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)!

This will be the last Friday’s Fedora Facts for 2021. See you next year!

Announcements

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
Distributions DevRoom @ FOSDEMvirtual5–6 Febcloses 20 Dec
CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEMvirtual3–4 Febcloses 9 Jan
Red Hat SummitTBDlate springcloses 5 Jan

Help wanted

Upcoming test days

Prioritized Bugs

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

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F345502
F352225
F36 (rawhide)6818

Fedora Linux 36

Schedule

  • 2021-12-22 — Deadline for Change proposals that require infrastructure changes
  • 2021-12-28 — Deadline for System-Wide Change proposals and proposals that require mass rebuild
  • 2022-01-18 — Deadline for Self-Contained Change proposals
  • 2022-01-19 — Mass rebuild begins
  • 2022-02-08 — F36 branches from Rawhide; Rawhide begins F37 development

Changes

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

ProposalTypeStatus
PostgreSQL 14Self-ContainedApproved
LXQt 1.0.0Self-ContainedApproved
Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI.Self-ContainedFESCo #2708
Enable fs-verity in RPMSystem-WideFESCo #2711
Switch GnuTLS to allowlistingSystem-WideFESCo #2712
Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked RootSystem-WideFESCo #2713
Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary DriverSystem-WideFESCo #2714
GHC compiler parallel version installsSelf-ContainedAnnounced
Keylime subpackaging and agent alternativesSelf-ContainedAnnounced
Golang 1.18System-WideAnnounced
DIGLIMSystem-WideAnnounced

Contributing

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