One more week of January to go, folks! And that also means we are one week closer to some key milestones coming up in the Fedora Linux 42 release. Here’s a summary of some release-related topics, plus some upcoming events and a general roundup of what’s happening around the project lately.

Fedora Linux 42

Fedora Linux 42 is currently in development, and for the most recent set of changes planned in this release, please refer to our change set page. Our release schedule is also live, and a reminder of some key dates are below:

• All submission deadlines for system wide and self-contained changes have now passed. Please target F43 or later for any proposals you may have
• February 4th – Changes need to be Testable
• February 4th – Branching
• February 18th – Changes need to be Complete
• February 18th – Beta Freeze

Fedora Linux 43

From 4th February 2025, we will be in F43 development, so just in case you missed the deadlines for F42 change proposals, the good thing about Fedora releases is that there is always another, hot on the heels of the last – or at least it feels like that at times 🙂 Please bookmark our schedule for some key dates for Changes, mass rebuild, branching, etc.

Events

FOSDEM 2025 returns on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February in Brussels, Belgium. If you are attending and want to connect with some folks from around the Fedora Project, you can add your name to the Fedora @ FOSDEM wiki page.

CentOS Connect also returns to Brussels on 30th and 31st January 2025. For more information and to register for the event, check out the event page.

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe is coming up in London, United Kingdom from April 1st – 4th, and registration is still open to attend.

Open Source Summit North America cfp is open until February 17th, so don’t delay if you want to submit your talk idea(s) to attend this years event in Denver, Colorado on June 23rd – 25th.

Devconf.cz call for papers is open! The event will take place in Brno, Czechia on June 12th – 14th 2025. Be sure to visit their event website for more information on talk themes, tracks and general stuff about the conference.

Flock to Fedora has been announced! We hope to see you in Prague, Czechia from June 5th – 8th to celebrate our wonderful contributors. You can read more details about the event, and navigate to our cfp site from the Fedora Magazine article. Here is my 2c for submitting a talk or workshop to our cfp: The themes in our call for papers should be used as a guide for your talk or workshop. Be open-minded and flexible when matching your talk to a theme. The themes are not concrete, and so a well written paper that cleverly incorporates the heart or spirit of a theme is very valuable and appropriate to submit. The call for papers will close on February 23rd 2025, and I encourage you to make use of the flock-staff@fedoraproject.org email if you need some support with your talk or workshop submission.

Hot Topics

We have another datacentre move planned for Fedora this year, because we were excellent at the last one 🙂 I joke, there are very good business reasons for the move and if you would like to read more about it, please visit the blog post on the proposed move dates and what it may mean for you.

Boot-c in Fedora has another great weekly recap of their work. The new post is live on discussion.fpo now for you to enjoy.

Be sure to check out the discussion section of discussion.fpo. It has lots of interesting topics and discussions happening.

Notice Board

There is an outage planned for necessary updates and reboots on 29th January. Please read this important email for more details on start time & duration for your awareness.

Please review this list of packages that failed to build from source from our mass rebuild, and will be retired in F42 so that you are aware in case any of these packages impact you.

Help Wanted! There is a fresh list of packages that have been orphaned and are looking for new maintainers. Please take a look at the list in gotmax23’s email and take a package or three if you have the desire and capacity 🙂

The Fedora Google Summer of Code cfp for papers and mentors has officially opened. There is a great blog post about the program and process written by ffmancera, so do check it out if this is something you would like to get involved in. And as its one of the main Fedora Strategy goals – everyone has a mentor, everyone is a mentor – this is a great opportunity to help the project move closer to achieving this.

There is a git forge open meeting happening every Wednesday on Matrix in #fedora-meeting @ 1400 UTC. You can import the calendar entry from fedocal from the fedora-release calendar. If you have interest in the projects move to Forgejo as our git platform, and want to help shape the deployment, development and migration, this is the venue to be in every week.

Media Things

Do you have an idea for an episode of the Fedora Podcast, or want to see what some of the upcoming episodes will be? Bookmark The IT Guy’s discussion post on planning for the podcast!

Missed some of Fedoras recent release watch parties, or want to recap what talks happened at Flock to Fedora 2024? Never fear – all talks are now available on the Fedora Youtube Channel in the ‘latest’ video tab. Happy Streaming!

Our Fedora Marketing team does amazing work promoting our distribution and all its cool spins and environments. If you would like to help out, volunteers are always welcome. You can join their matrix chat room, #Fedora Marketing and find out more about the kind of work they do from their docs page.