Hi folks! We are nearing the end of 2024 and before we do, here is a small highlight on some of our upcoming changes for F42 and some other topics of interest around the project right now.

Fedora Linux 42

A.K.A, the answer to life, the universe and everything. Below are some changes currently in review by our community, and some that are now with FESCo for voting.

Our Change Set page has a list of the currently accepted changes, and below are a list of some key dates:

  • December 18th – Changes requiring infrastructure changes
  • December 24th – Changes requiring mass rebuild
  • December 24th – System Wide changes
  • January 14th – Self Contained changes
  • February 4th – Changes need to be Testable
  • February 4th – Branching
  • February 18th – Changes need to be Complete

Be sure to keep an eye on the Fedora Linux 42 release schedule, and our Fedora Linux 43 and Fedora Linux 44 are now live also.

Hot Topics

Elections

The F41 elections is live, and we have one election currently running. The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) has five (5) open seats, and you can vote for the candidates up for election by visiting the elections app. The voting period will close on Friday 20th December @ 23:59:59 UTC and the results of the election will be announced on Monday 23rd December.

The candidates up for the FESCo election are:

Git Forge Update – Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo

The Fedora council have released an announcement on the intention to go with Forgejo for the projects git forge option in 2025 in the Fedora Magazine. Before the decision is made though, there is a last call for feedback – the council believe this is the right choice, and we have been working with the investigation team and doing our own due diligence, but if there is a reason we should not choose forgejo, please let us know on this feedback thread before Wednesday 18th December. The council will put this decision to a formal vote on this date.

If Forgejo is voted by council as the path forward, you can expect a more in depth announcement on how we reached this decision, and an overview of what features we will need to develop, what ones we will be able to make use of immediately, and a call to arms for those who would like to take an active part in this very big change in 2025.

New Btrfs SIG

A new Btrfs sig has been formed in Fedora! If you would like to take part, or find out more about the work this group will do/is doing, check out their announcement on the devel-announce mailing list.

Boot-C

For all things happening in boot-c this week in Fedora, be sure to read their most recent post, and for all the updates on boot-c in Fedora, use the #bootc-initiative tag on discussion.fpo.

Reminders

FOSDEM Travel

If you are traveling to FOSDEM and would like to connect with others from the project who will be there too, please add your details to the event sheet.

‘Shutdown’ Period

Just a reminder that we are heading into what is known to some as the ‘shutdown’ period. A lot of folks around the project are either already, or soon to be, enjoying some well deserved time away from the computers, or at the very least some reduced time 🙂 Please be mindful that your messages and tickets may go unanswered for the next few weeks, and I would suggest re-pinging or re-commenting in early January. Infra will be monitored, but only serious requests, eg ones that are going to bring the whole project to a stop, are likely to get immediate attention.