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. The mass rebuild begins on 20 January.

Not next week, but normally 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
• Calls for Participation
• 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 mass rebuild begins on 20 January.
• The Community Blog and Discussion are now linked.
• The Fedora Council is considering adding the Community Outreach Revamp initiative as a Fedora Objective.

Help wanted

• 214 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• 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
1912046	systemd	NEW
1582116	firefox	NEW

Upcoming meetings

• Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 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
• 2021-01-20–2021-02-09 — Mass rebuild
• 2021-02-09 — Fedora 34 branches from Rawhide
• 2021-02-09 — Change completion deadline (testable)
• 2021-02-23 — Change completion deadline (100% code complete)
• 2021-02-23 — Beta freeze begins

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
Enable spec file preprocessing	System-Wide	Rejected
DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants	System-Wide	Approved
Enable btrfs transparent zstd compression by default	System-Wide	Approved
IBus 1.5.24	System-Wide	Approved
LTO Build Improvements	System-Wide	Approved
Unify the GRUB configuration files location across all supported architectures	System-Wide	FESCo #2543
Xfce-4.16	Self-Contained	Approved
Deprecate xemacs, xemacs-packages-base, xemacs-packages-extra, and neXtaw	Self-Contained	Approved
Localization measurement and tooling	Self-Contained	FESCo #2545
LXQt 0.16.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2546
Signed RPM Contents	System-Wide	FESCo #2547
Comp Neuro Container Image	Self-Contained	Announced
Scale ZRAM to Full Memory Size	Self-Contained	Announced
Enable HarfBuzz in FreeType	Self-Contained	Announced
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	Announced
Remove Guile Support From Toolchain	Self-Contained	Announced
BIND 9.16	Self-Contained	Announced
Make selinux-policy up-to-date with the latest kernel	Self-Contained	Announced
Remove Python2 RPM Macros	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.

Fedora 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
PHP 8.0	Self-Contained	Announced
Retire python3.5	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.