Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Beta for aarch64 and POWER platforms!

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Fedora 22 Beta Release Announcement

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The Fedora 22 Beta release for aarch64 and POWER secondary architecutres

has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology

under development. Take a peek inside!

 

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/22_Beta/Server/

 

What is the Beta release?

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The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 22's

editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by

the [Fedora QA team](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA), helps us

target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta

release available. A Beta release is meant to be feature complete and

bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release.

The final release of Fedora 22 is expected in May.

 

We need your help to make Fedora 22 the best release yet, so please take

some time to download and try out the Beta and make sure the things that

are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report

it – every bug you uncover (and/or help fix!) is a chance to improve

the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide.

 

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of

coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as

feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux

and free software on the whole.

 

### Base platform

 

- Faster and better dependency management: yum has been replaced with

dnf as the default package manager. dnf has very similar command

line options and configuration files compared to yum but also has

several major internal changes including using libsolv in

coordination with friends from the openSUSE project for faster and

better dependency management. dnf-yum provides automatic redirection

from yum to dnf in the command line for compatibility. The classic

yum command line tool renamed to yum-deprecated as a transitional

step for tools still using it.

 

### Fedora 22 Server

 

Fedora 22 Server Edition brings several changes that will improve Fedora

for use as a server in your environment.

 

- Database Server Role: Fedora 21 introduced rolekit, a daemon for

Linux systems that provides a stable D-Bus interface to manage

deployment of server roles. The Fedora 22 release adds onto that

work with a database server role based on PostgreSQL.

 

- Cockpit Updates: The Cockpit Web-based management application has

been updated to the latest upstream release which adds many new

features as well as a modular design for adding new functionality.

 

- XFS as default filesystem. XFS scales better for servers and can

handle higher storage capacity and we have made it the default

filesystem for Fedora 22 server users. Other filesystems including

ext4 will continue to be supported and the ability to choose them

have been retained.

 

Issues and Details

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This is an Beta release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs

or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing,