Aurora 42 goes live!
Hello stargazers, we have some exciting news to bring to you today.
We are releasing Aurora 42 into the wild for all people who rock the :latest tag for their installed Aurora.
People who are on the normal stable branch will continue to rock Fedora 41 until we let it loose to your machines. Expect this in the next ~2 weeks until things have settled.
You won’t notice a big difference going from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 since KDE is on Version 6.3 on both of those releases, you just get an updated kernel and other system packages.
The release trains currently look like this:
stable or stable-daily |
latest |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fedora Version: | 41 | 42 |
| KDE Version: | 6.3.4 | 6.3.4 |
| Target User: | Most users | Advanced users |
| System Updates: | Weekly or Daily | Daily |
| Application Updates: | Twice a Day | Twice a Day |
| Kernel: | Gated (using the Fedora CoreOS Kernel) | Ungated (stock Fedora Kernel) |
Let’s go from top to bottom, giving spotlight to each change.
New wallpaper
As some of you may have seen, we have a new wallpaper. It’s a beautiful night scene set a mountaineous lake, with two people stargazing and sitting beside the lake. Let’s see if you can spot the flying Helium backpack.
New website & updated docs
You may have noticed that we updated the website not a long time ago. It is redesigned and revamped from the ground up, to enable a fresh, modern and better UI. Catch the star trails on the Hero section and scroll through the different sections which are totally different now. It was also updated to modern NextJS 15 and has a much more refined codebase. It better highlights the documentation and gives you links to go everywhere, including this forum and the documentation.
Speaking of documentation, we updated that too. It now includes docs on how to use ramlama which we ship on the Developer Experience and is in general much more refined.
Thank you @nicknamenamenick for helping out with this!
Check them out here:
Give us feedback on how you like these changes and if you want to write some new guides or contribute fixes to the documentation, you will find the repo here: Aurora Docs Repo
Increasing the flatpak army of applications
To decrease our reliance on self-built rpm packages and use containerized and modern application delivery methods, we are replacing several desktop apps with their counterparts in a Flatpak.
This means that the following applications have been removed from the base image and our delivered through flatpak:
- Devpod
- Skanpage
- InputLeap (which was already removed in the Aurora 41 cycle)
To pull in all of the new flatpaks, run ujust install-system-flatpaks to pull in the new default set of applications.
Aurora Helium LTS
What you might have heard already, we are also cooking up Aurora but built from a CentOS Stream 10 base. @imbev is hard at work crafting this edition of Aurora and making it as awesome as it can be. We are currently in the alpha-stage. It is pretty barebones right now. More news to share soon!
We have created a doc page for the new LTS Edition here: Aurora Helium LTS Doc-Page
Thanks
I want to take this moment to thank all of the Aurora maintainers, including @inffy, @imbev, @ledif, @RealVishy and @renner who made our branding package modular and decoupled it from the main repo.
That’s it for now!
Happy stargazing
~ Niklas