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• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Lenovo will soon be shipping laptops with Fedora Workstation pre-installed.
• FESCo meetings have moved to 1400 UTC Wednesdays.

Help wanted

• 399 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Monday 6 July is Swap on ZRAM test day

Prioritized Bugs

• See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Status	Component
1840663	ASSIGNED	mediawriter

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Council video meeting (featuring Rex Dieter from Fedora KDE) 1400 UTC Wednesday on Bluejeans
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• CPE Product Owner office hours 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on riot.im

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-07-21: Proposal deadline for Self-Contained Changes
• 2020-07-22: Mass rebuild begins
• 2020-07-22: Spins keepalive deadline

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Node.js 14.x by default	System-Wide	Accepted
swap on zram	System-Wide	Accepted
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
CMake to do out-of-source builds	System-Wide	FESCo #2411
Fedora-Retired-Packages	System-Wide	Withdrawn
Distribute .repo files for modular repositories from a separate package	Self-Contained	FESCo #2412
Default animated background for Fedora Workstation	Self-Contained	Approved
LXQt 0.15.0	Self-Contained	Approved
NSS dbm support removal	Self-Contained	FESCo #2415
LLVM 11	System-Wide	FESCo #2419
Use %make_build and %make_install macros	System-Wide	FESCo #2420
Zanata Removal	System-Wide	FESCo #2421
The GNU C Library version 2.32	System-Wide	FESCo #2424
Automatic RPM dependencies on Python Extras	Self-Contained	FESCo #2425
Make nano the default editor	System-Wide	Announced
Deprecate python-pytoml	Self-Contained	Announced
GHC 8.8 and Haskell Stackage LTS 16	Self-Contained	Announced
Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants	System-Wide	Announced
NetworkManager keyfile instead of ifcfg-rh	System-Wide	Announced
Cleanup GNOME Hidden Boot Menu Integration	System-Wide	Announced
Disable dmraid.service on first run if no dmraid sets are found	System-Wide	Announced
Remove device-mapper-multipath from the Fedora workstation livecd	System-Wide	Announced
OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries	System-Wide	Announced
Better Thermal Management for the Workstation	Self-Contained	Announced
Make the unversioned %{__python} macro error by default	Self-Contained	Announced
Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE	Self-Contained	Announced
IBus 1.5.23	System-Wide	Announced
Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs	System-Wide	Announced
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping
Introduce Storage Instantiation Daemon	System-Wide	Announced
FlexiBLAS as BLAS/LAPACK manager	System-Wdie	Announced

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change	System-Wide	FESCo #2400
Binutils 2.35	System-Wide	FESCo #2423

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

CPE update

• Datacenter move
  • Communishift will remain offline until further notice
  • A full list of services impacted by the infrastructure moves is available
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information