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)!

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

Announcements

• Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired approximately one week before the F35 branch day.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Nest With Fedora	virtual	5-7 Aug	closes 16 July
SeaGL	virtual	5–6 Nov	closes 5 August
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 October

Help wanted

• 170 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Upcoming test days

• 11–17 July: Kernel 5.13 test week

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1953675	kf5-akonadi-server	NEW
1951492	annobin	ASSIGNED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora Linux 35

• 105 packages fail to build from source
• 200 packages fail to install
• 7006 open (Rawhide) bugs

Schedule

• 2021-07-20 — Change submission deadline (Self-Contained Changes)
• 2021-07-21 — Mass rebuild begins
• 2021-08-10 — F35 branches from Rawhide, F36 development begins

For the full schedule, see the schedule website.

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Python Packaging Guidelines overhaul	System-Wide	Approved
Remove authselect-compat package	System-Wide	FESCo #2626
Libvirt Modular Daemons	Self-Contained	FESCo #2627
MinGW environment and toolchain update	System-Wide	FESCo #2629
libmemcached-awesome	Self-Contained	FESCo #2630
Optimal LUKS Encryption Sector Size	Self-Contained	Announced
Golang 1.17	System-Wide	Announced
Disable SHA1 In OpenDNSSec	Self-Contained	Announced
Rebase firewalld to upstream v1.0.0	System-Wide	Announced
LLVM 13	System-Wide	Announced
Boost 1.76 upgrade	System-Wide	Announced
GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.37, gdb 10.2)	System-Wide	Announced
IBus 1.5.25	System-Wide	Announced
Filtered Flathub Applications	System-Wide	Announced
Memory Constraints macros for RPM	System-Wide	Announced
Third-party Software Mechanism	System-Wide	Announced
Gconv package split in glibc	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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.