Fedora Weekly Report: 31st December, 2007 - 6th January, 2008

2008 has just started and the Fedora community will step into the new year with FUDCon Raleigh, a three-day event that will span from the 11th to the 13th of January. FUDCon stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference. Actually, it will be an "unconference", because it will be held as a Bar Camp - an "unconference" where people interested in a diverse range of issues come together to teach and learn. Rather than having scheduled speakers, every participant pitches sessions in the morning of the Bar Camp. The sessions are put on a schedule, and many small groups form for intense group learning.

Besides the FUDCon, the Fedora Unity has announced a new Fedora 8 Re-Spin. The Re-Spins - available as DVD and CD ISOs - are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released until December 18th, 2007.

The IcedTea project, version 1.5, added a PowerPC Java port of Open JDK. Now, IcedTea also tracks the mercurial repository, it integrates better within the system by using standard system libraries - libpng, libjpeg, zlib, giflib - and can be bootstrapped with the free gcj/ecj/classpath toolchain.

Last week, the developers brought us some security advisories too. Let's see what they fixed for Fedora 8:

￭ qt4-4.3.3-1.fc8
￭ wordpress-2.3.2-1.fc8
￭ libcdio-0.78.2-4.fc8
￭ asterisk-1.4.17-1.fc8
￭ python-cherrypy-2.2.1-8.fc8
￭ mantis-1.1.0-1.fc8

Here are the advisories for the older Fedora 7:

￭ libcdio-0.78.2-4.fc7
￭ wordpress-2.3.2-1.fc7
￭ qt4-4.3.3-1.fc7
￭ asterisk-1.4.17-1.fc7
￭ mantis-1.1.0-1.fc7
￭ python-cherrypy-2.2.1-8.fc7

On the 15th of January, Fedora 9 goes into Alpha Freeze, and after two months, on the 13th of March, we can get our hands on the first Beta release and play with it. Until then, you should stick to Fedora 8, which can be downloaded from Softpedia.