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Fedora Linux 35 Beta is GO!

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

Announcements

• Project suggestions for the next Outreachy round are due 29 Sept.
• F35 Beta freeze is underway. F35 Beta will release on Tuesday. See the full schedule for more milestones.
• Changes in Bugzilla query limits
• Cool happenings in Fedora Workstation
• Anaconda accessbility improvements

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 Oct
DevConf.CZ	Brno, CZ & virtual	28–29 Jan	closes 24 Oct
SCaLE	Pasadena, CA, US	5–8 Mar	closes 30 Nov

Help wanted

• 263 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.

Upcoming meetings

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33	5187
F34	4972
F35 (pre-release)	1104
F36 (rawhide)	6196

Fedora Linux 35

• 260 packages fail to build from source
• 82 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2021-09-28 — Beta release
• 2021-10-05 — Final freeze begins
• 2021-10-19 — Early Final target date
• 2021-10-22 — Final target date #1

For the full schedule, see the schedule website.

Changes

See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

BZ Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
MODIFIED	1
ON_QA	42

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1989726	mesa	NEW	Accepted (Final)
1997315	abrt	ASSIGNED	Accepted (Final)
1991075	xdg-desktop-portal	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2006028	cockpit	POST	Proposed (Final)
2007602	gedit	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2006746	spice-vdagent	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2006632	libreport	ASSIGNED	Proposed (Final)
2001837	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED	Proposed (Final)
2006393	systemd	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2006624	webkit2gtk3	MODIFIED	Proposed (Final)

Fedora Linux 36

• 324 packages fail to build from source
• 74 packages fail to install

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status
Enable exclude_from_weak_autodetect by default in LIBDNF	System-Wide	FESCo #2667

Contributing

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