Fedora 43 is now available with RPM 6.0 and more

On Tuesday, the Fedora Project released Fedora 43 right on time with several notable improvements. While its main Fedora Workstation was bumped to v43, its spins, labs, and atomic were also upgraded. Anyone using Fedora 42 should get a notification that the new update is available, but if not, head to the Updates tab in GNOME Software and you should see the available update - the process could be different on other editions.

The big new change in this release is the inclusion of a new web-based installer as the default user interface for all Fedora 43 spins. Anaconda WebUI was previously used in Fedora Workstation 42, but now everyone can experience it, no matter the version of Fedora you pick.

Another big change is that the GNOME desktop in Fedora 43 is now exclusively Wayland-based, dropping Xorg support. This follows the GNOME upstream’s decision to end support for X11, which was disabled as a compile-time default in GNOME 49.

Under the hood, this version introduces RPM 6.0. It brings important security enhancements, such as enabling multiple key signing for packages to prepare for a future transition to post-quantum-crypto OpenPGP keys. Additionally, Fedora CoreOS updates will now be delivered exclusively as OCI images, entirely disabling the use of the older OSTree repository method that was available during the FCOS 42 transition period.

If you want to use the new version of Fedora, you can either do an easy in-place upgrade or download a fresh install media of the edition you want. The easiest way to create installation media is via the Fedora Media Writer which you can download for Windows, Mac, or Linux, just scroll down a little bit.

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Posted Wednesday 29 October 2025 at 6:21 pm AEST (my time).

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