announce August 2016

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Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Alpha!
by Dennis Gilmore 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Fedora 25 Alpha, an important milestone on the road to our Fedora 25 release in November. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: * https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/ * https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/ * https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/ Or, check out one of our popular variants: * https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease * https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease * https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease == Alternative Architectures == We are also simultaneously releasing the F25 Alpha for Power64 and 64-bit ARM (AArch64). These are available from: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/ 25_Alpha/ == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 25's editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 25 is expected in November. If you take the time to download and try out the Alpha, you can check and make sure the things that are important to YOU are working. Every bug you find and report doesn't just help you, it improves the experience of millions of Fedora users worldwide! Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as we can, and your feedback improves not only Fedora, but Linux and Free software as a whole. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule == Issues and Details == Since this is an alpha release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on Freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F25 Bugs page. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report". * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report == Release Schedule == The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the middle of October, and the final release in November. Be aware that these dates are development targets. Some projects release on a set date regardless of feature completeness or bugs; others wait until certain thresholds for functionality or testing are met. Fedora uses a hybrid model, with milestones subject to adjustment. This allows us to make releases with new features and newly- integrated and updated upstream software while also retaining high quality. Enjoy Fedora Release Engineering (Dennis, Peter, Kevin, Mohan, Adam, Randy)

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Planned Outage: copr backend filesystem check - 2016-08-22 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Planned Outage: copr backend filesystem check - 2016-08-22 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2016-08-22 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 '2016-08-22 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We have noticed some errors on the copr backend storage volume, so we are going to unmount it and run a filesystem check on it to make sure everything is functioning normally. During the outage window, copr repos will not be available and new builds will queue up until the outage is over. Affected Services: copr-be.fedorainfracloud.org Services not listed are not affected by this outage. Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5440 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 Account System (FAS) security issue
by Paul W. Frields 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SUMMARY: Vulnerability identified and fixed in FAS. No effect on package content, the Fedora OS, or general users. The Fedora Infrastructure team identified a serious vulnerability in the Fedora Account System (FAS) web application. This flaw would allow a specifically formatted HTTP request to be authenticated as any requested user. The flaw was caused by a logic problem wherein the FAS web application would accept client certificates that were not intended to be supported. If the authenticated user had appropriate privileges, the attacker would then be able to add, edit, or remove user or group information. The flaw has been patched and verified fixed in the production FAS. Other users of FAS have been notified. The Infrastructure team is still investigating FAS logs for user and group changes, and other historical records that would be affected by exploiting this issue. However, at the time of this writing, the team has no reason to believe the flaw has been exploited. Specifically, the team is confident package content in the Fedora product is not affected by this flaw. For example, activities related to package content in dist-git generate notices to maintainers, and the discovered flaw would not allow an attacker to circumvent these or other safeguards. Also, this flaw is irrelevant to users of the Fedora operating system who do not use FAS. At this time, we are not requiring any remedial action from FAS account holders. If our investigation reveals any additional relevant information, we’ll provide an update to the community. This issue has been assigned as CVE-2016-1000038. - -- Paul W. Frields Fedora Engineering Manager -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFXqNwirNvJN70RNxcRAhfeAKDQlEPs25Dn+9gbd1lb8cLjs/yY5wCgmEVU 6039NSNcEkaFgJz4DG2Cy18= =fEZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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