Fedora 41 Beta Available with Some Interesting Additions
If you're a Fedora fan, you'll be excited to hear the beta version of the latest release is now available for testing and includes plenty of updates.
Fedora 41 is approaching, and that means it's beta time! As usual, the upcoming release includes updates to familiar packages, such as LLVM 19, LXQt 2.0, Python 3.13, RPM 4.20, and more. One package update that should excite creative types is the inclusion of the long-awaited Gimp 3.0, which alone is worth giving this new version a try.
But Gimp 3.0 isn't the only trick up Fedora 41's sleeve. You'll also find support for self-encrypting drives that can be enabled via the Anaconda installer. Other exciting features include support for Intel's IPU6 camera that uses the IPU6 CSI-receiver driver. Another update is that Gnome X11 packages have been removed from the Fedora Workstation media, meaning this is a Wayland-only release.
Other new additions include unprivileged updates for Fedora Atomic Desktops, a new official spin for the up-and-coming Miracle window manager (a Wayland-based tiling window manager), DNF5, the new fedora-repoquery tool (command-line tool for doing repoqueries of Fedora EPEL, ELN, and CentOS Stream repositories), a post-build cleanup integrated into RPM, Valkey replacing Redis, and much more.
You can read about the latest release in the Fedora Wiki and download an ISO for the beta from the official download site.
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