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Fedora 17 End of Life
by Dennis Gilmore 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As of 30th July 2013, Fedora 17 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 17. A previous reminder was sent on July 3rd [0]. Fedora 18 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 20. The maintenance schedule of Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [1]. The Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [2] on how to upgrade from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates. Cheers, Dennis [0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-July/003169.html [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedu… [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlH5RDcACgkQkSxm47BaWfeGyQCfRaTPrFR2cZfg24tDmyEFL+j8 VIEAnRBsiNAYq+Pc6voWfC3DarHXH+qn =gA5+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Planned Outage: Datacenter work outage - 2013-07-30 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Planned Outage: Datacenter work outage - 2013-07-30 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2013-07-30 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2013-07-30 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are going to be adding memory and disks to various virtual server hosts and updating all instances to the latest security updates. During the outage window particular services may go down and come back up. We will try and keep disruptions down as much as we are able. Affected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Blockerbugs - https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Calendar - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ (trac logins may be unavailable when/if openid is down) Fedora OpenID - https://id.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: DNS - ns-sb01.fedoraproject.org, ns02.fedoraproject.org, ns04.fedoraproject.org, ns05.fedoraproject.org Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Secondary Architectures QA Services Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3904 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Fedora 19 for IBM System z 64bit official release
by Dan Horák 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hello everyone, Fedora 19 GA release for the IBM System z is here. This time two weeks later than the primary mainly because me being on vacation. It's hard for me to take time off work when there are always some deadlines in sight :-) And again we are closer to primary when we count the number of available packages. Worth noting also here is that Anaconda, the Fedora installation program, has been extensively redesigned since Fedora 17. Documentation is available in the Installation Guide (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch-gu…) and is generally applicable to Fedora for System z. The links to the actual release are here: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Fedora/… http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Everyth… and obviously on all sites that mirror the secondary arch content and we still have few :-) The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as one DVD ISO with the complete release. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :) Additional information about known issues, the current progress and state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else Fedora on IBM System z related can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/19 For architecture specific release notes, please read it as there are changes in the interactive installation process. It's a wiki so don't hesitate to add your knowledge there. More information about Fedora on IBM System z can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen! Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers -- Dan Horák, RHCE Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99, 612 45 Brno

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The Fedora Project community mourns the loss of Seth Vidal
by Robyn Bergeron 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

The Fedora Project has lost a valued, longtime member of its community. Seth Vidal died last night, July 8. Seth was a lead developer of yum and the update repository system, and a contributor to the CentOS project as well as the original Fedora Extras system. He worked tirelessly on the infrastructure for the Fedora Project to make all systems work well and consistently for our contributors around the world. He was a gifted speaker, a brilliant thinker, a clever wit, a humble and genuinely funny person, and a good friend. The Fedora community owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Seth's dedication to Fedora and other free software projects, his commitment to community values, and his passion for excellence in his work. To say he will be missed is an understatement. He has been a colleague, a team member, a source of wisdom and advice, and above all, a friend and inspiration to countless people in the Fedora community over the past decade. His seminal and invaluable work in Fedora and free software will live on for years to come, and the legacy of his spirit will stay with the community, and with many of us individually, forever. Our thoughts are with his partner Eunice, the rest of his family, and Seth's many friends and coworkers. I know that many members of the Fedora community will want to personally share their condolences. We'll provide further information as soon as it is available. Robyn Bergeron Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Security SIG Update
by Eric Christensen 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 The Fedora Security SIG is coming back with a new mission and new momentum. Previously the Security SIG concentrated on security responses to vulnerabilities and answered questions from the Fedora community. While this service isn't going away we will be adding two new functions: secure coding education and code audit services. Our secure coding mission is primarily educational. Writing software is really hard, writing secure software is even harder. There's no way any software will ever be written without bugs, but we can try to avoid some of the most common mistakes. Our first steps are to document the common causes for security vulnerabilities in software and provide information on preventing these vulnerabilities from happening. Red Hat has started to track a subset of security flaws using Common Weakness Enumaration (CWE) IDs, this needs to be expanded to cover Fedora security bugs. We also have a secure coding guide, the Defensive Coding Guide[0], that is in the works, along with additional documentation. For code audits, we're really not sure where to start. We want to involve the community in this project, but honestly, we're not totally sure what that means. In the short term we expect to just be more transparent about what sort of work Red Hat is doing in this area and try to make public whatever information we can about code audits; this can be sensitive obviously. If contributors have ideas, or want to help, please join the discussion. This project is expected to evolve substantially over the next few months. As everyone knows, security is a big deal and keeps getting more important every day. Historically Fedora has done a fantastic job with security, one of the reasons the previous SIG never really took off is because there was no need, Fedora was mostly secure and didn't need fixing. While Fedora ils still secure, there is a lot of opportunity to help. The nature of security is changing very rapidly, technologies like mobile and cloud are changing everything. Rather than sit by and let this happen, we believe Fedora should be out in front, working with the community to ensure open source remains the most secure solutions available. But don't let what has been said so far become a limit on what can be done. I'd love to start working providing OVAL data, security bulletins, consult when questions arise and more. If you have ideas please join up and lets start working! You can find us on Freenode IRC in #fedora-security, on our mailing list[1], and in our GIT repository[2]. We look forward to your help. [0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Security_Team//html/Defensive_C… [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security [2] https://fedorahosted.org/secure-coding/ - -- Eric - -------------------------------------------------- Eric "Sparks" Christensen Fedora Project - Red Hat sparks(a)redhat.com - sparks(a)fedoraproject.org 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1 - -------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJR3BEmAAoJEB/kgVGp2CYvcJ8L/RE75c9Ww/B8cNe2pwTBD9yv 6FGfK50QFMlRC6voq2Fd5RZb8Hf+PKoxw4+ewbUYdnN8t0n+DaEvPxP69hJtgJ5N N1736+aD6OiiArKrdfBO4A9syXfMEmOPsqmye7WuXrripJc8asxu8jrh1DgEjwXk rFrI2pau3upnzkwRHDTRnMPZ925g3BE7SnHa+UD2KZQ3B29Qos3FHmaX5Kn3LXf+ 3h+zNnIVkClGr1HK56QVxgsjNWApIH/HsCspxwOpr3ULKRvWD8FJjVxEyp1EDCrc Fw0C6Di7hbzM5VNVpg4CUpquoG9QCnbNniF+IEIzcBWHr1MEKSmq64xFhfXFS0Zx w0wWmDQHmwBYxp+v9FKzuGbyb5YQAkZm7z/wRu1dfL6d39LBzG5y48zIEgmIUL6t eZX5o+lAc/3/W9sKfBbB0dmEq9m02jTIER96aD8iXNEyU8B6Yr34fnWyTiJ6BmYA Z0/ZPvq+vRJGl/F+pZkhekm8yYxA+4R8AdUnDwTt1A== =AU1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Amateur (Ham) Radio license exams available at Flock 2013
by Nick Bebout 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

The Fedora Amateur Radio SIG will be hosting a Ham Radio VE Session at Flock 2013 (at the College of Charleston) on Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 2:00pm-4:00pm in room ECTR 115. Please arrive promptly at 2:00pm if possible, we must be out of that room by 4:00pm, as another talk/hackfest will be starting then. We will be administering all classes of amateur radio license exams, Technician, General, and Amateur Extra. Please bring your FRN with you, or register at http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls if you do not have a license already. You will also need a photo ID. There is also a fee of $15.00 which goes to the ARRL. You can pay this via cash or check. If you have any questions, please email us at ham-radio-exams(a)fedoraproject.org We also ask that anyone interested in taking any exams please email us at ham-radio-exams(a)fedoraproject.org to let us know you plan on coming, but this is not strictly required. Nick W9NB -- Nick Bebout Fedora Project nb(a)fedoraproject.org

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Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 19 / x86_64 and i386
by Ben Liblit 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 19 on both x86_64 (64-bit) and i386 (32-bit) platforms. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, and Rhythmbox. Download and install <http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora/19/tools/x86_64/cbi-pa…> or <http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora/19/tools/i386/cbi-pack…> to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository. Or visit <http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/> to learn more about this project. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 19, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy

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Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for Power
by Phil Knirsch 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

The Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power is delighted to announce the release of Fedora 19 ("Schrödinger's Cat") for Power architecture. Open the box and take a look for yourself! Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Download it now: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches Detailed information about this release on Power can be seen in the release notes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC/F19_release_announceme… For the general release notes for this release take a look here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/ ** What's New in Fedora 19 for Power? ** * The new LLVMPipe rendering engine is now fully functional and enabled by default. This greatly speeds up graphics rendering on systems with no 3D graphics drivers or working with VNC sessions. A complete list with details of each new feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList *** Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs *** Start by downloading Fedora 19: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading Fedora now includes FedUp in order to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 19. *** Documentation *** Read the full release notes for Fedora 19, guides for several languages, and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Because of the number of changes to the installer, we particularly suggest taking a peek at the Installation Guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/index… Fedora 19 common bugs are documented at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs This page includes information on several known bugs in the installer, so we recommend reading it before installing Fedora 19. *** Contributing *** We can't build Fedora inside a box. We need your help! Bug reports are especially helpful--if you encounter any issues, please report them! Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in which you can contribute, including documentation, marketing, design, QA, and development. To learn how to help us, visit: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ *** Fedora 20 *** Fedora 20 has been in active development for several months already. We plan to release it in November 2013, though the final schedule is part of the planning process and subject to change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule *** Contact information *** If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press In the name of the whole Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power i'd like to thank everyone making this an awesome release. Thanks & regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Manager Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> Wankelstrasse 5 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70563 Stuttgart, Germany

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Reminder: Fedora 17 end of life on 2013-07-30
by Dennis Gilmore 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 17. Fedora 17 will reach end of life on 2013-07-30, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 19, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 17 collection. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more information on upgrading from Fedora 17 to a newer release. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHUNr8ACgkQkSxm47BaWfeMyACfclL38HAQ5BH6JwkzyjUhuCoo 5rkAnjdoGzPhPvB3pLlZhXJEddKkn4tW =vE+d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!
by Dennis Gilmore 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora ARM Project is delighted to announce the release of Fedora 19 ("Schrödinger's Cat"). Open the box and take a look for yourself! Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Download it now: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19_Release_Announcement ** What's New in Fedora 19 for ARM? ** The Fedora ARM Project takes great pride in being able to show off features for all types of use cases, including traditional desktop users, systems administration, development, and many more. But a few new features are guaranteed to be seen by nearly anyone installing Fedora and are improvements that deserve to be called out on their own. Fedora ARM has all the features of the primary architectures along with a few of our own. A complete list with details of each new feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList == Unified Kernel == The Fedora 19 kernel is now unified. This greatly reduces the number of kernels we need to build, since they are no longer board dependent. to enable this the kernel has adopted Device Tree to define the platform. As a result of this work supporting new devices is much simpler and may already work on boards we do not have direct access to. If you get Fedora 19 for ARM running on a new system we would love to hear about it. == X and graphical desktop support == We have added support for running X on the Trimslice in addition to OMAP and Versatile Express based devices. Fedora 19 for ARM, comes with images for Xfce, LXDE, Sugar on a Stick, KDE and Mate. Thanks to initial-setup you create your user or set the root password on first boot. == Improved release process == Due to infrastructure changes we have been able to keep closer parity with keeping the builds in parity with those on the primary arches, resulting in us following the milestone processes and release Fedora 19 for ARM on the same day as the Primary architecture release. This is a First for us. == Software floating point removal == As of Fedora 19 we no longer build armv5tel rpms. this means that support for guruplugs and sheevaplugs stops with Fedora 18. Raspberry Pi is being supported by an optimised build called pidora. *** Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs *** Start by downloading Fedora 19 for ARM: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading *** Documentation *** Read the full release notes for Fedora 19, guides for several languages, and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Because of the number of changes to the installer, we particularly suggest taking a peek at the Installation Guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/index… Fedora 19 common bugs are documented at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19_Release_Announcement#Kn… This page includes information on several known bugs in the installer, so we recommend reading it before installing Fedora 19. *** Contributing *** We can't build Fedora inside a box. We need your help! Bug reports are especially helpful--if you encounter any issues, please report them! Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in which you can contribute, including documentation, marketing, design, QA, and development. To learn how to help us, visit: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ *** Fedora 20 *** Fedora 20 has been in active development for several months already. We plan to release it in November 2013, though the final schedule is part of the planning process and subject to change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule *** Contact information *** If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHS8soACgkQkSxm47BaWfdm9wCcDpNNffFJasVVLrsyTOjyIW3p ZxEAn1IUF+ZgqkT0F1pk6LXp4N5+haeS =qMGo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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