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TWIF: November 02 to 08, 2026

November 11, 2026 / Justin Wheeler / 0 Comments

This Week in Fedora (TWIF) is the Fedora community’s weekly report on project news, decisions, and contribution opportunities. Across the Fedora ecosystem this week, the primary focus was the highly anticipated release of Fedora Linux 45, with teams including Release Engineering, Quality, Infrastructure, Server, and Docs finalizing release candidates, deploying updates, and immediately transitioning into Fedora 46 planning. Beyond the release cycle, a major shared initiative is the Bootable Image Unification (“Atomic Fusion”) project, which dominated the agendas for the Council, Atomic, IoT, and Hummingbird groups as they prepared proof-of-concept demos. Infrastructure and tooling migrations also commanded significant cross-team collaboration; the Council, FESCo, and Quality teams are actively evaluating a potential transition from Bugzilla to a Forgejo-integrated issue tracker, while FESCo, Release Engineering, and ELN are coordinating the complete removal of the legacy DNF4 stack. Finally, adapting to upstream shifts and reinforcing system security were key technical themes, highlighted by FESCo and the KDE SIG managing the deprecation of X11 in KDE Plasma 6.8, alongside widespread security patching and cryptographic upgrades—such as the adoption of %openpgpverify—across the Perl, Rust, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams.

NOTE: This is an experiment of translating the This Week in Fedora report into a Fedora Community Blog series. Do you have feedback? Reply to the Fedora Discussion topic attached to this post and let us know your thoughts.

Anaconda F45 features Test Week

September 29, 2026 / Petr Sklenar / 0 Comments

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.

People at Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026

Fedora Shines Blue at Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026

September 29, 2026 / Paul Harriet Asiñero / 0 Comments

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.

Fedora and Colúr stickers during Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026

Swags Sample for Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026

Swags for Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026

Fedora at Data Con LA 2026: Open Source & Local AI

September 17, 2026 / Rob McBryde / 0 Comments

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.

Meet editorial-guide-ramalama: An AI Assistant That Checks Your Fedora CommBlog and Magazine Articles Against Editorial Guidelines

August 25, 2026 / Ananya Nalavathu / 0 Comments

By Ananya Nalavathu and Francois Gonothi Toure

Introduction

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.

A banner image with a black background, dotted with various stars, much like a galaxy system. Four rockets with colors of the Fedora Four Foundations leave a colored trail behind them that overlaps, as the rockets propel toward the right-side of the image in lockstep. White text is overlaid on the image, reading "The Fedora Project community." This image is often used with Fedora elections.

Image by Ryan Lerch. CC BY-SA 4.0

Fedora Forge Usage Policy

July 30, 2026 / amoloney / 4 Comments

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.

The policy can be found on the Council wiki page in Fedora Forge, posted on discourse, and pasted below here for convenience.

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.

End of Community update

July 24, 2026 / zlopez / 9 Comments

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:

@lenkaseg
@jnsamyak
@c4rt0
@jskladan
@t0xic0der
@siddharthvipul1
@patrikp

Community Update – Week 27

July 3, 2026 / lenkaseg / Comments Off

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

Community Update – Week 26 2026

June 26, 2026 / zlopez / Comments Off

Week: 22 – 26 June 2026

Fedora Documentation translations again available

June 26, 2026 / peartown / Comments Off

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.