System Utilities

The vagrant package has been upgraded to version 2.3.4, which provides multiple bug fixes and enhancements. Notable changes include:

The following package dependencies for vagrant were also updated:

Due to the new rubygem-net-ssh, the updates for the packages above are built and delivered as one unit.

A full list of changes in Vagrant 2.3.4 is available in the upstream release notes.

The createrepo_c package has been upgraded to version 1.0.0, which provides multiple enhancements. Notable changes include:

The pam_console module is a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for managing console-based access control. It gives users at the physical console additional capabilities when authenticating, and removes those capabilities when the user logs out.

On the other hand, pam_console has some limitations and flaws:

Due to the shortcomings mentioned above, pam_console has been removed in this release, and the systemd-logind service will be managing and controlling console logins and user sessions instead.

The aspell package provides the GNU Aspell spell checker for identification and correction of spelling errors in text.

With this update of Fedora Workstation, aspell is deprecated due to its inactive upstream community and existence of better-supported spell checker alternatives.

Previously, you could not fully remove tzdata in a container due to the package dependencies inside the container. This practice left inconsistent package remnants, and resulted in a confusion about the expected timezone information. This update fixes the problem by making the packages that use tzdata at runtime switch from Require'ing tzdata to Recommend'ing tzdata. As a result, those packages will gracefully handle the instances where tzdata has been removed, and the container environment will default to the UTC standard. Note that removing tzdata in a container will reduce the container size.