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Fedora Linux 44 has been released<\/a>! <\/span> <\/p>\n We have moved the cross-variants issue tracker<\/a> to the new Fedora forge<\/a>. This is the best place to file issues that impacts all variants or to coordinate work between all of them. If you have issues specific to a given desktop environment then we usually prefer to track them in each respective SIG trackers. These are available on the README for the atomic-desktops organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n The unified documentation for all Atomic Desktops<\/a> is finally live! Unfortunately the translations have not been migrated so we will need help to re-translate everything again, once the translation setup is ready with the new forge. It should be mostly copy\/paste from the previous docs and this time we will only have to translate the docs once and not for every (new) variant.<\/p>\n See the tracking issue atomic-desktops#10<\/a>.<\/p>\n FUSE version 2 has been deprecated and unmaintained for a while so we have removed it from the images. In practice, this means two things:<\/p>\n See the Fedora Change<\/a> and the tracking issue atomic-desktops#50<\/a>. The implications are detailed below.<\/p>\n Some AppImages are still using an old AppImage runtime that relies on FUSE 2 libraries being available on the host. See the Discussion thread<\/a> for examples on how to check the runtime of an AppImage.<\/p>\n If some of your AppImages do not work on Fedora Atomic Desktops 44, we recommend:<\/p>\n KDE upstream no longer recommends using the EncFS nor CryFS backends for Plasma Vaults, notably because they rely on the FUSE 2 libraries. If you are using one of those backends, you should migrate your data to a new vault using the only maintained backend (gocryptfs<\/kbd>). Ideally this should occur before the update to Fedora Linux 44. If you have already updated to Fedora Linux 44 and need access to your data, you can layer the needed packages (cryfs<\/kbd> or fuse-encfs<\/kbd>) using rpm-ostree install <package><\/kbd>, then migrate your data and finally reset the layers with rpm-ostree reset<\/kbd>.<\/p>\n Support for the legacy pkla Polkit rules format has been removed. It is unlikely that you were relying on support for those rules as most of the ecosystem has moved on to the new JavaScript based format.<\/p>\n See the Fedora Change<\/a> and the tracking issue atomic-desktops#102<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fedora Silverblue comes with the latest GNOME 50 release<\/a>. For more details about the changes that occur alongside GNOME 50, see What\u2019s New in Fedora Workstation 44<\/a> on the Fedora Magazine.<\/p>\n Fedora Kinoite ships with Plasma 6.6<\/a>, Frameworks 6.24<\/a> and Gear 25.12<\/a>.<\/p>\n See also What\u2019s New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44<\/a> in the Fedora Magazine.<\/p>\n The brand new Plasma Login Manager replaces SDDM to provide a more integrated experience with systemd and the KDE Plasma session.<\/p>\n See the Fedora Ch<\/a>ange<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks to the new Plasma Setup, it is now possible to install the system with Anaconda with minimal configuration and then complete the installation on the first boot by creating a new user and selecting the timezone. This is great when you want to install Fedora Kinoite on a computer and don’t want to setup a user in advance.<\/p>\n See the Fedora Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nothing specific for this release.<\/p>\n Fedora Budgie Atomic comes with the latest 10.10.2 Budgie release<\/a>. This release brings Wayland support to Budgie Atomic. See the 10.10 release announcement<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n Fedora COSMIC Atomic comes with the latest 1.0.8 release of the COSMIC desktop<\/a>. This is now considered stable.<\/p>\n Our friends in the Universal Blue project<\/a> (Bazzite<\/a>, Bluefin<\/a>, Aurora<\/a>) have prepared the update to Fedora Linux 44. Look for upcoming announcements in their Discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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.).<\/p>\n 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:<\/p>\n Sealed images are now ready for testing! See the other article for all the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 road map for this transition at atomic-desktops#26<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of the tasks is to move away from our unmaintained installation ISO building scripts to the new image-builder<\/kbd> tooling. This is planned for Fedora Linux 45 for the ostree variants<\/a> and support for Bootable Container will follow right after<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another task is to start building the Fedora Atomic Desktops Bootable Container images using the Fedora Konflux instance<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are looking for contributors to help us make the Fedora Atomic Desktops the best experience for Fedora users.<\/p>\n Fedora Linux 44 has been released! So, let\u2019s see what is included in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktop variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic). 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So, let\u2019s see what is included in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktop variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic).<\/p>\nChanges for all Atomic Desktops<\/h2>\n
Issue tracker moved to the new Fedora forge<\/h3>\n
Unified documentation, hosted on the new forge<\/h3>\n
Removal of FUSE version 2 libraries<\/h3>\n
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AppImages and the FUSE 2 libraries<\/h4>\n
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EncFS or CryFS backends for Plasma Vaults are removed<\/h4>\n
Dropping compatibility for pkla Polkit rules<\/h3>\n
What’s New in Silverblue<\/h2>\n
GNOME 50<\/h3>\n
What’s New in Kinoite<\/h2>\n
KDE Plasma 6.6<\/h3>\n
KDE Plasma Login Manager replaces SDDM<\/h3>\n
Unified out of the box experience with KDE Plasma Setup (OEM installation)<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s New in Sway Atomic<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s New in Budgie Atomic<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s New in COSMIC Atomic<\/h2>\n
Universal Blue, Bluefin, Bazzite and Aurora<\/h2>\n
What’s Next<\/h2>\n
Helping us with a few nasty bugs<\/h3>\n
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Sealed Fedora Atomic Desktop bootable container images<\/h3>\n
Road map to Bootable Containers<\/h3>\n
Where to reach us<\/h2>\n
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