With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October.

In advance of this week's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting, more features were approved for the in-development Fedora 43 cycle. The newly-approved features for Fedora 43 include:

- CMake: Use ninja generator by default
- CMake 4.0
- Confidential Virtualization Host for Indel TDX
- Stop publishing updates to OSTree repository for CoreOS
- Modular GnuPG packaging
- Use COLR for Noto Color Emoji
- Perl 5.42

Meanwhile Fedora developers are still figuring out in cooperation with upstream GNOME developers whether GNOME 49 will end up going Wayland-only as an early change compared to their prior plans of going Wayland-only support beginning in GNOME 50 next year.

More details on the newly-approved changes for Fedora 43 can be found via the FESCo minutes .