Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for Power64!

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The Fedora 24 Beta for Power64 is here, for our planned June final

release. For Beta we have Cloud and Docker base images.

Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:

 

- Get Fedora 24 Beta Server: make use of the very latest server-based

technologies available in the open source community

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Server/ppc64

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Server/ppc64le

 

- Get Fedora 24 Beta Cloud: build scale-out computing and utilize the next

generation of container deployment technology

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/CloudImages/ppc64/

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/CloudImages/ppc64le/

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Docker/ppc64/images/

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Docker/ppc64le/images/

 

What is the Beta release?

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The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 24's

editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by

the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs from the Alpha

version. When most of these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release

available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong

resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora

24 is expected in June. We need your help to make Fedora 24 the best

yet. Please take some time to download and try out the Beta and make

sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a

bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the

experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. This is a great

opportunity for non-programmers to contribute back to fedora. Together,

we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of adding new features

to software and pushing fixes to the upstream developers at the same

time. This means your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but

Linux and free software on the whole.

 

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Fedora-Wide Changes

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Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23. This update includes better

performance, increased security, bugfixes, improvements to POSIX

compliance, and additional locales. The new library is backwards

compatible with the version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23.

We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all of our

packages with it, providing greater code optimization and improved

program error catching.

 

Server

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Fedora 24 beta server edition has also been more streamlined. Unnecessary

packages were removed and the installer has a smaller footprint. FreeIPA

4.3, an integrated security information management solution is now

included. The installation of replicas is streamlined by adding a

replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has

also been added to this version of FreeIPA that automatically manages

new replication segment creation. An effective replica topology

visualization tool is now available in the webUI.

 

Cloud

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We are working hard to make Fedora the best platform for containerized

applications, from base Fedora container images to a full-featured

platform as a service to run and manage them. To meet this goal, we are

packaging OpenShift Origin so it is easy to deploy. OpenShift Origin is

a distribution of Kubernetes, a container cluster manager from Google.

It is optimized for enterprise application development and deployment.

Origin makes it easy for developers to get started building applications

in containers and for operators to manage them.

 

Issues and Details

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This is a Beta release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs

or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing,