Fedora Linux 44 Beta is out and all the Atomic Desktops variants are ready for testing: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44-beta/
We have two important removals for this cycle:
- Dropping FUSE2 libraries and thus support for AppImages that require them.
- Dropping old polkit pkla rules support
Latest GNOME, KDE Plasma and Budgie releases are also ready.
@siosm what are the highlights for a better tomorrow that Fedora 44 will bring for Atomic Desktops?
Just asking out of curiosity (so feel free to ignore this, I won't mind!), as to me (who is mostly an outsider in that area) it feels like development of Fedora Atomic Desktops and the tech it builds upon slowed down. You mentioning two things being dropped (which is kinda boring) just contributed to that feeling… Or have I just not been looking at the right places to see the progress that has been made?
I assume it's something like that. Or are there maybe less highlights than usual temporarily because people are busy with important and hard work at the lower stack? Bootc maybe?
@knurd42 I'm currently writing the post with the highlights for the release 🙂. I mentioned those two removal here to give a another heads up and reduce surprise.
Development is definitely not slowing down. Progress is mostly happening in bootc and we have great features coming (composefs backend, UKI support, new installer Live ISO).
Some will be available right away, some will require us to complete the transition to bootable containers first.
Timothée Ravier
Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 2/4)