From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
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Upgrading to a new release
- [Narrator] One of the defining characteristics of Fedora is that it's always changing and updating. There's a new release of Fedora every six months or so. And the support window for older releases is pretty short. So in order to keep up, you'll need to update to the new distro when you're ready. The software updater will update your packages to newly released versions when you run it, but upgrading to a new release takes a different approach. We can upgrade with a dnf command, system-upgrade download and the option to refresh and release version. Release version should be whichever release you want to upgrade to. So if you want to upgrade to release 30, If you've forgotten which release you're using, you can take a look at the etc/fedora-release file to find out. Keep in mind that just because Fedora releases a new version, you don't have to upgrade immediately. It can be good to hold back a little bit New software can bring breaking changes along with it. Fedora is tested…
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