The development cycle for Fedora 21 is coming to an end

Nov 3, 2014 13:31 GMT  ·  By

Fedora 21 Beta is set to arrive tomorrow, and this is the first piece of good news that has arrived from the Red Hat developers in quite some time. Everyone was expecting a delay, but it looks like we'll get to test the new release very soon.

We reported on six delays in this development cycle for Fedora 21 and we might have missed a couple. The fact that Fedora is always delayed is something that has become widely accepted by the community and no one is really upset. In the end, the developers are just trying to make a better release for everyone, so why should people get mad in the first place?

The previous delay was registered just a week ago and it didn't look good. The list of potential blockers was still pretty long, but everyone was hoping that things would improve. Apparently they did, because we are now preparing to receive the first Beta release for Fedora 21.

No more delays for Fedora 21?

The operating system is usually postponed by only a week each time, so it doesn't seem like much, but if you put all the weeks together, you get at least a month and a half. And that is a conservative estimate. The good thing is that people still care about Fedora and there are lots of users out there who just can't wait to try all the new features.

"At the Fedora 21 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting #3 that just occurred, it was agreed to Go with the Fedora 21 Beta by Fedora QA, Release Engineering and Development. Fedora 21 Beta will be publicly available on Tuesday, November 04, 2014," notes Red Hat's Jaroslav Reznik. It might not seem like much, but the Beta version is actually pretty close to the final iteration.

Fedora 21 promises to be the best version released so far and will be packed with all the latest applications and various packages, including GNOME 3.14, KDE Frameworks 5, Pyhon 3.x, Java 8, the latest MATE version, and even Wayland as the default display server. It remains to be seen what the OS will actually bring in the end, but from the looks of it, regular users will definitely have a lot of new features to absorb.

The release schedule put forth is pretty clear now. There will be a single step to be taken before the final version is released and that is the Final Freeze, which is on November 25. The stable Fedora 21 version is expected to arrive on December 9.