It is expected that the final release freeze for Fedora Linux 40 will begin later today. There will be a stable status assigned to packages that resolve blocker or freeze exception bugs, while other builds will continue to be in the updates-testing phase until they are ultimately approved.
Fedora Magazine has now also published a security alert regarding the compromised XZ packages. The Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide distributions are both impacted by this problem.
Remi Collet has released Release Candidate versions of PHP versions 8.3.5 and 8.2.18 in his testing repository for deployment on Fedora and Enterprise Linux. These versions are available as software collections for parallel installation and as base packages. There are packages for Fedora 39, 40, EL-8, and EL-9 that are available for both x86_64 and aarch64 environments.
The beta version of Fedora Linux 40 is now available for testing. This release is virtually identical to the Fedora Linux 40 Beta Release Candidate 1.10 that was released earlier. It is anticipated that the final version will be ready by the end of April.
RC 1.9 of Fedora Linux 40 beta is now available. This update is the same as the previously released version 1.8, with the exception that Cinnamon and Budgie have been fixed.