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1. 2 idris 19 J Java EE 19 JBOSS Application Server 19 journalctl 10 journald 10 L Linewidth invariance XCircuit 21 lvm 19 M MongoDB 8 P Polygon to curve XCircuit 21 R Rails Ruby on 20 Reporting Bug and Feature Request 2 S Samba SSSD 8 sendmail 8 shares 28 CIFS 8 Spline control points XCircuit 21 SSD Caching see bcache SSSD ID mapping 8 Stretch XCircuit 21 systemd 9 W Wiki Fedora 2 Wildfly 8 19 X XCircuit 21 Revision History 29 302. lt dgourbiere AT gmail com gt e David Young lt dhyang555 AT gmail com gt Dorian munto AT free fr gt e Dralyab geodebay AT gmail com gt Francesco D Aluisio lt fdaluisio AT fedoraproject org gt e Geert Warrink lt geert warrink AT onsnet nu gt 22 Revision History Gianluca Sforna lt giallu AT gmail com gt Guido Grazioli lt guido grazioli AT gmail com gt G Baylard lt Geodebay AT gmail com gt Hajime Taira lt htaira AT redhat com gt Huan Chen lt chenhuan126 AT 126 com gt Illan Rul Da Cunha lt inactive Havok_Novak AT transifex com gt Jiaming Liu lt storypku AT gmail com gt Jiro Matsuzawa lt jmatsuzawa AT gnome org gt J r me Fenal lt jfenal AT gmail com gt KAT RAT12 lt spanish katerina AT gmail com gt Kiyoto Hashida lt khashida AT redhat com gt K vin Raymond lt shaiton AT fedoraproject org gt Luca Manlio De Lisi lt lukefiltroman AT gmail com gt Luigi Votta lt lewis41 AT fedoraproject org gt MarbolanGos Fabien lt marbolangos AT gmail com gt Mike Manilone lt zhtx10 AT gmail com gt Motohiro Kanda lt kanda motohiro AT gmail com gt Nobrakal lt nobrakal AT gmail com gt Richard E van der Luit lt nippur AT fedoraproject org gt Silvio Pierro lt perplesso82 AT gmail com gt Tadashi ELF Jokagi lt elf AT poyo jp gt Tadashi Jokagi lt elf AT elf no ip org gt Tiansworld lt tiansworld AT fedoraproject org gt Tommy He lt lovenemesis AT gmail co
3. above for details E mail the Release Note mailing list at relnotes fedoraproject org 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators 2 1 Installation 2 1 1 Unversioned docdirs Per package documentation is now installed into unversioned usr share doc packagename directories Previously the directory name contained the package s version in addition to the package s name 2 2 Security 2 2 1 FreelPA gains transitive trust support FreelPA 3 3 2 adds support for complex Active Directory forests containing multiple domains Users from multiple AD domains can access resources in FreelPA FreelPA administrators can selectively block access per each AD domain 2 2 2 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares The Fedora 20 System Security Services Daemon has gained support for mapping between Windows SIDs and POSIX IDs Administrators using SSSD on their networks can establish access control using two new utilities setcifsacl and getcifsacl More information can be found in the upstream design document at hitps fedorahosted org sssd wiki DesignDocs IntegrateSSSDWithCIFSClient and the manpages for setcifsacl getcifsacl and other related SSSD packages 2 2 3 Shared System Certificate Tools Fedora s Shared System Certificate feature is being enhanced this release with the addition of the p11 kit trust application This package allows modification to trust anchors and blacklist keys and certificates With a single command administrat
4. better file type handling and updates to the user interface More streamlined dependencies Cinnamon no longer requires the entire GNOME Desktop Environment to be installed and the two environments get along better when they are both installed To use Cinnamon on Fedora install it with the command yum groupinstall Cinnamon Desktop and choose it when logging in A detailed look at the features in Cinnamon 2 0 can be found at http segfault linuxmint com 2013 10 cinnamon 2 0 released 3 1 3 Enlightenment Fedora 20 offers the newest version of Enlightenment After over a decade of upstream development the Enlightenment project has released the E17 desktop shell a window manager and supporting suite of libraries It can be configured as a fast spartan window manager or as a visually appealing desktop environment with ample eye candy Enlightenment can be installed with the command yum install enlightenment and used by choosing it at login To learn more read hitp www enlightenment org p php p about amp l en 3 1 4 GNOME 3 10 3 1 4 1 GNOME Overview Fedora 20 features GNOME 3 10 This latest version of the GNOME desktop will have a number of new applications and features Fine grained scrolling when dragging the scroll bar handle or scrolling while holding the shift key Support for login and authentication with Smart Cards Header bars merge title bars and toolbars into a single element giving more screen space to window cont
5. incorporates better with existing bonding or bridging tools and configurations This allows greater interoperability with virtualization solutions like libvirt Managed devices will not appear in configuration applets unless the applet supports these device types Example configurations are available at http fedoraproject org wiki Networking Bridging and http fedoraproject org wiki Networking Bonding 3 2 2 NetworkManager on the command line The NetworkManager command line tool nmc1i in Fedora 20 gains the ability to add and edit network connections 3 2 3 Bluetooth stack updated to BlueZ 5 Fedora 20 includes the latest version of the BlueZ bluetooth management software The 5 0 release includes numerous backend improvements adds support for Low Energy profiles and features the command line tool bluetoothct1 For detailed information on the changes in this release consult the upstream release notes at http www bluez org release of bluez 5 0 3 3 Internationalization 3 3 1 Input Methods ibus now supports input method engine per window for non GNOME desktop environments It can be enabled from ibus setup ibus cangjie is a new ibus engine for users of the Cangjie and Quick input methods It is primarily intended to Hong Kong people who want to input Traditional Chinese as they are by far the majority of Cangjie and Quick users ibus rime is a new Rime input method engine for Linux IBus ibus typing booster l
6. 2 1 fldigi fldigi has been upgraded to 3 21 76 Some of the changes include e Improvements to ADIF logging Better weak signal MFSK e Improvements in THOR Allow display of UTF 8 when active ARQ client Along with numerous others For complete details visit http www w1hkj com Fldigi html 5 2 2 gnuradio Fedora 20 includes gnuradio 3 7 1 Major new features include GRC Bus Ports http gnuradio org redmine projects gnuradio wiki Busports ControlPort http gnuradio org doc doxygen page_ctrlport html Performance Measurement Tools e QTGUI Enhancements New blocks include gr analog fast noise source and gr analog agc3_ agc agc2 and agc3 blocks now have a unified interface New components gr fec and gr channels have been added A new tool allows the creation of out of tree VOLK libraries http www gnuradio org includes details of these changes as well as extensive documentation 5 2 3 qucs qucs has been upgraded to 0 0 17 Some key improvements New BSIM nMOS and pMOS models 21 Release Notes e m code transient solver interface For full details refer to http qucs sourceforge net 5 2 4 trustedqsl trustedqs has been updated to 1 14 3 Updates include correcting some CQ zones enhanced handling of duplicates and improvements in some error messages The details may be found at the project web page at hitp sourceforge net projects trustedgsl 5 2 5 xastir xastir 2 0 4 inc
7. 4 11 KDE Plasma Workspaces 4 11 is a long term release of the popular full featured desktop environment Major changes have been made to user experience personal information management and performance aspects of the platform User experience changes Taskbar has been ported to QtQuick providing more consistent and fluent behavior Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals such as in mice and keyboards Notification popups now have a configure button allowing customization of the type of notification displayed Kmix the KDE sound mixer performs better and more stably in addition to adding media player controls to the widget Improved performance of Kwin the KDE window manager Text editor Kate has new plugins for Python2 Python3 Javascript JQuery and XML Improved user interface design in Kwallet Kolourpaint a simple painting application now supports the WebP image format PDF viewer Okular adds review tools and undo redo support for annotations and forms The JuK audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files Personal Identity Management changes Improved Kontact Suite including better archiving scheduled mail sending simple message filtering interface better notifications and scam detection in Kmail Performance Improvements e Numerous optimizations to Dolphin reduce memory usage by
8. Fedora 20 Release Notes Release Notes for Fedora 20 fedora Edited by The Fedora Docs Team Copyright 2013 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
9. 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 24 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 Start beta F17 notes Revision 16 3 Tue Nov 29 2011 John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject 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 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 Jo
10. 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 20 It describes major changes offered in Heisenbug as compared to Fedora 19 For a detailed listing of all changes refer to the Fedora Technical Notes Release Notes 1 Welcome to Fedora 20 iia ero 2 1 1 Welcome to Fedora matador dir taaan rie 2 A n 3 1 3 Hardware OVerVIeW irta 3 1 4 Architecture Specific Content e 5 15 Feedback qu CO aiia EA AEAEE AAEE A a EEEE e AANE E 5 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators ei 6 ZE Installation is 6 LEES TSU MEE 6 VENISSET JC 6 A A anad aa anaana a Daaa naaa E Taa TA aAa E EENAA 7 2 5 DatabaSe SErvers sisi 8 2 6 Mail Servers ee 8 21 SAMBA iii aaa 8 2 8 System DACMONS pria a a pe Tieni 9 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users anette eee ee tees emen mener rennen nenas 11 eB px rai ira 11 3 2 Networking iaia 15 3 3 InternationalizatiOni ccce ett nhe xe a aa 15 Mi pec LE o 17 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers nennen enhn nennen sns nnne nien 17 4 1 Development RM 17 BD GCC TOONS iaia aaa paia ia 19 LANCE SELL CIE M cT 19 4 4 Web Development iii erint e e FERE CERE pe ERR RA WR a
11. a ERA FREE ERE 19 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences ee 20 5 1 Circ lt Design xc eee Sob ean thadaadieds a Ea A aai Eaa ai iii 20 52 Amateur Radio m anes 21 A Contributors 22 TEST ISTE ERREUR TTE 22 MITIS eae 22 B Revision History 23 Index 27 1 Welcome to Fedora 20 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 and 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 th
12. al indexes and security enhancements For more information about this new version read the release notes at http docs mongodb org manual release notes 2 4 2 5 2 Hadoop Fedora 20 offers the core of the thriving Hadoop platform and many related packages For a detailed review of Hadoop in Fedora refer to https fedoraproject org wiki Changes Hadoop The packaging of the Hadoop platform is the latest work of the Fedora Big Data SIG Find this Special Interest Group at hiips fedoraproject org wiki SIGs bigdata your gateway to using and participating in the effort 2 6 Mail Servers 2 6 1 No default sendmail Fedora 20 no longer includes a mail transfer by default Previous releases of Fedora included sendmail but it has limited usefulness without manual configuration 2 7 Samba 2 7 1 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares System Daemons Information on this feature can be found in the Security section 2 8 System Daemons 2 8 1 Syslog removed from default installation syslog is no longer included in default installations journald logging serves most use cases as well as or better than syslogd Users accustomed to checking var log messages for system logs should instead use journalctl journalctl command examples new journalctl old messages journalctl less var log messages journalctl f tail f var log messages journalctl unit grep named var log messages named service journalctl b Shows logs f
13. atn post and latn pre input methods are not blacklisted anymore 15 Release Notes 3 3 2 Font tools ttname is a new CLI interface for editing the name table that contains the metadata in TrueType and OpenType fonts fntsample is a new program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font sfntly is a library for using editing and creating SFNT based Fonts 3 3 3 Fonts trabajo fonts is a new package designed for use with the Shavian alphabet a phonemic spelling reform proposal for English but also supports extended Latin and basic Cyrillic Trabajo pronounced taz axo if you re Spanish or t b ho if you re English is Spanish for I work Trabajo has become a Serif font as of version 2 0 for improved appearance campivisivi titillium fonts is a new package Titillium is born inside the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino as a didactic project Course Type design of the Master of Visual Design Campi Visivi mph 2b damase fonts is a new package Mark Williamson s MPH 2B Damase is a free font for many non Latin scripts encoding google noto fonts script coverage is increased It now has support for additional scripts as listed below Avestan Bengali Brahmi Carian Cherokee Coptic Deseret Egyptian Hieroglyphs Glagolitic Gujarati Hanunno Imperial Aramaic Kaithi Kannada KayahLi Kharoshthi Lisu Lycian Lydian Malayalam Mandaic Meeteimayek Nko Old south Arabian Old Turkic O
14. c 7 6 does not officially support Ilvm 3 3 so there are some issues when using the llvm backend particularly on ARM where it is the default 4 4 Web Development 4 4 1 WildFly 8 Fedora 20 includes the WildFly 8 Application Server formerly known as the JBoss Application Server a very popular Java EE platform WildFly is a very fast modular and lightweight server WildFly makes it easy to run and manage cluster of servers with many applications deployed 19 Release Notes Get started with WildFly at http wildfly org 4 4 2 Ruby on rails Fedora 20 includes version 4 0 of the popular Ruby on Rails web framework This latest release includes improved functionality speed and security in addition to better modularization Documentation for Ruby on Rails 4 0 can be found at http weblog rubyonrails 0rg 2013 6 25 Rails 4 O final and http api rubyonrails org Developers moving to Ruby on Rails 4 0 can find assistance from the project s upgrade guide and detailed information in the upstream Release Notes 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences 5 1 Circuit Design 5 1 1 gtkwave gtkwave has been updated from 3 3 41 to 3 3 51 This includes a large number of upgrades including Adding more support for newer constructs in Vermin e Added scrollwheel support to rtlbrowse code windows Added VPD support via vpd2vcd Added preliminary do nothing generate support in vermin Added Open Hierarchy option that
15. cs Systems with older or no graphics acceleration devices can have accelerated desktop environments using LLVMpipe technology which uses the CPU to render graphics LLVMpipe requires a processor with SSE2 extensions The extensions supported by your processor are listed in the flags section of proc cpuinfo 1 3 3 3 Choosing a Desktop Environment for your hardware Fedora 20 s default desktop environment GNOMES functions best with hardware acceleration Alternative desktops are recommended for users with older graphics hardware or those seeing insufficient performance with LL VMpipe Desktop environments can be added to an existing installation and selected at login To list the available desktops use the yam grouplist command Architecture Specific Content yum grouplist v hidden grep desktop Install the desired group yum groupinstall KDE Plasma Workspaces Or use the short group name to install yum install mate desktop environment 1 4 Architecture Specific Content 1 4 1 Cloud Specific Content Fedora 20 continues efforts to produce tested and proven cloud images The images are now built using the same tooling as other release media and the Fedora Cloud team has actively trimmed and improved their product Get started using Fedora 20 in the cloud now at hitp fedoraproject org en get fedora options clouds 1 4 2 ARM Specific Content ARM in Fedora is all grown up With the release of Fedora 20 ARM is consi
16. dered a primary architecture meaning that it receives the same amount of attention that the x86 and x86 64 releases get Fedora ARM officially supports armv7hl and work on AArch64 is underway To find out how to help or learn about other unofficial ARM ports read the ARM section of the wiki Architectures ARM 1 5 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 5 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 F20 bugs on the wiki 1 5 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 i https fedoraproject org wiki Architectures ARM http fedoraproject org wiki BugsAndFeatureRequests 10 http fedoraproject org wiki Common F20 bugs n http fedoraproject org wiki Docs Beats Release Notes Fill out a bug request using this template This link is ONLY for feedback on the release notes themselves Refer to the admonition
17. e fedora channel on the IRC net irc freenode net Keep in mind that the channel is populated by volunteers wanting to help but folks knowledgeable about a specific topic might not always be available 1 2 Overview As always Fedora continues to develop Red Hat contributions and integrate the latest free and open source software Fedora 20 Changes 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 20 refer to the individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress htip fedoraproject org wiki Releases 20 Change Set 1 3 Hardware Overview Fedora 20 provides software to suit a wide variety of applications The storage memory and processing requirements vary depending on usage For example a high traffic database server requires much more memory and storage than a business desktop which in turn has higher requirements than a single purpose virtual machine 1 3 1 Minimum System Configuration The figures below are a recommended minimum for the default installation Your requirements may differ and most applications will benefit from more than the minimum resources 1GHz or faster processor 1GB System Memory 10GB unallocated drive space i http fedoraproject org wiki FAQ li http fedoraproject org wiki Communicate E http fedoraproject org wiki Join 5 http www fedoraproject org wiki Red Hat contrib
18. ent and improving presentation of application controls Improved Magnifier with caret tracking press F7 to activate caret Lock screen background customization A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when traveling and location detection in Maps 12 Desktop GNOME Documents support for OwnCloud Drag and drop files between your computer and a Boxes guest Windows guests will need hitp spice space org download windows spice guest tools installed and Linux guests will need an updated version of spice vdagent Boxes gains support for importing filesystem images Improved user interface for Contacts Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays Improved application selection in the shell Overview Flikr integration with GNOME Online Accounts allows access to Flikr content in GNOME Photos Improved integrated system status menu Redesigned gnome tweak tool with improved design extension integration and expanded functionality A new application GNOME Maps brings a simple map application to the GNOME Desktop GNOME Music a streamlined application for playing and sharing music System Status Area The new System Status Area unifies many settings that had their own icon and menu in previous releases such as wireless and other networking Not all potential features are displayed at all times for example the volume slider for a microphone does not appear when a microphone
19. er manual 3 4 1 3 simarrange Fedora 20 offers a new plating tool called simarrange This command line utility takes a collection of STL files and arranges them to fit densely on a given plate size 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers 4 1 Development 4 1 1 ACPICA Tools Developers working with the ACPI subsystem now have more resources available from Fedora The acpica tools package replaces the existing iasl and pm tools packages to provide all the tools from http acpica org 17 Release Notes 4 1 2 Developer Assistant Developer Assistant a tool for starting coding projects with popular languages and platforms has been updated to provide a graphical user interface and improved functionality Documentation for Developer Assistant is maintained at https developer assistant readthedocs org 4 1 3 Perl 5 18 Perl in Fedora 20 has been updated to version 5 18 with a number of notable changes New features Unicode 6 2 is supported Matching Unicode properties is faster now Operators next last redo and dump supports labels computed at run time The kill function allows to send a signal to a process group by symbolic name Experimental support for lexical subroutines has been added Config Perl V module to access perl V data in structured way has been added into core modules e DTrace SystemTap provides new probes op entry loading file and loaded file Changes Hashes are randomized by defa
20. hn McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject 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 org org org org Revision History Release Notes 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 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 jjmcd fedoraproject org Memory BZ 699770 701780 Xfce case BZ 699977 Wireshark permission changes BZ 680165 Powering off with
21. is not present and WiFi options do not appear when a wireless device is not detected Learn more about the System Status Area at hitp afaikblog wordpress com 2013 08 31 feature focus gnome 3s new system status area and https wiki gnome org GnomeShell Design Guidelines SystemStatus 3 1 4 2 GNOME Software GNOME in Fedora will offer a new visually appealing application for browsing and installing applications GNOME Software shows information relevant to users such as descriptions screenshots reviews and more Applications describe themselves to Software and other supporting tools using the AppData Specification In support of this functionality Fedora contributors have combined their efforts to offer assistance and patches for AppData support to upstream projects The older package management GUI gpk application is still available 3 1 4 3 Further reading To learn more about GNOME 3 10 see Upstream release notes https help gnome org misc release notes 3 10 New applications https help gnome org misc release notes 3 10 more apps html User Experience updates https help gnome org misc release notes 3 10 more core ux html Internationalization notes https help gnome org misc release notes 3 10 118n html Sysadmin Developer Notes https help gnome org misc release notes 3 10 developers html 3 1 5 KDE la http people freedesktop org hughsient appdata 13 Release Notes 3 1 5 1 KDE Plasma Workspaces
22. le PNG image grab menu option e Added VHDL package type to FST Added fstWriterSetSourceStem so writers can embed source stems in the FST file Updated examples gtkwaverc accel options to reflect the current state of the gtkwave main window main menu In addition there are numerous bug fixes and internal improvements More detail may be found in the ChangeLog or on the web site at http gtkwave sourceforge net 20 Amateur Radio 5 1 2 XCircuit xcircuit has been updated to 3 7 44 Version 3 7 has a modified selection mechanism that considers both points and segments of elements as well as entire elements This allows the edit function to work as a stretch function to many elements at once Also added linewidth invariance on objects Object instances such as circuit symbols can be made linewidth invariant such that an instance of the object can be scaled without changing the linewidth This allows some circuit symbols to be resized relative to others on the same schematic without a discontinuity in wire width at the pins A number of other useful additions including e Tracking spline control points for adjoining splines in paths Clipmasks shapes can be used to clip the view of other elements polygon to curve conversion routine e undo redo on raise lower elements e single step raise and lower elements gradient field generator color graded fields are made from graphic image types 5 2 Amateur Radio 5
23. ludes a large number of changes and performance improvements Refer to the help file for details or visit the project s web site at http www xastir org 5 2 6 xnec2c xnec2c has been updated to 2 3 The differences between 2 1 and 2 3 are largely unnoticable to the user but reflect cleaning up the application s internal Most of these changes actually affect the nec2cpackage which provides the calculation engine for xnec2c The application web site is at http www qsl net 5b4az pages nec2 html 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 Fedora Documentation Project Petr Bokoc lt pbokoc AT redhat DOT com gt e John J McDonough lt jjmcd AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Laura Novich lt Inovich AT redhat DOT com gt Zach Oglesby lt oglesbyzm gmail com gt e Jens Petersen lt petersen AT redhat DOT com gt Pravins Sapute lt pravins AT fedoraproject DOT org Pete Travis lt immanetize AT fedoraproject DOT org gt A 2 Translators Fedora Translation Project e Alick Zhao lt alick9188 AT gmail com gt e Antonio Trande lt sagitter AT fedoraproject org gt e Atsushi lt fedorakenken AT yahoo co jp gt Christopher Meng cickumqt AT gmail com gt e Constantin DRABO lt panda constantin AT gmail com gt Damien Gourbiere
24. m gt Tomoyuki KATO lt tomo AT dream daynight jp gt Valentin Laskov lt laskov AT festa bg gt Yuri Chornoivan lt yurchor AT ukr net gt Zhantong Zhang lt zhantongz AT gmail com gt amos lt ch linux free AT gmail com gt antoniomontag lt antonio montagnani AT alice it gt aurisc4 lt aurisc4 AT gmail com gt aviator lt pouillaude a AT gmail com gt chiachen L lt luojiazhen AT gmail com gt crlOx7c2 lt crl0x7c2 AT gmail com gt dominique bribanick lt chepiog AT gmail com gt germano massullo lt germano massullo AT gmail com gt neb lt nick AT bebout net gt noriko lt noriko AT fedoraproject org gt simonyanix lt simonyan AT fedoraproject org gt zsun lt zamirs AT 163 com gt lt litimetal AT gmail com gt HHHH QTHHHHE lt www carrotsoft AT gmail com gt B Revision History Revision 20 6 Thu Dec 5 2013 Pete Travis immanetize fedoraproject org Corrections to the GNOME beat Revision Sun Oct 20 2013 20 01 23 Release Notes F20 Beta Release notes initial draft Revision Thu Jun 13 2013 19 11 Post beta updates and fixes Revision Fri May 24 2013 19 09 Updated revision for F19 Beta Revision Mon May 13 2013 19 08 Initial Draft for F19 Beta Revision 18 0 Tue Jan 8 2013 Revision for F18 final Revision Wed Nov 7 2012 17 98 Prepare for Fedora 18 Beta Revision Sun Oct 28 2012 17 95 Initial revision for F18 Pull in and proofread content from wiki Revision 17 1 Tue
25. ors can make changes to their system s certificate database instead of adding a file to a special directory and running a special command This new tool continues the development of the Shared System Certificate feature 2 3 File Systems 2 3 1 SSD caching for block devices Fedora 20 offers experimental support for adding solid state drives SSDs as fast transparent caches to traditional rotating storage HDDs Filesystems on the SSD cached block devices offer both the sE http tinyurl com nej3u 6 Virtualization speed of SSDs and volume of HDDs Both traditional and LVM partitioning schemes can benefit from this functionality 1 Make backups Always back up your data before making low level changes such as migrating to a bcache device Until tools like blocks are packaged for Fedora users are advised to implement bcache by creating clean bcache devices and populating their filesystems from a recent backup Learn more about this functionality called bcache from https git kernel org cgit linux kernel git torvalds linux git plain Documentation bcache txt http bcache evilpiepirate org http blog kylemanna com linux 2013 06 30 ssd caching using dmcache tutorial https fedoraproject org wiki Test_Day 2013 10 13_SSD_Cache 2 4 Virtualization 2 4 1 ARM emulation on x86 Hosts Changes have been made to have smoother emulation of ARM guest virtual machines running on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools incl
26. rom current boot no simple equivalent 2 8 2 systemd 2 8 2 1 New unit types Scope Systemd now has two new unit types scope and slice scope units are automatically created by systemd out of existing processes By grouping a process and its children together a scope unit can be used to organize processes apply resource units or kill a group of processes User sessions are one example of processes contained in a scope unit slice units are used to group units that manage processes into a hierarchy that allows control of resources allocated to the slice The default slices are machine slice for virtual machines and containers system slice for system services and user slice for user sessions These default slices are automatically populated Instance units such as getty service are spawned on demand using the template defined in their configuration file Each type of template is given a subslice of the system slice and instances are contained within that slice Scope and service units assigned to a slice are descendants of that slice s node in the control group tree A slice s name describes its position relative to the root slice The output below demonstrates how user 1000 slice is a child of user slice which is in turn a child of the root slice Each session is further confined in a scope unit within the user s slice systemctl status user slice 14 security sssd cifs Release Notes Loaded loaded usr lib
27. s write permissions on the domain object Additional checks and permission settings can be processed as well Filtering can also be done to see which clients have permissions on which objects to allow for smother administration of permissions Documentation for polkit access control can be found at http libvirt org aclpolkit html 1 https github com g2p blocks Release Notes The libvirtd conf configuration file is responsible for setting the access permissions It uses the access_drivers parameter to enable this operation Note that if more than one access driver is requested all must succeed in order for permission to be granted More information can be found at https fedoraproject org wiki Changes Virt_ACLs and http libvirt org acl html 2 4 3 Virt manager snapshots Virtual Machine Manager or virt manager allows for easy management and monitoring of virtual machine snapshots of KVM guests Note that virt manager will pause the guest virtual machine for a few seconds while taking the snapshot More information is available here http fedoraproject org wiki Changes Virt Manager Snapshots http fedoraproject org wiki Features Virt Live Snapshots http libvirt org formatsnapshot html Snapshot section of man 1 virsh http fedoraproject org wiki QA Testcase Virt Snapshot UI 2 5 Database Servers 2 5 1 MongoDB MongoDB has been updated to version 2 4 adding full text search support for a wider array of geospati
28. smanya Phoenician Shavian Symbols Tagalog Tai Tham Tai Viet 16 Printing Telugu Ugaritic Vai lohit devanagari fonts from lohit2 project by completely rewritten open type tables support for both dev2 and deva liberation fonts with improved Serbian locale support in it and minor bugfixes 3 4 Printing 3 4 1 3D Printing 3 4 1 1 slic3r slic3r is a powerful tool for converting 3D models into printing instructions for a 3D printer Fedora 20 includes the latest slic3r version bringing a new wipe feature that retracts while moving along the last path a spiral vase option for continuously raising Z coordinate while printing and numerous other code improvements Detailed release notes are available at http slic3r org releases 0 9 10b 3 4 1 2 Cura The latest version of 3D printing software Cura in Fedora 20 is a huge update compared to previous versions Work faster There s no prepare button because there is no need to prepare Cura comes with a new and much faster slicing engine that slices in realtime while you prepare your printing plate Models that took hours to prepare now take minutes Plan better The Project Planner tool has been integrated into the main interface Build Stronger Infills are done with a grid of squares rather than random lines giving strength to your project without adding material For details on using Cura refer to the project s manual at http blog ultimaker com cura us
29. 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 26 Add prose on IcedTea Revision 14 97 Mon Apr 11 2011 Add index entries Revision 14 96 Tue Apr 5 2011 Revision History John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org John McDonough 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 14 95 Tue Apr 5 2011 Converted beats Revision 14 90 Tue Mar 22 2011 Empty Fedora 15 skeleton A AArch64 ARM 5 ARM 5 armv7l ARM 5 B bcache 6 boost 19 Bug Reporting 2 C CIFS shares 8 Clipmasks John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org John McDonough jjmcd fedoraproject org Index 27 Release Notes XCircuit 21 Cloud 5 F FAQ Fedora 2 G gcc 19 ghc 19 glibc 19 Gradient field generator XCircuit 21 gtkterm 20 H Hadoop 8 Help
30. systemd system user slice static Active active since Sun 2013 09 08 01 23 40 MDT 18h ago Docs man systemd special 7 CGroup user slice Yuser 1000 slice session 21 scope 9226 sshd pete priv 9229 sshd pete pts 4 9230 bash 9262 sudo su P9270 su 29271 bash 9509 screen R l session 18 scope H 7939 sshd pete priv H 7942 sshd pete pts 0 H 7943 bash H 7982 sudo su H 7988 su H 7989 bash 8206 SCREEN H 8207 bin bash H 8237 bin bash H 8486 less NEWS 8489 bin bash 1210637 systemctl status user slice truncated Services can be added to a slice with the Slice slicename directive in their unit configuration file Arguments allowing resource limitation within a slice or service unit are described in man systemd directives See also man systemd slice and man systemd cgroup 2 8 2 2 systemd cryptsetup for TrueCrypt Support for TrueCrypt in Fedora is expanded by systemd cryptsetup support for the technology allowing easy authentication during boot 2 8 2 3 Filtering by unit state with systemctl systemct1 now supports filtering the unit list output by load state The state option will accept any value or a comma separated list of the values of LOAD SUB or ACTIVE states For example systemctl state failed 2 8 3 journald 2 8 3 1 Viewing the logs of a specific boot journalc
31. t 4e5e7d81c7 Scripts parsing journalctl s output can store the cursor value and use it on their next run to pick up where they left off journalctl after cursor s 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 i 1120d b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m db2118a46 t 4e5e7d81c7 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users 3 1 Desktop 3 1 1 General 3 1 1 1 X2Go X2Go is a featureful remote desktop solution based on a fork of NoMachine s GPL ed NX3 libraries X2Go packages allow Fedora 20 to work as a scalable server or versatile client Entire desktop sessions can be paused and migrated and the software supports audio and file transfers 11 Release Notes l X2Go with accelerated desktops X2Go may not start properly with 3D accelerated desktops like GNOMES For best results use a desktop environment that does not require acceleration Get started with X2Go using Fedora s X2Go packages and the documentation at http wiki x2go org doku php doc start 3 1 2 Cinnamon The community favorite desktop environment Cinnamon in Fedora 20 has been updated to version 2 0 with many new features and improvements Some features of the release include Better edge tiling Edge Snapping like tiling but snapped windows are not covered by other windows Fun and customizable sound effects Enhanced user management and a new user applet for common tasks Many improvements in the file manager nemo including system tray support for file operations
32. tl can now be used to view the logs from a specific boot For example to view logs from the current boot journalctl b Or view the logs from the previous boot 10 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users journalctl b 1 In addition to relative boot sequence journald assigns a 128 bit boot ID that can be referenced For example journalctl b 38fd9c3303574ed38e822233457f6b77 2 8 3 2 Referencing the journal with cursors journalctl can reference the contents of the journal by a record identifier known as a cursor Similar to a git hash the cursor uniquely identifies a point in the journal If you add show cursor to a journalctl query the last line of output will contain the cursor value journalctl b u network show cursor since 15 00 Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain network 4074 FAILED Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 network service control process exited code exited status 1 Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 Failed to start LSB Bring up down networking Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 Unit network service entered failed state cursor S 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 i 1120d b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m db2118a46 t 4e5e7d81c74 The cursor can be used to identify that point in the journal in a broader query to provide context journalctl c s 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 1i 1120d b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m db2118a46
33. tuptools package has been updated to the 0 9 x series This release series merges the setuptools and distribute upstream projects which has introduced a variety of changes to the API and behavior Because this change is mostly compatible with the previous version it should not impair any Python packages in the Fedora If you are writing or deploying other Python software you suspect may be affected please refer to http pythonhosted org setuptools merge html and https pypi python org pypi setuptools changes for more details 4 2 GCC Tools 4 2 1 Boost 1 54 0 Uplift boost has been upgraded to version 1 54 0 Apart from a number of bugfixes this brings in three new libraries Boost Log for logging Boost TTI for Type Traits Introspection and Boost TypeErasure for runtime polymorphism based on concepts The upstream release notes at http www boost org users history version 1 54 O0 html provide detailed information on the release 4 2 2 GLIBC 2 18 Fedora 20 ships version 2 18 of the GNU C Library For information on this release see the upstream release announcement at https sourceware org ml libc alpha 2013 08 msg001 60 html 4 3 Haskell 4 3 1 ghc GHC has been updated to version 7 6 3 and Haskell Platform to 2013 2 Many packages have been updated and new packages added include idris and various libraries All packages have been updated to follow the new simplified revised Haskell Packaging Guidelines Note that gh
34. uding virsh virt manager and virt install qemu has an ARM emulator that works well and is actively used in the Fedora ARM effort However libvirt and virt manager currently have issues launching qemu system arm VMs mostly by encoding x86 assumptions in the generated command line that cause qemu system arm to fail to start Changes have been made to fix this issue More information can be found at https fedoraproject org wiki Changes Virt_ARM_on_x86 2 4 2 Libvirt Client Access Control The libvirt client allows for the setting of permission rules which can be applied to all managed objects and API operations thus allowing for all client connections to be limited to a minimal set of rules and privileges There are three levels of access which can be assigned Unauthenticated access is initially used for all connections This state allows all API operations that are required to complete authentication Following a successful authentication two more levels can be assigned Unrestricted which gives full access to all API operations and Restricted which allows read only access System administrators can set permission rules for authenticated connections Every API call in libvirt has a set of permissions that are validated against the object that is being used For example User A wants to change a parameter in the domain object When the user tries to save the change virDomainSetSchedulerParametersFlags method will check whether the client ha
35. ult now That means the order in which keys and values are returned from a hash changes on each perl run One can disable the randomization by setting PERL PERTURB KEYS environment variable to O qw operator does not imply surrounding parentheses any more e Unknown character names specified using N syntax are processed at compile time and trigger a syntax error now Vertical tab is considered as a white space now Values stored into environment variables are byte strings by default e readline function on I O reads given number of characters instead of bytes now Here document delimited with quoted marker starts always on line following the marker now Alpha numeric operators must always be separated from a regular expression delimiter now e Smart match and lexical became experimental because they proved being problematic Swapping lt and gt variables can cause undesired effects Localizing changed variable is recommended Removed features PL sv objcount XS variable is deprecated All character classifying XS functions are deprecated to uni lower lc to uni title Ic and to uni upper Ic XS functions are deprecated 18 GCC Tools Perl developers should read http search cpan org dist perl 5 18 0 pod perldelta pod and http search cpan org dist perl 5 18 1 pod perldelta pod for a more comprehensive description of this release 4 1 4 python setuptools updated The version of the python se
36. up to 30 Better indexing and various improvements to Nemopuk make searches up to 6x faster adds indexing for ODF docx and other document formats and improves backup and restoration functionality Nemopuk and upgrading Users upgrading to new versions of Nemopuk should expect their database to be automatically re indexed and upgraded The conversion will consume more system resources than normal but will only occur on the first login after upgrading 3 1 5 2 Plasma nm Network applet KDE in Fedora 20 includes Plasma nm a new applet for network management It supports user friendly creation and editing of all connection types from NetworkManager including bridges bonds and VPNs with a modern and intuitive interface 14 Networking 3 1 6 MATE Because of compatibility issues with the new bluetooth stack MATE does not include a bluetooth applet by default Users that need this functionality should install the bluedevil package 3 1 7 Sugar 0 100 The Sugar Learning Platform in Fedora 20 has been updated to version 0 100 The new release features integration with online services like Facebook and Twitter multiple home views a more featureful Journal improved Content Bundle support and more For details see the project s release notes at http wiki sugarlabs 0rg g0 0 100 Notes 3 2 Networking 3 2 1 NetworkManager Bonding and Bridging NetworkManager now supports expanded bonding and bridging functionality and
37. utions 7 http fedoraproject org wiki Releases 20 ChangeSet Release Notes Low memory installations Fedora 20 can be installed and used on systems with limited resources for some applications Text vnc or kickstart installations are advised over graphical installation for systems with very low memory Larger package sets require more memory during installation so users with less than 768MB of system memory may have better results preforming a minimal install and adding to it afterward For best results on systems with less than 1GB of memory use the DVD installation image 1 3 2 Display resolution 2 Graphical Installation requires 800x600 resolution or higher Graphical installation of Fedora 20 requires a minimum screen resolution of 800x600 Owners of devices with lower resolution such as some netbooks should use text or VNC installation Once installed Fedora will support these lower resolution devices The minimum resolution requirement applies only to graphical installation 1 3 3 Graphics Hardware 1 3 3 1 Minimum Hardware for Accelerated Desktops Fedora 20 supports most display adapters Modern feature rich desktop environments like GNOME3 and KDE Plasma Workspaces use video devices to provide 3D accelerated desktops Older graphics hardware may not support acceleration Intel prior to GMA9xx NVIDIA prior to NV30 GeForce FX5xxx series Radeon prior to R300 Radeon 9500 1 3 3 2 CPU Accelerated Graphi
38. will expand the SST and select the hierarchy for a given signal selected in the Signals window Added preliminary support for FsdbReader Added generate as scope type to VCD FST FSDB Display signal direction column in SST if not all signals are declared as FST VD IMPLICIT Added extraction of in out inout from FSDB into FST with vcd2fst helper executable Added support for SV structures unions classes packages programs and interfaces Preliminary support for SV datatypes of bit logic int shortint longint byte enum and shortreal in VCD and FST Added sparse array datatype to FST currently unused by gtkwave Added support for attribute begin end in FST Currently unused by gtkwave This allows embedding of various data inside the structure tree Added ability to store comment in FST files via the attribute mechanism FST AT MISC FST MT COMMENT Added ability to store environment variable information in FST files FS8T MT ENVVAR e Added direction filters to SST name filter search That is adding 1 O 10 B or L before the regular expression adds additional filtering criteria Direction filters are case insensitive Added VHDL hierarchy types to FST internal VCD loaders and also vcdfst fst2vcd Added in VHDL to FST which will also allow other languages gtkwave can process these types e g signal std ulogic but there are currently no simulators supporting them Added File Grab To Fi
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