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Anaconda WebUI: Progress Update and Roadmap

September 9, 2025 / Katerina Koukiou / 3 Comments

Over the past few Fedora releases, the Anaconda team has been gradually replacing the GTK-based installer with a new web-based interface. As this work expands, we want to share a quick update on the current status, where things are headed, and how to stay involved.

Current Status

The WebUI was introduced in Fedora 42 Workstation Live ISO as the default installer, supporting Live image installations only. DNF-based installs are not yet supported, this is planned for a future phase.
A change proposal for Fedora 43 has been approved, enabling the WebUI by default for all Fedora Spins and KDE.
Community testing has already taken place, and we’ve received an incredible amount of useful feedback. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped us shape the experience! We are now actively reviewing and processing that feedback to guide the next phases of development.

Below is an example of the WebUI installer in action, as currently used in one of the Fedora Spins.

Documentation Update

The existing Fedora Installation Guide is outdated and no longer reflects the current installer. Our team is open to co-owning updated installer documentation and hosting it upstream to keep it accurate and maintainable.

To reduce the documentation overhead, we’re working on autogenerated docs directly from the source code. While this is still early work, we have a small but up-to-date example live now: Web UI Installer documentation

Roadmap (Shared at Flock 2025)

Here’s a rough view of how we plan to roll out the WebUI across Fedora editions:

Fedora Version	Status/Target
Fedora 42	Workstation Live ISO (WebUI available)
Fedora 43	Spins + KDE (approved)
Fedora 44	uBlue, Atomic Desktops, Remote Browser
Fedora 45	Server Edition
After 45	Deprecation of GTK UI

Get Involved

We’re open to contributions across all areas of the project – from design suggestions, to feature development, testing, and documentation. If you’re interested in helping out or learning more, join us in the #anaconda:fedora.im Matrix channel. We’d be happy to talk!

Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash

Anaconda is getting a new suit and a wizard

April 5, 2022 / lclay2b / 15 Comments

In January, we published “Anaconda is getting a new suit” to let you know that we’re looking to modernize and improve Anaconda’s user experience. Before starting the redesign work for the Anaconda installer, the team reviewed user feedback and usability study data that we’ve gathered over the years.

Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash

Anaconda is getting a new suit

January 11, 2022 / jkonecny / 15 Comments

It’s quite some time since we created the current GTK based UI for Anaconda: the OS installer for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS. For a long time we (the Anaconda team) were looking for possibilities to modernize and improve the user experience. In this post, we would like to explain what we are working on, and—most of all—inform you about what you can expect in the future.

Anaconda BlivetGUI Test Day: 2017-04-06

April 4, 2017 / sumantrom / 3 Comments

BlivetGUI inside of the Fedora Anaconda installer

BlivetGUI option inside of the Fedora Anaconda installer

Thursday, 2017-04-06, is the Anaconda BlivetGUI Test Day! As part of this planned Change for Fedora 26, we need your help to test Anaconda BlivetGUI!

Why test BlivetGUI?

We’ll be testing the new, detailed, bottom-up configuration screen that has been long requested by users. Inclusion of blivet-gui into Anaconda finally makes this a reality. On the other hand, it adds a new option without changing the existing advanced storage configuration so users that prefer the top-down configuration can still use it. We hope to see whether it’s working well enough and catch any remaining issues.

We need your help!

All the instructions are on the wiki page, so please read through and come help us test! As always, the event will be in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.

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