After being deemed [1]not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that [2]Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday.

During this week's Fedora 44 Go/No-Go meeting it was [3]decided that Fedora 44 is now ready for release. The unresolved blocker bugs from last week have been taken care of and so everything is now in order for shipping this newest six-month feature release of Fedora Linux.

Fedora 44 final will be officially released on 28 April. For those eager to get running with Fedora 44 right away, it's the "RC-1.7" installation media is what has been deemed the final ISOs that will be officially released on Tuesday. Those wanting to download them over the weekend can grab those install images via [4]the RC-1.7 announcement .

Fedora Workstation 44 features the latest GNOME 50 desktop components while for those preferring KDE there is a unified KDE out-of-the-box experience with Plasma 6.6 and is also using the new Plasma Login Manager in place of SDDM. Fedora 44 also brings live media improvements, enhanced AArch64 EFI system support for Windows on ARM laptops, the latest GCC 16 compiler, and many other updates like LLVM 22. Fedora 44 also has Budgie 10.10, PHP 8.5, Ruby 4.0, Boosy 1.90, Golang 1.26, CMake 4.0, and more for delivering a leading-edge upstream Linux experience.

More Fedora 44 benchmarks are coming out next week on Phoronix.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Not-Next-Week

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Fedora+44

[3] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-04-23/f44-final-go-no-go-meeting-2.2026-04-23-18.00.log.html

[4] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-44-candidate-rc-1-7-available-now/188676