Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The mass rebuild is under way.

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Announcements

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
Write the Docsvirtual25-27 Aprcloses 1 Feb
FOSSASIA Open Tech SummitSingapore13-21 Marcloses 12 Feh
LISAvirtual1-3 Junecloses 23 Feb

Help wanted

Prioritized Bugs

Bug IDComponentStatus
1883609shimASSIGNED
1582116firefoxON_QA

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Fedora 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

  • 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

ProposalTypeStatus
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumpingSystem-WideFESCo #2441
CompilerPolicy ChangeSystem-WideFESCo #2409
Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora EditionSystem-WideFESCo #2516
Localization measurement and toolingSelf-ContainedAccepted
LXQt 0.16.0Self-ContainedFESCo #2546
Signed RPM ContentsSystem-WideRejected
Comp Neuro Container ImageSelf-ContainedApproved
Scale ZRAM to Full Memory SizeSelf-ContainedApproved
Enable HarfBuzz in FreeTypeSelf-ContainedApproved
PostgreSQL 13Self-ContainedFESCo #2557
Remove Guile Support From ToolchainSelf-ContainedFESco #2558
BIND 9.16Self-ContainedFESCo #2559
Make selinux-policy up-to-date with the latest kernelSelf-ContainedFESCo #2561
Remove Python2 RPM MacrosSelf-ContainedFESCo #2567
uEFI for ARMv7Self-ContainedFESCo #2563
fbrnchSelf-ContainedFESCo #2564
SOF as default audio driver for Intel LPE hardwareSelf-ContainedFESCo #2565
Deprecate python-mockSelf-ContainedAnnounced
GNOME 40Self-ContainedFESCo #2568

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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

ProposalTypeStatus
PHP 8.0Self-ContainedApproved
Retire python3.5Self-ContainedFESCo #2562
Add Fedora Kinoite as a variantSelf-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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.