Fedora Weekly News 279

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1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 279

1.1 Announcements

1.1.1 Fedora Announcements

1.1.2 Fedora Development News

1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24

1.1.2.2 Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC

1.1.2.3 Bodhi v0.8 in production

1.1.2.3.1 Frontend Web/Client Changes

1.1.2.3.2 Backend Changes

1.1.2.3.3 API Changes

1.1.2.4 Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats

1.1.2.4.1 FESCo

1.1.2.4.2 Fedora Board

1.1.2.5 Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC

1.1.2.6 IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day)

1.1.3 Fedora Events

1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)

1.1.3.2 Past Events

1.1.3.3 Additional information

1.2 Fedora In the News

1.2.1 Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows

(Computing UK)

1.2.2 Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late?

(Techtarget.com)

1.2.3 Fedora 16 with Btrfs as standard file system (The H Online)

1.2.4 Review: Red Hat Fedora 15 (Computing UK)

1.2.5 Fedora 15 Adds Cloud Deployment Builder, GNOME 3 Desktop, Robotics

Suite (Campus Technology)

1.2.6 The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora

Scholarship

1.3 QualityAssurance

1.3.1 Test Days

1.3.2 Security spin testing

1.3.3 Release criteria revisions

1.3.4 Installer validation test revisions

1.3.5 Overly similar application names

1.3.6 Draft btrfs test case

1.3.7 Fedora 15 QA retrospective

1.3.8 AutoQA

1.4 Security Advisories

1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories

1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories

1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories

1.5 LATAM Fedora!

1.5.1 bash-completion

1.5.1.1 service

1.5.1.2 alias

1.5.1.3 yum

1.5.1.4 yumdb

1.5.1.5 pkcon (PackageKit)

1.5.1.6 svn

1.5.1.7 git

1.5.1.8 modprobe

1.5.1.9 man

1.5.1.10 ssh

 

- Fedora Weekly News Issue 279 -

 

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 279[1] for the two weeks ending June

22, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

 

In Development announcements, a reminder of end of life for Fedora 13,

details on a few outages and infrastructure updates, and details on

FESCo and Fedora Board elections. Fedora In The News brings six articles

about Fedora 15 and 16 and the Fedora student scholarship program.

Quality Assurance reports on the latest Test Day on World IPv6, Security

spin testing, and lots of other projects ongoing with Fedora 15 and 16.

Security Advisories brings us current with the latest security-related

package releases in the last two weeks, and Fedora LATAM is back with a

brief tutorial on bash-completion. Enjoy!

 

An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can

listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is

interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!

 

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