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What’s New in Fedora 42?

Fedora 42 introduces numerous features, improvements, and fixes.

🔧 Under-the-Hood & System Changes

  • /usr/sbin is turned into a symlink to /usr/bin, consolidating binaries and simplifying path handling. Also, /usr/sbin is removed from the default $PATH.
  • DNF5 gets improved logic: it now automatically removes expired or obsolete repository keys during upgrades or package installs.
  • In the RPM / package system, there’s support for copy-on-write decompression using Btrfs reflinks (RPM copy-on-write). This is optional / not enabled by default, but helps reduce I/O and CPU load during installs.
  • FEX emulator support is now integrated: this lets you run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 hosts (ARM-based machines). On Fedora, you can dnf install @fex-x86-emulation.
  • SDL2-based applications are now transparently mapped to SDL3 via sdl2-compat, so legacy games/apps using SDL2 benefit from newer SDL3 features.
  • Tcl/Tk is rebased to version 9. Older Tcl/Tk 8.x versions are shipped as compat packages. New features: full 64-bit data capacity, richer Unicode/encoding support, better OS integration (notifications / tray), SVG in widgets, improved gesture support.
  • A GNOME Shell extension dependency generator is added: when packaging GNOME extensions as RPMs, the metadata.json (which declares supported GNOME versions) is now used to automatically generate correct version dependencies. This helps avoid installing incompatible extensions.
  • The Intel compute runtime / IGC stack is rebased to newer upstream versions—though note that older Intel GPUs (pre-2020, roughly Gen12 and older) lose compute (but not rendering) support.
  • The Python-pytest-runner package is deprecated; dependent packages are encouraged to use pytest directly.
  • Python 3.8 is retired (no longer in Fedora 42).
  • Some older Rust / GTK bindings (gtk3-rs) are marked deprecated given upstream inactivity.
  • The default GCC version is bumped (GCC 15) and many toolchains / libraries are updated (Go, LLVM, Ruby, etc.).

🧩 Developer / Programming Environment Updates

  • In Go:
    • go test -json now interleaves build output & test results in JSON, with new Action types — you can revert to older format via GODEBUG=gotestjsonbuildtext=1.
    • A new GOAUTH environment variable helps manage authentication for private module fetches.
    • The go build command now embeds version information (based on VCS tag / commit). A +dirty suffix is added if working tree is dirty; use -buildvcs=false to omit this.
    • A toolchaintrace=1 debug flag is added to trace Go toolchain selection logic.
  • Tcl/Tk 9 (as noted above) brings large changes for GUI toolkits and scripting on Fedora.
  • For GNOME Shell extensions, the new dependency generator helps packaging and ensures that installed extensions match the GNOME version.

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OS Templates Overview

Please find an updated list of templates available for KVM VPS installations below.

Existing Linux VPS Templates

New VPS Templates

  • Fedora 42 (64 bit)

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this update, we encourage you to contact us for support.

For the most updated list of OS templates available, please check the KVM VPS Servers page.

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