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Latest release of fedora is Fedora 13
Fedora 13, codenamed Goddard, was released on May 25, 2010. During early development Fedora project leader Paul Frields commented on Fedora 13 by saying that during the development they would "be looking at the fit and finish issues. We have tended to build a really tight ship with Fedora, but now we want to make the décor in the cabins a little more sumptuous and to polish the deck chairs and railings."
Some of the features in Fedora 13 are:
* Automatic printer driver installation * Automatic language pack installation * Redesigned user account tool * Color management to calibrate monitors and scanners * Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards * A new way to install Fedora over the Internet * SSSD authentication for users * Updates to NFS * Inclusion of Zarafa Open Source edition * System rollback for the Btrfs file system * Better SystemTap probes * Support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8 * KDE PulseAudio Integration * New Command Line interface for NetworkManager
