"Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet. This cycle, Fedora 43 started plumping a little before Ubuntu. The project just released the beta version and it has an uncharacteristically short list of new features. There is a full changeset document that lists all the updated components, but at the time of writing, systemd is notably absent."
"All editions of Fedora 43 use the new browser-based installer, called Anaconda WebUI. As it happens, this parallels the Agama installer in the openSUSE Leap 16 RC that we looked at last month. When we wrote about this six months ago looking at the beta of Fedora 42, the new installer was only used in the GNOME Workstation edition. Now it's in all the "spins" with their different desktops and the other editions."
"The installer also uses the new DNF5 version of the package manager. This has been available for some years now - according to the project page, it's been an optional extra since Fedora 38, two and a half years ago. Now it's becoming a standard part of the distribution. There are naturally more changes underneath the covers, with new versions of the various language compilers, interpreters, and editors Fedora includes, such as a refreshed GNU toolchain."
Fedora 43 beta arrives with a surprisingly short visible feature list and systemd absent from the changeset. All Fedora 43 editions now use the browser-based Anaconda WebUI installer, expanding its reach beyond GNOME Workstation to all spins and editions. The distribution standardizes on the DNF5 package manager and updates compilers, interpreters, editors, and a refreshed GNU toolchain. Fedora Kinoite, the immutable KDE Plasma variant, ships with automatic background updates enabled, and the immutability technology underpins Universal Blue and related distros like Bazzite. Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) beta followed shortly after.
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