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The Fedora QA team invites you to participate in the Anaconda F45 features Test Week, which is running now through October 2, 2026. There is still time to jump in this week and help us shape the Fedora 45 installer before it ships.
What’s New in the Anaconda F45 Installer
Fedora 45 brings three significant changes to how you install the system. Each one is ready for real-world testing – and better testing means a better installer.
WebUI for Atomic Desktops – The modern web-based installer now covers the Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite, and the Cosmic/Sway/Budgie Atomic variants). See the Change page.
Remote WebUI – You can now drive an installation from another device entirely, straight from a browser. See the Change page.
Stratis support – The WebUI can now configure Stratis storage. See the Change page and the introduction on Fedora Magazine.
How to Participate
Requirements
A virtual machine or a spare bare-metal box – not a production machine and not one with data you care about.
On September 19, 2026, the Fedora Project supported the conduct of Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026. The event took place at the Northern Bukidnon State College, Manolo Fortich, Philippines.
Now in its second run, Software Freedom Day Bukidnon gathered students, professionals, educators, and community members to explore how Free and Open Source Software can empower innovation, digital inclusion, and impact their daily lives, primarily in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. Despite the challenges like power outage, the event was a massive success, demonstrating the local community’s resilience and passion for open technology.
Event Highlights
The event features an impressive speaker lineup, with presentations spanning foundational Open Source principles and cutting-edge technology trends.
Paul Harriet Asiñero while presenting Hello Fedora
Walt Miner while presenting Introduction to Automotive Grade Linux
Arjay Sitoy while presenting Local LLMs: My 8GB VRAM vs the World
Romar Mayer Micabalo while presenting Harnessing Krita For Fun and Profit
Rafael Tibudan while presenting Building a Second Brain: Turning Information into Leverage
Wei Lee while presenting Orchestration Still Matters: Apache Airflow in the Age of AI
Jay Ginete while presenting 5 Cool Open Source Tools to Pimp Out Your Windows CLI
Roger Madjos while presenting Practical Agentic Coding with OpenCode
Linux and Open Systems
Hello Fedora by Paul Harriet Asiñero – This session introduced attendees to Fedora Linux, highlighting its pivotal role in driving Open Source innovation. Participants explored the power, robust security, and exceptional flexibility that make it one of the world’s premier Open Source operating systems.
Introduction to Automotive Grade Linux by Walt Miner – Attendees received an exciting look at how Open Source technology has moved beyond PCs and servers, driving the software systems that power modern smart vehicles.
Art and the Developer Workflow
Harnessing Krita For Fun and Profit by Romar Mayer Micabalo – Proving that Open Source is just as crucial for creatives as it is for developers, this talk walked attendees through building a career or hobby using Krita, a premier Open Source digital painting tool.
5 Cool Open Source Tools to Pimp Out Your Windows CLI by Jay Ginete – A practical guide for developers stuck on proprietary systems, showing how to upgrade a boring terminal into an Open Source-powered developer powerhouse.
The AI and Data Pipeline
Local LLMs: My 8GB VRAM vs the World by Arjay Sitoy – In a highly relevant, budget-conscious session, this talk demonstrated how developers can break free from corporate API reliance by running powerful Large Language Models locally on standard consumer hardware.
Practical Agentic Coding with OpenCode by Roger Madjos – Shifting from consumption to creation, this session showed developers how to leverage Open Source AI agents to actively write and debug code. Attendees walked away with a practical blueprint for turning agentic coding into a reliable, secure, and repeatable development workflow that delivers value faster without compromising quality.
Building a Second Brain: Turning Information into Leverage by Rafael Tibudan – Explored how to use knowledge management, AI, and automation to build a digital “second brain.” The session shared simple, scalable strategies to transform past code bugs, research notes, and AI conversations into a personal knowledge base.
Orchestration Still Matters: Apache Airflow in the Age of AI by Wei Lee – Attendees got a deep dive into the backend infrastructure powering modern technology. The talk drove home a crucial point: even as artificial intelligence dominates the headlines, leveraging Apache Airflow to control and orchestrate the data pipelines and workflows powering AI applications remains absolutely vital to AI success.
Page Follow Bingo Game and Raffle Draw
In addition to the engaging sessions, the event featured a Page Follow Bingo Game and an exciting raffle for all attendees. The Bingo game was designed to boost engagement for our event sponsors and partners by encouraging participants to follow their official pages, with the first five to complete the task being crowned winners. The event wrapped up with a raffle draw featuring an array of prizes generously contributed by our sponsors. The raffle was conducted using pyraffle, an Open Source raffle draw software executed within a notebook environment.
Final Thoughts
Despite the challenges, Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026 was a resounding success! An impactful movement like this cannot happen in isolation. As we look back on the success of this year’s event, our deepest gratitude goes out to the incredible individuals and organizations who helped bring this vision to life.
Event Sponsors and Partners
Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026 Event Partners and Sponsors
This event was made possible through the generous support of our partners and sponsors. In addition to the Fedora Project, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the following organizations:
Aside from the participating organizations, we would like to express our gratitude to an anonymous donor for providing financial support for the event.
Speakers
Awarding of tokens for the Speakers
Thank you for sharing your time, passion, and unparalleled expertise. You gave our community tangible frameworks to work with, sparking ideas that will undoubtedly fuel local tech innovation for months to come.
Event Volunteers
Volunteers are the backbone of Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026, driving everything from pre-event preparations to post-event operations. We are proud to recognize the dedicated individuals who made this success possible:
Thank you for taking the time out of your weekend to show up, engage, and learn. Your energy, thoughtful questions, and collaborative spirit are what give life to the FOSS movement in Bukidnon. You are the future of our digital landscape, a thriving ecosystem where the veterans lift up the rookies, passing the torch to ensure the next generation keeps pushing boundaries.
The event has wrapped up, but our mission continues. The Free and Open Source Software movement in Bukidnon thrives because of community advocates and supporters like you. As we look ahead to the return of Software Freedom Day next September, we invite you to join us as a participant, volunteer, sponsor, or partner. Together, we can empower local tech ecosystems and drive collaborative innovation.
On Saturday, August 22, 2026, the Fedora Project joined forces with openSUSE at Data Con LA 2026, hosted on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).
Now in its 14th year, Data Con LA is Southern California’s largest gathering of data professionals, students, and practitioners covering data science, AI/ML, and data engineering. While Data Con LA is not a traditional Linux-centric conference, our presence offered a unique, hands-on opportunity to engage a fresh audience of prospective contributors, test our event planning workflows, and showcase Fedora Workstation in action.
As part of our ongoing work to standardize the Fedora Ambassador event pipeline, this report reflects on our operational outcomes, what worked well, and key lessons learned for future event organizers.
Open source communities run on contribution, and contribution runs on documentation, storytelling, and knowledge sharing. At the Fedora Project, that means the Fedora Community Blog and Fedora Magazine, two publications that give contributors a voice and give the community a way to stay informed, inspired, and connected.
This year, as part of my internship with the Fedora CommOps team at Red Hat Ireland, I got to experience that firsthand. Publishing 11 articles, running editorial campaigns, and coordinating content across sprints gave me a deep appreciation for how much thought goes into keeping Fedora’s editorial standards consistent and how much easier that journey could be for new contributors with the right tool in hand.
That’s exactly what my fellow intern Gonothi built during his Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project. In our final sprint together, we decided to share it with the community because tools that make contributions more accessible deserve to be heard. With that context in mind, I’ll hand over to Gonothi to walk you through what he built and why.
After extensive review and discussion on the ticket request and in recent council meetings (see meetbot for 29 July and 15 July 2026), the Fedora Council would like to initiate the policy change policy process for ratifying the Fedora Forge Usage policy. This document is open to public feedback (if any) for a minimum of two weeks. If there are no significant changes to be made to the policy based on community feedback after Thursday, 13 August 2026, this policy will go to a formal ticket vote for Council to approve or reject. If there are significant changes to be made to the document, Council will review the policy and, if necessary, extend the feedback period before calling for an official vote. Please provide feedback on the discussion post.
Thank you everyone for your contributions to this policy so far, and on behalf of the Council, we look forward to working with you all to ratify this policy soon.
Last few years a small team of people in the CLE Team were working each week to prepare a Community update for you. First one published on October 21st 2021. We were starting with only Infrastructure and Release Engineering teams (+ initiatives we did in CPE Team at the time), but later added more teams to our weekly reports to bring people a better picture what is being worked on. We thank to everyone who read our updates and found some value in them.
But as life is going forward even this updates are evolving. Last few weeks @abompard worked together with us to improve his weekly report to include the sources we are using for this weekly reports. So I introduce to you This Week in Fedora as a replacement for Community weekly updates. I’m glad that this initiative I started few years ago was able to live for that long and hopefully helped a few people to find information they were looking for.
I would like to thank people who helped me working on Community weekly updates:
This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.
Week: 29 June – 3 July 2026
Fedora Infrastructure
This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure. It’s responsible for services running in Fedora infrastructure. Ticket tracker
This team is taking care of day to day business regarding CentOS Infrastructure and CentOS Stream Infrastructure. It’s responsible for services running in CentOS Infrastructure and CentOS Stream. CentOS ticket tracker CentOS Stream ticket tracker
This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora releases. It’s responsible for releases, retirement process of packages and package builds. Ticket tracker
Continued investigation into building a Fedora container base image using Konflux.
Continued work on remaining Pagure -> Forgejo migrations.
F45 release cycle is set to begin soon, starting with Mass Rebuild in the middle of July. This will require some prep work next week.
RISC-V
This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.
Discussion with Scaleway (a cloud vendor in France) for potential Fedora Koji builders in their Paris datacenter. To be coordinated via RISE.
Hardware
Coordinated shipping another “K3” hardware to DavidA (one of the Fedora RISC-V maintainers). This will be used as another RISC-V Koji builder. Sponsored by CLE.
Milk-V Titan hardware is now available to buy. A handful of machines are being shipped to a couple of RISC-V engineers, including for Fedora use.
Community work
Fedora Omni kernels for Muse Pi Pro hardware discussion with Trevor from Baylibre and Jason (Fedora RISC-V kernel)
Marcin (hrw) Juszkiewicz continues to chip away at the Fedora RISC-V tracker
Fedora Omni kernel work continues, with support for Muse Pi Pro, K3, and more: Jason Montleon and Jennifer Berringer
Other:
Discussions on ‘fedora-devel’: “How can we improve the Changes Process?” thread
A lot of internal discussion about 2FA for packagers
Several internal and upstreams meetings
AI
This is the summary of the work done regarding AI in Fedora.
Aurelien Bompard improved the This Week in Fedora script to include the CLE status reports
QE
This team is taking care of quality of Fedora. Maintaining CI, organizing test days and keeping an eye on overall quality of Fedora releases.
Lots of PTO: psklenar on extended PTO, kparal and adamwill each took some post-travel PTO days. Also post-event travel, bureaucracy (trip and expense reports) and decompression cut into work time for most
Compose-critical package script now in MVP state – see pull request, it works and does useful stuff but needs more refinement
This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.
June 26, 2026 / peartown / Comments Off on Fedora Documentation translations again available
Updates to translations of Fedora Documentation are again available. As announced on March 3rd, the unavailability of translation updates was due to the migration of the translation repositories and necessary tools from Pagure to the Fedora Forge. It took longer than expected but we are pleased to report this undertaking came finally to the end.
On Saturday May 30th 2026, the XV edition of P.I.W.O. Poznań Free Software Fest was held in Poznań, 🇵🇱 Poland.
P.I.W.O. is an event with a long history. Between 2004 and 2018, it was organized by various student associations at the Poznań University of Technology. After 2018’s XIII edition (superstition much?), it entered a long hiatus that lasted until 2025, when members of the newly-formed Knyfyrtel Poznań Hackerspace decided to bring it back. The reactivated event proved a huge success, with the XIV edition bringing in 197 attendees. As such, ambitions for 2026 were rather big.
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