Fedora 24 Alpha for POWER

The Fedora 24 Alpha for POWER is here, right on schedule for our planned June final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: - Get Fedora 24 Alpha Workstation https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/ prerelease/ - Get Fedora 24 Alpha Server https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/ - Get Fedora 24 Alpha Cloud https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/ - Get Fedora 24 Alpha Spins https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease - Get Fedora 24 Alpha Labs https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease - Get Fedora 24 Alpha ARM https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease What is the Alpha release? -------------------------- The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 24'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 24 is expected in June. 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/24/Schedule * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report Fedora-Wide Changes ------------------- Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23. The update includes better performance, many bugfixes and improvements to POSIX compliance, and additional locales. The new library is backwards compatible with the version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23, and includes a number of security and bug fixes. We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all packages with that, providing greater code optimization and catching programming errors which had slipped past previous compilers. In ppc64/ppc64le golang 1.6 brings all the same golang functionality that other architectures have enjoyed enabling all the features and apps that are avaialble there such as docker. Server ------ - FreeIPA 4.3 (Domain Controller role) is included in Fedora 24. This version helps streamline installation of replicas by adding a replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has also been added that automatically manages new replication segment creation. An effective replica topology visualization tool is also available in the webUI. - NodeJS 4 in now available for aarch64. Earlier versions of nodejs have been available on primary architectures for some time. With nodejs4 we now bring all the functionality to aarch64 too. - More packages have been removed from the default Server edition to make the footprint of the default installation smaller. Cloud ----- - For Fedora 24, we're working hard to make Fedora the best platform for developing containers, from the base Fedora container images to a full-featured PaaS to run and manage them. - For both ppc64 and ppc64le we have qemu cloud images and add to it docker base images to the release as well. Issues and Details ------------------ This is an Alpha release. As such, 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 F24 Bugs page. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F24_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/24/Schedule The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the beginning of May, and the final release in early June. 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.