Fedora 45 arrives after two delays, with GNOME 51 and Plasma 6.8

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Fedora fans can finally upgrade. The Register reports that Fedora 45 is out after two week long delays to fix last minute problems, with six main editions, five immutable Atomic Desktops and 12 spins

Workstation ships with GNOME 51 and the KDE edition with Plasma 6.8. Both are Wayland only now, although seven spins including Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE still use X.org

The kernel is 7.2.15, which is already end of life upstream, with kernel 7.3 expected soon through updates. Other new features include RPM 6.1 with stricter signature checks, a zoomable next generation text console, a new web based installer for Atomic Desktops and install support for Stratis storage

Fedora Asahi Remix 45 adds early support for M3 Macs, though not the M3 Ultra, while GNOME 51 drops some older Nvidia graphics cards. The recommended spec is a 2GHz quad core processor, 8GB of RAM and 20GB of disk space

Delays are frustrating, but holding a release to fix problems is better than shipping something broken. The move to Wayland only for the main editions is a big step, and keeping X.org spins around gives people a choice. Early M3 support is great news for anyone running Linux on Apple hardware

Are you upgrading to Fedora 45? And is the switch to Wayland only working well for you?

Fedora 45 is finally finished and fitwww.theregister.com

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Shipping a kernel that is already end of life upstream sounds odd. Fedora will update it quickly, though. Rolling kernel updates are normal there

Not a real problem. Users get the newer kernel within weeks

Updates are automatic for most people. Nobody stays stuck on the old one for long