桌面用户：

• GNOME 3桌面环境
• 加入 Btrfs 文件系统支持
• 印度语输入加速器
• 更好的崩溃报告
• 重新设计的 SELinux 故障排除工具
• 更高的压缩比的 Live 镜像
• 更好的电源管理
• LibreOffice 办公套件
• Firefox 4浏览器
• KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 和 Xfce 4.8 桌面环境
• Sugar .92 学习平台

开发者：

• 机器人开发套件
• GCC 4.6
• GDB 7.3
• 编程语言更新
• Maven 3

系统管理员：

• systemd 系统和会话管理程序
• 动态防火墙 firewalld
• BoxGrinder 应用创建器
• Virt Manager 整合 Spice
• 一致的网络设备命名
• 移除 Setuid
• 改进对于加密用户主目录的支持
• RPM 4.9.0 包管理器
• Tryton ERP 系统

详细中文发布公告

感谢 Fedora 中文社区的翻译者们的共同努力，共 20+ 页 Fedora 15 的完整发行日志得到了 100% 的汉化，目前正在 Review 阶段，即将揭晓，敬请期待。

官方下载 Torrent 种子下载

最后，诚挚邀请拥有新浪微博帐号的各位Fedora中文用户也能够积极关注、支持我们新开通的新浪微博。谢谢大家～！

我们的新浪微博名称：Fedora中文项目
新浪微博地址：http://t.sina.com.cn/fzug

修复方法：

在终端输入以下命令：

su -c ’yum -y --skip-broken update‘

如果您一直使用 yum 手动更新的话，那么对应的修复已经正确升级了，不受到此影响。

英文原公告

http://fedoranews.org/form/FreeMedia.html

并非所有申请都被接受。重复申请将被视为恶意申请。

昨天的第十次发布的Fedora的，我想借此机会祝贺的Fedora社区。我们在红帽很高兴Fedora的一部分，事实上，我已经下载并安装它自己。新闻稿10五年是一个惊人的创新步伐，与社会有许多值得骄傲的。

在过去的5年Fedora项目已经远：建立一个公开提供包装的代码基础，建立一个完全自由和开放源码的基础设施工程流程，统一的软件库，并制定可扩展性，当地基层社区。由于这些努力，您也创造艺术品，市场营销，项目主办，镜像工具，和许多其他作品的自由软件，将有利于整个Linux生态系统。

的事情之一，规定除了Fedora的是坚定不移地致力于与上游的软件项目。通过与上游，你可以充分利用权力的开源开发模式。这有助于创造更多的价值，红帽的产品，但它也导致一个更可持续的进程，世界各地的开源。

我要感谢每一个Fedora的数以千计的贡献，并再次祝贺Fedora的10 ！

原文见 From Jim Whitehurst: F10!

FROM: Jim Whitehurst
RE: F10!

Yesterday marked the tenth release of Fedora, and I wanted to take the opportunity to congratulate the Fedora community. We at Red Hat are glad to be part of Fedora, and in fact I’ve already downloaded and installed it myself. Ten releases in five years is an astonishing pace of innovation, and the community has much to be proud of.

Over the last five years the Fedora Project has come far: creating a publicly available packaging code base, establishing a completely free and open source infrastructure for its engineering processes, unifying the software repositories, and developing scalable, local grassroots communities. As a result of those efforts, you’ve also created artwork, marketing, project hosting, mirroring tools, and many other pieces of free software that will benefit the entire Linux ecosystem.

One of the things that sets Fedora apart is its unwavering commitment to working with upstream software projects. By working with upstream, you can take advantage of the full power of the open source development model. That helps create more value in Red Hat’s product offerings, but it also results in a more sustainable process for open source worldwide.

I want to thank each and every one of Fedora’s thousands of contributors, and again, congratulations on Fedora 10!

在 Fedora 10 发布之际，我(pfrields)祝贺社区所有参与者，感谢你们的不懈努力。

在 Fedora 9 发布时，我写了一份相当长的祝贺邮件。我觉着如果把它印出来，它也许会因为自身引力而坍塌成一个奇点——吞噬掉我们的行星。因此，这次我一定要保持简洁，然而在很短的篇幅中写出所有的感激和自豪又怎么可能呢。

首先，感谢 Brian Pepple 和 FESCo，Francesco Ugolini 和 FAMSCo，Dimitris Glezos 和 FLSCo，Karsten Wade 和 FDSCo，以及所有其他指导委员会和小组，在开发和发布过程中，通过开放、公开的会议，保证了过程的透明和完善。这些成员所处的位置，不仅在于更有利于开展工作，更重要的是以合适(但是不过火)的方式，组织社区成员更好地参与。面对良好的计划，他们的执行力是自由软件社区所能达到的最高水准。

特别感谢了不起的 Mike McGrath 和无畏的 野山羊 基础设施(Infrastructure)团队。靠了他们，在八月份遭受入侵时，Fedora 才没有天翻地覆。他们重新构建了整个社区平台，度过了许多不眠之夜，我们才可以仍然保持安全。而且，他们使用的工具也正是我们即将向全世界散播的软件——证明了自由软件才是实现稳定、可扩展和高可用性的最佳选择。如果有这方面的奥林匹克盛会，他们应当得到金牌。

感谢全球的 Ambassador 团队！超过 600 名 Ambassador，每月还在增加。他们将本地的社区引至自由软件，他们以一种草根效应的方式将越来越多的贡献者带入自由软件世界，同时将 Fedora 的四个基本点带给人们——“自由，友好，特性，第一”。

非常感谢 Máirín Duffy, Nicu Buculei, 和美工团队所有成员。他们的成果跨越了每个版本，因为他们不仅仅创作一张美丽的桌面壁纸——不得不说他们每次都创作了如此美丽的桌面壁纸，正如这次的“Solar”主题。他们还创作和美化了社区的每个网站，设计了横幅，贴纸，传单，信纸，贴画…… 你一定会被这些惊人的作品所震撼。

谢谢(Thank you, merci, אַ דאַנק, ευχαριστώ, धन्यवाद, muchas gracias, நன்றி, tak, kia ora, terima kasih, شكرًا, ขอบคุณ, ありがとう)众多的翻译人员！在 Fedora 的平台上，他们与上游良好地合作。由于他们的努力，自由软件可以让世界上更多人受益。有时我会将自己的电脑切换到另一种语言，希望体验世界上另一个角落的用户的感觉，我很讶异本地化做得如此完全。

感谢 Ricky Zhou 领导的网站团队，让我们重新设计的网站如此一致，按时更新。

感谢 Will Woods, James Laska, Jon Stanley, 和所有 QA 团队成员，还有极为重要的 Bug Zapper 参与者，他们解决了最困难的问题：最为难以捉摸的质量和稳定性控制，不管是软件还是过程。他们保证了用户和开发者在使用 Fedora 时的良好体验。在周期开始时，我曾有一个月时间参与错误分拣工作，我希望 Fedora 11 周期中会有更多人参与。

打包人员，怎么会漏了你们？你们将软件源源不断地送入仓库，让无论什么人都能安装到想要的软件。超过一万个(我还在数 RPM )理由可以说明为什么 Fedora 适合任何人，所有人。

感谢文档团队，尤其是一些新人，协助降低了参与文档项目的门槛，建立了种种参与方式，包括 wiki 整理，发行注记，各种最终用户指南等等。这些工作应当持续下去。

感谢 Jesse Keating, Josh Boyer, 和所有发布工程师，在控制进度以及部署发布计划中的努力，从 Alpha 版，到 Beta，到 Preview，最后发布 “Cambridge”，还有其间种种(快照)。我想象不出为什么你们可以完成这么多事情，竟然还有时间读邮件，与家人共度良宵，还能抽空喝一杯——总之，向你们脱帽致敬。

我个人还想感谢几位特殊的成员，他们在后台做的一切准备工作并不比表面看到的更少。不屈不挠的 Fedora 项目经理 John Poelstra，成功地在各次 Fedora 会议中引导讨论，同时保持积极和乐观。巫师一般的 Tom ‘spot’ Callaway，即使睡着也可以用 Perl 变出魔法，对一切神秘的事务都有百科全书一般的研究，在 Red Hat 内部管理着 Fedora 工程师团队。还有 Max Spevack，我的前任，目前是社区架构团队的管理者，一直预备着伸出援手。

最后，当然同样重要的，是您，尊敬的读者。您是社区的一分子，没有您，我们做什么都没有意义。自由软件并非只是比特和字节，而是关于人，关于实现一些有形的，确实的东西，为了您和所有人。在您的帮助下，Fedora Project 引领了自由软件的创新，至今已经有五年和十个版本了。所有人，请祝贺自己，您做得很好！

OK，我没法将这些压缩得更短，也许还漏掉了重要的人。如果遗漏了您，请接受我诚挚的歉意：没有您的不断努力，Fedora 不可能是现在的模样。我从心底感谢社区的所有成员，和我们的所有用户。

来吧，我们继续关注 Fedora 10，还有将来！

–
Paul W. Frields

原文见 Fedora 10 around the corner!

As we all get ready for tomorrow’s release, I wanted to congratulate
everyone in the community on Fedora 10, and say a few words of thanks
as well.

For Fedora 9, I wrote an enormous congratulatory email tome. I’m
pretty sure that if printed and left somewhere without anyone keeping
an eye on it, it would actually collapse into a singularity and devour
the entire planet. So I’ll try to keep it more brief this time, even
though it’s tough for me to pack all my gratitude and pride in this
community into a tiny space.

First, I’d like to thank Brian Pepple and FESCo, Francesco Ugolini and
the FAMSCo, Dimitris Glezos and the FLSCo, Karsten Wade and the FDSCo,
and all the other steering committees and groups that kept up a steady
presence of open, public meetings throughout the release to ensure
that work was progressing well and transparently. These folks step up
not just to do productive work on their own, but to make sure that
other community members can do the same, with just as much
organization as is required, but no more than is needed. You folks
represent the best of what free software communities can achieve in
executing the best-laid plans.

A big thank-you to “Marvelous” Mike McGrath and our intrepid
Infrastructure team, without whom Fedora would have been in a shambles
following the intrusion this past August. These folks rebuilt our
entire community platform, spending many sleepless nights so our
nights would be restful and secure. And they did it all with the same
software we make available for everyone worldwide — proving beyond a
shadow of a doubt that free software is truly the best way to achieve
stability, scalability, and availability. There are not enough gold
medals in the Olympics for you guys, as far as I’m concerned.

A huge shout goes out to our Ambassador teams worldwide — over 600
Ambassadors already, and more every month. Just as they have been for
years, they’re out there bringing local communities together around
free software. Every day they are cultivating a grassroots effort
that brings an increasing number of contributors into the world of
free software, and at the same time brings the four foundations of
Fedora to the people — “Freedom, Friends, Features, First.”

Speaking of which, another big burst of gratitude goes to Máirín
Duffy, Nicu Buculei, and the rest of our awesome Artwork team. Their
work spans the length of every release, because it’s not just a
desktop background theme — even though they produce another
miraculously beautiful one of those every time, like Fedora 10′s
“Solar” theme. They also produce designs for every part of our
community, like software project sites, banners, stickers, fliers,
press contact letters, and posters. If you haven’t seen them already,
you’re going to love the new Four Foundations media; it’s spectacular.

Thank you(*) also to the hundreds of translators work on the projects
where Fedora provides the upstream. Because of them, free software
will be even more useful in the hands of millions more people around
the world. I sometimes switch my computer to a different locale just
so I can see Fedora, in a sense, through someone else’s eyes, and I’m
always surprised and gratified to see how thorough that experience is.

Kudos to our Websites team, now led by wunderkind Ricky Zhou, and
their dedicated work to make sure that our redesigns and content make
it out in one piece, on time and smoothly.

Thanks to Will Woods, James Laska, Jon Stanley, and the rest of our QA
team and the vital Bug Zappers for taking on some of the hardest
problems out there: The elusive search for quality and robustness in
our releases and our processes, and ensuring that our users and
developers have a positive experience using the Fedora distribution.
I spent a month or so helping triage bugs earlier this cycle, and I
hope everyone will pitch in a bit for Fedora 11 to do the same.

Packagers, where would be without you? You help keep the software
available for everyone 24/7, always making sure that whether someone’s
a wee-hours developer or a day-job professional, he or she gets the
software needed to do the work. Thank you for providing over 10,000
reasons (and counting) why Fedora is for anyone and everyone.

Thanks to our Documentation team, particularly some of our new folks,
for spinning up brand-new, easy ways for people to get involved in
projects like wiki gardening, the release notes, and our various
end-user guides. I am very much looking forward to your good work
continuing into the next release.

Thank you to Jesse Keating, Josh Boyer, and our whole Release
Engineering team for keeping a close eye on our schedule and actually
getting our releases out the door, from Alpha to Beta to Preview to
“Cambridge” itself, and everything in between. I still don’t know how
you guys get all this done and still have time for email, family, and
the occasional frosty beverage, but my hat’s off to you guys.

I want to personally thank three very special individuals who work
incredibly hard behind the scenes at least as hard as they do in front
of them — the indomitable Fedora Program Manager John Poelstra, who
has not only shepherded innumerable Fedora meetings successfully, but
who maintains a great attitude and is such a joy to work with on a
personal level; the amazing Tom ‘spot’ Callaway, who not only juggles
Perl in his sleep and maintains an encyclopedic knowledge of all
things Anuran, but also manages Fedora Engineering inside Red Hat with
a sure and steady hand; and Max Spevack, my predecessor and now
manager of the Community Architecture team, who’s always ready to lend
an effort wherever it’s required that day.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank you, the reader, if I
haven’t already. You’re part of our community too, and without you we
would be diminished. Free software isn’t just about bits and bytes,
it’s about people, about doing something real, something tangible,
something lasting for your fellow human beings. And with your help,
the Fedora Project has been able to lead in free software innovation
for over five years and ten releases now. Each and every one of you
– pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

OK, I failed miserably at making it short, and I am certain that I
left someone out in my desire to thank everyone. If it was you, Dear
Reader, please accept my humble apologies and know that Fedora would
not be where it is today without your hard work and perseverance.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of your fellow
community members and the millions of users whom you’ve helped.

Now, let’s all look forward to Fedora 10, and beyond!

= = =
(*) 謝謝, merci, אַ דאַנק, ευχαριστώ, धन्यवाद, muchas gracias, நன்றி, tak,
kia ora, terima kasih, شكرًا, ขอบคุณ, ありがとう!

–
Paul W. Frields

日期: 2008-11-25

密钥指纹: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273

位置: FEDORA 母舰，全球同步轨道，经由洲际 IRC 网络通信

传播: 自由 友好 特性 第一

(Cue J. Strauss’ “Blue Danube.”)

这里是 FEDORA 舰体控制中心，新的飞船 Fedora 10 “Cambridge” 胜利出发！

Fedora 10 的驾驶位上，是最新的 GNOME (2.24) 和 KDE (4.1)，伴随他们的是全新的无失真音效，更好的打印和摄像头支持，以及更快的图形化启动过程。

另外在这次旅途中，还有无线连接共享和 PackageKit 的最新进展：与多媒体应用程序连接，协助安装功能性组件(解码器/codec)。

关于这次使命的开发和系统管理，我们准备了 appliance 工具，Eclipse 3.4，NetBeans IDE，支持远程安装和存储的，改进的虚拟化管理，RPM 4.6，新的安全审计工具等等。

请调整极化视窗，以更好地体验 Cambridge 全新的外观主题，“Solar”，让行星在桌面闪耀。同时本次飞行还带上了一个新的轻量级桌面环境 LXDE，以及 OLPC XO 星舰的 Sugar 桌面，最后还有老成员 XFCE。

我们将航行大约 13 个月，期间进行创新和开拓。请诸位到前舱甲板，尽情使用，学习，修改和传播！

现在下载自己的 Fedora 10：

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

加入数以万计的 Fedora 合作者和贡献者：

http://join.fedoraproject.org/

如果错过了正式的仪式，还可以参加自己所在地区的 LUG 组织的发布聚会：

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty

[ 此消息由 Fedora 文档团队撰写 ]

原文见 Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System (Fedora 10)。在 Digg 上的链接。

DATELINE: 2008-11-25

KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273

LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK

BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST

(Cue J. Strauss’ “Blue Danube.”)

THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure the
successful launch of the new ship, Fedora 10: “Cambridge.”

Strapped into the pilot seats are the latest GNOME (2.24) and KDE (4.1),
accompanied on their amazing journey by an all star crew of glitch free
audio, better printing and webcam support, and a new faster graphical
startup.

Also on this ride are wireless connection sharing and the next evolution
in PackageKit, hooking through your multimedia applications to help
install supporting software (codecs).

For developers and system administrators on this mission, we have built
in appliance tools, Eclipse 3.4, NetBeans IDE, improved virtualization
management with remote installation and storage capabilities, RPM 4.6,
and new security auditing toolsets.

Please remember to polarize viewports to properly enjoy Cambridge’s
brand new graphics theme, “Solar,” shining on the desktop. Also on this
flight is a new lightweight desktop environment, LXDE, joining the more
recent desktop envionment crew member, Sugar (from the starship OLPC
XO), and the venerable GNOME, KDE, and XFCE.

We are now leaving drydock for a 13-month mission of innovation and
exploration. Crew members and guests are invited to the forward lounge
to use, study, modify, and redistribute.

Get your copy of Fedora 10 today:

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors:

http://join.fedoraproject.org/

If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 10 Launch Party near
you:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty

[ This message was created by the Fedora Documentation Project ]

下列媒体对 Fedora 10 发布有报导：

* 21.cn 转载赛迪网文章《Linux操作系统发行版Fedora 10发布》
* 開放原始碼新聞網转载自由軟體技術交流網文章(仅摘要)《Fedora 10正式釋出》
* 驱动之家发表《Fedora 10 正式版发布》 对 Fedora 10 进行了图文并茂的介绍。
* 泉城在线转载 cnBeta 文章《Fedora 10加强虚拟化与安全管理功能》 和《红帽赢来fedora10的胜利》。
* 希奥开源发表《Fedora 10 已经于昨晚发布，并提供BT下载》，内容为下载地址。
* 新浪转载驱动之家文章(仅文字)，《Fedora 10 正式版发布》。
* 自由軟體技術交流網发表《Fedora 10正式釋出》。
* Ars Technica 发表《Fedora 10 released, brimming with new features》，介绍了 PackageKit 自动发现 Codec 的功能。
* ChannelRegister 发表《Rock-solid Fedora 10 brings salvation to Ubuntu weary》，提到“Next RHEL looking good”。
* ChinaUnix Linux时代 论坛文章《细看Fedora 10的Plymouth》。
* cnBeta 发表《Fedora 10 正式发布》和《Fedora 10加强虚拟化与安全管理功能》，转载译言译者 yisohoo 翻译的 ComputerWorld 文章《红帽赢来fedora10的胜利》。
* ComputerWorld 发表《Red Hat’s winning Fedora 10 Linux arrives》，对 Fedora 10 大加赞扬：“…they all work smoothly and seamlessly together. Fedora 10 is what a cutting edge Linux distribution should be.”
* ComputerWorld 的 “IT Blogwatch” 栏目摘录了一些博客，合集为《Fedora tips up new distro, to acclaim》。
* CSDN 发表《Fedora 10加强虚拟化与安全管理功能》。
* DaniWeb 发表《Fedora 10 is a 10》，作者特别列出了十项特性。
* DesktopLinux 发表《Fedora 10 first impressions》和《Fedora 10 mini-review》。
* DistroWatch 新闻《Distribution Release: Fedora 10》。
* E-LINUX.it 发表《The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 10 (GNOME)》，Fedora Project 贡献者 tiansworld 的译文见 fedora-zh PDF 文档下载页
* EarthWeb 发表《Fedora 10: the GNU/Linux Desktop Steps Forward》，详细介绍了 Fedora 10。
* eNet 硅谷动力发表《红帽Fedora 10新品加强虚拟化功能 》
* Engadget 发表《Fedora 10 正式发布》，引用了发行注记的部分内容。
* Enterpriser.in 发表 《Redhat Launches Fedora Core 10》。
* GCN 网站发表《Fedora does FIPS》，指出 Fedora 10 包含了支持“Federal Information Processing Standard 140”加密要求的 Python 绑定，由 Mozilla 基金会开发，将使应用程序开发加密模块更容易。
* Heise Online 发表《What’s new in Fedora 10》。作者是 Fedora Project 贡献者，文章非常值得一读，得到了 LWN 推荐！
* InternetNews 发表《Security Breach Can’t Halt Fedora 10′s Debut》。
* IrishDev 发表《Fedora 10 Now Available》。
* Lifehacker 发表《Ubuntu 8.10 And Fedora 10 Eerily Close On Speed》，引用 Phoronix 网站简单的 GnuPG 速度测试结果，认为目前的 Linux 发行版只有外观不同。
* Linux.com 发表特色文章《Fedora 10 proves infrastructure matter》，指出 Fedora 10 系统的基础部分软件非常出色。
* Linux 天空论坛帖子《Fedora 10正式版发布》
* Linux 桌面中文网发表《Fedora 10正式发布》，TualatriX 对 Fedora 10 特性做了一些介绍。
* LinuxEden 转载 Fuzzy! 新闻(仅改变标题)《Fedora 10 新特性概述》。
* LinuxPlanet 发表《Fedora 10: The Best Fedora Yet? – What Free/Open Source Can Accomplish》
* LinuxTOY 网站发表《Fedora 10:燃烧吧！》。
* LUPA 转载中国电子政务资讯网文章《红帽:Fedora 10是真正尖端的Linux发行版本》。
* LWN 发表《Fedora 10 released》。
* MyBroadband 发表《Fedora 10 sparkles》。
* NetworkWorld 发表《Fedora 10 out, packed with improvements》。
* OSNews 网站发表了简讯《Fedora 10 Released》，也链接到 LinuxFormat 网站的简要测评。
* OSTATIC 发表《Fedora 10 Final Release Available Today》。
* PCQuest/CIOL 发表《Fedora 10: Future of open source computing》。
* PCWorld 发表《Fedora 10 Out, Packed With Improvements》
* Phoronix 网站发表《Fedora 10 Cambridge Released》，介绍了 Fedora 10 的主要内容。
* ProPortal 网站发表《Red Hat Pushes Fedora 10 Out》。
* SearchEnterpriseLinux 发表《After delay, Fedora 10 finally available》。
* Solidot 发表《Fedora 10 发布》简讯，并链接到 LinuxFormat 网站的简要测评。
* SYS-CON 发表《Fedora 10 Out》
* TechRepublic 发表《Fedora Core 10 might make me a believer again》 并发起小投票。
* Tectonic 发表《Fedora rolls out new desktop》，很特别地使用了一些 KDE 桌面的截图。
* The Register 发表《Fedora 10 debuts with nips, tucks》
* TMCnet 发表《Latest Version of Open Source Fedora Released》
* TradingMarkets 发表《The Fedora Project announces new version of open source operating system》 和《The Fedora Project Offers Fedora 10, Open Source System》。
* tuxmachines 部分转载 EarthWeb/ITManagement文章《Fedora 10: the GNU/Linux Desktop Steps Forward》。
* VNUNet 发表《Fedora 10 shows enhancements》。

解决方法 1. 安装最新的 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10,kpackagekit-0.3.1-9.fc10
解决方法 2. 按照 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18931 的描述，修改 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf

http://fedoranews.org/form/FreeMedia.html

可参见：
FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-11-26

PS: 早先 The Fedora Legacy Project 会在官方宣布停止对老版本的支持之后，接手对老旧版本的维护工作，但是，这个项目现在已经终止。

原文见 Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life

As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release
one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance
would end one month after Fedora 10 was released). In this instance,
that date would be December 25.

At today’s FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to slightly deviate from
this policy. This decision was made in order to avoid having it
happen over the holidays, since according to policy, EOL would have
been on Christmas Day.

It was therefore decided to extend the end-of-life date of Fedora 8 to
Jan 7, 2009. After this time, there will be no more updates, including
security updates, issued for Fedora 8, and new builds will no longer
be allowed in koji, our buildsystem.

Also at or shortly after that time, all bugs open against Fedora 8
will be closed, since no more updates will be made.

Thanks!
-Jon

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02014.html