the default lookaside memory allocator allocation size from 100 to 128 bytes Enhanced the query planner so that it can factor terms in and out of OR expressions in the WHERE clause in an effort to find better indices Added the SQLITE DIRECT OVERFLOW READ compile time option causing overflow pages to be read directly from the database file bypassing the page cache Remove limits on the magnitude of precision and width value in the format specifiers of the sqlite3 mprintf family of string rendering routines 10 Release Notes Directory Change 2 8 Release Notes Directory Change 5 Release Notes to Move Beginning the next release the Fedora Release Notes will 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 will be stored in usr s
63. y and they can share the C random number stream used to produce the unique part Further two children can call tempfile simultaneously Option print in Sweave s RweaveLatex driver now emulates auto printing rather than printing which can differ for an S4 object by calling show rather than print filled contour now accepts infinite values previously it might have generated invalid graphics files e g containing NaN values PACKAGE INSTALLATION RCMD INSTALL will now do a test load for all sub architectures for which code was compiled rather than just the primary sub architecture UTILITIES When checking examples under more than one sub architecture R CMD check now uses a separate directory examples arch for each sub architecture and leaves the output in file pkgname Ex arch Rout Some packages expect their examples to be run in a clean directory Refer to htips stat ethz ch pipermail r announce 2011 000548 html for the complete list of changes and bug fixes 5 1 11 R qcc R qcc is new to Fedora R qcc is an R package which provides a rich set of quality control and statistical process control tools including Plot Shewhart quality control charts Plot Cusum and EWMA charts for continuous data Draw operating characteristic curves Perform process capability analysis Draw Pareto charts and Ishikawa diagrams 5 1 12 R qtl R qtl has been updated to 1 22 21 Major changes include revi

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