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 Nest With Fedora CfP is extended until 23 July. Registration is open now.

Fedora Linux 35 mass rebuild begins Wednesday.

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

• Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired approximately one week before the F35 branch day.
• A new webpage to find packager sponsors is now available.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Nest With Fedora	virtual	5-7 Aug	closes 23 July
SeaGL	virtual	5–6 Nov	closes 5 August
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 October

Help wanted

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

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

• 108 packages fail to build from source
• 163 packages fail to install
• 7076 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
Libvirt Modular Daemons	Self-Contained	Approved
MinGW environment and toolchain update	System-Wide	Approved
libmemcached-awesome	Self-Contained	Approved
Optimal LUKS Encryption Sector Size	Self-Contained	Approved
Golang 1.17	System-Wide	Approved
Update firewalld to v1.0.0	System-Wide	Approved
LLVM 13	System-Wide	Approved
Boost 1.76 upgrade	System-Wide	Approved
GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.37, gdb 10.2)	System-Wide	Approved
IBus 1.5.25	System-Wide	Approved
Filtered Flathub Applications	System-Wide	Approved
Memory Constraints macros for RPM	System-Wide	Approved
Third-party Software Mechanism	System-Wide	Approved
Gconv package split in glibc	System-Wide	Approved
tzdata-minimal	Self-Contained	FESCo #2647
GHC 8.10 and Stackage lts-18	Self-Contained	FESCo #2648
Remove SHA-1 from Sqlite	Self-Contained	Withdrawn
libffi 3.4	System-Wide	Announced
Enhanced Inscript as default Indic IM	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.

Contributing

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