The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora Linux 38 Beta, the next step towards our planned Fedora Linux 38 release at the end of April.<\/p>\n
Download this prerelease from our Get Fedora site:<\/p>\n
Or, check out one of our popular variants, including KDE Plasma, Xfce, and other desktop environments, as well as images for ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi:<\/p>\n
<\/span> <\/p>\n Fedora 38 Workstation Beta includes GNOME 44. It\u2019s currently in beta, with a final release expected at the end of March. GNOME 44 includes a lot of great improvements, including a new lock screen, a \u201cbackground apps\u201d section on the quick menu, and improvements to accessibility settings . In addition, enabling third-party repositories now enables an unfiltered view of applications on Flathub. <\/p>\n We always strive to bring new security features to users quickly. Packages are now built with stricter compiler flags that protect against buffer overflows. The rpm package manager uses a Sequoia-based OpenPGP parser instead of its own implementation.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re profiling applications, you\u2019ll appreciate the frame pointers now built into official packages. This makes Fedora Linux a great platform for developers looking to improve Linux application performance.<\/p>\n Of course, there\u2019s the usual update of programming languages and libraries: Ruby 3.2, gcc 13, LLVM 16, Golang 1.20, PHP 8.2, and much more!<\/p>\n Since this is a Beta release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the test mailing list<\/a> or in the #quality channel on Fedora Chat. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked in the \u201cCommon Issues\u201d category<\/a> on Ask Fedora.<\/p>\nBeta Release Highlights<\/h2>\n
Fedora Workstation<\/h3>\n
Other updates<\/h3>\n
Testing needed<\/h2>\n