Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Nest With Fedora is happening now! Fedora 33 branch day is Tuesday.
Announcements
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Fedora documentation is now multilinugal
- The Fedora Council meeting time has moved to Thursday.
- A draft Modularity Improvements Objective has been shared for comment
- s390x chroots are now available in Copr
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| SeaGL | The Internet | 13–14 November 2020 | closes 15 August |
Help wanted
- 182 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- The Fedora Ambassadors Revamp needs volunteers for the organizing task force.
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Status | Component |
|---|---|---|
| 1840663 | RELEASE_PENDING | mediawriter |
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- CPE Product Owner office hours — 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council video meeting: Fedora Intern Showcast 2020 — 1700 UTC Thursday on Bluejeans
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io
Releases
Fedora 33
Schedule
- 2020-08-11 Change complete (testable) deadline
- 2020-08-11 Branch day
- 2020-08-25 Change complete (100% code complete) deadline
The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1856496 | anaconda | MODIFIED | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1857043 | tomcat | MODIFIED | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1830343 | gnome-shell | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1860616 | libreport | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1861700 | sddm | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1829079 | gdm | MODIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| NSS dbm support removal | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Better Thermal Management for the Workstation | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs | System-Wide | Approved |
| PostgreSQL 13 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2448 |
| Reserve resources for active users (Workstation) | Self-Contained | Approved |
| X.org Utility Deaggregation | Self-Contained | Approved |
| .NET Core on Aarch64 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Stratis 2.1.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| DXVK as default wined3d backend on VK capable hardware | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Ruby on Rails 6.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN | Self-Contained | FESCo #2452 |
| glibc32 Build Adjustments | Self-Contained | Deferred |
| Promote IoT to an Edition | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora 34
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change | System-Wide | Approved |
| RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping | System-Wide | FESCo #2441 |
Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.
CPE update
- Datacenter move
- Communishift will remain offline until further notice
- The infrastructure moves is nearly complete. A list of known issues is available.
- AAA replacement
- See the GitHub kanban board for more information


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