Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Beta freeze is underway. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.

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Announcements

Help wanted

Upcoming test days

  • 31 August through 7 September — BTRFS test week
  • 8 September — i18n test day

Prioritized Bugs

Bug IDComponentStatus
1840663mediawriterRELEASE_PENDING
1862029gccMODIFIED

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

  • 2020-09-15 — Beta Release (preferred target)
  • 2002-09-22 — Beta Release (target date #1)

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug IDComponentBug StatusBlocker Status
1860616libreportON_QAAccepted(Beta)
1861700sddmNEWAccepted(Beta)
1827915distributionNEWAccepted(Beta)
1849430distributionASSIGNEDAccepted(Final)
1849431distributionASSIGNEDAccepted(Beta)
1869892distributionNEWAccepted(Beta)
1871990pki-coreNEWAccepted(Beta)
1872068systemdNEWProposed(Beta)
1873029libreportNEWProposed(Beta)
1863041openconnectNEWProposed(Beta)
1829079gdmMODIFIEDAccepted(Final)

Changes

Bugzilla statuses

StatusCount
ASSIGNED7
MODIFIED19
ON_QA23
CLOSED8
ProposalTypeStatus
Introduce module Obsoletes and EOLSystem-WideDeferred to F34

Fedora 34

Changes

ProposalTypeStatus
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumpingSystem-WideFESCo #2441
Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELNSelf-ContainedFESCo #2452
CompilerPolicy ChangeSystem-WideFESCo #2409
Python Upstream Architecture NamesSelf-ContainedAnnounced
Reduce installation media size by improving the compression ratio of SquashFS filesystemSelf-ContainedAnnounced

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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 CPE weekly for more information