Development and support of MySQL implements Corporation Oracle, acquired the rights to the brand with the absorbed Sun Microsystems, which had previously acquired the Swedish company MySQL AB. Recent changes to Oracle, indicate that they are moving toward greater secrecy project MySQL. They do not publish information on security issues, and a very large part of the MySQL bug tracking system is no longer accessible.

MariaDB – a community developed branch DBMS MySQL. It saves the API / ABI compatibility with MySQL, and adds some new features. The project was founded by some of the main developers of MySQL, has a more open approach to the development and active community. Fedora developers believe that they are much easier to work with, especially with regard to security issues.

Now, all updates will be divided into two parts: the system updates and application. Last updated and will be put in the old way, but updates will be applied at reboot into a special mode of system updates and restart further back into normal mode.

To begin with, offers everything that brings desktop-file and appears on the menu, to consider the application, and everything else – upgrading the system. In the future, may be introduced additional clues in the metadata packages. Since most of the packages does not include desktop-files, it is obvious that any updates, including, for example, installing a different kernel, will require two reboots just to install the package.

In addition, the system is implemented downloads updates in the background, notifying the user about available updates only when everything is ready to install them. Management mechanism loads the system has not provided updates, rather, it is left to the mercy of future high-level managers updates in GNOME.

List of test cases:

• suspend / resume using pm-utils;
• hibernate / resume using pm-utils;
• gathering information on the errors pm-utils;
• Notebook: identification of the battery and power supply, the reaction pm-powersave to change the source;
• Notebook: a reaction to the closing of the lid;
• Notebook: Change the brightness of the screen;
• basic functionality and utility service tuned tuned-adm;
• Notebook and in the presence of wattmeter – measurement of energy consumption for different profiles tuned.

All test cases (except the last) you can do in five minutes.

Live-way test: i686 and x86_64 .

In the vote on the name of the next version could the supporters of the name “Miracle Beefy triumph” after several attempts. Suitable to take notice of the alpha version of Fedora 17 humorous reference to that. The alpha version already contains all the planned features of the new version, partly but not completely. But it should be sufficiently complete and stable for initial testing.

The alpha version supports international fonts better, including through the inclusion of Lohit fonts for Indic. The GIMP has been updated to the latest test version of the GIMP 2.8, since GIMP 2.8 will soon officially be released. Are available as desktop environments, including Fedora 17 KDE SC 4.8 and Gnome 3.4 (in the form of a current test version 3.3.x) available.

For developers, there have been numerous updates to the programming environments, including Java (OpenJDK 7), Erlang, Haskell, and D. The programming language grandpa was added. Python, Ruby and PHP have been updated. GCC version 4.7 and was taken to generate the entire distribution so.

In the area of ​​virtualization and cloud Fedora 17 has been revised. Open vSwitch was added again and KVM has been updated with numerous improvements. With “Virtualization sandboxing” is now a new library, which makes it possible to incorporate virtualization into applications. The cluster software, load balancing and high availability have improved. Corosync Cluster Resource Manager 2.0 and 1.1.7 are included pacemaker.The application server JBoss Application Server (AS) 7 was also added.

In addition to other information about the new features can be found on the website of Fedora , the release notes .

The next test release of Fedora 17 is the beta version, the third for the April is planned . Fedora 17 is on 8 May appear official. Two weeks earlier, a release candidate will be provided which will be announced but probably not large.

At the moment, the debate continues. The most obvious difficulty in introducing a new model – a severe shortage of human resources. The existing community of developers too loaded more pressing concerns distribution, so there is a chance that the activity around innovation will not go past the discussion in the mailing.

Fedora Utils is a script that helps us to undertake the tasks of optimization and common maintenance. This utility allows the installation of codecs and additional software, troubleshoot, adjust and clean your system, see information and much more with just a few mouse clicks.

The functions of this utility are:

• Optimize startup by disabling unnecessary services
• Show system information
• Enable automatic login for the current user
• Add current user to sudoers
• Establish yum to keep the cache
• Add repositories, rpmfusion, Google, Adobe, Chrome, Skype …
• Enable and configure the touchpad
• Install multimedia codecs
• Install Adobe Flash and Java Runtime Environment
• Add colors and messages to the terminal wealth
• Install Microsoft fonts
  Install essential software .-
• Cleaning System
• Installing many programs, codecs and drivers.
• Resolution of some bugs

• A better support for the cloud
  KDE 4.7 .-
• GNOME 3.2, which solves many of the deficiencies identified in GNOME 3.0
• Kernel 3.1
  Grub2 .-
• HAL is removed and replaced by UDisk, and libudev upower.
• Chrony as default NTP client
  Continue to change .- systemd
• Performance improvements in various components of virtualization.

The Fedora Scholarship program this year goes into the fifth round.

Under the program each year a high school student who has received a contribution to the Fedora project and made his studies in the fall.

The scholarship is worth $ 2,000 annually and is paid over a period of four years. If the grant recipient will attend a FUDCon, Red Hat takes over for the duration of the scholarship for travel and accommodation expenses to the nearest event.

The scholarship is designed to encourage young people to use free software and support with contributions. “The Fedora Scholarship recognizes young talent in their quest for innovation. Hir hope to encourage future technologists and to encourage open development “, so Jared Smith, employee and Fedora project leader at Red Hat.

“The last four scholarship recipients were in open source communities very active, while striving for their completion. We believe that open source is the best way for technological developments, because the best idea wins. And we are excited about the ideas that the engineers of the next generation of security. ”

Potential candidates for the scholarship will be checked to see how good the quality of their contributions was how much time they spent on Fedora or another project’s overall impression and makes the application. Interested parties have until 24th February next year to apply . Applications are processed by a selection panel, are included in the scholarship including Fedora.

What started as a fork of Fedora 14 is now independent and can be built with its own tool chain (self-hosting), write the blog entry Fuduntu-makers in the new release. The most important changes in version 3.0.7 include kernel and X.org 14:12 1.11.1, bringing support for new hardware. In addition brings the licensed distribution packages from Adobe and Flash Fluendos MP3 codec.

A new feature is the remote desktop client remmina , which replaces the previous software Vinagre and supports the RDP, VNC, NX or XDMCP.

In addition, the developers indicated that they have changed the key used to sign software packages. Instructions on how to update can be found in the blog entry .

Fedora 16 comes with Gnome 3.2 and KDE 4.7 fresh versions of desktop environments. The system also kernel 3.1 and put Grub second The Ext-4 driver is new in Fedora for the file systems Ext 2 and 3 charge. The developers SysVinit some scripts have to be ported to version 15 introduced Systemd init system.

Fedora 16 is used as the default desktop environment, Gnome 3.2

In addition, the distribution contains a lot of software for cloud computing, including the conductor surface Aeolus, the IaaS Cloud Implementation Condor and the distributed file system HekaFS. Software developers can for example, Perl 5.14, the GCC Python plugins, the Haskell Platform and D2, the latest version of the programming language D.

In the download section there is an installable live images for x86 and x86_64 computers. The so-called spins are already partially completed, as the variants with LXDE and Xfce desktop.