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End of OpenID authentication in Fedora Account System – May update

We announced the end of OpenID authentication in Fedora in March. The original date of this was set to 20th May 2025. The progress could be followed in this ticket.

What we did?

We reached to services that are using OpenID for authentication and asked them to move to OIDC. There were few that we already helped to move:

What is the plan now?

  1. Deploying a new Ipsilon instance – this will be tested on staging environment first
  2. Set the above instance for OpenID only – there will be a big red banner showing that this authentication method is unsupported and will be removed in the future
  3. All the OpenID traffic will be redirected to the new instance
  4. Removing the OpenID only instance – the date is not decided yet, but we will keep it running at least half a year

This plan will allow us to potentially migrate from current solution to something better maintained without breaking the OpenID authentication.

This means that the new date for end of OpenID support in Fedora is to be decided.

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 19

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 5th – 9th May 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 18

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 28th April – 2nd May 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 17

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 21st – 25th April 2025

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Fedora Elections Nominations Period Now Open!

Now that we are enjoying Fedora Linux 42, it’s time to hold an election…or four! The nominations period is now open for some seats across some of the Fedora Governance groups. Read on for more information.

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2025 Fedora Datacenter move update

In January this year, we let the community know that we were going to be moving datacenters ( see https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-datacenter-move-later-this-year-2025-version/ ). Some things have changed a little, so here’s some updates on the progress of this move and some more detailed plans.

Back in that initial post, we were targeting May to switch to the new datacenter, but due to various issues beyond our control, the current plan is now to switch to the new datacenter the week of June 16th. This is the week after DevConf.cz, and two weeks after Flock.

We already have new hardware in the new datacenter and should be getting access to it in the coming weeks. Then, we will build out a copy of our existing infrastructure there. Anything that can be setup and prepped for the move will be. After that, in May we hope to move a few things that are somewhat isolated from the rest of our infrastructure (OpenQA, Fedora CoreOS, and possibly more).

Then, the week of June 16th we will migrate applications and data to the new datacenter.

Fedora Project users should not notice much during this change. Mirrorlists, mirrors, docs, and other user facing applications should continue working as always. Updates pushes may be delayed a few days while the switch happens. Our goal is to keep any end user impact to a minimum.

For Fedora Contributors, Monday and Tuesday we plan to “move” the bulk of applications and services. Contributors should avoiding doing much on those days as services may be moving around or syncing in various ways. Starting Wednesday, we will make sure everything is switched and fix problems or issues as they are found. Thursday and Friday will continue stabilization work.

It’s worth noting that some things are not included in this move:

  • pagure.io is not moving now (It will likely move later in the year, details on that later!), so it should be available the entire time of the switch.
  • discussion.fedoraproject.org is not affected.
  • mirrorlists and all static content like docs, fedoraproject.org download site, etc.

The following week the newest of the old hardware in our old datacenter will be powered off and shipped to the new datacenter. This hardware will add additional capacity to some systems like openqa and builders.

Finally after that we will rebuild our staging setup. Some of that work may be done in advance, but we will be focusing on the production setup.

This move will get us moved to new (faster!) hardware, increase capacity in various of our systems, add ipv6 connectivity, move to power10, and leave us room to grow and add more as needed later. Thanks in advance for your patience with this move.

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 16 2025

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 14 Apr – 18 Apr 2025

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Fedora Ops Architect Report

Hello friends, I hope you are enjoying the latest release of Fedora Linux – 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything! Before I log off for a long weekend, I wanted to give a quick report on all the happenings around the Fedora Project in the last few weeks. Read on!

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 15

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 7th April – 11th April 2025

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Fedora @ SCaLE 22x 2025

Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference – a 2025 open-source community event.

At a Glance

  • What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
  • Where: Pasadena Convention Center
  • When: 6 – 9 March 2025

Our Field Team

  • This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters / CentOS at the Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference:
  • Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
  • Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
  • Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
  • Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
  • Iván Chavero (FAS: ichavero)
  • Carl W George (FAS: Carlwgeorge)
  • Shaun McCance (FAS: shaunm)
  • Kate Mulder
  • Justin W. Wheeler (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]

What is SCaLE 22x?

The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.

This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Technical Committee (Online Services) Chairperson, Mr. Phil Dibowitz, and Technical Committee (Networking) Chairperson, Robert Hernandez paved the way for a smooth registration.

Conference Highlights

Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!

Justin Wheeler coordinated and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Perry Rivera. Items included: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge lanyards, and more.

Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.

Day 1: Thursday 6 March

Red Hatter and Fedora Ambassador Perry Rivera delivered community marketing items and swag.

In addition, Perry brought the following:

  • Snacks for our crews
  • Dry-board markers
  • Dry-board flipchart easel
  • Opportunity drawing tickets
  • Scissors
  • Gaffers tape
  • Glue
  • An air steamer (to iron out banner wrinkles)
  • And more!

Some of our ambassadors arrived the previous day to avoid traffic, others in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops.

We checked in at the Red Hat Booth, but things were quiet there. So, a small group of up lunch at Noodle St., which was perfect considering how cold and drizzly the day presented itself.

We reunited in the lobby area and later in the expo hall to discuss next steps. We discovered just how close the Fedora/CentOS booth was next to the Red Hat booth, which facilitated comm and referrals to and from our teams.

The booth received a vibrant free-standing banners this year. We received a great looking table cover, and swag. We also used a flip chart easel to display a QR code for guests to easily scan to pick up a Fedora badge and to display presentation/workshop info.

After dropping things off, Perry helped steam iron the Fedora table cloth to give it the “less travelled less wrinkly look” and put up the flipchart easel. After doing some initial setup, Perry returned some boxes for booth items back to my car to reclaim booth space. Next, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2025. Their chair Reza Rassool and crew organized a lively charcuterie mixer.

After the networking event, a small group of us re-convened at Cordova Cafe to reflect on our day.

Day 2: Friday 7 March

We returned to the conference and the Expo Hall this morning to continue unpacking swag, marketing systems, and more. Perry also checked in from to the Red Hat booth from time-to-time to render assistance as needed.

Perry set up a flip chart and glued on a handy QR that users could scan to pick up an e-badge.

Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian and Scott strategically set up swag items. Ivan and Alex, meanwhile routed power cables within the booth.

Meanwhile, Carl and Shaun set up camp for CentOS.

A Grand Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

At 2pm, the Exhibit Hall opened. Initially, we had high traffic coming in at the Red Hat and Fedora booths.

We greeted approximately 450+ this day, discussing key foundations such as Freedom, Friends, Features, First, and topics such as AI on Fedora, bootable containers, gitops for packaging, accessibility, git forge, RISC-V, and more.

To accomodate the masses, we took turns around lunch to keep the booth up and running. Some of us departed to Yard House for lunch.

Upon returning, we resumed exhibiting and handing out swag.

Upon closure of the Exhibit Hall, we headed to UpScale to support Scott’s presentation.

After, we headed over to Cafe Santorini to a fine dinner with Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora associates.

Next, some of us went to Karaoke night to listen to great music and hear each other sing.

Day 3: Saturday 8 March

We returned to exhibit hall to meet with more of our community and talk about Fedora and tech topics. Perry also time-shared with the Red Hat booth as well.

Later this evening, a few of us attended Game Night.

Day 4: Sunday 9 March

Perry packed up his hotel room early Sunday and then returned to the conference center and the exhibit hall to continue discussions with our Fedora and Red Hat community.

The final day brought in about 250 Fedora booth guests.

Around 2PM, all booths began closing down to pack things up for shipment. We returned the rolling luggage and a banner box over to Kate Mulder for FedEx return.

Afterward, Perry stopped by Leslie Lamport’s insightful closing Keynote, Coding isn’t Programming .

Suggestion Box / Feedback Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux conference

Throughout the conference, our booth had a sign-in sheet where visitors could stop by and leave feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.

From the data reviewed, we collected key findings:

Interesting Topics

  • OpenShift: Interest in OpenShift on Fedora, tips on optimizing for kernel.
  • Bootable Containers
  • How to Get Started in Fedora Contributing
  • Aurora – 1 guest also said it has an occasional wake from sleep issue.
  • AI/ML
  • KDE integration with Fedora – 1 guest said “Thanks!!”
  • Guest uses BigLinux distro, but doesn’t run any Fedora (yet)

Documentation

  • Interest in documentation and videos for a 4th grade level on getting started with Fedora.
  • Interest in documentation and videos and local events for general Fedora development.
  • For each event, for the “Convo Count” sheet, it might be handy to send out to ambassadors a cheatsheet with a 4-5 sentence summary and resource links for strategic topics, or perhaps a QR code that guests can scan to find out the latest release’s highlights.
  • Interest and videos in how to contribute to Open Source and general Python/bash/github use as it pertains to Fedora.

Releases

  • We had two guests still using release 40 (latest version as of this writing is 41). For those that provided their version, no one appears to be using release 39 or below. We did however have one visitor mention they are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (latest version as of this writing is 9.x).
  • We had at least 7 guests running 42 beta.

Swag

  • We had quite a few guests requesting more swag
  • Requests for children-friendly Fedora swag (especially coloring books, kid-themed stickers, etc.)
  • Requests for Fedora case badges, key cap covers (both standard and mini)
  • Requests for zip-pouches, similar to the Flock ones from previous years.
  • Stickers

General Kudos

  • Multiple guests said “Way to go!” and “Thanks Fedora Team!”
  • One guest said “Smooth upgrades [compared with] any [other] OS”
  • One guest wrote “I LOVE Kinoite!! Very cool with a lot [of] extensibility.”
  • One guest wrote ” <3 Bazzite
  • One guest wrote “I love the hat distros”
    • Possible ideas for awesome hat-named spins, projects, etc.
  • One guest wrote “Keep up the awesome LXDE!!

Feedback

  • Modularity: One guest found it helpful when it was around, especially for dnf. Same guest also laments Modularity’s retirement (cross-reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireModularity) and cited dnf5 has no Modularity support.
  • One guest asked: Will there be a COSMIC DE in Atomic? Possible cross-reference: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cosmic-desktop-environment-on-fedora/102112
  • One guest requested personal AI compatibility and a possible KWAAI AI partnership.
  • One guest uses system for home lab stuff.
  • 2 guests replied with cat face emojis.

In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!

Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

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