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 was released on Tuesday! Fedora Linux 33 will reach end of life on Tuesday 30 November. Nominations for the F35 elections cycle are now open.

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

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
SCaLEPasadena, CA, US5–8 Marcloses 30 Nov

Help wanted

Prioritized Bugs

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

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F334795
F345508
F351492
F36 (rawhide)6469

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

  • 2021-11-03Nomination period opens
  • 2021-11-17 — Nomination period ends
  • 2021-11-17 — Interview period begins
  • 2021-11-24 — Interview period ends
  • 2021-11-26 — Voting begins
  • 2021-12-09 — Voting ends
  • 2021-12-10 — Results announced

Fedora Linux 36

Changes

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

ProposalTypeStatus
Enforce Authselect Configuration ConsistencySystem-WideApproved
Ansible 5Self-ContainedApproved
OpenLDAP 2.5System-WideFESCo #2682
Drop NIS(+) support from PAMSystem-WideFESCo #2684
Retire the NIS(+) user-space utility programsSystem-WideFESCo #2685
Package information on ELF objectsSystem-WideFESCo #2687
Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layerSystem-WideFESCo #2689
Rubygem Cucumber 7.1.0Self-ContainedFESCo #2690
Stratis 3.0.0Self-ContainedFESCo #2691
Remove .la files from buildrootSelf-ContainedAnnounced
java-17-openjdk as system JDK in F36System-WideAnnounced

Contributing

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