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· Update Boost to the upstream 1.46 release
· Creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms
· On Dell and HP servers with multiple network ports on the motherboard, name the interfaces emX rather than ethX.
· Group of design-related software for easy installation
· Support for dynamic firewall management with DBus interface
· Support for ecryptfs in authconfig
· Make booting from disks with a 4kB sector size work on UEFI machines.
· Move to GCC 4.6.x
· Rebase to GDB 7.3
· Move to GNOME 3
· Browser plugin running java applets
· Predictive input method for indian language in ibus platform , suggests complete words based on partial input
· Rebase to KDE 4.6
· Enabling LZMA for compression to allow us ship more software on our live images
· Office productivity suite
· Java project management, project comprehension, and build tool
· OCaml 3.12 is a major new release of the OCaml language and compiler.
· Improved power monitoring and power profiling capabilities
· Updated Python 3 stack in Fedora from 3.1 to 3.2
· Replace setuid applications with File Capabilities in order to make them more secure
· Allow users to get better backtraces from their ABRT crashes by retracing coredumps remotely, on a server owned by Fedora Project
· Provide an out-of-the-box robotics development and simulation environment
· Update RPM to 4.9
· New currency symbol added for both input and output
· Update Ruby on Rails to 3.0.5
· Redesign setroubleshoot to bring back all possible solutions, and simplify descriptions.
· Ability to create, configure and display Spice-enabled VM from virt-manager
· Update to latest Sugar Learning Environment
· Update to latest Sugar Learning Environment
· General-purpose application platform and basis for an ERP system
· /var/run and /var/lock should be mounted as tmpfs
· New version of Xfce