Yes, I know - I'm a few hours late with this. But Fedora 9 Alpha hit the streets this morning, and it's nothing short of incredible the amount of work that has gone into this release.
Among the new features are experimental ext4 filesystem support (note the word experimental, and don't take it lightly - it's not even presented as an option unless you mutter an incantation at anaconda) - the first time that this has shipped in a major distribution that I'm aware of, LUKS encrypted block device support in anaconda, partition resizing at install time for ext2/ext3 AND NTFS partitions, KDE4, and a number of other smaller features.
Give it a spin, either via a LiveCD or installing a system via the torrents and direct downloads available at http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease. File any bugs that you find in Bugzilla.
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