Fedora 12 has gone gold

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sat Nov 14 13:58:25 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:21:13PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/14/2009 07:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:29:30PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> We have just completed our Go / No Go meeting for Fedora 12 and have
> >> reached the decision to Go.  Fedora 12's package set is golden and we're
> >> ready to stage things for shipping.  Great work all around, I'm very
> >> proud of this release.  I'm sure there will be more back patting and
> >> hand shaking to come, but Will Woods would like to remind everybody that
> >> it's just 11 weeks until Fedora 13 Alpha freeze!
> >>
> > 
> > Hmm.. so I guess this means Fedora 12 will ship with 2.6.31.5 kernel? 
> > 
> > 2.6.31.6 would have had some important Xen PV guest bugfixes:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533730
> 
> I am sure, we will get kernel updates post-release due to security
> reasons anyway.
> 

Yeah.. that I'm aware of. It just means the GA kernel (and thus
installer) won't boot on Intel Nehalem CPUs. 

Oh well.. bad timing with that bug/patch.

-- Pasi




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