Fedora 22 Beta for POWER Released

Fedora 22 Beta Release Announcement

The Fedora 22 Beta release for aarch64 and POWER secondary architecutres has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside!

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/t...

What is the Beta release?

The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 22's editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the [Fedora QA team](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA), helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is meant to be feature complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 22 is expected in May.

We need your help to make Fedora 22 the best release yet, so 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 (and/or help fix!) is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide.

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole.

### Base platform

- Faster and better dependency management: yum has been replaced with dnf as the default package manager. dnf has very similar command line options and configuration files compared to yum but also has several major internal changes including using libsolv in coordination with friends from the openSUSE project for faster and better dependency management. dnf-yum provides automatic redirection from yum to dnf in the command line for compatibility. The classic yum command line tool renamed to yum-deprecated as a transitional step for tools still using it.

### Fedora 22 Server

Fedora 22 Server Edition brings several changes that will improve Fedora for use as a server in your environment.

- Database Server Role: Fedora 21 introduced rolekit, a daemon for Linux systems that provides a stable D-Bus interface to manage deployment of server roles. The Fedora 22 release adds onto that work with a database server role based on PostgreSQL.

- Cockpit Updates: The Cockpit Web-based management application has been updated to the latest upstream release which adds many new features as well as a modular design for adding new functionality.

- XFS as default filesystem. XFS scales better for servers and can handle higher storage capacity and we have made it the default filesystem for Fedora 22 server users. Other filesystems including ext4 will continue to be supported and the ability to choose them have been retained.

Issues and Details

This is an Beta release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode.

As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F22 Bugs page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs

Release Schedule

The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki. The current schedule calls for a final release in the end of May.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule

These dates are subject to change, pending any major bugs or issues found during the testing process.