Its spooky season, and also release season! Here’s a roundup of some stuff’n’things happeing in the project.

Fedora Linux 41

The F41 Go/No-Go meeting will happen on Thursday 24th October @ 1700 UTC. To join, you can find the information on the fedocal calendar entry. This meeting will determine if we can meet the early release date of Tuesday 29th October at this time or not.

There are still some proposed blockers for F41 too, so if you can help resolve some of these bus, please check out our blocker bugs app, or for a more condensed summary, please read out blocker bug report email.

Fedora Linux 42

Fedora Linux 42 is currently in development, and for the most recent set of changes planned in this rel;ease, 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 :

Changes that are awaiting FESCo voting are:

Hot Topics

For all the latest on boot-c, check out the bootc post on discourse!

Our Git Forge evaluation is continuing, with an instance of both Forgejo and GitLab CE available to try out in the Communshift app. Details of how to get access can be found on this discussion thread, and we are encouraging folks to try out each instance and report their feedback, preferably against the user stories collected, on this discussion thread.

The proposal to amend the Editions Promotion policy has now been submitted to Fedora Council, and a decision is expected this week on both this change, and on the request to grant KDE Desktop Spin edition status also.

FOSDEM 2025 returns on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February! The call for devrooms has passed, but the call for stands is still open until November 7th.

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!