Fedora 41 is a go. Releasing October 29, 2024

After the Fedora go/no-go meeting, it was decided to go ahead and release on the initial target date. Fedora schedules two target dates, initial date and a final release target date a couple weeks after the initial target date. Fedora normally does rollover to the next target date, but this time around the release is stable enough to be generally available on the initial date.

Fedora 41 has a lot of changes under the hood, here are some of the major and noticeable changes coming.

• Here are some features that come with the Gnome update to 47
  • Accent colours are now available
  • Better small screen support
  • Hardware encoding for screen capture
  • New and improved dialogs windows
  • New options in settings
  • Improved online accounts support
  • Improved built-in apps
• Retiring Python 2 and dependent packages
  • GIMP 2 is the most prominent package affected by this
• Upgrading NodeJS to version 22
• Using Tuned for power profile management
• Replacing Redis with Valkey
• Switch to dnf5 package manager
• Upgrading to LXQt 2.0
• Wayland-only Gnome Workstation
  • XOrg still available in the repos
• Nvidia driver installation support with Secure Boot
  • Nvidia driver installation will also available in Gnome Software

Looking forward to testing the release next week.