Announcing Fedora 43

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 43, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 43 below and don’t forget to ensure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release.

RPM 6.0

Fedora 43 will include RPM 6.0, which brings an enhanced focus on security. RPM 6.0 enables support for:

• OpenPGP keys reference by  fingerprint or full key id
• Updated OpenPGP keys with rpmkeys --import <key> and corresponding API(s)
• Multiple signatures per package
• Automatic signing on package build (mainly for local use)
• OpenPGP v6 keys and signatures (including PQC)
• Signing with Sequoia-sq as an alternative to GnuPG

Anaconda

Fedora 43 features updates to Anaconda, including:

• DNF 5 for RPM packaging installation
• Default use of Anaconda WebUI used for Fedora Spins
• Enforced use of GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations for x86 architecture
• Support removal for DNF modularity

Fedora Workstation

Fedora Workstation 43 features GNOME 49 and will be Wayland-only. GNOME upstream has deprecated X11 session support and anticipates removing X11 support in the GNOME 50 release.

Fedora CoreOS

Fedora CoreOS is now buildable using a Containerfile from the Fedora bootc image, instead of using a custom CoreOS Assembler tool.  With this change, anyone with podman installed is able to build FCOS. This means that it's easier for both users and pipelines to build it. Fedora CoreOS updates now rely on OCI images from the Fedora quay.io repository, instead of the OStree repository.

Kinoite

Fedora 43 enables unattended updates in Plasma Discover that will provide default background updates  in new installations and existing installations. This process uses rpm-ostree staged update support to download and prepare the new version of the system in the background, which is then used on reboot. Users will be notified to reboot their system once the updates have been applied.

Fedora Linux 43 is available for download now. If you’re already running Fedora Linux, follow the easy upgrade instructions. For more information on the new features in Fedora Linux 43, see the release notes. If you run into a problem, visit the Ask Fedora user support forum, which includes a category for common issues.