Fedora 26 Released, New Features & Upgrade Steps

Fedora 26 Released. The final Fedora 26 has been released on July 11, 2017. Fedora 26 have various software upgrades, security patches. This version will be released with GENOME 3.24. You can download Fedora 26 pre-release (Beta) edition from here.

Fedora 26 Release ScheduleFedora 26 Updated Features

Fedora 26 have multiple packages upgrade. Followings changes are coming in this release.

• Fedora 26 will ship with GNOME latest upstream release 3.24
• PHP is upgraded to latest version 7.1
• Python stack has been upgrade to 3.6 from Python 3.5
• DNF version 2.0 is available in this release.
• OpenSSL package upgraded to version 1.1.0
• Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform using Ruby 2.4
• Rebase the Golang package to latest available version 1.8
• Fedora 26 switch to GCC 7 with packages rebuild.

Upgrade to Fedora 26

Use the following tutorial to upgrade Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 Workstation using DNF.

https://tecadmin.net/upgrade-fedora-25-to-fedora-26/

Fedora 26 Release Schedule

Find below release schedule for Fedora 26. The final version is supposed to be released on Jul 11, 2017.

 Date Stage Status Feb 28, 2017 Development Started Completed Mar 07, 2017 Alpha Freeze Completed Apr 04, 2017 Alpha Release Completed May 16, 2017 Beta freeze Completed Jun 13, 2017 Beta Release Completed Jun 27, 2017 Final Freeze Completed Jul 11, 2017 Final Release Completed