Fedora 33 beta has already been released, know its changes and news

The version Fedora 33 beta has already been released and with it the beta version marks the transition to the final stage test in which it only allowed the correction of critical errors.

This Beta version features the incorporation of several changes of which we have already spoken, such as the transition to Btrfs, change from vi to nano, Earlyoom enabled by default, among other things more.

Most important news and changes in Fedora 33 Beta

Of the main changes that are introduced, on desktop versions (Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE, etc.) have been moved to use the default Btrfs file system. Using the built-in Btrfs partition manager will solve the problems with running out of free disk space when the / and / home directories are mounted separately.

Another change is the desktop environment upgrade to the new version of GNOME 3.38, which includes performance optimizations, a welcome tour with information on basic GNOME functions, improved parental controls, the ability to assign different screen refresh rates to each monitor and an option to ignore connecting unauthorized USB devices while the screen is locked.

By default, animated wallpapers are enabled, in which the color changes depending on the time of day.

Instead of vi, the default text editor is nano. The change is due to the desire to make the distribution more accessible to beginners by providing an editor that can be used by any user who does not have a special knowledge of the working methods in the Vi editor.

Version for Internet of things (Fedora IoT) has been adopted in the number of official editions of the distribution kit, which now comes bundled with Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server. Fedora IoT Editionn is based on the same technologies used in Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Atomic Host, and Fedora Silverblue and offers a simplified system environment that is atomically upgraded by replacing the entire system image, without breaking into separate packages.

The Fedora IoT system environment is created using OSTree technology, in which the system image is atomically updated from a Git-like repository, allowing you to apply versioning methods to distribution components (for example, you can quickly revert the system to a previous state).

RPM packages are translated to the OSTree repository using a special rpm-ostree coating.

In the Fedora KDE version, the background process of Earlyoom enabled by default is introduced, which was introduced in the latest version of Fedora Workstation.

Many packages have been updated, including RPM 4.16, Python 3.9, Perl 5.32, Binutils 2.34, Boost 1.73, Glibc 2.32, Go 1.15, Java 11, LLVM / Clang 11, GNU Make 4.3, Node.js 14, Erlang 23, LXQt 0.15. 0, Ruby on Rails 6.0, Stratis 2.1.0. Removed support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.4. NET Core is provided for the aarch64 architecture.

Support for the mod_php module for the Apache http server has been discontinued, instead of which php-fpm was proposed to run web applications in PHP

On the other hand, it is also highlighted that Firefox includes patches to support hardware accelerated video decoding using VA-API (Video Acceleration API) and FFmpegDataDecoder, which is included in sessions based on the WebRTC technology used in web-based video conferencing applications.

The chrony server and client and installer support the NTS (Network Time Security) authentication mechanism.

Wine by default uses a backend based on the DXVK layer, which provides the implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. Unlike Wine's built-in Direct3D 9/10/11 implementations that run on top of OpenGL, DXVK enables better performance when running 3D applications and games in Wine.

In NetworkManager, instead of the ifcfg-rh plugin, a file in keyfile format is used to store the configuration.

Finally if you want to know more about it, you can check the details in the original announcement of the release of this beta version.

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