fidzu : Fedora

06 Nov 2026 9:00pm GMT

05 Nov 2026 11:00pm GMT

05 Nov 2026 6:39pm GMT

We took some time to interact with the booth visitors at the IndiaFOSS 2026 conference's Red Hat Community Booth. While representing Fedora Project on the event grounds and handing out special swags, we were the conduits for the community's sentiments both as users and contributors to free and open source software projects like that of ours.

09:36am IST

1. Zorin OS vs. Fedora Linux
   Both use GNOME and yet Zorin OS offers a more Windows-like experience out of the box, while Fedora Linux provides a comparatively stock GNOME experience.
2. Software Freshness
   Zorin benefits from Ubuntu's stability, but its software packages can be considerably older as compared to Fedora Linux where updates arrive much faster after testing.
3. Fedora's Positioning
   The distribution bridges the contentious gap between beginner friendly distributions and faster moving ones, by balancing software freshness and overall stability.
4. Raspberry Pi
   Fedora support ARM64, and various other architectures, including Raspberry Pi, but the releases can take longer to arrive sometimes due to the closed kernel sources.
5. Experimentation Encouraged
   Fedora Linux is worth trying on any hardware for general purpose users but there is no need to replace whatever works if it already meets your requirements.
6. Foundational Freedom
   Users should explore GNU/Linux distributions based on curiosity and learning rather than simply switching for the sake of it to face workflow problems.
7. Distribution Movements
   Fedora Linux is a natural intermediate step before experimenting with more advanced GNU/Linux distributions like Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux and others.
8. Experimental Education
   College students should consider experimenting with GNU/Linux distributions to learn the internal parts without risking their everyday systems in the process.
9. Generative Enhancements
   Generative systems should be treated as a tool that enhances human capabilities rather than a replacement for human involvement in software development.
10. Usage Responsibility
    Generated codebase require proper requirements gathering, human oversight and deep auditing to ensure that the result does not lead to poor outcomes.
11. Learning Fundamentals
    Beginners should avoid excessive dependence on AI tooling, in order to help long-term capabilities and build strong fundamentals with basic documentation.
12. Dependent Consumerism
    Free services can create dependency with providers potentially introducing restrictions with enshittification, so users should remain mindful of privacy concerns.
13. Privacy Engagements
    In Fedora Project community, we value meaningful conversations and useful feedback over collecting emails in exchange for our promotional merchandise.
14. Getting Started
    Documentation writing and quality assurance are excellent beginner starting points, as they help with bridging the gap between users and contributors.
15. Advanced Contributions
    They can gradually move towards issue tracking, design creation, codebase writing and community management, as they grow familiar with the ecosystem.
16. Container Security
    Podman comes bundled with Fedora Linux with the support for rootless execution of container payloads along with first class SELinux support.

10:00am IST

1. Ubuntu Linux vs. Fedora Linux
   Fedora Linux releases every six months while Ubuntu LTS prioritizes five year support and hence, the former delivers newer software much faster.
2. Upstream First
   Fedora Linux aims to ship upstream updates within a shorter timeframe, often around a week after release, whereas Ubuntu paces behind for stability.
3. Innovation Focus
   Fedora Linux distinguishes itself with adopting emerging technologies and leading the pack before they become mainstream across other distributions.
4. Controversial Standards
   Systemd adoption was controversial at its time, but it soon found its way into major contemporary GNU/Linux distribution shortly after our example.
5. Enterprise Security
   Using SELinux, Fedora Linux provides strong system-level protection, with Podman for lightweight rootless container execution against Docker.
6. Staying Current
   Newer development tools with Fedora Linux releases help users and builders to cater for the stakeholders of today and tomorrow, and not of yesterday.

10:08am IST

1. Leading Edge
   Fedora Linux prioritizes delivering recent software updates while maintaining usability and stability of the general GNU/Linux distribution experience.
2. Balancing Updates
   Fedora Linux aims to deliver updates relatively quickly, typically within a week of its upstream release, while holding back broken updates until fixed.
3. Community Maintenance
   With a heavy reliance on voluntary developers and community maintainers, Fedora Linux attempts shipping updates as quickly as possible.
4. Security Updates
   CVE addressing security patches are prioritized and pushed as soon as they are ready to be shipped to minimize the vulnerability exposure period.
5. Quality Assurance
   An integrated update management system allows community members to test proposed updates before wider GNU/Linux distribution adoption ensues.
6. Getting Involved
   Contributors can help test updates without from virtual machines and live environment without replacing their existing operating systems here.

10:16am IST

1. Educational Institutions
   Fedora Linux is adopted in St. Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore across their computer systems, for student development and general purpose.
2. Contribution Pathways
   One need not be a programmer to contribute to Fedora Project, when they can do so through designing, documentation, testing, triaging and other ways.
3. Packaging Technologies
   Flatpak's fully open-source nature and support for federated infrastructure is preferred over Snap's centralized software serving approach by the folks.
4. Upstream Innovation
   Fedora Linux introduces technologies such as Pipewire and Wayland that eventually greatly influence other GNU/Linux distributions down the road.
5. Enterprise Contributions
   Fedora Linux serves as the upstream foundation for CentOS Stream and ultimately, Red Hat Enterprise Linux so the contributors have the agency.
6. Career Opportunities
   Students are encouraged to explore opportunities through Red Hat's career portal and learn about various roles within the organization communities.

10:26am IST

1. Agent Security
   How do we identify compromised polluted autonomous agents within a swarm of AI agents operating towards a shared initially provided goal?
2. Ring Architecture
   How elevated memory access privileges could help understand the potential fault when malicious activity reaches the deeper memory layers?
3. Without Logging
   Identifying malicious autonomous agents without execution footprints can be quite the challenge with the entire ecosystem being treated as a black box.
4. Compromise Detection
   Determining memory access history, and isolating affected regions could help prevent further compromise, which was also in Anthropic's research.

10:48am IST

1. CentOS Evolution
   From having limited upstream contribution to having unlimited midstream exposure, CentOS Stream helped evolve the entire ecosystem.
2. Midstream Bridge
   CentOS Stream helps bridge Fedora Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux by being an intermediate platform for development and security.

10:56am IST

1. Personal Experience
   Using Fedora Linux first as daily drivers motivates people to contribute back whenever they face issues or identify opportunities in their tools.
2. Giving Back
   Support received by Fedora Project motivates people to contribute in whatever manner they can, while solving real world problem statements.
3. General Affordability
   In various government schools, free and open source software can make technology accessible to students' and teachers' existing devices.
4. GNU/Linux Entertainment
   Various people still depend on Microsoft Windows for graphic drivers and video games particularly from vendors like AMD and/or NVIDIA.
5. Community Driven
   Communities collaborate to address security issues and software bugs that have been identified by users who have faced similar incidents.
6. Starting Small
   People should not feel pressured to become core maintainers immediately when they could start small with fellow contributors to rely on.

11:20am IST

1. StratOS Linux
   Using Bedrock Linux to integrate components from multiple alternatives to allow users to combine packages, kernels, components in here.
2. Kernel integration
   Fedora Linux's official kernel was demonstrated to be integrated with custom dotfiles and SwayFX environment to include DNF installer.

11:26am IST

1. Battleship Gaming
   Gridlock, a battleship inspired videogame written purely in Rust and GTK4 UI with minimal memory footprint was demonstrated live.
2. Development Environment
   They mentioned how Fedora Linux enabled them to build on the most recent codebase and toolkit, with just how fast we ship the updates.

11:34am IST

1. Open Background
   With humble start from beginner alternatives to moving into NixOS from the first year of the college education, NixOS was used for four years.
2. Blue Experience
   After initial experiments with Manjaro Linux, Fedora Linux outgrew the popularity for its mature ecosystem and maintenance practices it has.
3. NixOS Adoption
   Finally settling into NixOS after years of distrohopping, it was realized that the NixOS workflow suits them the best with Fedora Linux after it.
4. Declarative Configuration
   Like NixOS, Fedora Linux's Atomic Variants also support declarative configuration, thus providing them alternatives for trying it again.
5. Contribution Potential
   Interest was expressed in helping Fedora Linux evolve more on system configuration drawing inspiration from contemporary alternatives.
6. Proposed Pathways
   With an encouragement to document ideas, identifying issues and opening discussions through the active Fedora Atomic forums, they departed.

05 Nov 2026 6:30pm GMT

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04 Nov 2026 9:51am GMT

Theme

Experience

While I had enough respite to prepare for the first day of IndiaFOSS 2026, I could not say the same for 27th September 2026. After returning to SRS Springs And Spa Hotel late the previous night, I found myself horrifically awakened by the noise of running water coming from the bathroom. Creeping cautiously towards the source of the sound while trying to shake off my headache, I was relieved when I realized that the room had not been intruded upon by anyone. It was the Jet Spray Faucet Device that had suffered a leak due to the change in water pressure, and that was where the noise was coming from. I was facing a mixed bag of emotions as I rang up the reception desk at around 0700am Indian Standard Time. I was glad that I had been jolted awake by the noise, as I did not have an alarm set for the morning, but I also had to waste some time dealing with the plumbing issue in the room before I could begin preparing for the day.

I did not realize how quickly my mind moved from finding something to use as a weapon against a potential intruder to gathering the necessary supplies for setting up the Red Hat Community Booth. Keeping myself immensely occupied helped in spades to shake off the sudden shock, and since Samyak Jain had tapped out of the 0930am Indian Standard Time booth presence, it was down to me alone to get things going. Deferring the cleanup of the leakage until after I was gone, I left for breakfast at around 0830am Indian Standard Time to be greeted by a (comparatively better) assortment of morning munchies. Grouped with Aaloo Bonda, Chholey Bhature, French Toasts, and Medu Vada, the menu selection was a whole lot more pronounced than the day before. I ordered myself an Uber ride at around 0900am Indian Standard Time, and within the next fifteen minutes or so, I found myself at the NIMHANS Convention Center Bengaluru.

Since it was Sunday, there was no flagship Bengaluru traffic to battle through, and along with me, Jaison Raju also happened to be the first one at the Red Hat Community Booth. I checked in with the likes of Rajan Shah and Deepesh Nair, who planned on coming later that day, before setting up the swags and laptops at the booth. I knew that I had to pace myself while addressing the booth visitors on that day, given how I had a numb voice and dry throat from the day before. The medicine intake allowed me to push through the pain, and I was more determined than ever to exhaust the inventory of Ceramic Branded Coffee Mugs and Round Magnet Pin Combos by the end of the day. For a change, I also brought my microphone to record our conversations with consenting community booth visitors. As an underlying principle, we were more interested in the feedback than in the contact details of the folks interacting with us.

Thankfully, we had a slower-moving community crowd on that day, which allowed us to stand our ground until our representational backup from the Ansible team and Tekton team arrived at around 1100am Indian Standard Time. Sudhir Dharanendraiah and Samyak came about half an hour later to help Jaison and me with the visitor interactions. Just like the day before, the swag offerings from Fedora Project ended up being indeed great conversation starters, not just for our community but also for those surrounding us. We also came upon some familiar faces from our community, like Muneer S., who used to contribute to Fedora Project at that time. Offloading conversations to Samyak and regularly keeping hydrating myself allowed us to keep going until lunchtime. Chats related to CentOS Stream's midstream value, the utility of generative tooling, and the open source software careers were, more or less, the stars of our presence on that day.

Right before we headed for lunch at around 0130pm Indian Standard Time, we met with Saumilli Dutta, whom we had met at DevConf.IN 2026 and GNOME Asia 2024. After meeting some more familiar faces from the Maintainer Summit and taking another round of group photographs, we headed for the lunch break, where we ran into Shivani Bhardwaj after having previously met her during FOSSAsia 2026. Finishing off our catch-up chats and okayish meals, I took the time to explore the venue offerings before heading back to our community booth. With Deepesh heading back much sooner, we were helped by Veer Kumar Patil with his professional lossless recording instrument. Using designated mics for the interviewer and interviewee allowed us to cut through the venue noise and retain a great deal of what was actually conveyed so that it could be transcribed accurately using generative tooling, once we were back.

After a visit from our FOSSUnited friend, Ansh Arora, we were also joined by the legal ambassadors of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, Mrinmayee Nagarsenkar, Biju Nair and Dakshana AM, whom we felicitated with the Ceramic Branded Coffee Mugs. We had immense respect for what that they had been doing, and they also provided us valuable feedback as general-purpose computer users. With nothing significant planned for the evening, we cross-promoted our swag at the FOSSUnited helpdesk community booth who appreciated our swag supplies. At around 0530pm Indian Standard Time, it was about time for us to pack things up at our community booth, with us finally managing to finish off the offerings inventory. Connecting with Ramakrishna Yekulla, Shivraj Patil, and Gaurav Kamathe at the coffee stand, Samyak and I kept looking for an Uber ride back to the hotel to finally complete this event as a grand success.

03 Nov 2026 6:30pm GMT

RPMs of Redis version 8.12 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 43 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

⚠️ Warning: this is a pre-release version not ready for production usage.

1. Installation

Packages are available in the redis:remi-8.8 module stream.

1.1. Using dnf4 on Enterprise Linux

# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).rpm
# dnf module switch-to redis:remi-8.12/common

1.2. Using dnf5 on Fedora

# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).rpm
# dnf module reset  redis
# dnf module enable redis:remi-8.12
# dnf install redis --allowerasing

You may have to remove the valkey-compat-redis compatibility package.

2. Modules

Some optional modules are also available:

• RedisBloom as redis-bloom
• RedisJSON as redis-json
• RedisTimeSeries as redis-timeseries

These packages are weak dependencies of Redis, so they are installed by default (if install_weak_deps is not disabled in the dnf configuration).

The modules are automatically loaded after installation and service (re)start.

The modules are not available for Enterprise Linux 8.

3. Statistics

redis

redis-bloom

redis-json

redis-timeseries

03 Nov 2026 4:07pm GMT

Fedora 45 is now available! So let's see what this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants includes for Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic.

Changes for all Atomic Desktops

Completed the migration to the new Fedora forge

Everything related to the Atomic Desktops now resides in the atomic-desktops organization.

The only remaining repo on GitLab.com/fedora is the one used to build the unofficial bootable container images (gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test). The migration of this repo will occur in the future, as well.

Anaconda Web UI

The Atomic Desktops installer ISOs now use the new Anaconda WebUI. This follows the same change that occurred for Fedora Workstation 42 and Fedora 43 Spins.

This also enables remote installation of a system using a Web browser on another machine over HTTPS.

See the Fedora Change pages for the switch to the WebUI and for Web based remote installations.

Installer images (ISO) and disk images built by Image Builder

The installer images (ISO) are now built by Image Builder. While there should not be any immediate visible changes, this will help us move to the bootable container images in the future.

This also enables us to offer pre-installed disk images for Silverblue and Kinoite. Those images are currently in preview and only those variants are covered for now. They are the only ones with a first boot experience from a disk image.

See the Fedora Change page for further information.

General Fedora changes worth noting

The following changes are part of the general set of changes that come with Fedora Linux 45 and are worth noting for Atomic Desktops users:

• Podman 6.0 & 6.1: The latest version of the container management tool. See the blog posts:
  • Introducing Podman v6.0.0
  • Podman 6 Configuration File Changes
  • Podman 6.1.0: Volume Renaming, Machine Restarts, and a Long List of Bug Fixes
  • Support for slirp4netns and the BoltDB backend have been removed.
• oo7 Secrets Service Provider: New secrets backend, enabled for all variants at the exception of Kinoite.
• DRM Panic Frontend: An easier way to report kernel crashes using a web interface. Hopefully you will never see it!

What's new in Silverblue

Fedora Silverblue comes with the latest GNOME 51 release.

For more details about the changes alongside GNOME 51, see What's new in Fedora Workstation 45 on the Fedora Magazine.

What's new in Kinoite

Fedora Kinoite ships with Plasma 6.7, Frameworks 6.31 and Gear 26.08.

Plasma 6.8 is expected to land right after the release.

See also What's new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 45 on the Fedora Magazine.

What's new in Sway Atomic

Fedora Sway Atomic comes with the latest 1.12 Sway release.

What's new in Budgie Atomic

Fedora Budgie Atomic comes with the brand new version 10.10.3 of Budgie Desktop: New Favorites in Budgie Menu, re-introduced Keyboard applet with Wayland support, massive improvements to our desktop view, primary monitor selection, and more! See the 10.10.3 Budgie release announcement.

What's new in COSMIC Atomic

Fedora COSMIC Atomic comes with the 1.10.0 release of the COSMIC desktop.

Universal Blue, Bluefin, Bazzite, Aurora and secureblue

Our friends in the Universal Blue project (Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora) have prepared the update to Fedora 45. Look for upcoming announcements in their Discourse.

As always, I heavily recommend checking them out, especially if you feel like some things are missing from the Fedora Atomic Desktops and you depend on them (NVIDIA drivers, extra media codec, out of tree kernel drivers, etc.).

If you have an interest in more security focused variants, I recommend taking a look at the secureblue project.

What's next

Roadmap to Bootable Containers and bootc / CoreOS / Atomic unification

A lot of work is happening to make the transition to Bootable Containers as smooth as possible for our existing users. You can look at the roadmap for this transition at atomic-desktops#26.

Most of the progress in this release cycle was (again) focused on getting our bootable container images ready for general consumption in Fedora. A part of this work is being able to build them reliably in the Fedora Infra.

The people involved in the bootc, CoreOS and other Atomic variants are working on this effort as part of the new Atomic SIG. See atomic#137 and the project board.

Making it easier to derive images into Fedora Remix images

Work is in progress to make it easier to create derived container images from the Fedora Atomic Desktops images, notably in order to comply with the logo and branding policy.

Once this is ready, we may start publishing "Fedora Remix" branded container images of the Fedora Atomic Desktops. Those images will not include official Fedora branding and will thus be better suited for projects that want to layer their changes on top.

See atomic-desktops#125 and atomic-desktops#132.

Helping us with a few nasty bugs

If you have an interest in contributing to Fedora Atomic Desktops, here are some bugs that we will have to fix in the short term. We would greatly appreciate help with the following issues from the ticket tracker:

• Fixing root mount options (atomic-desktops#72): This is a long standing and mostly invisible bug that impacts performance.
• Moving away from nss-altfiles (atomic-desktops#108): This is another long standing source of issues that new users regularly face.

Where to reach us

We are looking for contributors to help us make the Fedora Atomic Desktops the best experience for Fedora users. The following are Matrix rooms that may be of interest to potential contributors:

• Atomic Desktops SIG: Organization on Fedora's Forge, #atomic-desktops:fedoraproject.org
• Silverblue: Workstation Working Group, #silverblue:fedoraproject.org
• Kinoite: KDE SIG, #kinoite:fedoraproject.org
• Sway Atomic: Sway SIG, #sway:fedoraproject.org
• Budgie Atomic: Budgie SIG, #budgie:fedoraproject.org
• COSMIC Atomic: COSMIC SIG, #cosmic:fedoraproject.org

03 Nov 2026 2:28pm GMT

Fedora Workstation features the latest six months of meticulous polish, under-the-hood responsiveness, and security hardening for F45, based on GNOME 51. Whether you are multitasking across monitors, managing daily appointments, or organizing large sets of files, GNOME 51 brings thoughtful refinements to your daily workflow on Fedora Workstation.

Silky-Smooth Responsiveness: Reworked Frame Scheduling

One standout improvement in GNOME 51 is a reworked frame scheduling and frame delivery system in Mutter. Animations, window snapping, and desktop transitions now hold a rock-steady frame rate even when the CPU and GPU are under heavy compile or gaming loads.

In tandem with this, GNOME streamlined its graphics pipeline by retiring legacy NVIDIA proprietary interfaces in favor of the standard GBM memory management path. This makes Wayland sessions cleaner, faster, and more uniform across all hardware.

Everyday App Polish

Files (Nautilus) Gets Quality-of-Life Upgrades

Files has picked up several subtle but indispensable touches:

• Drag-and-Drop Counter Badge: When selecting and dragging multiple files, a small badge now shows the exact count of items you're moving.
• Non-Blocking Operations: Large or slow directory reloads no longer freeze the interface, resulting in a snappier file management experience.
• Notification Grouping: Grouping status and operation notifications together now keeps your notification tray tidy.

Calendar Rebuilt for Speed

Calendar feels faster than ever. The entire view-rendering engine was overhauled under the hood. This dramatically cut down the lag when scrolling through dense schedules in Month View. Reorganization within the event editor now presents a cleaner Notes section and native recognition of modern video conference links.

Revamped File Previewer

The quick-look File Previewer received a top-to-bottom redesign built on modern GTK 4 and libadwaita. It now seamlessly matches your desktop theme, respects Dark Style, handles fractional display scaling crisper than before, and properly previews high-resolution images at their actual native size.

Deeper Security: Next-Generation Secret Storage with oo7

Security underpins everything in Fedora Workstation. GNOME 51 introduces oo7, a modern Secret Service provider written from scratch to safely store application passwords, API tokens, and credentials.

Fedora Workstation is replacing legacy keyring daemons with a compartmentalized, sandboxed service. This provides even stronger defense against rogue applications attempting to peek at cached user credentials.

Accessibility and Navigation Upgrades

• Keyboard-Driven Screenshots: You can now adjust screenshot selection boxes entirely with your arrow keys (
  Alt
  to move the selection,
  Shift
  /
  Ctrl
  for coarse/fine resizing, and
  R
  to reset).
• Extended Reduced Motion: Toggling the Reduced Motion accessibility option now softens animations across more core widgets and Shell elements than ever before.
• Reorganized Settings: The About (System Details) panel now includes a direct button to view the release notes for your running GNOME version, alongside a revamped fingerprint enrollment flow.

Upgrade or Try Fedora Workstation

If you're already running Fedora, upgrading through GNOME Software or via the terminal with

will bring you right into GNOME 51. For clean installs, check out the Fedora Workstation live media at getfedora.org.

Share your favorite new feature or thoughts on the release over at the Fedora Discussion forum!

Disclaimer: Google Gemini, using the GNOME 51 release notes, assisted in the creation of this article. It was reviewed by humans before publishing. No apparent hallucinations were noted, however ,some content was not included.

Please read the GNOME 51 release notes for even more cool features that you can enjoy on Fedora Workstation as part of the F45 release.

03 Nov 2026 2:00pm GMT

KDE Plasma 6.8 was released on KDE's 30 year anniversary and we are proud to have it be the star of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 45.

The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is well suited for many needs. It combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. It provides a selection of KDE applications that are simple by default, but powerful when needed.

KDE Plasma 6.8

KDE developers continue to release new features, fix bugs and fine-tune the desktop experience to improve on the now well-established foundation of Plasma 6. There have been two KDE Plasma releases since our last Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition shipped. Some of the new features and updates include:

New Features

• Per-screen virtual desktops: After 21 years per-screen virtual desktops have finally arrived!
• Test your microphone volume: Stop wondering if it's your microphone or an app that's misbehaving.
• Press-and-hold for special characters: With Plasma's virtual keyboard enabled, press and hold a key to type special characters related to it.
• Light/dark mode toggle: A quick toggle in the system tray to switch between light and dark Global Themes immediately.
• "Background Apps" in the System Tray: The system tray now shows apps using the newer "Background Apps" system, which is more common for apps using the Flatpak package format.

Updated Features

• Better Accessibility: a new "dwell clicker" feature can send a mouse click when the pointer stops moving. Designed especially for users with mobility issues.
• Remote Desktop: Much better performance and quality, bi-directional clipboard synchronization, exclusive mode and overall polish to the experience.
• Printing: Now the System Tray icon for printers shows the number of active jobs in a little badge.
• Faster virtual desktop switching in the Overview: When you press "Meta + W" to open the Overview screen, Plasma now lets you switch virtual desktops simply by scrolling or pressing the "Page Up" or "Page Down" keys.
• Easier to compare different time zones: The Digital Clock widget lets you add multiple time zones and quickly compare them.

Theming

• Oxygen: For KDE's 30th anniversary the Oxygen theme is back and brought up to par.
• Breeze: The default Breeze theme also continues to evolve, now featuring rounded list and grid view highlights for many applications, and visible click effects for menu items.
• Union: Plasma's all-new Union theming system streamlines theming by making it possible to style Plasma, QtQuick apps, and QtWidgets apps all with a single set of easy-to-write CSS.

And More …

There is so much new stuff since our last Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition was released. Check out the full release announcements for Plasma 6.7 and Plasma 6.8.

Fedora Linux 45 general updates

Some broader changes in Fedora Linux also directly impact Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition, notably:

• Updated Podman: Podman 6 includes new features, but also significant API and CLI breaking changes. Depending on how you use Podman, this change may significantly affect you. The Podman 6 change proposal has information on what is affected.
• NetworkManager VPN: NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn are not in Fedora 45. If you already have them installed and are updating to Fedora 45, NetworkManager will obsolete and remove them. Users still using them should migrate their connection profiles to openconnect or libreswan.
• Lazarus with multiple widget sets: The lazarus-ide now comes with a Qt6 option in lazarus-ide-qt6.
• Updated IBus: IBus now supports the ISO latch and shift states of XKB key-maps in Wayland desktop environments like KDE, Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC.
• DRM Panic Frontend: The DRM Panic Frontend provides users with a user-friendly interface for understanding kernel panic information and facilitates bug reports.

Wrap-up

The Fedora KDE SIG hopes that you'll find Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 45 to be a wonderful experience. When you're ready to try it, click here for download links and verification instructions. If you would like to learn more, check out the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop website.

03 Nov 2026 2:00pm GMT

Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins-NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn-are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45. This is part of ongoing system maintenance and security cleanup.

If you use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to connect to remote workplace or enterprise networks, take note of this upcoming change in NetworkManager package availability.

This article contains information about what you need to know. It covers why these plugins are being retired, how this affects your current setup, and how to migrate your VPN connections to actively supported alternatives.

Why retire these plugins?

Both NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn are unmaintained. Furthermore, the published issues allow LPE through malicious VPN profiles as well as legacy privilege-handling bugs in older VPN helper scripts, which pose security risks to local systems. Further information is available in this blog post.

To ensure Fedora Linux users remain secure and backed by active upstream maintainers, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) and NetworkManager maintainers agreed to retire these unmaintained plugins in favor of modern, secure alternatives already available in Fedora repositories.

Overview of changes and migration paths

Step-by-Step Migration Guide

1. Fortinet SSLVPN Users (fortisslvpn → openconnect)

If you currently rely on Fortinet SSLVPN tunnels, switch to the NetworkManager-openconnect plugin.

1. Install the OpenConnect NetworkManager plugin:
   Bash
   sudo dnf install NetworkManager-openconnect
   
2. Open Settings → Network (or KDE System Settings → Connections).
3. Click + to add a new connection and select Multi-protocol VPN client (openconnect).
4. Set the protocol dropdown to Fortinet SSL VPN, input your gateway address and authentication details, and save the profile.
5. Once verified, remove the legacy package:
   Bash
   sudo dnf remove NetworkManager-fortisslvpn
   

2. Cisco IPsec / IKEv1 Users (vpnc → libreswan)

If you use legacy Cisco IPsec VPN tunnels, migrate your connections to NetworkManager-libreswan.

1. Install the Libreswan NetworkManager plugin:
   Bash
   sudo dnf install NetworkManager-libreswan
   
2. You may need to create file /etc/ipsec.d/ikev1.conf with this content:
   config setup
   ikev1-policy=accept
   This enables the deprecated IKEv1 protocol. Then restart ipsec.service. Note that the ipsec.service must be running, or the activation will fail.
3. In your desktop network settings, add a new IPsec based VPN connection and select Type=IKEv1.
4. Enter your gateway IP/domain, the group name enclosed in square brackets (e.g '[group]'), group password (pre-shared key), and user credentials corresponding to your previous vpnc configuration. You might have to tune IKE/ESP proposals, DH/PFS settings and routing requirements, which can be obtained from the gateway's configuration and old vpnc logs.
5. Test the connection, then remove the legacy package:
   Bash
   sudo dnf remove NetworkManager-vpnc
   

What happens during upgrades?

• Fedora 43 & 44: Current installations retain their installed plugins so active connections will not abruptly break. However, there will be no further feature or security updates issued for vpnc or fortisslvpn.
• Fedora 45+: The legacy packages are officially obsoleted by NetworkManager. An upgrade to Fedora 45 automatically removes NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn, if they are installed.

We strongly encourage all users relying on these VPN types to test and migrate their connection profiles to openconnect or libreswan as soon as possible!

03 Nov 2026 2:00pm GMT

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It's excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to rebase to Fedora Linux 45 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not only shows you what to do, but also how to revert things if something unforeseen happens.

Update your existing system

Prior to actually doing the rebase to Fedora Linux 45, you should apply any pending updates. Enter the following in the terminal:

$ rpm-ostree update

or install updates through GNOME Software and reboot.

Note

rpm-ostree is the underlying atomic technology that all the Fedora Atomic Desktops use. The techniques described here for Silverblue will apply to all of them with proper modifications for the appropriate desktop.

Rebasing using GNOME Software

GNOME Software shows you that there is new version of Fedora Linux available on the Updates screen.

First thing to do is download the new image, so select the Download button. This will take some time. When it is done you will see that the update is ready to install.

Select the Restart & Upgrade button. This step will take only a few moments and the computer will restart when the update has completed. After the restart you will end up in a new and shiny release of Fedora Linux 45. Easy, isn't it?

Rebasing using terminal

If you prefer to do everything in a terminal, then this part of the guide is for you.

Rebasing to Fedora Linux 45 using the terminal is easy. First, check if the 45 branch is available:

$ ostree remote refs fedora

You should see the following in the output:

fedora:fedora/45/x86_64/silverblue

If you want to pin the current deployment (meaning that this deployment will stay as an option in GRUB until you remove it), you can do this by running this command:

# 0 is entry position in rpm-ostree status
$ sudo ostree admin pin 0

To remove the pinned deployment use the following command:

# 2 is entry position in rpm-ostree status 
$ sudo ostree admin pin --unpin 2

Next, rebase your system to the Fedora Linux 45 branch.

$ rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/45/x86_64/silverblue

Finally, the last thing to do is restart your computer and boot to Fedora Linux 45.

How to roll back

If anything bad happens (for instance, if you can't boot to Fedora Linux 45 at all) it's easy to go back. At boot time, pick the entry in the GRUB menu for the version prior to Fedora Linux 45 and your system will start in that previous version rather than Fedora Linux 45. If you don't see the GRUB menu, try to press ESC during boot. To make the change to the previous version permanent, use the following command:

$ rpm-ostree rollback

That's it. Now you know how to rebase Fedora Silverblue to Fedora Linux 45 and roll back. So why not do it today?

FAQ

Because there are similar questions in comments for each blog about rebasing to newer version of Silverblue I will try to answer them in this section.

Question: Can I skip versions during a rebase of Fedora Linux? For example from Fedora Silverblue 42 to Fedora Silverblue 45?

Answer: Although it could sometimes be possible to skip versions during rebase, it is not recommended. You should always update to one version prior (42->43->44->45 for example) to avoid unnecessary errors.

Question: I have rpm-fusion layered and I get errors during rebase. How should I do the rebase?

Answer: If you have rpm-fusion layered on your Silverblue installation, you should do the following before rebase:

$ rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release

After doing this you can follow the guide in this blog post.

Question: Could this guide be used for other ostree editions (Fedora Atomic Desktops) as well like Kinoite, Sericea (Sway Atomic), Onyx (Budgie Atomic),…?

Yes, you can follow the Rebasing using the terminal part of this guide for every Fedora Atomic Desktop. Just use the corresponding branch. For example, for Kinoite use fedora:fedora/45/x86_64/kinoite

03 Nov 2026 2:00pm GMT

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45!

Whether you use Fedora on your desktop, server, edge device, or cloud instance, Fedora Linux 45 brings polished desktop upgrades, powerful new installer features, and updated toolchains.

Every Fedora release is a major community effort - thank you to everyone in our community who helped build, test, and package this release!

Upgrade

If you are already running Fedora Linux, upgrading to the new release is simple. Our user documentation shows you exactly how to start enjoying F45 easily.

Or, start fresh

Looking for a clean install or setting up a new device? Head over to getfedora.org to grab installation media for our flagship Editions:

• Fedora Workstation
• Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop
• Fedora Server
• Fedora Cloud
• Fedora CoreOS & Fedora IoT

You can also explore our Atomic Desktops (including Silverblue, Kinoite, and Sericea) or choose from alternate desktop options via Fedora Spins (such as Cinnamon, Xfce, MATE, or COSMIC).

What's new in Fedora Linux 45?

We have a lot of excellent content under the hood in this release. Below is only a snapshot of them. Take a spin through our release notes for individual changes, and details on each change.

One of the biggest highlights in Fedora Linux 45 is integrated support for Stratis storage right inside the Anaconda installer.

Stratis brings modern enterprise storage features to local storage while wrapping device-mapper, XFS, and LUKS in an easy-to-use interface. These features include thin provisioning (over-provisioning), storage pooling, dynamic filesystem sizing, snapshots, and encryption.

• GUI Installs (Web UI & Cockpit Storage): When performing custom partitioning during installation, you can launch the Cockpit storage module directly from Anaconda. From there, you can build Stratis pools across one or more physical drives and create dynamic / and /home filesystems on demand.
• Automated Installs (Kickstart): For system administrators and automated deployments, Anaconda now supports -type=stratis with autopart, alongside dedicated stratispool and stratisfs kickstart commands.

Read more details about this really cool change in this article.

Desktop Highlights & Ecosystem Updates

• Latest Desktop Environments: Updated desktop stacks across GNOME, KDE Plasma, and community spins bring improved performance, refined Wayland support, and better fractional scaling.
• Developer Toolchains: Updated development tools and runtime libraries ensure you have access to the latest language features, compiler optimizations, and core system utilities.
• System & Kernel Enhancements: Powered by recent Linux kernel releases, Fedora 45 includes broad hardware support, improved power management for laptops, and enhanced container performance.

If you encounter any bugs or unexpected behavior after upgrading or installing, help is close at hand:

• Visit the Ask Fedora discussion forum to ask questions and find answers.
• Check the Common Issues section on Ask Fedora to see known issues and workarounds tracked during the release cycle.

Important: Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins-NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn-are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45. Please read this article for information on what you need to do to migrate your VPN connections to supported alternatives.

Let's keep the conversation going

We'd love to hear how Fedora Linux 45 works for you! Share your thoughts, post your desktop setups, or say hi to fellow community members over on Fedora Discussion.

Enjoy Fedora Linux 45!

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