Fedora Linux 37 intends to stop supporting 32-bit Arm architecture

To implement in Fedora Linux 37 is scheduled Therapy In the category of outdated Armv7 architecture, also known as ARM32 or ArmHFP. All development efforts for ARM systems are planning to focus on Arm64 architecture (AARCH64). The change is not yet considered by the FESCO Committee (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution. In the case of a change in the latest release with the support of 32-bit systems ARM will be Fedora 36, ​​the updates for which will be formed until June 2023.

As the reasons for termination of support for ARMV7, the overall collapse of the distributional development for 32-bit systems is mentioned, since some Fedora’s new features related to safety enhancement and productivity increases are available only for 64-bit architectures. Until now, Armv7 remained the last fully supported 32-bit architecture (the formation of repository for the I686 architecture is discontinued in 2019, only Multi-lib repositories are left for environments x86_64).

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