Announcing Fedora 41

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 41, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. For desktop systems, this Fedora release features a new Fedora Miracle spin, RPM 4.20 and updates to DNF5. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 41 below and don’t forget to ensure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release.

New features

Fedora Miracle spin

The Miracle Window Manager is a tiling window manager based on the Mir compositor library. While it is a newer project, it contains many useful features such as a manual tiling algorithm, floating window manager support, support for many Wayland protocols, proprietary Nvidia driver support and much more. Miracle will provide Fedora with a high-quality Wayland experience built with support for all kinds of platforms, including low-end ARM and x86 devices. On top of this, Fedora will be the first distribution to provide a Miracle based spin.

DNF 5

Fedora Linux 41 defaults to a new major release of the command-line package management tool DNF. This version is faster, smaller and requires fewer supporting packages. This eliminates the need for “microdnf” for containers and memory-constrained systems — now, the same DNF can be used across containers, servers, desktops and devices.

DNF and bootc in image mode variants

DNF 5 will also be available on image-based Fedora variants such as Atomic Desktops, CoreOS  and Fedora IoT. Instead of calling “rpm-ostree” on the client side to manage RPMs on these systems, you’ll be able to use DNF, and use bootc to manage the image-based deployments and updates.

PHP 64-bit only

In this release, Fedora has dropped support for php in 32-bit. We now only support 64-bit which makes developing on Fedora a much leaner experience and rebuilding much quicker.

Replacing Redis with Valkey

Fedora continues the project’s long standing partnership with other FOSS communities by adopting Valkey instead of Redis as our high performing key and data store.

Proprietary NVIDIA driver installation with secure boot support

Previously, NVIDIA Drivers had been removed from GNOME software because it didn't support secure boot, which is increasingly often enabled. This change brings the option back for Fedora Workstation users with secure boot support. This is good news for those who want to use Fedora for gaming and CUDA, and is important to the project to stay up to date for AI/LLVM workload capabilities.

PipeWire camera sensor support in Firefox

This release also contains integrated support into Fedora for Intel IPU6 attached MIPI cameras using the IPU6 CSI-receiver together with libcamwera's 0.3 software ISP support in Firefox through PipeWire.

KDE Plasma Mobile spin

There's a new mobile-OS offering in town in this Fedora release! The KDE Plasma Mobile spin brings the KDE Plasma Desktop to a flexible, mobile format in F41. This promises to work on both phones, tablets and 2-in-1 laptops.

Feature updates

Pytest 8

Pytest is a popular python framework used for writing tests and Pytest 8 will remove a lot of deprecated functions from F41 release onwards. Some of the most notable feature enhancements in this release are custom directory collectors and improved diffs printing. Some of the features that have been removed from this version have breaking changes so please make sure you check out the change page for this one to understand any errors you might get from your Pytest stack.

RPM 4.20

The RPM 4.20 release comes with many improvements and features, such as hands-free packaging (including declarative build system, file trigger scriptlet arguments, support for spec local dependency generators, guaranteed per-build directory and more) a public plugin API and increased install scriptlet isolation.

Perl 5.40

This release brings a new version of Perl to Fedora 41. Perl 5.40 is jam packed with lots of upgrades to the stack such as a new ‘class’ keyword, :reader attributes for field variables and enhanced error handling features.

Golang 1.23

The latest Go version is available in this release of Fedora. It will continue to bring a reliable development platform for the Go language and projects written in it.

GIMP version 3

The newest version of GIMP will upgrade the application to offer better color management and the support of CMYK import/export. It also greatly improves user experience with certain input devices such as tablets and on displays with very high resolutions, and moves the application to use recent versions of GTK and Python, enhancing its performance. With a more recent tech stack under the hood, developers of plugins using Python can now use packages and language features in the application that were not possible in previous versions.

Taskwarrior 3

Taskwarrior is a free and open source software that manages your to-do list from the command line. It is flexible, fast and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way. This version in F41 will allow users who have the task2 package to easily migrate to  the newest version and continue to enjoy this feature.

LXQt 2.0

LXQt in Fedora will be upgraded to v2.0, which notably ports the whole desktop to Qt 6 and adds experimental Wayland support.

Fedora Linux 41 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 41, see the release notes. If you run into a problem, visit the Ask Fedora user support forum, which includes a category for common issues.