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1. fedora Fedora 20 Release Notes Release Notes for Fedora 20 The Fedora Docs Team Fedora 20 Release Notes Release Notes for Fedora 20 The Fedora Docs Team Legal Notice Copyright O 2013 Fedora Project Contributors The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 Unported license CC BY SA An explanation of CC BY SA is available at http creativecommons org licenses by sa 3 0 The original authors of this document and Red Hat designate the Fedora Project as the Attribution Party for purposes of CC BY SA In accordance with CC BY SA if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it you must provide the URL for the original version Red Hat as the licensor of this document waives the right to enforce and agrees not to assert Section 4d of CC BY SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux the Shadowman logo JBoss MetaMatrix Fedora the Infinity Logo and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat Inc registered in the United States and other countries For guidelines on the permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks refer to https fedoraproject org wiki Legal T rademark_guidelines Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and or its affiliates XFS 0 is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Int2. 2 4 3 Virt manager snapshots Virtual Machine Manager or virt manager allows for easy management and monitoring of virtual machine snapshots of KVM guests Note that virt manager will pause the guest virtual machine for a few seconds while taking the snapshot More information is available here 2 5 Database Servers 2 5 1 MongoDB MongoDB has been updated to version 2 4 adding full text search support for a wider array of geospatial indexes and security enhancements For more information about this new version read the 2 5 2 Hadoop Fedora 20 offers the core of the thriving Hadoop platform and many related packages For a detailed participating in the effort 2 6 Mail Servers 2 6 1 No default sendmail 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators Fedora 20 no longer includes a mail transfer by default Previous releases of Fedora included sendmail but it has limited usefulness without manual configuration 2 7 Samba 2 7 1 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares 2 8 System Daemons 2 8 1 Syslog removed from default installation syslog is no longer included in default installations journald logging serves most use cases as well as or better than syslogd Users accustomed to checking var log messages for system logs should instead use journalctl journalctl command examples new journalctl old messages journalctl less var log messages journalctl f tail f var log messages journalctl unit named
3. For best results on systems with less than 1GB of memory use the DVD installation image 1 3 2 Display resolution Graphical Installation requires 800x600 resolution or higher Graphical installation of Fedora 20 requires a minimum screen resolution of 800x600 Owners of devices with lower resolution such as some netbooks should use text or VNC installation Once installed Fedora will support these lower resolution devices The minimum resolution requirement applies only to graphical installation 1 3 3 Graphics Hardware 1 3 3 1 Minimum Hardware for Accelerated Desktops Fedora 20 supports most display adapters Modern feature rich desktop environments like GNOME3 and KDE Plasma Workspaces use video devices to provide 3D accelerated desktops Older graphics hardware may not support acceleration Intel prior to GMA9xx NVIDIA prior to NV30 GeForce FX5xxx series Radeon prior to R300 Radeon 9500 1 3 3 2 CPU Accelerated Graphics Systems with older or no graphics acceleration devices can have accelerated desktop environments using LLVMpipe technology which uses the CPU to render graphics LLVMpipe requires a processor with SSE2 extensions The extensions supported by your processor are listed in the flags section of proc cpuinfo 1 3 3 3 Choosing a Desktop Environment for your hardware Fedora 20 s default desktop environment GNOME3 functions best with hardware acceleration Alternative desktops are recommended fo
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5. Fedora If you are writing or deploying other Python software you suspect may be 4 2 GCC Tools 4 2 1 Boost 1 54 0 Uplift boost has been upgraded to version 1 54 0 Apart from a number of bugfixes this brings in three new libraries Boost Log for logging Boost TTI for Type Traits Introspection and Boost TypeErasure 18 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences for runtime polymorphism based on concepts information on the release 4 2 2 GLIBC 2 18 Fedora 20 ships version 2 18 of the GNU C Library For information on this release see the upstream 4 3 Haskell 4 3 1 ghc GHC has been updated to version 7 6 3 and Haskell Platform to 2013 2 Many packages have been updated and new packages added include idris and various libraries All packages have been updated to follow the new simplified revised Haskell Packaging Guidelines Note that ghc 7 6 does not officially support llvm 3 3 so there are some issues when using the Ilvm backend particularly on ARM where it is the default 4 4 Web Development 4 4 1 WildFly 8 Fedora 20 includes the WildFly 8 Application Server formerly known as the JBoss Application Server a very popular Java EE platform WildFly is a very fast modular and lightweight server WildFly makes it easy to run and manage cluster of servers with many applications deployed 4 4 2 Ruby on rails Fedora 20 includes version 4 0 of the popular Ruby on Rails web framework This latest release incl
6. a hash changes on each perl run One can disable the randomization by setting PERL_PERTURB_KEYS environment variable to 0 qw operator does not imply surrounding parentheses any more Unknown character names specified using N syntax are processed at compile time and trigger a syntax error now Vertical tab is considered as a white space now Values stored into environment variables are byte strings by default readline function on I O reads given number of characters instead of bytes now Here document delimited with quoted marker starts always on line following the marker now Alpha numeric operators must always be separated from a regular expression delimiter now Smart match and lexical _ became experimental because they proved being problematic Swapping lt and gt variables can cause undesired effects Localizing changed variable is recommended Removed features PL_sv_objcount XS variable is deprecated All character classifying XS functions are deprecated to_uni_lower_lc to_uni_title_Ic and to_uni_upper_Ic XS functions are deprecated release 4 1 4 python setuptools updated The version of the python setuptools package has been updated to the 0 9 x series This release series merges the setuptools and distribute upstream projects which has introduced a variety of changes to the API and behavior Because this change is mostly compatible with the previous version it should not impair any Python packages in the
7. manager nemo including system tray support for file operations better file type handling and updates to the user interface More streamlined dependencies Cinnamon no longer requires the entire GNOME Desktop Environment to be installed and the two environments get along better when they are both installed To use Cinnamon on Fedora install it with the command yum groupinstall Cinnamon Desktop and choose it when logging in A detailed look at the features in Cinnamon 2 0 can be found 3 1 3 Enlightenment Fedora 20 offers the newest version of Enlightenment After over a decade of upstream development the Enlightenment project has released the E17 desktop shell a window manager and supporting suite of libraries It can be configured as a fast spartan window manager or as a visually appealing desktop environment with ample eye candy Enlightenment can be installed with the command yum install enlightenment and used by 3 1 4 GNOME 3 10 3 1 4 1 GNOME Overview Fedora 20 features GNOME 3 10 This latest version of the GNOME desktop will have a number of new applications and features Fine grained scrolling when dragging the scroll bar handle or scrolling while holding the shift key Support for login and authentication with Smart Cards Header bars merge title bars and toolbars into a single element giving more screen space to window content and improving presentation of application controls Improved Magnifier with caret tra
8. the beat writers There are several ways to provide feedback in order of preference 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators 2 1 Installation 2 1 1 Unversioned docdirs Per package documentation is now installed into unversioned usr shar e doc packagename directories Previously the directory name contained the package s version in addition to the package s name 2 2 Security 2 2 1 FreelPA gains transitive trust support FreelPA 3 3 2 adds support for complex Active Directory forests containing multiple domains Users from multiple AD domains can access resources in FreelPA FreelPA administrators can selectively block 2 Changes in Fedora for System Administrators access per each AD domain 2 2 2 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares The Fedora 20 System Security Services Daemon has gained support for mapping between Windows SIDs and POSIX IDs Administrators using SSSD on their networks can establish access control using two new utilities setcifsacl and getcifsacl More information can be found in the upstream design document at setcifsacl getcifsacl and other related SSSD packages 2 2 3 Shared System Certificate Tools Fedora s Shared System Certificate feature is being enhanced this release with the addition of the p11 kit trust application This package allows modification to trust anchors and blacklist keys and certificates With a single command administrators can make changes to their system s cert
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10. ant 4 1 4 python setuptools updated 4 2 GCC Tools 4 2 1 Boost 1 54 0 Uplift 4 2 2 GLIBC 2 18 4 3 Haskell 4 3 1 ghc 4 4 Web Develop 4 4 1 WildFly 8 ment 4 4 2 Ruby on rails 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences 0 ccc eect tees 5 1 Circuit Design 5 1 1 gtkwave 5 1 2 XCircuit 5 2 Amateur Radio 5 2 1 fidigi 5 2 2 gnuradio 5 2 3 ques 5 2 4 trustedqs 5 2 5 xastir 5 2 6 xnec2c A Contributors A 1 Writers A 2 Translators 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 21 22 22 Table of Contents B Revision HIStOny ia a A Aia 24 NAS rt a ls a da A a eR Oe 24 XENIDUDZENS IONON gt N al Fedora 20 Release Notes 1 Welcome to Fedora 20 1 1 Welcome to Fedora You can help the Fedora Project community continue to improve Fedora if you file bug reports and about bug and feature reporting Thank you for your participation To find out more general information about Fedora refer to the following pages on the Fedora wiki 1 1 1 Need Help There are a number of places you can get assistance should you run into problems answers are already there but if you don t find yours you can simply post a new question This has the advantage that anyone else with the same problem can find the answer too You may also find
11. assistance on the fedora channel on the IRC net irc freenode net Keep in mind that the channel is populated by volunteers wanting to help but folks knowledgeable about a specific topic might not always be available 1 2 Overview from the last release of Fedora For more details about the features that are included in Fedora 20 refer to the individual wiki pages that 1 3 Hardware Overview Fedora 20 provides software to suit a wide variety of applications The storage memory and processing requirements vary depending on usage For example a high traffic database server requires much more memory and storage than a business desktop which in turn has higher requirements than a single purpose virtual machine 1 3 1 Minimum System Configuration The figures below are a recommended minimum for the default installation Your requirements may differ and most applications will benefit from more than the minimum resources 1GHz or faster processor 1GB System Memory 10GB unallocated drive space 1 Welcome to Fedora 20 i Low memory installations Fedora 20 can be installed and used on systems with limited resources for some applications Text vnc or kickstart installations are advised over graphical installation for systems with very low memory Larger package sets require more memory during installation so users with less than 768MB of system memory may have better results preforming a minimal install and adding to it afterward
12. b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m db2118a46 t 4e5e7d81c7402 x d177768ac95df831 Scripts parsing journalctl s output can store the cursor value and use it on their next run to pick up where they left off journalctl after cursor s 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 i 1120d b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m db2118a46 t 4e5e7d81c7402 x d177768ac95df831 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users 3 1 Desktop 3 1 1 General 3 1 1 1 X2Go X2Go is a featureful remote desktop solution based on a fork of NoMachine s GPL ed NX3 libraries X2Go packages allow Fedora 20 to work as a scalable server or versatile client Entire desktop sessions can be paused and migrated and the software supports audio and file transfers 11 Fedora 20 Release Notes A X2Go with accelerated desktops X2Go may not start properly with 3D accelerated desktops like GNOMES For best results use a desktop environment that does not require acceleration Get started with X2Go using Fedora s X2Go packages and the documentation at 3 1 2 Cinnamon The community favorite desktop environment Cinnamon in Fedora 20 has been updated to version 2 0 with many new features and improvements Some features of the release include Better edge tiling Edge Snapping like tiling but snapped windows are not covered by other windows Fun and customizable sound effects Enhanced user management and a new user applet for common tasks Many improvements in the file
13. bility to store comment in FST files via the attribute mechanism FST_AT_MISC FST_MT_COMMENT Added ability to store environment variable information in FST files FST_MT_ENVVAR Added direction filters to SST name filter search That is adding O 10 B or L before the regular expression adds additional filtering criteria Direction filters are case insensitive Added VHDL hierarchy types to FST internal VCD loaders and also vcdfst fst2vcd Added in VHDL to FST which will also allow other languages gtkwave can process these types e g signal std_ulogic but there are currently no simulators supporting them Added File Grab To File PNG image grab menu option Added VHDL package type to FST Added fstWriterSetSourceStem so writers can embed source stems in the FST file Updated examples gtkwaverc accel options to reflect the current state of the gtkwave main window main menu In addition there are numerous bug fixes and internal improvements More detail may be found in the 5 1 2 XCircuit xcircuit has been updated to 3 7 44 Version 3 7 has a modified selection mechanism that considers both points and segments of elements as well as entire elements This allows the edit function to work as a stretch function to many elements at once Also added linewidth invariance on objects Object instances such as circuit symbols can be made linewidth invariant such that an instance of the object can be scaled with
14. cking press F7 to activate caret Lock screen background customization A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when traveling and location detection in Maps GNOME Documents support for OwnCloud 12 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users Drag and drop files between your computer and a Boxes guest Windows guests will need updated version of spice vdagent Boxes gains support for importing filesystem images Improved user interface for Contacts Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays Improved application selection in the shell Overview Flickr integration with GNOME Online Accounts allows access to Flickr content in GNOME Photos Improved integrated system status menu Redesigned gnome tweak tool with improved design extension integration and expanded functionality A new application GNOME Maps brings a simple map application to the GNOME Desktop GNOME Music a streamlined application for playing and sharing music System Status Area The new System Status Area unifies many settings that had their own icon and menu in previous releases such as wireless and other networking Not all potential features are displayed at all times for example the volume slider for a microphone does not appear when a microphone is not present and WiFi options do not appear when a wireless device is not detected Learn 3 1 4 2 GNOME Software GNOME in Fedora will offer a new vi
15. e Coptic Deseret Egyptian Hieroglyphs Glagolitic Gujarati Hanunno Imperial Aramaic Kaithi Kannada KayahLi Kharoshthi Lisu Lycian Lydian Malayalam Mandaic Meeteimayek Nko Old south Arabian Old Turkic Osmanya Phoenician Shavian Symbols Tagalog Tai Tham Tai Viet Telugu Ugaritic Vai lohit devanagari fonts from lohit2 project by completely rewritten open type tables support for both dev2 and deva liberation fonts with improved Serbian locale support in it and minor bugfixes PR O 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers 3 4 Printing 3 4 1 3D Printing 3 4 1 1 slic3r slic3r is a powerful tool for converting 3D models into printing instructions for a 3D printer Fedora 20 includes the latest slic3r version bringing a new wipe feature that retracts while moving along the last path a spiral vase option for continuously raising Z coordinate while printing and numerous other code improvements 3 4 1 2 Cura The latest version of 3D printing software Cura in Fedora 20 is a huge update compared to previous versions Work faster There s no prepare button because there is no need to prepare Cura comes with a new and much faster slicing engine that slices in realtime while you prepare your printing plate Models that took hours to prepare now take minutes Plan better The Project Planner tool has been integrated into the main interface Build Stronger Infills are done with a grid of squares rather than random
16. ernational Corp or its subsidiaries in the United States and or other countries MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States the European Union and other countries All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Abstract This document provides the release notes for Fedora 20 lt describes major changes offered in Heisenbug as compared to Fedora 19 For a detailed listing of all changes refer to the Fedora Technical Notes 1 Welcome to Fedora 20 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users Table of Contents 1 1 Welcome to Fedora 1 1 1 Need Help 1 2 Overview 1 3 Hardware Overview 1 3 1 Minimum System Configuration 1 3 2 Display resolution 1 3 3 Graphics Hardware 1 3 3 1 Minimum Hardware for Accelerated Desktops 1 3 3 2 CPU Accelerated Graphics 1 3 3 3 Choosing a Desktop Environment for your hardware 1 4 Architecture Specific Content 1 4 1 Cloud Specific Content 1 4 2 ARM Specific Content 1 5 Feedback 1 5 1 Providing Feedback on Fedora Software 1 5 2 Providing Feedback on Release Notes Changes in Fedora for System Administrators o o oooooo 2 1 Installation 2 1 1 Unversioned docdirs 2 2 Security 2 2 1 FreelPA gains transitive trust support 2 2 2 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares 2 2 3 Shared System Certificate Tools 2 3 File Systems 2 3 1 SSD caching for block devices 2 4 Virtualization 2 4 1 ARM emulation on x86 Hosts 2 4 2 Libvirt Cl
17. ient Access Control 2 4 3 Virt manager snapshots 2 5 Database Servers 2 5 1 MongoDB 2 5 2 Hadoop 2 6 Mail Servers 2 6 1 No default sendmail 2 7 Samba 2 7 1 SSSD adds ID mapping for CIFS shares 2 8 System Daemons 2 8 1 Syslog removed from default installation 2 8 2 systemd 2 8 2 1 New unit types Scope 2 8 2 2 systemd cryptsetup for TrueCrypt 2 8 2 3 Filtering by unit state with systemctl 2 8 3 journald 2 8 3 1 Viewing the logs of a specific boot 2 8 3 2 Referencing the journal with cursors 3 1 Desktop 3 1 1 General 3 1 1 1 X2Go MNMAMDDODOuUUHUHHUHPAAAAA ODDMDDOWDAADAWAWDAANNNNNNNDDVDDO RPRRRR RO00O0OOO0O0 11 11 11 F edora 20 Release No tes 3 1 2 Cinnamon 3 1 3 Enlightenment 3 1 4 GNOME 3 10 3 1 4 1 GNOME Overview 3 1 4 2 GNO ME Software 3 1 4 3 Further reading 3 1 5 KDE 3 1 5 1 KDE Plasma Workspaces 4 11 3 1 5 2 Plasma nm Network applet 3 1 6 MATE 3 1 7 Sugar 0 1 3 2 Networking 00 3 2 1 NetworkManager Bonding and Bridging 3 2 2 NetworkManager on the command line 3 2 3 Bluetooth stack updated to BlueZ 5 3 3 Internationalization 3 3 1 Input Methods 3 3 2 Font tools 3 3 3 Fonts 3 4 Printing 3 4 1 3D Printing 3 4 1 1 slic3r 3 4 1 2 Cura 3 4 1 3 simar range 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers 0 0c ccc cece cect teen eens 4 1 Development 4 1 1 ACPICA Tools 4 1 2 Develope 4 1 3 Perl 5 18 r Assist
18. ificate database instead of adding a file to a special directory and running a special command This new tool continues the development of the Shared System Certificate feature 2 3 File Systems 2 3 1 SSD caching for block devices Fedora 20 offers experimental support for adding solid state drives SSDs as fast transparent caches to traditional rotating storage HDDs Filesystems on the SSD cached block devices offer both the speed of SSDs and volume of HDDs Both traditional and LVM partitioning schemes can benefit from this functionality Make backups Always back up your data before making low level changes such as migrating to a bcache device creating clean bcache devices and populating their filesystems from a recent backup Learn more about this functionality called bcache from 2 4 Virtualization 2 4 1 ARM emulation on x86 Hosts Changes have been made to have smoother emulation of ARM guest virtual machines running on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools including virsh virt manager and virt install qemu has an ARM emulator that works well and is actively used in the Fedora ARM effort However libvirt and virt manager currently have issues launching qemu system arm VMs mostly by encoding x86 assumptions in the generated command line that cause qemu system arm to fail to start Changes have been made to fix this issue More information can be found at 2 4 2 Libvirt Client Access Control The libvirt client al
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20. lines giving strength to your project without adding material 3 4 1 3 simarrange Fedora 20 offers a new plating tool called simarrange This command line utility takes a collection of STL files and arranges them to fit densely on a given plate size 4 Changes in Fedora for Developers 4 1 Development 4 1 1 ACPICA Tools Developers working with the ACPI subsystem now have more resources available from Fedora The acpica tools package replaces the existing iasi and pm tools packages to provide all the tools from 4 1 2 Developer Assistant Developer Assistant a tool for starting coding projects with popular languages and platforms has been updated to provide a graphical user interface and improved functionality 4 1 3 Perl 5 18 Perl in Fedora 20 has been updated to version 5 18 with a number of notable changes New features 17 Fedora 20 Release Notes Unicode 6 2 is supported Matching Unicode properties is faster now Operators next last redo and dump supports labels computed at run time The kill function allows to send a signal to a process group by symbolic name Experimental support for lexical subroutines has been added Config Perl Y module to access perl V data in structured way has been added into core modules DTrace SystemT ap provides new probes op entry loading file and loaded file Changes Hashes are randomized by default now That means the order in which keys and values are returned from
21. lows for the setting of permission rules which can be applied to all managed objects Fedora 20 Release Notes and API operations thus allowing for all client connections to be limited to a minimal set of rules and privileges There are three levels of access which can be assigned Unauthenticated access is initially used for all connections This state allows all API operations that are required to complete authentication Following a successful authentication two more levels can be assigned Unrestricted which gives full access to all API operations and Restricted which allows read only access System administrators can set permission rules for authenticated connections Every API call in libvirt has a set of permissions that are validated against the object that is being used For example User A wants to change a parameter in the domain object When the user tries to save the change virDomainSetSchedulerParametersFlags method will check whether the client has write permissions on the domain object Additional checks and permission settings can be processed as well Filtering can also be done to see which clients have permissions on which objects to allow for smother administration The libvirtd conf configuration file is responsible for setting the access permissions lt uses the access_drivers parameter to enable this operation Note that if more than one access driver is requested all must succeed in order for permission to be granted
22. nes enhanced handling of duplicates and improvements in some error messages 5 2 5 xastir xastir 2 0 4 includes a large number of changes and performance improvements Refer to the help file for 5 2 6 xnec2c xnec2c has been updated to 2 3 The differences between 2 1 and 2 3 are largely unnoticable to the user but reflect cleaning up the application s internal Most of these changes actually affect the nec2cpackage which provides the calculation engine for xnec2c 21 Fedora 20 Release Notes A Contributors A large number of people contribute to Fedora each release Among these are a number of writers and translators who have prepared these release notes The following pages list those contributors A 1 Writers Fedora Documentation Project Petr Bokoc lt pbokoc AT redhat DOT com gt John J McDonough lt jjmcd AT fedoraproject DOT org gt Laura Novich lt Inovich AT redhat DOT com gt Zach Oglesby lt oglesbyzm gmail com gt Jens Petersen lt petersen AT redhat DOT com gt Pravins Sapute lt pravins AT fedoraproject DOT org Pete Travis lt immanetize AT fedoraproject DOT org gt A 2 Translators Fedora Translation Project 22 Alick Zhao lt alick9188 AT gmail com gt Antonio Trande lt sagitter AT fedoraproject org gt Atsushi lt fedorakenken AT yahoo co jp gt Christopher Meng lt cickumqt AT gmail com gt Constantin DRABO lt panda constantin AT gmail com gt Damien Gourbiere lt dgourbiere AT gma
23. o version 0 100 The new release features integration with online services like Facebook and Twitter multiple home views a more featureful Journal improved Content Bundle support and more For details see the project s 14 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users 3 2 Networking 3 2 1 NetworkManager Bonding and Bridging NetworkManager now supports expanded bonding and bridging functionality and incorporates better with existing bonding or bridging tools and configurations This allows greater interoperability with virtualization solutions like libvirt Managed devices will not appear in configuration applets unless the applet supports these device types 3 2 2 NetworkManager on the command line The NetworkManager command line tool nmc1i in Fedora 20 gains the ability to add and edit network connections 3 2 3 Bluetooth stack updated to BlueZ 5 Fedora 20 includes the latest version of the BlueZ bluetooth management software The 5 0 release includes numerous backend improvements adds support for Low Ener gy profiles and features the command line tool b1luetoothct1 For detailed information on the changes in this release consult the upstream release notes at 3 3 Internationalization 3 3 1 Input Methods ibus now supports input method engine per window for non GNOME desktop environments It can be enabled from ibus setup ibus cangjie is a new ibus engine for users of the Cangjie and Quick input methods It is primaril
24. out changing the linewidth This allows some circuit symbols to be resized relative to others on the same schematic without a discontinuity in wire width at the pins A number of other useful additions including Tracking spline control points for adjoining splines in paths Clipmasks shapes can be used to clip the view of other elements polygon to curve conversion routine undo redo on raise lower elements single step raise and lower elements gradient field generator color graded fields are made from graphic image types 5 2 Amateur Radio 5 2 1 fldigi 20 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences fldigi has been upgraded to 3 21 76 Some of the changes include Improvements to ADIF logging Better weak signal MFSK Improvements in THOR Allow display of UTF 8 when active ARQ client Along with numerous others 5 2 2 gnuradio Fedora 20 includes gnuradio 3 7 1 Major new features include Performance Measurement Tools QT GUI Enhancements New blocks include gr analog fast_noise_source and gr analog agc3_ agc agc2 and agc3 blocks now have a unified interface New components gr fec and gr channels have been added A new tool allows the creation of out of tree VOLK libraries 5 2 3 qucs qucs has been upgraded to 0 0 17 Some key improvements New BSIM nMOS and pMOS models m code transient solver interface 5 2 4 trustedqsl trustedqs has been updated to 1 14 3 Updates include correcting some CQ zo
25. pecific boot journalctl can now be used to view the logs from a specific boot For example to view logs from the current boot journalctl b 10 3 Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users Or view the logs from the previous boot journalctl b 1 In addition to relative boot sequence journald assigns a 128 bit boot ID that can be referenced For example journalctl b 38fd9c3303574ed38e822233457f6b77 2 8 3 2 Referencing the journal with cursors journalctl can reference the contents of the journal by a record identifier known as a cursor Similar to a git hash the cursor uniquely identifies a point in the journal If you add show cursor to a journalctl query the last line of output will contain the cursor value journalctl b u network show cursor since 15 00 Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain network 4074 FAILED Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 network service control process exited code exited status 1 Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 Failed to start LSB Bring up down networking Sep 08 15 37 59 localhost localdomain systemd 1 Unit network service entered failed state cursor s 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 i 1120d b 8491c05dabd3444ca122e7069b5de0a9 m d b2118a46 t 4e5e7d81c7402 x d177768ac95df831 The cursor can be used to identify that point in the journal in a broader query to provide context journalctl c 13497722134642a2ac1544bada0c8836 1 1120d
26. r users with older graphics hardware or those seeing insufficient performance with LLVMpipe Desktop environments can be added to an existing installation and selected at login To list the available desktops use the yum grouplist command yum grouplist v hidden grep desktop Install the desired group yum groupinstall KDE Plasma Workspaces Or use the short group name to install Fedora 20 Release Notes yum install mate desktop environment 1 4 Architecture Specific Content 1 4 1 Cloud Specific Content Fedora 20 continues efforts to produce tested and proven cloud images The images are now built using the same tooling as other release media and the Fedora Cloud team has actively trimmed and improved 1 4 2 ARM Specific Content ARM in Fedora is all grown up With the release of Fedora 20 ARM is considered a primary architecture meaning that it receives the same amount of attention that the x86 and x86 64 releases get Fedora ARM officially supports armv7hl and work on AArch64 is underway To find out how to help or learn 1 5 Feedback Thank you for taking the time to provide your comments suggestions and bug reports to the Fedora community this helps improve the state of Fedora Linux and free software worldwide 1 5 1 Providing Feedback on Fedora Software 1 5 2 Providing Feedback on Release Notes If you feel these release notes could be improved in any way you can provide your feedback directly to
27. s and undo redo support for annotations and forms The JuK audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files Personal Identity Management changes Improved Kontact Suite including better archiving scheduled mail sending simple message filtering interface better notifications and scam detection in Kmail Performance Improvements Numerous optimizations to Dolphin reduce memory usage by up to 30 Better indexing and various improvements to Nemopuk make searches up to 6x faster adds indexing for ODF docx and other document formats and improves backup and restoration functionality Nemopuk and upgrading Users upgrading to new versions of Nemopuk should expect their database to be automatically re indexed and upgraded The conversion will consume more system resources than normal but will only occur on the first login after upgrading 3 1 5 2 Plasma nm Network applet KDE in Fedora 20 includes Plasma nm a new applet for network management It supports user friendly creation and editing of all connection types from NetworkManager including bridges bonds and VPNs with a modern and intuitive interface 3 1 6 MATE Because of compatibility issues with the new bluetooth stack MATE does not include a bluetooth applet by default Users that need this functionality should install the bluedevil package 3 1 7 Sugar 0 100 The Sugar Learning Platform in Fedora 20 has been updated t
28. s user slice Loaded loaded usr lib systemd system user slice static Active active since Sun 2013 09 08 01 23 40 MDT 18h ago Docs man systemd special 7 CGroup user slice user 1000 slice Esession 21 scope 9226 sshd pete priv 9229 sshd pete pts 4 9230 bash 9262 sudo su 9270 su 9271 bash 129509 screen R t session 18 scope 7939 sshd pete priv 7942 sshd pete pts 0 7943 bash 7982 sudo su 7988 su 7989 bash 8206 SCREEN 8207 bin bash 8237 bin bash 8486 less NEWS 8489 bin bash 1210637 systemctl status user slice truncated TT TTIE Services can be added to a slice with the Slice slicename directive in their unit configuration file Arguments allowing resource limitation within a slice or service unit are described in man systemd directives See alsoman systemd slice andman systemd cgroup 2 8 2 2 systemd cryptsetup for TrueCrypt Support for TrueCrypt in Fedora is expanded by systemd cryptsetup support for the technology allowing easy authentication during boot 2 8 2 3 Filtering by unit state with systemctl systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by load state The state option will accept any value or a comma separated list of the values of LOAD SUB or ACTIVE states For example systemctl state failed 2 8 3 journald 2 8 3 1 Viewing the logs of a s
29. service grep named var log messages journalctl b Shows logs from current boot no simple equivalent 2 8 2 systemd 2 8 2 1 New unit types Scope Systemd now has two new unit types scope and slice scope units are automatically created by systemd out of existing processes By grouping a process and its children together a scope unit can be used to organize processes apply resource units or kill a group of processes User sessions are one example of processes contained in a scope unit slice units are used to group units that manage processes into a hierarchy that allows control of resources allocated to the slice The default slices are machine slice for virtual machines and containers system slice for system services and user slice for user sessions These default slices are automatically populated Instance units such as getty service are spawned on demand using the template defined in their configuration file Each type of template is given a subslice of the system slice and instances are contained within that slice Scope and service units assigned to a slice are descendants of that slice s node in the control group tree A slice s name describes its position relative to the root slice The output below demonstrates how user 1000 slice is a child of user slice which is in turn a child of the root slice Each session is further confined in a scope unit within the user s slice Fedora 20 Release Notes systemctl statu
30. sually appealing application for browsing and installing applications GNOME Software shows information relevant to users such as descriptions screenshots reviews and more assistance and patches for AppData support to upstream projects The older package management GUI gpk application is still available 3 1 4 3 Further reading To learn more about GNOME 3 10 see 3 1 5 KDE 3 1 5 1 KDE Plasma Workspaces 4 11 KDE Plasma Workspaces 4 11 is a long term release of the popular full featured desktop environment Major changes have been made to user experience personal information management and performance aspects of the platform 13 Fedora 20 Release Notes User experience changes Taskbar has been ported to QtQuick providing more consistent and fluent behavior Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals such as in mice and keyboards Notification popups now have a configure button allowing customization of the type of notification displayed Kmix the KDE sound mixer performs better and more stably in addition to adding media player controls to the widget Improved performance of Kwin the KDE window manager Text editor Kate has new plugins for Python2 Python3 Javascript JQuery and XML Improved user interface design in Kwallet Kolourpaint a simple painting application now supports the WebP image format PDF viewer Okular adds review tool
31. udes improved functionality speed and security in addition to better modularization Developers moving to Ruby on Rails 4 0 can find assistance from the project s upgrade guide and detailed information in the upstream Release Notes 5 Changes in Fedora for Specific Audiences 5 1 Circuit Design 5 1 1 gtkwave gtkwave has been updated from 3 3 41 to 3 3 51 This includes a large number of upgrades including Adding more support for newer constructs in Vermin Added scrollwheel support to rtlbrowse code windows Added VPD support via vpd2vcd Added preliminary do nothing generate support in vermin Added Open Hierarchy option that will expand the SST and select the hierarchy for a given signal 19 Fedora 20 Release Notes selected in the Signals window Added preliminary support for FsdbReader Added generate as scope type to VCD FST FSDB Display signal direction column in SST if not all signals are declared as FST_VD_IMPLICIT Added extraction of in out inout from FSDB into FST with vcd2fst helper executable Added support for SV structures unions classes packages programs and interfaces Preliminary support for SV datatypes of bit logic int shortint longint byte enum and shortreal in VCD and FST Added sparse array datatype to FST currently unused by gtkwave Added support for attribute begin end in FST Currently unused by gtkwave This allows embedding of various data inside the structure tree Added a
32. y intended to Hong Kong people who want to input Traditional Chinese as they are by far the majority of Cangjie and Quick users ibus rime is a new Rime input method engine for Linux IBus ibus typing booster latn post and latn pre input methods are not blacklisted anymore 3 3 2 Font tools ttname is a new CLI interface for editing the name table that contains the metadata in TrueType and OpenT ype fonts fntsample is a new program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font sfntly is a library for using editing and creating SFNT based Fonts 3 3 3 Fonts trabajo fonts is a new package designed for use with the Shavian alphabet a phonemic spelling reform proposal for English but also supports extended Latin and basic Cyrillic Trabajo pronounced tra Baxo if you re Spanish or tis ba how if you re English is Spanish for work Trabajo has become a Serif font as of version 2 0 for improved appearance campivisivi titilllium fonts is a new package Titillium is born inside the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino 15 Fedora 20 Release Notes as a didactic project Course Type design of the Master of Visual Design Campi Visivi mph 2b damase fonts is a new package Mark Williamson s MPH 2B Damase is a free font for many non Latin scripts encoding google noto fonts script coverage is increased It now has support for additional scripts as listed below Avestan Bengali Brahmi Carian Cheroke
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