Welcome to 2021! Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Self-Contained Change proposals for Fedora 34 are due by Tuesday 19 January.

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases

Announcements

• Long-term fail-to-build-from-source packages will be retired during the first week of the February.
• The Nmap Public Source License (NPSL) version 0.92 has been determined unacceptable for use in Fedora.

Help wanted

• 241 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The Community Outreach Revamp wants your input via this short survey
• Contribute to the Fedora Zine by 1 February
• The Copr team wants your feedback on potential 2021 features

Prioritized Bugs

• See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
1883609	shim	ASSIGNED
1900227	gnome-control-center	NEW

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1600 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Council Video Meeting: source-git — 1800 UTC Thursday in Bluejeans
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-01-19 — Change proposal deadline: Self-Contained Changes
• 2021-01-20 — Spins keepalive deadline

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition	System-Wide	FESCo #2516
ntp replacement	Self-Contained	Approved
Ruby 3.0	System-Wide	Approved
Ignore Anaconda kernel boot parameters without ‘inst.’ prefix	System-Wide	Approved
Stratis 2.3.0	Self-Contained	Approved
Binutils 2.36	System-Wide	Approved
Stop Shipping Individual Nodejs Library Packages	Self-Contained	Approved
Boost 1.75 upgrade	System-Wide	Approved
LLVM 12	System-Wide	Approved
Use ibus-m17n as the default IME for Vietnamese	System-Wide	Approved
MinGW environment and toolchain update	System-Wide	Approved
Golang 1.16	System-Wide	Approved
Enable spec file preprocessing	System-Wide	FESCo #2532
Ruby on Rails 6.1	Self-Contained	Approved
DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants	System-Wide	FESCo #2534
Enable systemd-oomd by default for all variants	System-Wide	Approved
Use ibus-m17n as the default IME for Sinhala	System-Wide	Approved
i3 Spin	Self-Contained	Approved
Enable btrfs transparent zstd compression by default	System-Wide	FESCo #2538
IBus 1.5.24	System-Wide	FESCo #2542
LTO Build Improvements	System-Wide	FESCo #2541
Unify the GRUB configuration files location across all supported architectures	System-Wide	FESCo #2543
Xfce-4.16	Self-Contained	FESCo #2539
Deprecate xemacs, xemacs-packages-base, xemacs-packages-extra, and neXtaw	Self-Contained	FESCo #2540
Localization measurement and tooling	Self-Contained	Announced
LXQt 0.16.0	Self-Contained	Announced
Signed RPM Contents	System-Wide	Announced

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.

Fedora 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
PHP 8.0	Self-Contained	Announced

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.