Fedora Silverblue 39 to 40 upgrade

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I did the upgrade from Fedora Silverblue 39 to 40 today using rpm-ostree rebase in the terminal per the Silverblue User Guide.

The download took 15 minutes and was 1.4 GB.

The total time from start to reboot was 18 minutes, 30 seconds, and I then booted into Fedora Silverblue 40 with no issues.

I did have to choose new wallpaper, but all my GNOME shell extensions are working.

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:stopwatch: :coffee:

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Smooth upgrade for me too. Kudos to all people involved!

EDIT : I had some videos thumbails not showing up in Nautilus.
Solved by doing rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails

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I am curious about the “upgrade now” screens.

I am on uBlue so afaik I dont get them.

You could upgrade now, or not, and stay on the supported 39 for quite a while. Would 38 users get a different warning that their version is soon EOL? Or just an automatic upgrade?

These things are important for making the OS foolproof.

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Isn’t @castrojo model to alway be on the latest? At least that is what I remember him talking about. It kind of makes it irrelevant to do so if the system is always up to date.

I am looking to run a VM with uBlue but I will need time to figure out if my type of build would work, how I would contain my apps as well. . . I’m happy for them who worked on it, it’s come a long way since the day i downloaded it and Jorge wanted to turn Fedora into Ubuntu ! :laughing: ( F34?! ). . .

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wouldn’t this be the silverblue beta since fedora 40 is still beta?

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You’ve 3 ostree branches for Fedora 40 :

ostree remote refs fedora | grep silverblue | grep $(uname -m) | grep 40
fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/silverblue
fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/testing/silverblue
fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/updates/silverblue

After my rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/silverblue yesterday I don’t have any update yet.

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No, since it is beta

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I just did my upgrade via GNOME Software, everything went great!

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