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All articles in this category are related to engineering teams in the Fedora Project, in particular teams working on packaging and release engineering. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development

Throwing Random Arguments at System Binaries: Real Segfaults vs. Ticket Noise

Why Would Anyone Do This?

Two and half reasons:

Smoke testing – You want to know if your system commands actually work, not just when you run them the way the docs say, but when users (or their scripts) feed them garbage.
AI is excellent at generating potential edge cases, and tracking systems are already all too eager to collect new tickets. I’m being careful not to dump every AI finding into Bugzilla; I don’t want to clutter the backlog and mainly waste developer time on theoretical bugs. Or Should I?

Plus, segfaults don’t lie – either the system crashed or it didn’t, and those are the issues that actually deserve the ticket.

Master Podman 5.8: Join Fedora Test Week

February 19, 2026 / Petr Sklenar / Comments Off

Want to learn the latest container tech? From February 27 to March 6, 2026, you can join the Podman 5.8 Test Day. It is the perfect time to explore new features and see how the future of Fedora is built.

Packit as Fedora dist-git CI: final phase

January 27, 2026 / Laura Barcziová / 3 Comments

Hello Fedora Community,

We are back with the final update on the Packit as Fedora dist-git CI change proposal. Our journey to transition Fedora dist-git CI to a Packit-based solution is entering its concluding stage. This final phase marks the transition of Packit-driven CI from an opt-in feature to the default mechanism for all Fedora packages, officially replacing the legacy Fedora CI and Fedora Zuul Tenant on dist-git pull requests.

Packit as Fedora dist-git CI: Phase 1 completed

March 4, 2025 / Laura Barcziová / Comments Off

Hello Fedora Community,

We are excited to share an update on the Packit as Fedora dist-git CI change proposal. This initiative aims to transition Fedora dist-git CI to a Packit-based solution, deprecating Fedora CI and Fedora Zuul Tenant. The change affects the triggering and reporting mechanism for tests but does not alter the tests themselves or the test execution service (Testing Farm). The transition will be gradual, allowing maintainers to try the integration out, provide feedback and catch issues early. You can read more about the benefits and why we are doing this in the proposal.

CPE Update Q3 2024

November 15, 2024 / zlopez / Comments Off

This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the CPE Team. Every quarter, the CPE team works together with CentOS Project and Fedora Project community leaders and representatives to choose projects that will be being worked upon in that quarter. The CPE team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on the chosen initiatives + day-to-day work that needs to be done. Some of the sub-teams are dedicated to the continuous efforts in the team whilst some are created only for the initiative purposes.

This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.

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Announcing Webhook To Fedora Messaging

October 22, 2024 / t0xic0der / 7 Comments

With the transition of the applications from Fedmsg to Fedora Messaging inching towards completion, today we want to introduce a new service, Webhook To Fedora Messaging. Webhook To Fedora Messaging has been researched and developed by the Fedora Infrastructure team members with the company of an Outreachy mentee over the last quarter to communicate with services using webhooks.

Webhook To Fedora Messaging takes webhook events from services and translates them into semantic messages to be sent over on the Fedora Messaging bus, to which every Fedora Project application can listen and act for automation. Currently, the project supports services like GitHub but going forward we plan on implementing support for services like Discourse, GitLab, Forgejo etc.

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2024 Git Forge Evaluation

April 5, 2024 / Matthew Miller / Comments Off

Vol. I – Fedora Council 2024 Hackfest

During the Council’s February 2024 hackfest, we discussed the future of Fedora’s git forge – that is, the platform Fedora uses for version control and tracking for packages, source code, documentation, and more. This topic has been around for quite some time. If you are just coming into this conversation, or would like a refresher, #git-forge-future is a good place to start.

Instead of one huge post, the Fedora Council divided the follow-ups from our hack-fest into a mini-series of posts throughout April that will cover all the topics we discussed and made decisions on. In each post, we will walk through one core topic, and share our discussion and thought process on how we reached our outcomes. The first in this series, because why not start strong 🙂 , is an update on our git forge evaluation. Read on for important information.

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Forthcoming Kubernetes (K8S) changes in F40/Rawhide

January 30, 2024 / Brad Smith / Comments Off

The Kubernetes team has released Kubernetes v1.29, which is the version that will be included in Fedora 40. There are four important changes to Kubernetes in Fedora associated with this release that may merit attention.

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Kubernetes and Fedora Linux 37 Update

October 31, 2023 / Brad Smith / Comments Off

Kubernetes updates for Fedora Linux 37 have been on hold pending an update to the version of Go available Go has now been updated (thanks Alejandro Sáez!). Kubernetes 1.25.15 was submitted to testing on 29 October and will be available for general download 1 week later. See Fedora dist-git for current information on what versions of Kubernetes are available for Fedora in stable and testing.

Kubernetes Support On Fedora Linux 37

September 28, 2023 / Brad Smith / 1 Comment

Kubernetes v1.25 is the version available for Fedora Linux 37 from Fedora repositories. Starting with Kubernetes v1.25.12, Kubernetes developers changed the version of the go language used to compile Kubernetes from v1.19 to v1.20. Fedora 37 currently provides go language v1.19. As a result, the latest version of Kubernetes available in the Fedora repository is v1.25.11 which is several versions behind the current v1.25 release. Kubernetes v1.25.12 included an important security patch for clusters that include Windows nodes.