Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

I’ve set up 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

• Backwards-incompatible changes are planned for Bodhi 4.0.
• Fedora Legal has determined the Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) is not suitable for use in Fedora. It is added to the Bad Licenses list.
• Recent updates to packaging guidelines
  

Fedora 30 Status

Fedora 30 Change Proposal deadlines are approaching

• Change proposals for Self-Contained Changes are due 2019-01-29.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will cause ambiguous python shebangs to error.  A list of failing builds is available on Taskotron.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will remove glibc langpacks from the buildroot. See the devel mailing list for more information and impacted packages.

Changes

Announced

• Flicker Free Boot
• Golang 1.12
• uEFI for ARMv7
• Switch cryptsetup default metadata format to LUKS2
• libcrypt.so.1 (compatibility library for POSIX): Let encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt return ENOSYS instead of performing any real operation

Submitted to FESCo

• krb5 crypto modernization
• GNOME 3.32
• Avoid Fedora-specific build flags in non-RPM Python extensions
• DNF Better Counting
• Reset locale if not available
• Replace Comps Language Group With Langpacks

Approved by FESCo

• Fully remove deprecated and unsafe functions from libcrypt