With the fedora 36 beta Already available for two weeks, it is almost time for the release of the stable version. Shortly after, they will get down to work for the next installment that will arrive in October. But, when they have not yet started their development and few details are known, they have already begun to talk about some change that will come in Fedora 38, version that will land within approximately twelve months and of which they still have nothing.
Well, to be true to the truth, they do have something. They have ideas, drafts, proposals, that is, Fedora 38 is already present in the project roadmap. It's been five years since the distribution switched from Yum to DNF as a package manager, and next year they will evolve package management using MicroDNF.
MicroDNF, the new package manager that will arrive with Fedora 38
Among the novelties that will be introduced with MicroDNF, as we read in the project note, we will have to user experience will be better, there will be improved progress bars, improved transaction table, transaction progress reporting, including scriptlet reporting, local rpm support for transaction operation, and great bash completion (better than DNF has ).
The project also says that MicroDNF will arrive alongside the new libdnf5 library and a new DNF daemon, and this is where the evolution will be noticeable. For example, with a unified user interface, plugin improvements, new plugins (C++, Python) or performance improvements.
In order to take advantage of all this, we will have to wait, at least, until the development of Fedora 38 begins, if they add MicroDNF from the first preliminary version. What is certain is that next year around this time will already be available.