Welcome to the Fedora Weekly Report! Here's what we have in stock for you: Fedora 7 reached the end of its life, the IA64 architecture received a Fedora 9 Beta release, a new Xfce SIG (Special Interest Group) was created and the nominations for the Fedora Project Board elections have started.

Fedora 9 is the first Fedora release that will be officially supported on IA64, and the Beta build that was announced by Doug Chapman on the Fedora IA64 mailing list, is the first to be released under the "secondary architectures" project. Doug Chapman said: "We have made efforts to make sure that the ia64 release is equal to the release of Fedora for x86, x86_64, ppc and ppc64, however there are some differences that should be noted."

If you are a fan of both Fedora and the Xfce desktop environment, you can join the Xfce SIG, a group for Fedora enthusiasts that contribute towards Xfce in Fedora. You can help out to provide a better Xfce experience to Fedora users and developers by maintaining packages, translating/maintaining documentation, or testing out new features.

After Fedora 9 is released, the Fedora Project Board elections will start once more. The board will be composed of five community members and four Red Hat elected persons. The job of the board is to offer guidance and bits of advice within the Fedora Project. Paul Frields announced the future board nominations on the Fedora Announce mailing list: "A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections." He continued by describing the attributions of the Board: The job of the Board is to advise and guide the Fedora Project, as laid out on its wiki page. We try to make sure that Fedora is at all times living up to its mission of the advancement of free and open source software, and that we are doing so in an open, transparent way. Board membership carries with it a responsibility to the community to deal with thorny issues, to anticipate and serve the needs of our contributors, and to stay true to the principles on which the Project is founded. In return, you have unlimited cosmic power!"

Here are the security advisories for Fedora 7:

￭ lighttpd-1.4.19-4.fc7
￭ poppler-0.5.4-9.fc7
￭ wordpress-2.5.1-1.fc7
￭ xine-lib-1.1.11.1-1.fc7.2
￭ moin-1.5.9-1.fc7
￭ clamav-0.92.1-2.fc7
￭ asterisk-1.4.19.1-1.fc7
￭ dbmail-2.2.9-1.fc7
￭ kdelibs4-4.0.3-7.fc7
￭ qt4-4.3.4-11.fc7
￭ kdebase-runtime-4.0.3-10.fc7.1
￭ kde-filesystem-4-14.fc7
￭ kdepimlibs-4.0.3-3.fc7
￭ kdebase4-4.0.3-9.fc7
￭ WebKit-1.0.0-0.8.svn31787.fc7
￭ midori-0.0.17-3.fc7
￭ perl-5.8.8-29.fc7

And those for Fedora 8:

￭ moin-1.5.9-1.fc8
￭ dbmail-2.2.9-1.fc8
￭ squid-2.6.STABLE19-1.fc8
￭ perl-Imager-0.64-2.fc8
￭ xine-lib-1.1.12-2.fc8
￭ lighttpd-1.4.19-4.fc8
￭ asterisk-1.4.19.1-1.fc8
￭ perl-5.8.8-39.fc8
￭ wordpress-2.5.1-1.fc8
￭ kdebase4-4.0.3-9.fc8
￭ kde-filesystem-4-14.fc8
￭ kdebase-runtime-4.0.3-10.fc8.1
￭ kdepimlibs-4.0.3-3.fc8
￭ qt4-4.3.4-11.fc8
￭ kdelibs4-4.0.3-7.fc8
￭ util-linux-ng-2.13.1-2.fc8
￭ clamav-0.92.1-2.fc8

Download Fedora 8 right now from Softpedia.

Download Fedora 9 Preview right now from Softpedia. Please note that this is a development release and should NOT be used on production machines.