Announcing Fedora Linux 44 Beta

Fedora Linux 44 Beta is now available for download across Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Server, IoT, and Cloud editions. Key highlights include Anaconda installer changes to network profile creation, a unified KDE out-of-the-box setup experience with a new Plasma Login Manager replacing SDDM, Budgie 10.10 migrating to Wayland, automatic DTB selection for aarch64 EFI systems enabling Windows on ARM laptop support, and modernized live media with persistent USB overlay support. System-level changes include a GNU Toolchain update, a push to achieve 99% reproducible package builds, Packit integration as default dist-git CI, and the addition of the Nix package manager. Notable version upgrades include Golang 1.26, MariaDB 11.8, Django 6.x, Helm 4, Ansible 13, and TeXLive 2025. Deprecated items being removed include QEMU 32-bit host builds, FUSE 2 in Atomic Desktops, and python-mock.