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 35 Beta was released! Final freeze begins Tuesday.

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

Announcements

• Summer time is changing in various locations.
• Registration is open for the F35 Release Party.
• Fedora Week of Diversity is next week!

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

• 288 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
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Fedora Council Video Meeting: Matrix — 1600 UTC 14 October on Bluejeans

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33	5168
F34	5013
F35 (beta)	1081
F36 (rawhide)	6085

Fedora Linux 35

• 204 packages fail to build from source
• 56 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 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	geoclue	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2006028	cockpit	ON_QA	Accepted (Final)
2001837	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED	Accepted (Final)
2006746	spice-vdagent	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2006632	libreport	ASSIGNED	Proposed (Final)
2006393	systemd	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2009451	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2009063	gnome-software	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2209304	spice-vdagent	NEW	Proposed (Final)

Fedora Linux 36

• 271 packages fail to build from source
• 62 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
PHP 8.1	Self-Contained	Announced
Setuptools 58+	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 37

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Python 3.11	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.