{"id":13843,"date":"2026-03-18T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:23:39","slug":"fedora-44-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=13843","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 44 Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"13843\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">1    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedorapeople.org\/groups\/schedule\/f-44\/f-44-key-tasks.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fedorapeople.org\/groups\/schedule\/f-44\/f-44-key-tasks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fedora Project schedule<\/a> and the Fedora package announce list, Fedora is on track for a Tuesday, April 14 earliest release date. If that date isn&#8217;t met, the primary release date is for Tuesday, April 21, one week later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been seeing a large number of announcements about Fedora 44 on the Fedora package announcement list. Many of those announcements indicate that Fedora 44 packages have been successfully created. That&#8217;s typical activity near the end of each release cycle and is indicative of finalizing the hundreds of individual packages that make up a Fedora release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fedora 44 sports a number of new features and improvements. Here are a few of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Anaconda installer no longer creates default network profiles for all network interface cards (NICs). This prevents some post-install configuration issues for the networks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduces a KDE setup application that runs post-install and eliminates redundant steps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adds the Plasma Login Manager (PLM) to replace the previous SDDM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Changes to the Games Lab include moving from Xfce to KDE Plasma on Wayland to take advantage of the Wayland graphics engine for gaming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The latest release of the Budgie desktop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only the most recent release of the Go language will be installed, avoiding security issues and providing the latest features.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MariaDB 11.8 will be the default.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IBus 1.5.34 provides better support for Wayland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ansible 13 adds greater security and resolves issues with breaking playbooks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drop 32-bit QEMU host builds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also improvements to Live Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The aaarc64 Live ISO images now work with Windows on ARM (WoA) laptops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Live media now enables persistent overlays so data can be saved on the USB flash drives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fedora 44  Beta is currently available. If you&#8217;re interested in trying the Fedora 44 Beta, you can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/announcing-fedora-linux-44-beta\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/announcing-fedora-linux-44-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Based on the Fedora Project schedule and the Fedora package announce list, Fedora is on track for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203,71,39],"tags":[942,827],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-fedora","category-news","tag-fedora-44","tag-news"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13845,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions\/13845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}