Fedora is a huge project that includes tens of thousands of packaged software. Sometimes you may notice an upstream has released an update that is not yet in the stable Fedora repositories, and in a lot of cases this updated version will be on its way for inclusion in Fedora. There are several places you can check to see if an updated version of the package is on the way for Fedora.
If you have checked Bodhi, and no update is pending, take a look in bugzilla for bugs like this one: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060470> — maybe there’s a reason why there is not an update in the works yet. These types of “new upstream is available” bugs are going have also become easier for a Package Maintainer to track with the new Upstream Monitoring system launched earlier in the year. However, if there is a newer upstream version available, but not in Fedora, filing a bug of this type against the package you are interested in is a good way to inform the maintainer that a new version is available upstream.
Fedora’s updates policy asks for maintainers to be cautious about putting big updates which change the UI or significantly alter functionality into stable releases, so it may be that the newer package is destined only for the next Fedora release.
So check the koji builds <http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=17410> for the most recent version of Fedora + 1 and see if this version is newer than what you have.
You can find the maintainers in the package db web app, like <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/powerline/>.
I believe that if you leave feedback, you’ll get updates. But… actually, I’m not sure how it works in the new version. So, good question. 🙂 You can subscribe to a big array of different Fedora notifications at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/notifications, and that could include for example all update activity around “plasma*” — but that might be more than you want.
It behaves the same as the previous version of Bodhi. If you leave feedback on an update, you’ll continue to get email notifications about it.
Cool, thanks Luke — that’s what I thought!
I still miss an opportunity to suggest new packages. For example the Atom Editor, Haxe and Rust should be in the Fedora repos in the future!
Well, there is a wishlist at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist. But a general rule of any volunteer project is that you can suggest all you want, but unless someone is inspired to do it, nothing will make them.
Atom Editor is based around Chromium, and for that, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium.
I don’t know about Haxe, though.
Good to know! I’m wondering why some packages don’t show up in the search, like for example Git and Lynx?
Those two, along with Firefox didn’t show up, even when they are typed in lower case.