Fedora 36 was released today, which is another powerful, cutting-edge, stable and reliable Linux distribution version in recent times. In addition to these features, Fedora 35 has added new functions and details on the original basis Fedora 36 uses Gnome 42 as its default Fedora workstation desktop environment.
OpenSSL 3.0 and Linux 5.17 kernel are currently used versions. Mesa 22.0 is used for open source graphics drivers. When NVIDIA proprietary driver stack is used, Wayland session will automatically become the default instead of X.org. Meanwhile, Google Noto font is now used as the default font set.
For developers, Fedora 36 provides a new GCC 12 compiler stack. There are also Autoconf 2.71, glibc 2.35, llvm 14, ruby 3.1, Ruby on rails 7.0, PHP 8.1, and other updated packages. Openjdk 17 provides an updated default Java environment on Fedora 36. There are other package updates that may be of interest, such as ansible 5, Django 4.0, lxqt 1.0, PostgreSQL 14, and stratis 3.0.
In addition to using the latest Linux kernel and mesa graphics driver, and using Wayland as NVIDIA proprietary driver stack by default, this version also has a noteworthy underlying graphics change. Fedora 36 now uses simpledrm and DRM fbdev simulation code to replace the traditional fbdev driver, which is another modernization.
Fedora 36 will be available today at getfedora. Org Available for download.
