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Release Notes

Release Notes for Fedora 21

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Abstract

This document provides the release notes for Fedora 21. It describes major changes offered as compared to Fedora 20. For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical Notes.
1. Welcome to Fedora 21
1.1. Welcome to Fedora
1.2. Overview
1.3. Hardware Overview
1.4. Feedback
2. Fedora Products
2.1. Fedora Cloud
2.2. Fedora Server
2.3. Fedora Workstation
2.4. Fedora Spins
3. Changes in Fedora for System Administrators
3.1. Installation
3.2. Security
3.3. File Systems
3.4. Virtualization
3.5. Database Servers
3.6. Mail Servers
3.7. Samba
3.8. Systemd
4. Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users
4.1. Desktop
4.2. Networking
4.3. Internationalization
4.4. Printing
A. Contributors
A.1. Writers
B. Revision History
Index