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)!

Fedora Linux 34 was released on Tuesday. Fedora Linux 32 will reach end of life on Tuesday 25 May.

Join us tomorrow for day two of the Fedora Linux 34 Release Party

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases

Announcements

• Fedora Linux 32 will reach end of life on Tuesday 25 May.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
All Things Open	virtual	17-19 Oct	closes 30 Apr
Akademy	virtual	18-25 June	closes 2 May
openSUSE Virtual Conference	virtual	18-20 June	closes 4 May
DevConf.US	virtual	2-3 Sep	closes 31 May
Nest With Fedora	virtual	5-8 Aug	closes 17 Jul

Help wanted

• 138 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The new Source-git SIG is looking for participants.
• The Fedora Podcast needs your help.
• Anaconda maintainers need input from Spins maintainers on upcoming chnages to keyboard layout switching.

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1847627	kernel	NEW

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora Linux 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-04-28 — Elections questionnaire process and nomination period begins.

Fedora Linux 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM 4.17	System-Wide	Approved
Smaller Container Base Image (remove sssd-client, util-linux, shadow-utils)	Self-Contained	Approved
Erlang 24	Self-Contained	Approved
Switching Cyrus Sasl from BerkeleyDB to GDBM	System-Wide	Approved
Debuginfod By Default	Self-Contained	FESCo #2597
Package information on ELF objects	System-Wide	FESCo #2598
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	Announced
Node.js 16.x by default	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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.

Contributing

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