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===Fedora Core 2===
Fedora Core 2 was released on May 18, 2004, codenamed ''Tettnang''.<ref name="FC2Rel">{{cite news |author=[[Red Hat]] |date=May 18, 2004 |title=Presenting Fedora Core 2 |url=http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-May/msg00010.html |
Some of the new features in Fedora Core 2 included:<ref name="FC2 RN" />
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* Version 3.2 of the [[K Desktop Environment 3|K Desktop Environment]] (KDE);
* [[Security-Enhanced Linux]] (SELinux);<ref name="FC2Rel" />
* [[X.Org Server]] replaced [[XFree86]] due to license changes with the latter project. (X.Org Server is a merger of the previous official [[X11R6]] release, which additionally included a number of updates to [[X Rendering Extension|Xrender]], [[Xft]], Xcursor, [[fontconfig]] libraries, and other significant improvements, with XFree86 4.4 RC 2, the final version before the license change.)<ref name="FC2 RN" />
[[Security-Enhanced Linux|SELinux]] was disabled by default due to concerns that it radically altered the way that Fedora Core ran.<ref name="FC2 RN">{{cite web|url=http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc2/x86/|title=Fedora Core 2 Release Notes|access-date=October 19, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025045323/http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc2/x86/|archive-date=October 25, 2007|df=mdy-all }}</ref
===Fedora Core 3===
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===Fedora Core 4===
Fedora Core 4 was released on June 13, 2005, with the codename ''Stentz''.<ref name="FC4Rel">{{cite news|url=http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-June/msg00010.html|title=The Amazing Fedora Core 4!|author=[[Fedora Project]]|date=June 13, 2005|access-date=November 18, 2007 }}</ref> It shipped with Linux 2.6.11,<ref name="FC4Rel"/> KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10.<ref name="FC4 RN">{{cite web|url=http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc4/|title=Fedora Core 4 Release Notes|publisher=[[Fedora Project]]|access-date=November 18, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028014017/http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc4/|archive-date=October 28, 2007|df=mdy-all }}</ref> This version introduced the new Clearlooks theme, which was inspired by the [[Red Hat]] [[Bluecurve]] theme.<ref name="FC4 RN"/> It also shipped with the [[OpenOffice.org]] 2.0 office suite, as well as [[Xen]], a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework.<ref name="FC4 RN"/> It also introduced support for the [[PowerPC]] CPU architecture, and over 80 new policies for [[Security-Enhanced Linux]] (SELinux).<ref name="FC4 RN"/>
===Fedora Core 5===
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*[[ARM architecture|ARM]] as primary architecture in addition to x86 and x86_64<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ARM_as_Primary|title=Fedora 20 features: ARM as primary architecture|publisher=FedoraProject|access-date=2013-10-05}}</ref>
*Replacement of the gnome-packagekit frontends with a new application installer, tentatively named gnome-software<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller|title=Fedora 20 features: Application Installer|publisher=FedoraProject|access-date=2013-10-05}}</ref>
Shortly after the release of Fedora 20, the Fedora project team decided to abolish the codename system completely due to inconvenience, which meant that future Fedora releases would only be referred to by their version number.<ref name=":0" />
===Fedora 21===
Fedora 21, the first version without a codename,<ref name=":0">{{cite mailing list|url=https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2013-October/012209.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530034505/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2013-October/012209.html|archive-date=2024-05-30|title=Release Name process ended|date=2 October 2013|access-date=11 May 2014|mailing-list=Fedora community advisory board|last=Boyer|first=Josh}}</ref> was released on December 9, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule|title=Releases/21/Schedule|publisher=Fedora Project|access-date=25 March 2014}}</ref>
*[[GNOME]] desktop 3.14 with several minor visual enhancements
*Due to concerns regarding lack of direction, Fedora introduced three flavors providing different specialized set of preinstalled packages depending on use purpose: Workstation, Server, and Cloud.
===Fedora 22===
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Fedora 41 was released on October 29, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-10-29|title=Fedora Linux 41 is here!|url=https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/|access-date=2024-11-02|website=Fedora Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> Its change set is [[fedora:Releases/41/ChangeSet|here]].
=== Fedora 42 ===
Fedora 42 is an upcoming Fedora update.
This version saw the [[KDE Plasma]] Spin promoted to an edition on the same level as Fedora Workstation with [[GNOME]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Issue #504: Request to upgrade Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to Edition status under the Personal Systems WG - tickets - Pagure.io |url=https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/504 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=pagure.io}}</ref>
==Images gallery==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100" caption="Fedora Linux default UI screenshots">
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