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Road Map .................................................................................................................... 7 1 Release Notes 3. Providing Feedback for Release Notes .................................................................................... 7 4. Installation-Related Notes ........................................................................................................ 8 4.1. Anaconda Notes .......................................................................................................... 8 5. Architecture Specific Notes .................................................................................................... 11 5.1. PPC Specifics for Fedora ........................................................................................... 11 5.2. x86 Specifics for Fedora ............................................................................................. 13 5.3. x86_64 Specifics for Fedora ....................................................................................... 14 6. Package Notes ..................................................................................................................... 15 6.1. Core utilities POSIX changes ...................................................................................... 15 6.2. Pango Text Renderer for Firefox ................................................................................. 15 6.3. Smbfs deprecated ...................................................................................................... 15 6.4. Yum kernel handling plugin ......................................................................................... 16 6.5. Yum cache handling behavior changes ........................................................................ 16 6.6. Kernel device, module loading, and hotplug changes .................................................... 16 6.7. Systemwide Search Changes ...................................................................................... 16 6.8. Mouse Configuration Utility Removed .......................................................................... 17 6.9. Up2date and RHN applet are removed ........................................................................ 17 6.10. NetworkManager ...................................................................................................... 17 6.11. Dovecot .................................................................................................................... 17 6.12. Kudzu ...................................................................................................................... 17 6.13. No automatic fstab editing for removable media ......................................................... 17 6.14. Mounting of Fixed Disks in Gnome and KDE .............................................................. 17 6.15. GnuCash .................................................................................................................. 18 6.16. Mozilla ..................................................................................................................... 18 6.17. Booting without initrd ................................................................................................ 18 6.18. libstc++ preview ........................................................................................................ 18 6.19. LinuxThreads support removed ................................................................................. 18 7. Linux Kernel ......................................................................................................................... 18 7.1. Version ...................................................................................................................... 18 7.2. Changelog ................................................................................................................. 19 7.3. Kernel Flavors ............................................................................................................ 19 7.4. Kexec and Kdump ...................................................................................................... 20 7.5. Reporting Bugs .......................................................................................................... 20 7.6. Following Generic Textbooks ....................................................................................... 20 7.7. Preparing for Kernel Development ............................................................................... 20 7.8. Building Only Kernel Modules ..................................................................................... 22 7.9. User Space Dependencies on the Kernel .................................................................... 23 8. Fedora Desktop .................................................................................................................... 23 9. Server Tools ......................................................................................................................... 24 9.1. system-config-printer ................................................................................................... 24 9.2. system-config-securitylevel .......................................................................................... 24 10. File Servers ........................................................................................................................ 25 10.1. Netatalk (Macintosh Compatibility) ............................................................................. 25 11. Web Servers ....................................................................................................................... 25 11.1. httpd ........................................................................................................................ 25 11.2. php .......................................................................................................................... 26 12. Developer Tools .................................................................................................................. 27 12.1. FORTRAN ................................................................................................................ 27 12.2. Eclipse Development Environment ............................................................................. 27 13. Security .............................................................................................................................. 27 13.1. General Information .................................................................................................. 27 2 13.2. What's New .............................................................................................................. 27 14. Java and java-gcj-compat .................................................................................................... 29 14.1. Handling Java and Java-like Packages ...................................................................... 29 14.2. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages ................................................................. 30 15. Samba (Windows Compatibility) ........................................................................................... 30 15.1. Windows Network Browsing ...................................................................................... 30 16. Multimedia .......................................................................................................................... 30 16.1. Multimedia Players ................................................................................................... 30 16.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation