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

• Some packages that fail to install in Fedora Linux 35 will be retired on 17 August.
• Compatibility-breaking changes are coming to Datanomer and Datagrepper.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
SeaGL	virtual	5–6 Nov	closes 19 August
CentOS Dojo	virtual	7–8 Oct	closes 6 September
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 October

Help wanted

• 195 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Help me verify the tasks before I make the F37–42 release schedules

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1949712	selinux-policy	NEW
1953675	mariadb	NEW

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

• 446 packages fail to build from source
• 161 packages fail to install
• 1294 open bugs

Schedule

• 2021-08-24 — Change complete (100%) deadline
• 2021-08-24 — Beta freeze begins
• 2021-09-14 — Beta release early target
• 2021-09-21 — Beta release target #1

For the full schedule, see the schedule website.

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Switch to WirePlumber as the PipeWire session manager	Self-Contained	Approved
Use power-profiles-daemon on Workstation	Self-Contained	Approved
Restart User Services after Upgrade	System-Wide	Approved

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1991879	libreoffice	MODIFIED	Accepted (Beta)
1991075	gnome-settings-daemon	NEW	Proposed (Beta)
1983861	pipewire	NEW	Proposed (Beta)
1993238	distribution	NEW	Accepted (Beta)

Fedora Linux 36

• 446 packages fail to build from source
• 162 packages fail to install
• 5799 open (Rawhide) bugs

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
MinGW debug symbols location change	System-Wide	Announced

Contributing

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