# DNF 5 postponed to (likely) Fedora 41

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/dnf-5-postponed-to-likely-fedora-41/38343>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** fedora\
**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dnf-5-postponed-to-likely-fedora-41/38343 "2023-08-16T19:32:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evan\_Goode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e99b99/32.png) [@Evan\_Goode](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Evan_Goode)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dnf-5-postponed-to-likely-fedora-41/38343/1 "2023-08-16T19:32:48Z")

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Hi, I’m on the DNF 5 team, and I’m informing projects that use DNF of the following:

As you may be aware, the switch to DNF 5 has been postponed, likely to Fedora 41. In Fedora 39, the `dnf` command will be provided by the `dnf` package (DNF 4), and DNF 5 will not be installed by default.

In the meantime, we have set up a testing COPR repository ([https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf5-testing/](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf5-testing/)) that provides a version of DNF 5 that obsoletes DNF 4. It can be used to test software in an environment similar to the future release of Fedora (whichever that will be) when DNF 5 replaces DNF 4:

sudo dnf-3 copr enable rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf5-testing

Enabling the COPR and upgrading your Fedora system should replace DNF 4 (the `dnf` package) with DNF 5 (`dnf5`), and `/usr/bin/dnf` will point to DNF 5.

Again, please continue testing with DNF 5, and don’t hesitate to report bugs and missing features on our upstream repository: [https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5). We want to help however we can to make sure the DNF 5 Ansible module is ready when DNF 5 becomes the default package manager in Fedora.

Evan