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
- 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:
- 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.
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
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