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Fedora 42 Beta Released With Countless Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 18 March 2025 at 10:12 AM EDT. 24 Comments
The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers.

Fedora Workstation 42 features the new GNOME 48 desktop environment, numerous Wayland and HDR improvements across different software packages, better Intel SGX software support, supporting the Linux DRM Panic Screen, the introduction of the Fedora COSMIC Spin, SDL3 transition support, and Anaconda's Web UI is now the default for Fedora Workstation during installation.

Downloads and more details on the Fedora 42 beta via the release announcement.

As part of the Fedora 42 beta milestone are new releases of the workstation, server, IoT, CoreOS, Cloud, and KDE Plasma Desktop spins in addition to the various other Fedora Labs and Spins like the new Fedora COSMIC option.

Fedora 42 stable is working toward a stable release in April.

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