Fedora version history


is a popular Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and is sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora attempts to maintain a six-month release schedule, offering new versions in May and November, although some releases have experienced minor delays.

Version history

Releases of Red Hat Linux are listed here.

Fedora 32

Fedora 32 was released April 28, 2020. Its change set is.

Fedora 31

Fedora 31 was released October 29, 2019. Its change set is.

Fedora 30

Fedora 30 was released on April 30, 2019. Its change set is .

Fedora 29

Fedora 29 was released on October 30, 2018.
Notable new features: Fedora Modularity across all variants, a new optional package repository called Modular, Gnome 3.30, ZRAM for ARM images, Fedora Scientific Vagrant images

Fedora 28

Fedora 28 was released on May 1, 2018. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 28.
Notable new features: a modular software repository, curated third-party software repositories.

Fedora 27

Fedora 27 was released on November 14, 2017.
The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. Both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement. The system search now shows more results at once, including the system actions. This release also features LibreOffice 5.4.

Fedora 26

Fedora 26 was released on July 11, 2017.

Fedora 25

Fedora 25 was released on November 22, 2016. Some notable changes
are the use of the Wayland display system, Unicode 9, PHP 7.0, Node.js 6 and IBus Emoji typing.

Fedora 24

Fedora 24 was released on June 21, 2016. Some notable system wide changes
are the use of GNOME 3.20, GCC 6, and Python 3.5.

Fedora 23

Fedora 23 was released on November 3, 2015.
See also.

Fedora 22

Fedora 22 was released on May 26, 2015.
Major features include:
Fedora 21, the first version without a codename, was released on December 9, 2014.
Fedora 20, codenamed "Heisenbug", was released on December 17, 2013.
Some of the features of Fedora 20 include:
Fedora 19, codenamed "Schrödinger's Cat", was released on July 2, 2013. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 19.
Some of the features of Fedora 19 include:
Fedora 18, codenamed "Spherical Cow", was released on January 15, 2013.
Some of the features of Fedora 18 include:
The next release of the operating system was Fedora 17, codenamed "Beefy Miracle", which was released on May 29, 2012.
Some of the features of Fedora 17 include:
Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne", was released on November 8, 2011. Fedora 16 was also dedicated to the memory of Dennis Ritchie, who died about a month before the release.
Some of the features of Fedora 16 included:
Fedora 15, codenamed Lovelock, was released on May 24, 2011. Features of Fedora 15 include:
Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin, was released on November 2, 2010.
Features of Fedora 14 include:
Fedora 13, codenamed "Goddard", was released on May 25, 2010. During early development, Fedora project-leader Paul Frields anticipated "looking at the fit and finish issues. We have tended to build a really tight ship with Fedora, but now we want to make the décor in the cabins a little more sumptuous and to polish the deck chairs and railings."
Features of Fedora 13 include:
Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, was released on November 17, 2009. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 12.
Some of the features in Fedora 12 are:
Fedora 11, codenamed Leonidas, was released on June 9, 2009. This was the first release whose artwork is determined by the name instead of by users voting on themes.
Some of the features in Fedora 11 are:
Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, was released on November 25, 2008. It flaunts the new Solar artwork. Its features include:
Fedora 9, codenamed Sulphur, was released on May 13, 2008.
Some of the new features of Fedora 9 included:
Fedora 9 featured a new artwork entitled Waves which, like Infinity in Fedora 8, changes the wallpaper to reflect the time of day.

Fedora 8

Fedora 8, codenamed Werewolf, was released on November 8, 2007.
Some of the new features and updates in Fedora 8 included:
Fedora 8 also included a new desktop artwork entitled Infinity, and a new desktop theme called Nodoka. A unique feature of Infinity is that the wallpaper can change during the day to reflect the time of day.
In February 2008, a new Xfce Live CD "spin" was announced for the x86 and x86-64 architectures. This Live CD version uses the Xfce desktop environment, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Like the GNOME and KDE spins, the Xfce spin can be installed to the hard disk.

Fedora 7

Fedora 7, codenamed Moonshine, was released on May 31, 2007. The biggest difference between Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 was the merging of the Red Hat "Core" and Community "Extras" repositories, dropping "Core" from the name "Fedora Core," and the new build system put in place to manage those packages. This release used entirely new build and compose tools that enabled the user to create fully customized Fedora distributions that could also include packages from any third party provider.
There were three official spins available for Fedora 7:
Fedora 7 featured GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5, a new theme entitled Flying High, OpenOffice.org 2.2 and Firefox 2.0. Fast user switching was fully integrated and enabled by default. Also, there were a number of updates to SELinux, including a new setroubleshoot tool for debugging SELinux security notifications, and a new, comprehensive system-config-selinux tool for fine-tuning the SELinux setup.

Fedora Core 6

Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24, 2006, codenamed Zod. This release introduced the Fedora DNA artwork, replacing the Fedora Bubbles artwork used in Fedora Core 5. The codename is derived from the infamous villain, General Zod, from the Superman DC Comic Books. This version introduced support for the Compiz compositing window manager and AIGLX. It shipped with Firefox 1.5 as the default web browser, and Smolt, a tool that allows users to inform developers about the hardware they use.

Fedora Core 5

This Core release introduced specific artwork that defined it. This is a trend that has continued in later Fedora versions.
Fedora Core 5 was released on March 20, 2006, with the codename Bordeaux, and introduced the Fedora Bubbles artwork. It was the first Fedora release to include Mono and tools built with it such as Beagle, F-Spot and Tomboy. It also introduced new package management tools such as pup and pirut. It also was the first Fedora release not to include the long deprecated LinuxThreads, replaced by the Native POSIX Thread Library.

Fedora Core 4

Fedora Core 4 was released on June 13, 2005, with the codename Stentz. It shipped with Linux 2.6.11, KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10. This version introduced the new Clearlooks theme, which was inspired by the Red Hat Bluecurve theme. It also shipped with the OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite, as well as Xen, a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework. It also introduced support for the PowerPC CPU architecture, and over 80 new policies for Security-Enhanced Linux.

Fedora Core 3

Fedora Core 3 was released on November 8, 2004, codenamed Heidelberg. This was the first release of Fedora Core to include the Mozilla Firefox web browser, as well as support for the Indic scripts. This release also saw the LILO boot loader deprecated in favour of GNU GRUB. Security-Enhanced Linux was also enabled by default, but with a new targeted policy, which was less strict than the policy used in Fedora Core 2. Fedora Core 3 shipped with GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3. It was the first release to include the new Fedora Extras repository.

Fedora Core 2

Fedora Core 2 was released on May 18, 2004, codenamed Tettnang. It shipped with Linux 2.6, GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2, and Security-Enhanced Linux . XFree86 was replaced by the newer X.org, a merger of the previous official X11R6 release, which additionally included a number of updates to Xrender, Xft, Xcursor, fontconfig libraries, and other significant improvements.

Fedora Core 1

Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003. It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9 and shipped with version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel, version 2.4 of the GNOME desktop environment, and K Desktop Environment 3.1.

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