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)!

The F36 Final freeze is underway.

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• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Meetings & Events
• Releases

Announcements

• F36 Final freeze began 2022-04-05.
• The F36 Release Party will be 13–14 May.
• Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf	Łódź, PL	1–2 Sep	closes 9 Apr
TechBash	Pocono Manor, PA, US	8–11 Nov	closes 13 Apr
openSUSE Conference	Nuremberg, DE	2–4 Jun	closes 14 Apr
DevConf.US	Boston, MA	18–20 Aug	closes 15 Apr
Upstream	virtual	7 Jun	closes 15 Apr
DebConf	Prizren, XK	17–24 Jul	closes 15 Apr
Beer City Code	6 Aug	Grand Rapids, MI, US	closes 16 Apr
OSCAL	Tirana, AL	18–19 Jun	closes 19 Apr
Strange Loop	St. Louis, MO, US	22–24 Sep	closes 20 Apr
All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, US	30 Oct–2 Nov	closes 22 Apr
Container Days	Hamburg, DE & virtual	5–7 Sep	closes 30 Apr
ShipItCon	Dublin, IE	Sep	closes 30 Apr
Open Source Summit Europe	Dublin, IE & virtual	13–16 Sep	closes 30 May
PyCon SK	Bratislava, SK	9–11 Sep	closes 30 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 329 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 39 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine

Upcoming test days

• 2022-04-04–11 — Fedora CoreOS Test Week

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1955416	shim	POST
2037047	selinux-policy	ON_QA

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• F36 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5232
F35	3861
F36 (pre-release)	1772
Rawhide	6520

Fedora Linux 36

• 705 packages fail to build from source
• 55 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2022-04-19 — Early target date
• 2022-04-26 — Target date #1

See the schedule website for the full schedule.

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
ON_QA	48

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2057563	plasma-discover	POST	Accepted(Final)
2067151	xorg-x11-server	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2071098	anaconda	POST	Accepted(Final)
2071259	gnome-initial-setup	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2071343	openssl	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2063156	mutter	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2070764	selinux-policy	ON_QA	Proposed(Final)
2072445	gnome-connections	VERIFIED	Proposed(Final)
2072462	gnome-connections	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Final)
2072490	gnome-connections	VERIFIED	Proposed(Final)
2072513	gnome-connections	VERIFIED	Proposed(Final)
2068470	gnome-control-center	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2073206	gnome-shell	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2073353	gnome-software	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2053729	kernel	VERIFIED	Proposed(Final)
2071226	mutter	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2072070	wpa_supplicant	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 37

• 740 packages fail to build from source
• 60 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
Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root	System-Wide	FESCo #2713
Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional	Self-Contained	Rejected
Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards	System-Wide	Withdrawn
Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686	Self-Contained	FESCo #2773
Support FIDO Device Onboarding	Self-Contained	FESCo #2777
Build Fedora IoT Artifacts with osbuild	Self-Contained	FESCo #2778
Signed RPM Contents	System-Wide	FESCo #2770
Deprecate Legacy BIOS	System-Wide	Announced
RPM 4.18	System-Wide	Announced
Legacy Xorg Driver Removal	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.