Hey everyone!

Fedora 34 is officially out today, and it has a number of new features!
Features include:

- Updating to Gnome 40
(https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/)
- Switching from Pulseaudio to Pipewire
(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#how-is-pipewire-supposed-to-be-a-better-pulseaudio)
- Switching from earlyoomd to systemd-oomd for handling out-of-memory
situations
- Enabled transparent zstd compression in btrfs
(https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-workstation-34-feature-focus-btrfs-transparent-compression/)
- Enabling Harfbuzz in FreeType for improved font rendering
- KDE using Wayland by default instead of X11

https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-in-fedora-workstation-34/


You can try it out today here:

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Or try the various different spins here:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/34/

- Josh


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