Fedora 35 – New Features and Release Details
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In this quick video, I round up the new features and updates of Fedora 35.
The final installment of Fedora of 2021 is due soon. Most of the features are almost
final. At this time, testing is in progress for this new release. If you are hoping for
big updates and all, well, don’t get your hopes high. This release is a moderate one,
mostly fixing bugs and updating the packages in a nutshell.
Fedora 35 is scheduled to be released as per the following timeline.
Schedule Fedora 35 releases on October 19, 2021.
Beta release on September 14, 2021 (fallback date September 21, 2021)
Final release on October 19, 2021 (fallback date October 26, 2021).
Fedora 35 – New Features The default Fedora 35 workstation edition
would feature the GNOME 41 version. GNOME 41 brings many new features, which we covered
here. Here’s a quick summary of what GNOME 41 is bringing to the table.
Inclusion of libadwaita in GNOME bringing some cool UI features and easier porting of
extension to GTK4 Revamped GNOME Software
Power profiles access from system tray menu (details below)
New panel ‘Multitasking’ in settings Revamped calculator
And many new fixes and improvements since GNOME 40.
This release Fedora Kinoite as a variant of Fedora alongside Fedora Silverblue. Fedora
Kinoite is an immutable distribution, features KDE Plasma. It is exactly like Silverblue,
only difference is it features KDE instead of GNOME.
Note: You can not get .ISO yet for Kinoite. If you want to try this out, read the doc
here. All you have to do is install Silverblue and run some commands to pull Kinoite.
Fedora workstation edition will include Power Profile Daemon by default. You can now choose
between performance and optimal batter usage via UI settings. This landed in Kernel a while
back, it is just the UI to expose those settings. Note that KDE Plasma 5.23 would also include
this.
PHP 8.0 is included in this release.
The PipeWire session manager is now managed by WirePlumber manager (from Collabora).
This release removes Python 3.5 (EOL Sep 2020) dependencies completely.
Package version upgrades
The tool chain and underlying packages are updated as per their latest stable version.
Summary:
Binutils 2.36 gcc 11
glibc 2.34 binutils 2.37
gdb 10.2 Perl 5.34
Node.js 16.x Python 3.10
RPM 4.17 Desktop Edition updates
Apart from GNOME and KDE Plasma, other desktops are remains same in this release compared
to earlier Fedora 34. Because there is no release for those. Here’s a quick list of
the versions you get for respective desktops.
KDE Plasma 5.23 (most probably) GNOME 41
Xfce 4.16 LXQT 0.17
MATE 1.24
Finally,
Fedora 35 is a mundane yet significant release this is. Sometimes, the under-the-hood changes
are necessary. Because these releases are the stepping stones for something bigger in
the future. Also, you get the latest Kernel, the latest GNOME and packages – what else
you can expect right? A perfect distribution for developers, users and other use cases.
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