20 years and one day after the release of Fedora Core 1, it’s time for version 39 of the community operating system. On board we find the GNOME 45 desktop environment and the Linux 6.5 kernel. Summary of what’s new in the Fedora Linux community distribution
Fedora Linux is a community-developed operating system for desktop, laptop, server, cloud and edge. It is supported by Red Hat.
Version 39 has just been released and officially announced via Fedora Magazine.
What’s new ?
Fedora Workstation now includes GNOME 45.
This version offers new widgets for core apps, a brand new Image Viewer app and a more informative Activities button. You can also opt for another environment, KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce, Cinnamon or even Fedora Onyx, an “atomic” desktop based on Budgie in the spirit of Fedora Silverblue. The default sliders have been redesigned.
Please note that the Qt Adwaita-qt and QGnomePlatform themes are no longer available in Fedora Workstation 39. Qt applications Now use the default upstream theme. In fact, many GNOME 45 applications now use the new UI widgets in libadwaita 1.4. They can be recognized by the two-tone design and the side bars that extend over the entire height of the window.
THE Noto fonts are now the standard fonts for languages that use Indian script. They replace the old Lohit brief.
THE accelerated video decoding based on hardware is now automatically preferred when possible. The thumbnail display in the Files app is now multi-threaded. Search performance has been significantly improved in GNOME Shell and across several applications. Several performance improvements have also been made across the stack, including in GLib, GTK’s OpenGL renderer, and systemd.
From a user security perspective new camera activity indicator appears when accessing a camera via Pipewire. It combines the microphone, video recording and screen recording indicators. The Quick Settings menu offers a new keyboard backlight setting on supported hardware.
Fedora Linux 39 also includes gcc 13.2, binutils 2.40, glibc 2.38, gdb 13.2 and rpm 4.19. It also includes updates to programming language stacks such as Python 3.12 and Rust 1.73. Fedora Cloud images will officially be available for Microsoft Azure (in addition to Google Cloud and AWS). A nod to command line enthusiasts: Fedora Linux 39 now offers a colorful Bash prompt by default.
Download and update
Fedora Workstation 39 is available free of charge. You can get it today on the Fedora website or by upgrading your existing installation in the software application or with the dnf system-upgrade command in your terminal.
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