I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready, just jump right in and give Fedora Linux 44 a try!
Thanks to everyone who helped!
Thank you and congrats to everyone who has contributed to this release. And thanks to everyone who showed up for the virtual release party last Friday. We celebrated a little early this year, just after the go/no-go meeting made the release official. If you weren’t able to join us live, you can watch the recording and hear about some of the great work from the contributors involved.
Looking to upgrade?
If you have an existing system, Upgrading Fedora Linux to a New Release is easy. In most cases, it’s not very different from just rebooting for regular updates, except you’ll have a little more time to grab a coffee.
Ready to Fresh Install?
If this is your first time running Fedora Linux, or if you just want to start fresh with Fedora, download the install media for our flagship Editions (Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Cloud, Server, CoreOS, IoT), or one of our Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite, Cosmic, Budgie, Sway), or alternate desktop options (like Cinnamon, Xfce, Sway, or others).
What’s new?
As usual with Fedora Linux, there are just too many individual changes and improvements to go over in detail. You’ll want to take a look at the release notes for that.
Notable User Visible Changes
Anaconda
For those of you installing fresh Fedora Linux 44 Spins, you may notice a change in how Anaconda handles network devices. Anaconda now only creates network profiles for devices configured during installation (by boot options, kickstart, or interactively in UI) instead of providing default profiles for all devices. This change will simplify post-installation network configuration for users who need to customize after installation.
Workstation
Fedora Linux 44 Workstation ships with the latest GNOME release, GNOME 50. This comes with a long list of refinements to your desktop, including everything from accessibility to color management and remote desktop. Many of the applications that are installed by default on Fedora Workstation have also seen improvements, from Document Viewer to File Manager and Calendar. To learn more about these and other changes, you can read the GNOME 50 release notes.
KDE Plasma Desktop
KDE Plasma Desktop: If you are a KDE user, you should also notice a couple of very obvious changes. Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 is based on the latest Plasma 6.6, which includes the new Plasma Login Manager and Plasma Setup to provide a more cohesive and integrated experience from the moment the computer is powered on for the first time. The installation process has been simplified, enabling you to easily set up Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop for a computer for a friend or a loved one.
Plumbing Upgrades
Beyond the user-visible changes, there are some important plumbing changes user should be aware of.
OpenSSL Cert File Handling Improvements
The loading time of OpenSSL has been improved by making use of directory-hash support for ca-certificates. This improvement required changes to where some certificate bundles are stored on the filesystem. You can read the specific Change details for more information.
The MariaDB default version is now 11.8
MariaDB packages use a versioned package layout, which allows Fedora to deliver both, mariadb-10.11 and mariadb-11.8 for users. The “distribution default” unversioned MariaDB packages now install the 11.8 versions in Fedora Linux 44. User doing upgrades to Fedora Linux 44 won’t notice the change in the default. For new users installing MariaDB for the first time, unless you specify the version, you’ll now get 11.8 by default.
Wine NTSYNC
The NTSYNC kernel module is enabled for select packages by package recommendation (notably Wine and Steam), which can improve compatibility and performance when running Windows applications (especially games). When packages that recommend the wine-ntsync package are installed, the package recommendation ensures NTSYNC is configured automatically on subsequent boots, so that users don’t have to manually enable NTSYNC.
Fedora Cloud boot partition using Btrfs
The /boot partition has been replaced with a Btrfs subvolume for Fedora Cloud images that support it. This results in better space utilization and smaller images.
If you hit a snag
If you run into a problem, visit our Ask Fedora user support forum. This forum includes a category where we collect common issues and solutions or work-arounds.
Just drop by and say “hello”
Drop by our “virtual watercooler” on Fedora Discussion and join a conversation, share something interesting, and introduce yourself. We’re always glad to see new people!
KairikiFedora
After waiting for so long, Fedora 44 has finally arrived.I support Fedora 44.
Cristiano
Any news of the new Kernel 7? Is it included in the new version?
Gregory Bartholomew
It looks like it is staged in the build system, but it has not yet been pushed to the repos: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2988316
Cristiano
Thx Gregory!
I see it’s a “candidate update”, maybe it’s still going under testing but I feel it’s close to release
lzap
Sorry to break it to you, but kernel 7.0 is not going to make it into F44, it came too late. Those builds you see are for Rawhide (F45).
Nicholas C
It’s going to be coming in a few weeks. Probably late May? It’ll just be a
situation afaik. You will not have to wait for Fedora 45.
Tips for Mlady
Is anyone else having trouble adding RPM Fusion to 44? I’ve tried multiple times and it’s adding the rawhide repo instead. Any help?
Gregory Bartholomew
I saw that reported on ask.fedoraproject.org: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-44-and-rpmfusion/189911
P.S. When reading that thread, please understand that Leigh Scott is the maintainer of the RPM Fusion repos.
starfire
that led me to the solution of the problem, thanks!
basically, I needed to go to Discover (the Store), and choose correct repos in Settings.
Rafael
nope only 6.19.14-300.fc44
A Stevens
Kernel 7.0 doesn’t have anything truly exciting in it – the version number means nothing. It’s just the next regular point release after 6.19. That said, 7.1 (in development) has quite a lot of interesting changes. These will, on past form, arrive in Fedora 44 as part of regular updates over its lifespan.
Scotty_Trees
Kudos to all the devs and volunteers, we couldn’t enjoy this release without everyone’s help! Gnome 50 ftw! 😁️
Ariel
Thank you for your work! <3
Going to try it on my ThinkPad E14 work laptop!
Sommenbvlich
Last time i tried Fedora was version 42 i think, and the installation program was VERY confusing and it took me like 20 mins to figure out what to do do with drives and partitions. There was no “erase all disk and install Fedora” type deal and be done with it in few seconds. Has the installation program and procedure changed by now?
What about video codecs? The last time almost none of the video and streaming websites didn’t work such as Twitch. Then someone pointed to that RPMfusion nonsense to tinker with terminal commands and source activations or whatever to make a simple thing happen: play damn videos correctly in this day and age.
Has this changed? All this multimedia related stuff should be there by default or via installation to check mark those for installation such as what Linux Mint and Ubuntu do.
Thanks for any insight, because i would love to love Fedora but so far it has been just too non-OOTB.
Sergio
Actually there was a “erase all disk and install fedora” option (the default). But the layout of the installer was confusing. Now it’s simpler.
As for rpmfusion, it’s not nonsense. It’s the way it is. I think GNOME software (or KDE Discover) will offer to enable third-party repositories. Then you follow the rpmfusion.org instructions on multimedia support.
Just know that by installing it on release day, network stuff may be slower.
Newtotown
Here’s an insight: Gratitude to the Devs and Vols is always appreciated 🙂
Jules
Gratitude as a Whole, Thank you so much Devs. Team Fedora here
Garrett
Just use the flatpak version of the browser if it’s that/app if it’s that troublesome for you. They include codecs in the libraries.
Michele
Thank you for your great job! I’ll stick on 43 for a couple of weeks, but can’t wait to try it. On Fedora I’ve found my perfect development environment 🙂
Joseph
Its here 🥳
Pasha
Thank you for your incredible and consistent work; you guys are amazing and are driving the entire Linux community forward. Thank you for your efforts. Keep it up!
Nexomia
Thank you, it was already updated yesterday from RC 1.7. Everything works great, I’m satisfied! Thank you, congratulations on the new release!
Newtotown
Huge ‘Thank You’ to all the devs and volunteers!
My ThinkPad T440 from ca. 2013-4 flies along with fedora43, really looking forward to the improvements in f44!
Isaac
Thank you for keeping up the releases, it’s a tremendous work. Fedora linux is my default OS, I heavily depend on it.
Francisco Reyes
Congratulations to the entire Fedora community for their great work on this new release. / Muchas felicidades a toda la comunidad de Fedora por su gran trabajo en una nuevo lanzamiento.
Oleg
After performing a major upgrade to Fedora 44 (via dnf-system-upgrade), I encountered a glitch where network interfaces were up, but applications couldn’t establish connections. It looked like a socket-level blockage, even though nftables showed no active drops.
The issue was resolved after a service restart and a subsequent reboot (likely a race condition during D-Bus initialization or a temporary security context mismatch). Although I didn’t see direct AVC denied messages specifically for network sockets in the logs, I strongly recommend running a full relabel after the upgrade:
sudo restorecon -Rv /
Cristiano
I used the Update App and got no issues at all, anyway I’ve just run the command you suggested. Probably I just gonna need to clean up the repository list now, since i got some errors and some incompatibility with winehq.
Phoenix
The download page still offers Fedora 43 with 44 only as beta. Also back-tracing the download link (https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/) and attempting to navigate into the “44” directory gets me a 403. Sooo… something is not finalized, I take it?
Gregory Bartholomew
It sounds like your browser has cached the old version of the page. Try pressing Ctrl+F5 while you have the page open.
As for that download.fedoraproject.org URL, that will connect you with a mirror that is close to you. Different people might see different things depending on where they are. If your local mirror isn’t updated yet, you can use dl.fedoraproject.org instead.
Phoenix
Thanks Gregory! Refreshing did not really help. I even cleared cookies and site data from Firefox, but it remains as is.
However, your link to “dl.fedoraproject.org” is going somewhere. So, I can actually start downloading it. ^_^
Gregory Bartholomew
It sounds like a web proxy somewhere has not updated with the new content. There isn’t just one web server that everyone in the world gets the fedoraproject.org pages from. There are multiple servers spread around the world and they are supposed to update at (roughly) the same time.
Gregory Bartholomew
Yeah, the dl.fedoraproject.org site should always be up-to-date. However, it might be a bit slow, especially on release day. If it is too slow, you might try using the torrent downloads.
Phoenix
Too slow is relative. My first steps on the Internet were with a 28.8k modem. This site is just fine. No complaints about potential slowness. Especially not on release day. 🙂
Thanks again!
Adam Williamson
Please don’t use dl.fp.o, use torrents or hit download.fp.o till you get a mirror that works. dl.fp.o does not have the bandwidth for everyone to use it, it’s why the mirror system exists.
Oleg
$ lsmod | grep ntsync
nothing :)))
$ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name “ntsync”
/lib/modules/6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64/kernel/drivers/misc/ntsync.ko.xz
luk
dnf install ntsync-autoload
Oleg
Thanks pal.
Henrique Rodrigues Matteus
Thank you! Upgrading my fedora tomorrow!
Anthony
Quite a smooth upgrade from Fedora 43. Completed through the commandline method. Discovered nothing broken…-,yet.
Compliments to the developers and all who undertake this difficult enterprise.
Old Linux user since 1999…Red Hat 6.0 being my first distro.
Max Parry
Now sadly time to wait another 6 months for it to drip over to Fedora Asahi Remix
Cheryl
Very smooth upgrade from the CLI on my old ThinkPad. Thanks!
minhtaile2712
On Fedora COSMIC 44, I cannot open Settings app, even after running “dnf upgrade”. Many other apps cannot be opened too.
The Fedora-COSMIC-Live-x86_64-44.torrent give the wrong checksum file, Fedora-COSMIC-Atomic-44 instead of Fedora-COSMIC-Live-44.
Gregory Bartholomew
I’ll forward that to the fedora infra team in Matrix. Thanks for letting us know!
For the other problems, you might have better luck asking on ask.fedoraproject.org.
Mow
Software center is so buggy, when trying to update to 44 from 43. Clicked on Download, progress is done, and i got Restart and Upgrade…
And suddenly I got again Download… And this is happening all the time, not only for upgrading OS, not sure how you guys didn’t notice this at all? Is anyone using Software center to get updates?
Gregory Bartholomew
I don’t use it. But I don’t even use GNOME these days.
xake
Seems to be a bug. I encountered it as well. After “reboot and upgrade” and first reboot during “offline” upgrade my wifi-only computer complained about not being able to refresh metadata. This was seen in the journal.
So for some reason the packagekit upgrade in offline mode needs network during its “offline” stage.
I do not have time to bugreport, and have upgraded with dnf system-upgrade without problem.
If any one else have the time, have fun.
Bartholomew
Hello!
I got it installed but one problem: when trying to watch videos i only get error message to window where the video is supposed to be?
I have an older laptop though with integrated GPU but can that be the reason on Linux?
Gregory Bartholomew
You probably need to install some codec packages from RPMFusion. ask.fedoraproject.org is a better place to get help with configuring and using Fedora Linux.
Werner Maes
Thank you for all your efforts
Luiz Paulo Senna
Congratulations my friends! The Fedora 44 is amazing. I dis yesterday Upgrade. 43 to 44. Ok! My Fedora this securerity, speed and fluid. I Love FEDORA!
Tony Rawlings
I’m in the Uk and have installed Fedora a lot of times, so I know what to do. But today I tried to log in to my gmail account and it appeared in Swedish. Said it sent a text to my smart phone. Nothing there. I will re-install Fedora again and see what happens.
rebelcyberit
As a cybersecuity student and professional running federa 43 before upgrading to federal 44 i’m happy with the upgrade and how smooth it runs on my dell 16 plus laptop.
Dave
Awesome! Been really enjoying Fedora for months now. This is a welcome release.
Digard
Thanks for the info!
I am looking forward to upgrade. Though with the last one, 42->43, there were serious problems. Really serious. Don’t want to open those topics; just asking about the experiences this time. Did – and does – all go smoothly?
Gregory Bartholomew
One fairly significant issue is that upgrades from 43->44 with Cloudflare’s client installed have been crashing when the user attempts to sign back in after the upgrade. Other than that, there are a few upgrades that have failed with specific hardware, but for the vast majority of people, the upgrades have been going great.
Digard
Thanks for the heads-up with Cloudflare.
Do we have any centralized URL assembling all items/issues w.r.t. upgrades?
I ask, because when I wanted to actually start, I found a bunch of items, problems, including texlive (to name an example).
It would be fantastic to have a consolidated collection of heads-ups, warnings, observations, errors and workarounds reserved for upgrades.
Then everyone could start the update of his tool with more confidence.
Gregory Bartholomew
I think the best we have is the ask.fedoraproject.org site. It looks like there is an #upgrades tag there. How well that works probably depends on how consistently people use it.
Oleg
The Issue:
Dynamic sets (sets) with flags interval fail to match packets when called inside a nested chain via jump, while the exact same set works perfectly in the parent ingress chain for the same packet.
Technical details:
In the main ingress chain, a rule like ip daddr @whitelist_eth_self accept works as expected.
However, if you jump to a child chain (e.g., chain abnormal), the rule ip daddr @whitelist_eth_self return fails to match (returns 0 packets), causing the packet to fall through to subsequent rules (like bogon filters).
Replacing the set with a literal IP (e.g., ip daddr 10.44.77.22 return) in the child chain resolves the issue instantly.
It appears that the “fast path” context for interval set lookups is partially lost or corrupted during a jump at the netdev ingress level. This forces users to use literal IP replacements via scripts instead of elegant dynamic sets for nested filtering logic.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior in the new release?
Richard England
You should probably ask on ask.fedoraproject.org. More people watch that than the comments on Magazine articles.
lsb
Thanks again for all you do.
Had to use:
sudo dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=44 –allowerasing
Before it would upload from 43, but that did the trick.
Digard
Wow. Once again, see #2427178.
“Won’tFix” was the state with which it was closed. You can say “Thank you for all your work” and issue the correct workaround. What for those who are not (yet) in the know?
We are not talking about Rawhide; we talk about a release that receives a biannual upgrade. I guess I am not the only user who likes Fedora, and just wants to use it? Including regular upgrades, that are prescribed due to the relatively short support of 12 months. Last time it took me a few days to get it to work, actually, to boot, after the upgrade.
My suggestion: Release the biannual update, as a 0-version. During the subsequent weeks, at a specific location/URL all problems encountered and workarounds are collected. Then we, the normal users, can upgrade to a 1-version. That one contains obvious and straightforward corrections to the 0-version only. Otherwise is is identical, though with a list of encountered problems and their workarounds.
Richard England
The 0-version you refer to appears to be the Beta version that is announced in advance of each release.
For example, see the Fedora Magazine article for the F44 Beta.
The article provides links to the beta release locations as well as links to “Community Support” and Release Notes which contain links to “Common Bugs”.
Digard
My excuses if I come across as a bit miffed. I started with FOSS in the last millenium, with RedHat 5.1. That was great, in many ways far above the W98-crap from Redmond.
Then, it was clear to me that we’d constitute the future and would advance ever more. I’d have taken any bet on the success of FOSS on the long run.
Over the years, I had to concede that we lost much of that lead, in many cases by wrong, if not stupid decisions.
With days of work and a dozen of posts required to recover an initially unbootable system after a regular upgrade 42 to 43 (and I was one of many), additional to the WINE-problems, and what we can read here, I am sorry, somehow after more than a quarter of a century, I feel that we – that is including me – have failed.
One of the reasons for this failure, in my opinion, is that we are so used to refer those who encounter problems to some forum. The huge majority of users are not used to forums. The huge majority has no clue that and where they exist. And many exist in parallel.
20 years ago, we saw those more as a point to discuss further development, and to help the technically inclined with her first steps. Seemingly, we have lost that idea, and expect the average user to be a technically inclined command-line person to just keep the system running.
Yes, we have Beta-Software. But that’s not what I foresaw 25 years ago as the future of our products. Instead, I foresaw, and predicted, a future with upgrades from version xy to version xy+1 to come with a list of possible problems, including their workarounds. In one single document. Like a manual. So that John Doe, an accountant, can regularly perform the upgrade without a hitch.
Richard England
I have been using Linux for well OVER 25 years and it has always been a self-help, community-help environment, in my experience. It is a volunteer driven effort with some corporate assistance. I have not seen it as a turn-key operation. Solutions come from the community of users and volunteer developers.
Our experiences and expectations differ. I can only offer the suggestion that you wait for several weeks before attempting to upgrade in hopes that others will have “shaken out” problems and subsequent upgrades have corrected them.
In addition to the Community support mentioned in the Beta announcement there is the Matrix Fedora chat and Ask Fedora.
Digard
I fully agree with a part of your comment.
On the other hand, my expectations of myself, my projects and my code seems to be higher. Plus, I began with “we are not talking Rawhide here”. Any “private” project, like Theo de Raadt’s OpenBSD, is also different. Here we are talking about a rather mainstream distribution. My initial intention of 25 years ago was to conquer the desktop.
At 70, I want to finally use a / the mainstream Linux distro, community edition. Just use it. Tinkering, I did for 15+ years, writing bug reports and code. I could imagine a single URL (currently I have to subscribe to three forums, where everything under the sun is discussed aside of upgrade problems), that is reserved for eventual problems and their possible workarounds for upgrades of Fxy to Fxy+1. We all know and accept that sh*t happens. Though we don’t need to cover it under some blankets.
What’s the point of you having to dig around for help with an upgrade, register for multiple forums, only to obtain help for your tool? I do understand that some like that. Though I also take bets that the larger majority just wants to use the tool. Most people, when picking up a screwdriver, they want to use it. Few want to read up on forging one before they can use it. I wonder if I am the only one. I even don’t believe that the majority of Fedora users are here in order to have something to tinker with. I do believe that a larger majority wants to use it. And they have an inclination to FOSS, to a community project, and they wouldn’t mind to just have it working as expected.
S. Clark
Note of caution to those who have Texlive installed on Fedora 43: There is a significant change to Texlive 2025 that can result in a failed upgrade to 44. The simplest solution is to remove your Texlive 2023/4 installations before upgrading to 44. You can double-check the removal using $ sudo dnf remove texlive* and $ sudo dnf clean all, etc..
Vikram
Another perfect upgrade, as usual. 🥱
Bo
I have not yet upgraded to v44 but alla previuos upgrades have been so smooth so really looking forward to another great upgrade. Thanks for all the hard work!
MUHAMMAD MALFIN
When Fedora x Niri WM Official
RazvanC
As a new fedora user, I don’t want to be that guy but the software needs to properly install the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver – rpmfusion-nonfree.
The first time it must warn the user / or wait until the akmod is compiled before reboot
It’s not normal after updating the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver this via the UI software update, to boot in a desktop without nvidia drivers 🙁
can fix it 2nd with and reboot:
sudo akmods –rebuild
sudo dracut –force
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Anavrin Art
My God! In just 15 days since I migrated to Fedora, I’ve already received a system upgrade, and now I’m getting an upgrade to KERNEL 7?
Seriously? How did I live so long without Fedora?
What a fantastic distro!
Charston
I wonder why this time we have no new wallpapers
Noah
new to fedora, and enjoy the experience so far
Robert Dowling
Hat’s off to the design team–I love the new default wallpaper. I’m a firmware engineer so I recognized elements of a motherboard hiding in what looked like a aerial view of a industrial park. Well done!