Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The mass rebuild is delayed until Monday.

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• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases

Announcements

• Long-term fail-to-build-from-source packages will be retired during the first week of February.
• The mass rebuild is delayed until Monday. This is not expected to affect subsequent milestones.
• The Fedora Council is considering adding the Community Outreach Revamp initiative as a Fedora Objective.

Help wanted

• 238 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
• Project proposals and mentor volunteers for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 are due by 28 February
• Submit your demo video ideas for the virtual FOSDEM booth

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	ON_QA
1582116	firefox	NEW
1912046	systemd	NEW

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1600 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-01-25–2021-02-09 — 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
Unify the GRUB configuration files location across all supported architectures	System-Wide	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	FESCo #2553
Scale ZRAM to Full Memory Size	Self-Contained	FESCo #2554
Enable HarfBuzz in FreeType	Self-Contained	FESCo #2556
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	FESCo #2557
Remove Guile Support From Toolchain	Self-Contained	FESCo #2558
BIND 9.16	Self-Contained	FESCo #2559
Make selinux-policy up-to-date with the latest kernel	Self-Contained	Announced
Remove Python2 RPM Macros	Self-Contained	Announced
uEFI for ARMv7	Self-Contained	Announced
fbrnch	Self-Contained	Announced
SOF as default audio driver for Intel LPE hardware	Self-Contained	Announced
Deprecate python-mock	Self-Contained	Announced
LTO Build improvements	System-Wide	Deferred to F35
GNOME 40	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	FESCo #2550
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.