Fedora 44 Beta now available

Fedora 44 Beta now available What’s new in Fedora 44 Beta? What is a Fedora Beta release? Let’s test Fedora 44 Beta together About the author Jef Spaleta More like this Enable intelligent insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server Red Hat Summit 2026 session catalog now available Post-quantum Cryptography | Compiler Understanding AI Security Frameworks | Compiler Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce that the beta version of Fedora Linux 44 - the latest version of the free and open source operating system - is now available. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 44 Beta below and don’t forget to make sure that your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release. Goodbye Anaconda created default network profiles: This change will impact how Anaconda populates network device profiles so that only devices configured during installation – by boot options, kickstart or interactively in UI – are made part of the final system install. This behavior change addresses some long standing issues caused by populating network profiles for all network devices that made it difficult to correctly reconfigure devices post-install. Unified KDE out of the box experience: This change introduces the post-install Plasma Setup application for all Fedora KDE variants. The Anaconda configuration for variants making use of this new setup application will be adjusted to disable configuration stages that duplicate the functionality exposed in the setup application. KDE Plasma Login Manager: This change introduced the Plasma Login Manager (PLM) for Fedora KDE variants instead of SDDM for the default login manager. Reworked games lab: This change modernizes the games lab deliverable by leveraging the latest technologies to offer a high quality gaming and game development experience. This includes a change from Xfce to KDE Plasma to take advantage of the latest and greatest Wayland stack for gaming. Budgie 10.10: Budgie 10.10 is the latest release of Budgie desktop. Budgie 10.10 migrates from X11 to Wayland, ensuring a viable long-term user experience for Fedora Budgie users and laying the groundwork for the next major Budgie release. Automatic DTB selection for aarch64 EFI systems: This change intends to make the aarch64 Fedora Live ISO images work out of the box on Windows on ARM (WoA) laptops by automatically selecting the correct DTB at boot.