Fedora 32 should be releasing at the end of April, around the same time as the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release.
Since we are covering the Ubuntu 20.04 release in detail, we thought of doing the same for our Fedora fans here.
In this article, I am going to highlight the new features coming to Fedora 32. I’ll update this article as the development progresses further.
New features in Fedora 32
EarlyOOM Enabled
With this release, EarlyOOM comes enabled by default. To give you a background, EarlyOOM lets users to easily recover their systems from a low-memory situation with heavy swap usage.
It is worth noting that it is applicable to the Fedora 32 Beta Workstation edition.
GNOME 3.36 Added
The new Fedora 32 Workstation also comes included with the new GNOME 3.36.
Not just limited to Fedora 32 Beta Workstation – but it has also been added to the daily build of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Of course, the improvements in GNOME 3.36 translates to Fedora’s latest release as well – providing a faster and better experience, overall.
So, you’ll get the new lock screen, the do not disturb feature and everything else that comes with GNOME 3.36.
Package Updates
Fedora 32 release also updates a lot of important packages that include Ruby, Perl, and Python. It also features the latest version 10 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
Other Changes
In addition to the key highlights, there’s a lot of things that have changed, improved, or fixed. You can take a detailed look at its changelog to know more about what has changed.
Download Fedora 32 (development version)
Fedora 32 is still under development. The beta version has been released and you may test it on a spare system or in virtual machine. I would not advise you to use it on your main system before the final release. There’s an official list of know bugs for the current release, you can refer to that as well.
In the official announcement, they mentioned the availability of both Fedora 32 beta workstation and the server along with other popular variants.
To get the Workstation and the Server edition, you have to visit the official download page for Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server (depending on what you want).
Once, you do that, just look for a release tagged as “Beta!” as shown in the image above and start downloading it. For other variants, click on the links below to head to their respective download pages:
Have you noticed any other new feature in Fedora 32? What features you would like to see here? Feel free to leave a comment below.
