Fedora 21 will be Nameless

Red Hat owned and community-supported Fedora Project developed "Fedora 21" has always had some funky and colorful names. After the Fedora 20 release was named Heisenbug, the next release Fedora 21 will not have any name.  Fedora 19 was called Schrodinger's Cat, Fedora 18 was the Spherical Cow, and Fedora 17 was the Beefy Miracle.

Jaroslav Reznik of Red Hat in his blog post says,

 “What will be the code name for Fedora 21. And again short answer: null. Not null as null string but null. Fedora Board decided to end release names process. It does not mean “no more release names” but it’s up to community or working groups, if anyone wants to step into the role of Name Wrangler and helps running this process. Or reform it in any way.”

Late Release of Fedora 21

A version of Fedora has a relatively short life cycle—the maintenance period is only 13 months: there are 6 months between releases, and version X is supported only until 1 month after version X+2. Typically, the Fedora project has had two releases in any given year: one in the early spring, the other early winter. For 2014, that likely won't be the case. 

Jaroslav Reznik further answers about the schedule of Fedora 21, 

"Is Fedora 21 going to be released in the old model way, or new one? Hard to answer right now. But there's one date - F21 is not going to be released earlier than in August (and I'd say late August)". 

There has been a discussion about Fedora 21's release schedule.

The time gap between Fedora 20 and Fedora 21 should be approximately 6 months. The time between the two releases will be used to work on tooling for quality control and release automation. But this is not the case this time. Jaroslav Reznik further says,

“But this time we are in a bit different situation – there are several working groups trying to redefine, how Fedora should look like in the future and it does not make sense to create schedule. We need resolution from this effort. It’s planned for January.”

2014 will be an exciting year in the Red Hat community, beyond just the evolution of Fedora. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will likely be announced at some point in this year. Moreover, Red Hat recently partnered with its community developed CentOS community Linux project. CentOS is a clone of Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform, and provids a free alternative to Red Hat's RHEL.