On November 6, 2003, the Fedora Project released the Fedora Core 1. One day and twenty years later, we’re pleased to bring you Fedora Linux 39, our complete, community-built operating system for desktops, laptops, servers, the cloud, edge devices — and just about anything else you can think of.
As always, you should make sure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release. Can’t wait to get started? Download while you read!
Desktop news
Fedora Workstation now features GNOME 45, which brings better performance and many usability enhancements, including a new workspace switcher and a much-improved image viewer.
If you’re looking for a different desktop experience, our Budgie Special Interest Group has created Fedora Onyx, a Budgie-based “Atomic” desktop in the spirit of Fedora Silverblue.
Of course, that’s not all — we also have updated desktop flavors featuring KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce, Cinnamon, and more.
In the cloud
Fedora Cloud images will be officially available in Microsoft Azure (in addition to Google Cloud and AWS). Also, our cloud images now are configured so that cloud-init can (at your option) install updates and reboot when first provisioned, so you know you’re running with our latest security updates.
Other updates
As always, we’ve updated many, many other packages as we work to bring you the best of everything the free and open source software world has to offer. Fedora Linux 39 includes gcc 13.2, binutils 2.40, glibc 2.38, gdb 13.2, and rpm 4.19. It also has updates to popular programming language stacks, including Python 3.12 and Rust 1.73.
Of particular note, we include the latest version of Inkscape, the popular vector graphics illustration and drawing tool. Inkscape also turned 20 yesterday — we’re digital twins! Congratulations to everyone in that awesome project as well.
In the unlikely event of a problem…
If you run into a problem, visit our Ask Fedora user support forum. This includes a category for common issues. (There are a few issues with Raspberry Pi in particular which we are still working to resolve. So if you’re planning on updating one of those, make sure to check first.)
Or if you just want to say “hello”…
Drop by our “virtual watercooler” on Fedora Discussion and join a conversation, share something interesting, and introduce yourself.
You’re also invited to our virtual release party this Friday and Saturday. It’s free! And we’ll have interesting presentations and fun social events. Register here!
Thank you everyone
Thank you again to the thousands of people who contributed to the Fedora Project in this release cycle. You are amazing!
Seth Maurice-Brant
It’s finally here!
wangyz
thanks for great working!
Ricardo
Great day today, new fedora is released! Was waiting for it to wipe out my new laptop’s win11, and install this beauty. Thank you!
Sean Redmond
Can’t wait to install Fedora 39 workstation! Looks amazing!
eltone
Congratulations everyone and thank you.
Kamil Páral
Once again there’s a wrong common issues link. The correct one is:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tags/c/ask/common-issues/82/none/f39
Please fix, thanks.
Gregory Bartholomew
Thanks Kamil. It’s updated. I’ll try to remember to make sure that the link points to the correct content next time.
szent
Is the final download link correct?
I downloading from the fedora website but the link is for the RC version of last week.
Gregory Bartholomew
Some proxies might still be sync’ing the new content. Also, try pressing Ctrl-F5 to be sure you aren’t seeing a cached version in your browser.
HaThanhNek
Great!
david
thanks all for the great job Fedora community is doing!
Francisco Lopez Rojas
Mil garcias, por ese extraordinario trabajo, eso es integracion de sociedada.
Sumit Bhardwaj
It seems the website is not updated yet, still showing Fedora 38 download links.
Gregory Bartholomew
Some proxies are being slow about updating. Hopefully they will all finish updating soon.
Mike
Use the Fedora Installer. It gives you the option for 39
Jakub Steiner
Lovely cover image. Well done, Daimar.
Daimar Stein
Aww, thanks! 💙
Richard
Installing from the ground up and upgrading to 40 in a year!.
Thank you all for this wonderful project.
James
Half a year?…
Niyaz
Where is the Stable version of Fedora 39 still not showing in the website or anywhere
only Beta version is available
Gregory Bartholomew
Try Ctrl+F5. Otherwise, wait for the proxies to synchronize.
Keith
Potential Bug
HP 840G3
Intel AX210 Wi-Fi card
Fedora 38 works
Fedora 39 does not work
Gregory Bartholomew
Please use https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ to report bugs. Thanks.
Ricardo Solano
Great job, I’ve been using and installing fedora from scratch since fedora 11.
Thanks fedora team.
lavinya
Thank you for the new version. It would also be great if we could make color and shape arrangements in Gnome like on the plasma desktop. Thank you fedora team.
Luciano
O melhor linux desktop <3
Andreas Reschke
Thanks all for the work.
I’ve just updated my Pinebook Pro (aarch64).
Alex
Attention! During a clean installation of Fedora, the Windows bootloader was erased
Paweł
Very good news. Spyware should be erased.
Amir Mustafa
Not able to upgrade from 38 to 39, I am getting segmentation fault error after rebooting, system details shows that its fedora 39, but its not fully upgraded as the gnome is still 44.6 and not able to run dnf update command, it shows segmentation fault. Tried dnf distro-sync as well but it shows the following error.
The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: setup
Don’t know what to do
Richard England
You might obtain quicker assistance on the Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#fedora:fedoraproject.org
or on the Discussion page by opening a new topic: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/ask/6/none
Dani_L
Why is there no link to the inplace upgrade procedure? maybe because it’s broken in the docs?
1. One would expect it to be at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-upgrade/
2. Where it actually is: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/
Gregory Bartholomew
It’d be a good thing to report to the documentation team. There is a bug report icon in the upper-right of the documentation page. Thanks.
Eduard Lucena
This doesn’t look like an error. [2] it’s a meta document that had the link to [1].
What it seems off in the [2] it’s the “Manual reinstallation” part. But that is a conversation for the docs team.
Dave Hugh
Thanks for all the good work to get us to this point. Just upgraded a workstation and two servers to 39 without an issue. I was monitoring the blockers and reading the go/no-go meeting logs leading up to this final release – enlightening to see just how much hard work goes into overcoming the hurdles preventing a release.
abe
IS The “end of support” in /etc/os-release correct ? (2025-05-dd)
Stan
What do you get for these commands after doing a full update?
$ rpm -q fedora-release-common
fedora-release-common-39-30.noarch
$ egrep ‘^VERSION=|SUPPORT_END’ /etc/os-release
VERSION=”39 (Workstation Edition)”
SUPPORT_END=2024-05-14
Jim
Thank you so much for again delivering us a great Fedora release!
I couldn’t work and do my hobbies without your hard work.
iysheng
Congratulations for fedora39。
Peter V. Daniels
Great Stuff! It’s Just Fantastic! Currently reinvigorating my knowledge in programming and with the AI Chat Bots there is a huge bunch of information accessible for the little questions I have. The Fedora Magazine is Great too for a source of all things WS, SERVER, Coding, Cloud, Shell etc. Thanks to Fedora Team.
Daniels
benjamin
great
Jorge
Very high tech made simple. this deserves a huge congratulation!
Anthony Johnson
A surprisingly seemless upgrade. The first attempted. I usually do clean installs. Big thank you to the developers of the Fedora Project. I have used countless Linux Distros. Red Hat 9 was the first of many I used two decades ago. Fedora is my daily driver on an Apple MacBook Pro 2015, i7 Quad-Core 16GB RAM and a MeLE Mini-PC, Intel Celeron N5095 (JasperLake )Quad-Core, 16GB RAM. Both work very well under Fedora 38 and now 39.
Grandpa Leslie Satenstein
Grandpa Leslie here.
Some 20 or slightly more years ago, I started with Fedora 0.9, which became Fedora 1. Over the years, I was never disappointed. I recall when Fedora 1 fit onto a 800meg CD, and then later, it needed a 1.2gig DVD. Today, I store the ISO onto a USB Frashdrive.
I have been testing the Fedora 39 beta since it was released as Rawhide, some 3 months back. It has been an issue for me as Wayland was working, but then became an issue. Fortunately, with the most recent beta 39 update, Wayland is cured. Wayland is alive and well, And so are all the other great new improvements and programs being offerred.
James
The network installer still fits on a 700MiB CD. I think it’s still important to deliver CD/DVD images. I for instance have a Computer that won’t allow me to boot from USB. Fedora does a good job altogether.
Trung Le
This is yet a great release from Fedora.
I would like to report that it works perfectly on PowerPC64 LE architecture
Romane
Updated today, 39 appears to be a solid release, and alo helped me resolve an issue had been having with apache that had been a show-stopper for me, but a little bit of testing of that fix now to see if 39 may become my daily driver.
Wayland is running beautifully, as it has for me (in my getting-long-in-the-tooth PC) for some cosiderbale time with my Debian and my EndeavourOS systems and then more recently with 38.
Fedora 39, on my initial but brief experience with it, looks like a system that can happily recommend when asked…
Yaser
Finally the official release. Thanks to all your hard work I use Silverblue 39 since beta with no issues on an ASUS laptop
CRC
If the animation on the new ‘improved’ image viewer gives you motion sickness, you can revert to the ‘Eye of Gnome’ viewer by doing a Right Click -> Open with and changing the file associations. This will use the familiar image viewer.
You can also ask for that ‘improvement’ to be made optional here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/loupe/-/issues/245
Artsiom
In the Gnome settings message: Disk capacity: unknown
In the DISKs: intel ssdpeknw512g8h
the flash drive created in Windows 11 by your media creation tool does not pass the check when loading by ~5% freezes, you have to boot without checking, it has been like this since version 36
Stan
In a terminal, see what you get with “lsblk”.
ATIF HUSSAIN
Checking since 20th October…
Mehdi
After upgrade, My system fails to load after logging.
I don’t see f39 in boot menu.
I see some “cups service failed” errors during boot up to the login screen.
Phil
Good morning and congratulations on a successful release!
I could not find the procedure for update from 39 Beta to 39 Release.
I ended up doing all of these in the following sequence:
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf distro-sync
sudo dnf upgrade –refresh
Seems everything went OK! Nothing broke, although probably some of these are not needed.
What is the proper way to upgrade Fedora from Beta to the Release?
Gregory Bartholomew
A single “sudo dnf update ‐‐refresh” should have done it. It is best to run that from runlevel 3 if you are going to do it that way though (i.e. no running graphical environment, use “init 3” to get there).
Andrew
It’s probably better these days to use SystemD to change the runlevel in case something gets missed by using the old init commands:
systemctl isolate multi-user.target
Is equivalent to “init 3”.
Love it ot hate it, the push is towards more integration with SystemD in Fedora. I’m pretty ambivalent about it.
Stan
If you are running the Workstation edition, the “Software” app* can be used. Just click on the icon in the dock and then click “Updates”.
A restart is required if the kernel is updated.
“gnome-software is an application that makes it easy to add, remove
and update software in the GNOME desktop.”
Andrew Oliver
The mirror and catalog for upgrade via the Software app hasn’t synced as yet for Australian downloaders as of midnight 9th November here.
Stan
For anyone who is interested, the mirrors being used are listed in the metalink.xml files:
$ find /var/cache -name metalink.xml
Matthew Phillips
Upgraded last night and have been loving it. Thank you for all your hard work! Great release.
binbjz
Finally waiting for you.
TomsT
Congratulations and thanks for everyone involved in pushing Fedora forwards all these decades! It has been a joy for me using it since I started at early “Spherical Cow” days.
Is there anything new and exciting exclusively for KDE Spin? Or is Plasma on heavy LTS now until v.6 and Fedora 40?
Bigcash
I just got Fedora 39 KDE installed on my laptop and I’m enjoying it so far. I like to responsiveness of the Distro over Windows 11. I don’t really play games on laptops so I’m good with KDE Fedora 39. I lke KDE Fedora 39 because it’s faster and has more customization.
Paweł
It’s smooth and fast unlike windows. I’m going to wipe out windows partition.
Neto
No hay duda es el mejor linux fedora
John
Hola Matthew, gracias una vez más, por el gran trabajo día tras día para darnos un sistema de escritorio real. En su opinión, para un usuario que no es ingeniero informático, ni programador o desarrollador, ¿cuál considera una mejor alternativa entre la estación de trabajo y el azul plateado?
Thank you.
John
Hello Matthew, thank you once again, for the huge work day after day to give us a real desktop system. In your opinion, for a user who is not a computer engineer, nor a programmer or developer, what do you consider to be a better alternative between workstation and silverblue?
Thank you.
swallacertp
Updated yesterday (Nov 8) and working well! Thanks for all the hard work getting this out.
lemc
The option for configuring the top bar, including its clock, has been removed from Tweaks. This is annoying, as displaying the weekday close to the date is very useful.
Matthias
You can configure it in gnome settings -> date & time.
lemc
Thanks! I really missed that. This is a good move, as it concentrates all interface settings under a single utility.
Black Genius
Well done, Fedora devs.
Anthony Johnson
…just gets better! Installed Fedora 39 on MacBook Pro 11,4 Mid-2015 Intel i7 HQ4770, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD. Happily sharing SSD with MacOS Mojave and Linux Mint 19.3 in a triple-boot menage-a -trois!!.
Very good thermal management, stable so far and running kernel 6.5.11.
Impressed. Cannot praise the Fedora development team enough.
Face for Radio
Best so far.
Anonymous
A week after release, updated to 39, everything’s smooth. I recommend to update.
Kodden
Great! Thank you all!
André
don’t use it for production, F39 still has issues..
Bazzi
Great work.
haris
back to fedora after unknown journey in the linux world
Tomasz Antczak
In version 38 and 39 zenity works wrong. Command line “zenity –calendar” returns shifted +1 day and pointing at the last day of the month it crashes.
Enzo Porfavorny
Beautiful piece of work!
A_normal_user
For some reason F38 was very problematic in my laptop, and I moved to RHEL9. But F39 workstation vanilla works very well. Polish, simple, all works. Thank you for the work.
Neto
Every time fedora gets better and better in every aspect
Brian
Awesome release of the best Linux distribution for my needs. Thank you, team!