Fedora Linux release history explained

Fedora Linux is a popular Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. Fedora attempts to maintain a six-month release schedule, offering new versions in May and November, although some releases have experienced minor delays.

Release history

Fedora Core 1

Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003.[1] It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9.

Some of the features in Fedora Core 1 included:[2]

Fedora Core 2

Fedora Core 2 was released on May 18, 2004, codenamed Tettnang.[3]

Some of the new features in Fedora Core 2 included:

SELinux was disabled by default due to concerns that it radically altered the way that Fedora Core ran.[4] XFree86 was replaced by the newer X.org, a merger of the previous official X11R6 release, which additionally included a number of updates to Xrender, Xft, Xcursor, fontconfig libraries, and other significant improvements.

Fedora Core 3

Fedora Core 3 was released on November 8, 2004, codenamed Heidelberg.[5]

Some of the new features in Fedora Core 3 included:[6]

This release deprecated the LILO boot loader in favor of GNU GRUB. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) now had a new targeted policy, which was less strict than the policy used in Fedora Core 2.

Fedora Core 4

Fedora Core 4 was released on June 13, 2005, with the codename Stentz.[7] It shipped with Linux 2.6.11,[7] KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10.[8] This version introduced the new Clearlooks theme, which was inspired by the Red Hat Bluecurve theme.[8] It also shipped with the OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite, as well as Xen, a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework.[8] It also introduced support for the PowerPC CPU architecture, and over 80 new policies for Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).[8]

Fedora Core 5

This Core release introduced specific artwork that defined it. This is a trend that has continued in later Fedora versions.

Fedora Core 5 was released on March 20, 2006, with the codename Bordeaux, and introduced the Fedora Bubbles artwork.[9] It was the first Fedora release to include Mono and tools built with it such as Beagle, F-Spot and Tomboy.[9] It also introduced new package management tools such as pup and pirut (see Yellowdog Updater, Modified). It also was the first Fedora release not to include the long deprecated (but kept for compatibility) LinuxThreads, replaced by the Native POSIX Thread Library.[10]

Fedora Core 6

Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24, 2006, codenamed Zod.[11] This release introduced the Fedora DNA artwork, replacing the Fedora Bubbles artwork used in Fedora Core 5.[12] The codename is derived from the villain, General Zod, from the Superman DC Comic Books.[13] This version introduced support for the Compiz compositing window manager and AIGLX (a technology that enables GL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop).[12] It shipped with Firefox 1.5 as the default web browser, and Smolt, a tool that allows users to inform developers about the hardware they use. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and other derivatives are based on Fedora Core 6.

Fedora Core 7

Fedora Core 7, codenamed Moonshine, was released on May 31, 2007.[14] The biggest difference between Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 was the merging of the Red Hat "Core" and Community "Extras" repositories,[14] dropping "Core" from the name "Fedora Core," and the new build system put in place to manage those packages. This release used entirely new build and compose tools that enabled the user to create fully customized Fedora distributions via a package named Revisor that could also include packages from any third-party provider.[14]

There were three official spins available for Fedora 7:[15]

Fedora 7 featured GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5, a new theme entitled Flying High, OpenOffice.org 2.2 and Firefox 2.0.[15] This theme included a complete refresh of the various icons and symbols. Fast user switching was fully integrated and enabled by default.[15] Also, there were a number of updates to SELinux, including a new setroubleshoot tool for debugging SELinux security notifications, and a new, comprehensive system-config-selinux tool for fine-tuning the SELinux setup.[15]

Fedora 8

Fedora 8, codenamed Werewolf, was released on November 8, 2007.[16]

Some of the new features and updates in Fedora 8 included:[17]

Due to criticism regarding inconsistent UI in Fedora 7 and its previous versions, Fedora 8 also included a new desktop artwork entitled Infinity and a new desktop theme named Nodoka, replacing the Flying High theme in the predecessor. A unique feature of Infinity was that the wallpaper could change to reflect the time of day.[17]

In February 2008, a new Xfce Live CD "spin" was announced for the x86 and x86-64 architectures.[18] This Live CD version uses the Xfce desktop environment, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Like the GNOME and KDE spins, the Xfce spin can be installed to the hard disk.[18]

Fedora 9

Fedora 9, codenamed Sulphur, was released on May 24, 2008.[19]

Some of the new features of Fedora 9 included:[20]

Fedora 9 featured a new artwork entitled Waves which, like Infinity in Fedora 8, changes the wallpaper to reflect the time of day.

Fedora 10

Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, was released on November 25, 2008.[25] It flaunts the new Solar artwork. Its features include:[26]

Fedora 11

Fedora 11, codenamed Leonidas, was released on June 9, 2009.[27] This was the first release whose artwork is determined by the name instead of by users voting on themes.

Some of the features in Fedora 11 are:

Fedora 12

Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, was released on November 17, 2009.[31]

Some of the features in Fedora 12 are:

Fedora 13

Fedora 13, codenamed "Goddard", was released on May 25, 2010.[34] During early development, Fedora project leader Paul Frields anticipated "looking at the fit and finish issues. We have tended to build a really tight ship with Fedora, but now we want to make the décor in the cabins a little more sumptuous and to polish the deck chairs and railings."[35]

Features of Fedora 13 include:[36] [37]

Fedora 14

Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin, was released on October 29, 2010.[38] It was the last to use the GNOME 2 desktop environment (now forked as MATE). GNOME 2 had been the desktop environment of the operating system since its inception in 2003.

Features of Fedora 14 included:[39] [40]

Fedora 15

Fedora 15, codenamed Lovelock, was released on May 24, 2011. Features of Fedora 15 include:[41] [42] [43] [44]

Fedora 16

Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne", was released on November 8, 2011. Fedora 16 was also dedicated to the memory of Dennis Ritchie, who died about a month before the release.[45]

Some of the features of Fedora 16 included:

Fedora 17

Fedora 17, codenamed "Beefy Miracle", which was released on May 29, 2012.[46]

Some of the features of Fedora 17 include:

Fedora 18

Fedora 18, codenamed "Spherical Cow", was released on January 15, 2013.

Some of the features of Fedora 18 include:

Fedora 19

Fedora 19, codenamed "Schrödinger's Cat", was released on July 2, 2013. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 19.

Some of the features of Fedora 19 include:

Fedora 20

Fedora 20, the last codenamed release named "Heisenbug",[51] was released on December 17, 2013.[52]

Some of the features of Fedora 20 include:[53]

Shortly after the release of Fedora 20, the Fedora project team decided to abolish the codename system completely due to inconvenience, which meant that future Fedora releases would only be referred to by their version number.

Fedora 21

Fedora 21, the first version without a codename,[56] was released on December 9, 2014.[57]

Fedora 22

Fedora 22 was released on May 26, 2015.[58]

Major features include:[58] [59]

Fedora 23

Fedora 23 was released on November 3, 2015.[60]

See also.[61]

Fedora 24

Fedora 24 was released on June 21, 2016.[62] Some notable system wide changes[63] include:

Fedora 25

Fedora 25 was released on November 22, 2016.[64] Some notable changes (see [65] for more)are the use of the Wayland display system, Unicode 9, PHP 7.0, Node.js 6 and IBus Emoji typing.

Fedora 26

Fedora 26 was released on July 11, 2017.[66]

Fedora 27

Fedora 27 was released on November 14, 2017.[67]

The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. Both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement. The system search now shows more results at once, including the system actions. This release also features LibreOffice 5.4.

Fedora 28

Fedora 28 was released on May 1, 2018.[68] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 28.

Notable new features: a modular software repository, curated third-party software repositories.[69]

Fedora 29

Fedora 29 was released on October 30, 2018.[70]

Notable new features: Fedora Modularity[71] across all variants, a new optional package repository called Modular (also referred to as the "Application Stream" or AppStream), Gnome 3.30, ZRAM for ARM images, Fedora Scientific Vagrant images

Fedora 30

Fedora 30 was released on April 30, 2019.[72] Its change set is here.

Fedora 31

Fedora 31 was released October 29, 2019.[73] Its change set is here.

Fedora 32

Fedora 32 was released April 28, 2020.[74] Its change set is here.

Fedora 33

Fedora 33 was released on October 27, 2020.[75] Its change set is here.

Fedora 33 Workstation Edition was the first version of the operating system to default to using Btrfs as its default file system, and replacement of a swap partition with zram.[76] It featured version 3.38 of the GNOME desktop environment, and Linux kernel 5.8.15. For the first time since version 7, Fedora defaulted to a slideshow background (four png images of the Earth, from space) that changes hue according to the time of day. GNU nano became the default text editor for the command-line interface in place of vi. Fedora IoT, while previously available as a "Fedora Spin", was promoted to an official edition of the operating system.[77]

Fedora 34

Fedora 34 was released April 27, 2021.[78] Its change set is here.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 34. Its change set includes GNOME 40, filesystem compression by default, exclusive use of Pipewire, and defaulting KDE Plasma to Wayland.

Fedora 35

Fedora 35 was released on November 2, 2021.[79] Its change set is here.

Fedora 36

Fedora 36 was released on May 10, 2022.[80] Its change set is here.

Fedora 37

Fedora 37 was released on November 15, 2022.[81] Its change set is here.

Fedora 38

Fedora 38 was released on April 18, 2023.[82] Its change set is here.

Fedora 39

Fedora 39 was released on November 7, 2023.[83] Its change set is here.

Fedora 40

Fedora 40 was released on April 23, 2024. Its change set is here.

Notes and References

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  5. News: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3. Red Hat. November 8, 2004. October 18, 2007 .
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  7. News: The Amazing Fedora Core 4!. Fedora Project. June 13, 2005. November 18, 2007 .
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  9. News: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 5. March 20, 2006. October 18, 2007 .
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  11. News: Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod). Fedora Project. October 24, 2006. October 18, 2007 .
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  17. Web site: Fedora 8 Release Summary. November 7, 2007. November 7, 2007 .
  18. News: Announcing Fedora 8 Xfce Spin. Rahul Sundaram. Fedora Project. February 13, 2008. May 17, 2008 .
  19. News: The Prophecy of the 9 comes true (Fedora 9 walks the earth!). Jesse Keating. Fedora Project. May 24, 2008. May 24, 2008 .
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  21. Web site: OpenJDK in Fedora 9!. Wade. Karsten. redhatmagazine.com. Thomas Fitzsimmons updated the Fedora 9 release notes source pages to reflect that Fedora 9 would ship with OpenJDK 6 instead of the IcedTea implementation of OpenJDK 7. Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is due to release in May 2008.. March 13, 2008. April 5, 2008.
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  26. Web site: Fedora 10 Feature List. The Fedora Project. November 30, 2008.
  27. News: Red Hat Fedora 11 Focuses on the Linux Desktop. Kerner. Sean Michael. April 28, 2009. internetnews.com. April 30, 2009.
  28. News: Fedora 11 File systems. fedoraproject.org. July 4, 2009. June 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090612024035/http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-File_Systems.html. dead.
  29. Web site: Fedora 11 - Eclipse. Fedora Project. 2009-06-15. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090612084103/http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Eclipse.html. June 12, 2009. mdy-all.
  30. Web site: Fedora 11 Accepted Features. Fedora Project. May 18, 2009.
  31. Web site: Announcing Fedora 12. Redhat.com. April 30, 2013.
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  33. Web site: kdebase-4.4.0-5.fc13 bugfix update. https://archive.today/20121220205253/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdebase-4.4.0-5.fc13. dead. December 20, 2012. kkofler. February 27, 2010. Red Hat, Inc.. May 31, 2010 .
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  37. http://www.skuggen.com/?p=2203 Fedora 13 – See What’s New!
  38. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc0Nw Fedora 14 Officially Released With New Features
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  45. Web site: Red Hat Releases Fedora 16 "Verne". Phoronix. November 8, 2011 .
  46. Web site: Fedora 17 Released With Its Quirky Announcement. Phoronix. May 29, 2012 .
  47. Web site: Anatomy of a Fedora 17 ISO image.
  48. Web site: Fedora 17 on Macbook Air Native EFI Boot. .
  49. Web site: Fedora 18 features: IPAv3.
  50. Web site: Fedora 19 features: checkpoint restore.
  51. Web site: Results of Fedora 20 Release Name Voting. FedoraProject. 2013-09-03. 2013-09-04.
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  54. Web site: Fedora 20 features: ARM as primary architecture. FedoraProject. 2013-10-05.
  55. Web site: Fedora 20 features: Application Installer. FedoraProject. 2013-10-05.
  56. Release Name process ended. 2 October 2013. 11 May 2014. Fedora community advisory board. Boyer. Josh.
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  58. Web site: Fedora 22 Released, See What's New [Workstation]]. 28 May 2015.
  59. Web site: Fedora 22 is here!. May 26, 2015 . 28 May 2015.
  60. Web site: Fedora 23 Schedule. 3 November 2015.
  61. Web site: Fedora 23 Change Set. 26 December 2016.
  62. Web site: Fedora 24 Schedule. 25 December 2016.
  63. Web site: Fedora 24 Change Set. 25 December 2016.
  64. Web site: Fedora 25 Schedule. 25 December 2016.
  65. Web site: Fedora 25 Change Set. 25 December 2016.
  66. Web site: Fedora 26 Schedule. 11 July 2017.
  67. Web site: Fedora 27 Schedule. 11 April 2018.
  68. Web site: Fedora 28 Schedule.
  69. Web site: Announcing Fedora 28. May 2018 .
  70. Web site: Fedora 29 Schedule.
  71. Web site: Introduction :: Fedora Docs .
  72. Web site: Fedora 30 Schedule.
  73. Web site: Fedora 31 is officially here!. 2019-10-29. Fedora Magazine. en-US. 2019-11-09.
  74. Web site: Fedora 32 is officially here!. 2020-04-28. Fedora Magazine. en-US. 2020-04-30.
  75. Web site: Fedora 33 is officially here!. 2020-10-27. Fedora Magazine. en-US. 2020-10-27.
  76. Web site: Fedora 33: Honing Linux's cutting edge. Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J.. ZDNet. October 28, 2020. January 8, 2020.
  77. Web site: Fedora IoT To Be Promoted To An Official Edition With Fedora 33. Larabel, Michael. Phoronix. August 20, 2020. January 8, 2021.
  78. Web site: 2021-04-27. Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!. 2021-04-28. Fedora Magazine. en-US.
  79. Web site: Worth the wait: Fedora 35 is here!. Fedora Magazine. November 2, 2021. November 2, 2021. Miller, Matthew.
  80. Web site: 2022-05-10. Announcing Fedora Linux 36. 2022-05-11. Fedora Magazine. en-US.
  81. Web site: 2022-11-15. Announcing Fedora Linux 37. 2022-11-15. Fedora Magazine. en-US.
  82. Web site: 2023-04-17. Announcing Fedora Linux 38. 2023-04-20. Fedora Magazine. en-US.
  83. Web site: 2023-11-07. Fedora Linux 39 is officially here!. 2023-11-08. Fedora Magazine. en-US.

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