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 34 reaches end of life on Tuesday 7 June.
Announcements
- Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.
- The email address for Fedora Discussion notifications is changing.
- The Nest With Fedora CfP is open!
- The F36 release retrospective survey is open. Your opinion is important.
- Fedora Linux 34 will reach end of life on Tuesday 7 June.
- Some docs repos are moving to GitLab.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, IE & virtual | 13–16 Sep | closes 30 May |
| #a11yTO | Toronto, ON, CA & virtual | 20–21 Oct | closes 31 May |
| Momentum Developer Conference | Cincinnati, OH, US | 20 Oct | closes 31 May |
| I Code Java | Johannesburg, ZA & hybrid | 12–14 Oct | closes 5 Jun |
| Connect.Tech | Atlanta, GA, US | 7–9 Nov | closes 8 Jun |
| PyCon SK | Bratislava, SK | 9–11 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| SREcon22 EMEA | Amsterdam, NL | 25–27 Oct | closes 30 Jun |
| Write the Docs Prague | virtual | 11–13 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| React India | Goa, IN & virtual | 22–24 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE & virtual | 3–5 Oct | closes 6 Jul |
| Nest With Fedora | virtual | 4–6 Aug | closes 8 Jul |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- The newly-formed BIOS Boot SIG is looking for contributors.
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1955416 | shim | POST |
Meetings & events
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 6044 |
| F35 | 4283 |
| F36 | 2325 |
| Rawhide | 6906 |
Fedora Linux 36
Schedule
- 2022-06-03 — Election voting begins
- 2022-06-16 — Election voting ends
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Fedora Linux 37
- 584 packages fail to build from source
- 78 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2 | System-Wide | FESCo #2788 |
| Build all JDKs in Fedora against in-tree libraries and with static stdc++lib | System-Wide | FESCo #2794 |
| Python: Add -P to default shebangs | System-Wide | Approved |
| BIOS boot.iso with GRUB2 | System-Wide | FESCo #2796 |
| Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default | System-Wide | FESCo #2796 |
| Enhance Persian Font Support | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Return Cloud Base to Edition Status | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora Linux 38
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Major upgrade of Microdnf | Self-Contained | FESCo #2784 |
| SPDX License Phase 1 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2799 |
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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