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Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
Fedora 36 is due for release soon, but what are some of the features that you can expect
with it?
And, when is it releasing?
Fedora 36 is one of the most anticipated releases of this year.
While we look forward to every major release, last year, Fedora 35 has set up some exciting
expectations with GNOME 41 and a new KDE flavor (Kinoite).
Fret not; if you cannot wait for Fedora 36, I shall highlight the essential details about
the release.
Fedora 36 Release Date As per the official schedule, the early release
date for Fedora 36 beta is March 15, 2022.
And, the delayed date (in case) for Fedora 36 beta is March 22, 2022.
Once the public beta testing is complete, the final release can be expected on April
19, 2022.
In case of a delay, the release date will be pushed to April 26, 2022.
You should also note that Fedora Linux 34 will reach its end of life on May 17, 2022.
You can try to get your hands on Fedora 36 now with a nightly build, but with a few weeks
to go for the beta release, you should wait it out.
Fedora 36 Features
As usual, Fedora 36 features the latest GNOME and other additions and improvements.
The key highlights include:
1.
GNOME 42 GNOME 42 is an exciting upgrade with various
visual and functional changes.
It also includes performance and visual tweaks, among other improvements.
If you missed GNOME 41 feature additions, you should also check that.
Of course, you should expect to find all the changes with Fedora 36.
Here, I shall highlight those details using Fedora 36 (if you didn’t catch up with GNOME
42).
2.
System-wide Dark Mode
Fedora 36 enjoys the system-wide dark mode introduced with GNOME 42.
While we had dark mode implementations on other Linux distributions, GNOME 42 helped
Fedora 36 become an attractive option for desktop users.
The dark mode blends in perfectly and gives a clean GNOME experience.
3.
New Wallpapers
Without a new wallpaper, every other improvement sounds dull.
So, the Fedora Design Team brings along a beautifully crafted wallpaper in Fedora 36,
illustrating the painting of a scenery, that looks interesting.
The default wallpaper has a variant for day/night.
As you notice the wallpaper for day time above, here’s the artwork for the night:
Both look fantastic and soothing to the eyes.
4.
Linux Kernel 5.17 Fedora 36 is known to offer the latest Linux
Kernel releases.
As of now, it is currently running the release candidate versions of the upcoming Linux Kernel
5.17.
With the final Fedora 36 release, you should expect the stable version of Linux Kernel
5.17.
5.
Dark/Light Wallpapers Along with the new default wallpapers for
Fedora 36, it also features a dark/light mode wallpaper collection introduced with GNOME
42.
As of now, testing the Fedora 36 Workstation (pre-release version), I can only find one
of the wallpapers and not the whole collection that you get with GNOME 42.
So, you can probably expect more additions with Fedora 36 beta release.
You can choose to select the wallpapers with their available dark/light variants from the
appearance.
6.
Screenshot User Interface and Native Screen Recording
The new screenshot user interface introduced with GNOME 42 is a fantastic addition.
Also, with just a toggle, you can start recording your screen!
And, you could see that in action with Fedora 36, working perfectly fine.
7.
Desktop Environment Updates For obvious reasons, you should expect the
latest desktop environments with Fedora 36.
The bare minimum should be GNOME 42, KDE Plasma 5.24, and Xfce 4.16.
In addition to that, LXQt has been updated to 1.0.0.
8.
Important Technical Changes Along with the visual changes and the Linux
Kernel upgrade, there are various technical improvements with Fedora 36.
Some of them worth mentioning include:
Updated the system openJDK package from Java 11 to Java 17.
Introducing the upcoming Golang 1.18 version.
Switching to Noto fonts as the default for various languages to ensure consistency in
text rendering.
The behaviour to exclude the recommended packages (considering you do not have them installed)
when automatically upgrading in future.
GNU Toolchain update to gcc 12 and glibc 2.35.
Fix upgradability issues in some cases.
Default Wayland session with NVIDIA proprietary driver.
Updated PHP stack to latest 8.1.x.
The RPM database will be relocated to /usr directory, currently it was in /var.
Wrapping Up Fedora 36 is going to be an exciting release.
When it releases, I’m looking forward to trying the Wayland session with NVIDIA’s
proprietary driver on Fedora 36 Workstation.
What are you looking forward to in this release?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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Fedora 36 – Top New Features & Release Details
This video summarises significant new features and releases information about Fedora 36 release
(upcoming).
Fedora Linux is always the pioneer in advancing new technology and adopting new features before
any Linux Distributions.
Continuing with that trend, Fedora 36 is a promising new release in terms of features,
recent changes and embracing new critical technical advances.
This release promises more Wayland adaptation in critical use cases, some under the hood
updates that helps casual workstation users, developers and enterprise users, new versions
of desktop environments applications and an upgraded toolchain for your projects.
Fedora 36 Beta release is due soon, and features are frozen.
Here’s the tentative schedule before we give you the rundown of the features.
Fedora 36 Release Schedule Beta: March 15, 2022, with a fallback date
of March 22, 2022.
Go/No Go Decision for final release: April 14, 2022.
Fedora 36 final release is planned for April 19, 2022, with a fallback date of April 26,
2000.
Fedora 36 – New Features Kernel and GNOME 42
Fedora 36 is powered by Linux Kernel 5.17 at its core.
This Kernel version is in the testing phase at the moment and will be released by March
end and will be picked up by Fedora 36 for its final release.
Linux Kernel 5.17 brings usual new hardware stack support across processors, GPU, Storage
and Networking with several Kernel level optimizations.
You can read details in our regular coverage of Linux Kernel 5.17 here.
If you are a desktop user, this release is bringing the much-awaited GNOME 42 for its
base workstation edition.
GNOME 42 brings revamped applications and packages migrated to libadwaita version 1.0,
performance improvements in Mutter and GNOME Shell.
Also a new screenshot utility, text editor to name a few of the new features of GNOME
42 which you can read in our regular coverage here – [New features of GNOME 42].
System-Wide Changes The default font type is changing to Noto
Font from DejaVu fonts.
This will provide a better experience and consistent text rendering across the desktop.
So, google-noto-sans* packages will be installed by default to replace dejavu*.
Fedora 36 will now only install recommended dependent packages on upgrade.
That means during the future upgrades of the package, the dependent package will not be
installed if not installed earlier.
OpenJDK version sees a version bump in this release from java-11-openjdk to java-17-openjdk.
The internal RPM package database in the Fedora system is located under /var today.
It is now moving to /usr in this release.
The primary reason is consistency with other RPM-based distributions such as openSUSE and
Fedora rpm-ostree based systems (Kinoite, Silverblue, etc.)
Another interesting change in this release is making Wayland as default session with
NVIDIA proprietary driver.
The Wayland is a default session for FEdora since Fedora 22 but not when NVIDIA proprietary
driver is in use.
This changes now.
If you are installing Fedora 36 on NVIDIA based system, you get a Wayland as default
with open-source nouveau and Xorg session as an option on the login page.
Fedora 36 makes Wayland as default for distributions that uses SDDM such as Fedora KDE Spin, Kinoite
flavour.
Now you can get to experience Wayland based SDDM greeter with these spins.
The single-user installations of Fedora Workstations are much higher than shared, enterprise systems.
Looking at this use case, Fedora 36 makes that single-user as administrator during installation.
The Anaconda installer GUI now select the option by default.
The systemd console messages bring a little but important change on how the messages are
displayed.
Earlier the systemd messages were used to show only the systemd unit description (e.g.
Network Manager).
Now along with a description, it would show the unit name (e.g. NetworkManager.service)
as well.
Desktop Environments The official Fedora flavours arrive with their
latest stable releases with this version.
Here’s a quick list of the desktop environment versions.
KDE Plasma 5.24 Xfce 4.16
LxQt 1.0.0 GNOME 42
Along with the above, the web browser Firefox, LibreOffice and other apps and libraries are
updated in Fedora 36.
PHP 8.1 Ruby on Rails 7.0
OpenJDK 17 Django 4.0
gcc 12 glibc 2.35
Golang 1.18 OpenSSL 3.0
Ruby 3.1 Ansible 5
Firefox 96 LibreOffice 7.3
Wallpaper Each Fedora release brings a nice default
“time of the day” wallpaper.
And this version is no exception.
After a lot of brainstorming and working session, the following wallpapers are chosen for this
version.
It features abstract nature landscapes with trees, sky, sun and water theme.
You can refer to this package if you want a high-res copy of these.
Finally,
Overall, in my opinion, it is a reasonably well-constructed release considering the Wayland
progress, toolchain updates and applications.
Also, this release will be the first Linux distribution featuring GNOME 42 for workstations.
Like all releases, we wait until the final copy is ready to download or upgrade.
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