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
- Fedora Discussion just had a big reorganization.
- Datanommer will have a ~2 hour outage beginning 1100 UTC on 17 January
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch PHP Conference | Amsterdam, NL | 1–2 Jul | closes 30 Jan |
| Open Source Summit NA | Austin, TX, US & virtual | 21–24 Jun | closes 14 March |
Help wanted
- 344 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5435 |
| F35 | 2629 |
| F36 (rawhide) | 6983 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 255 packages fail to build from source
- 78 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 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.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. | Self-Contained | FESCo #2708 |
| Enable fs-verity in RPM | System-Wide | FESCo #2711 |
| Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | FESCo #2713 |
| GHC compiler parallel version installs | Self-Contained | FESCo #2715 |
| Keylime subpackaging and agent alternatives | Self-Contained | FESCo #2716 |
| Golang 1.18 | System-Wide | FESCo #2720 |
| DIGLIM | System-Wide | FESCp #2721 |
| LLVM 14 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Ruby 3.1 | System-Wide | Approved |
| %set_build_flags for %build and %check | System-Wide | Approved |
| Default To Noto Fonts | System-Wide | FESCo #2729 |
| Hunspell Dictionary dir change | System-Wide | FESCo #2730 |
| Relocate RPM database to /usr | System-Wide | FESCo #2731 |
| No ifcfg by default | Self-Contained | FESCo #2732 |
| Django 4.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2733 |
| GNU Toolchain Update | System-Wide | Announced |
| New requirements for akmods binary kernel modules for Silverblue / Kinoite support | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Malayalam Default Fonts Update | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Ibus-table cangjie default for zh_HK | Self-Contained | Announced |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.


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