Welcome to the Fedora Operations Report and I hope everyone is enjoying the latest Fedora Linux release! Read on to find out more information such as important upcoming dates for F42, and a few tidbits of things happening around the project lately 🙂

Fedora Linux 41

Fedora Linux 41 is here! Get the latest version of our operating system from the website and read about some of the new features you can enjoy from the Fedora magazine.

As we now have F41, that means we will have to say goodbye to F39. This release will go end of life on November 26th 2024. All bugzillas open against this release will be automatically closed.

Elections

Also with the advent of F41, that means we will now have some new elections! We will have elections in FESCo and Mindshare, and from now until 27th November – Nominations are open! Please feel free to nominate yourself, or someone you know (with their permission) who would be a great fit, and able to volunteer for 12 months. We have five seats up for election in FESCo, and one seat up for election in the Mindshare Committee.

As a reminder, the Fedora Council has moved to a once per year election, so there will be no elective seats open in Council in this cycle. The next election cycle will be post F42 release. Similarly, the EPEL Steering Committee holds elections once per year also in May, and seats on this committee come up for election on a voluntary basis.

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:

  • 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

The changes that are currently in our community feedback period are :

Hot Topics

For all the latest on boot-c, check out the latest bootc phttps://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bootc-this-week-2024-11-15/136985ost on discourse!

Our Git Forge evaluation is still active, with details of how to get access to either the GitLab or Forgejo instance can be found on this discussion thread.

The request to grant KDE Desktop Spin edition status has been approved! Congratulations to the folks involved in the KDE SIG and we look forward to seeing this option as an official edition for Fedora in the near future!

FOSDEM 2025 returns on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February and the cfp is now open.

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

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!

Did you know there are EPEL Office Hours? If not, check out the details on how to join and when they happen on the announcement post!

Missed the Fedora Linux 41 release watch parties? Never fear! All talks are now available on the Fedora Youtube Channel in the ‘latest’ video tab. Happy Streaming!