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.

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

Announcements

• The Nest With Fedora CfP is open!
• Fedora Linux 34 will reach end of life on Tuesday 7 June.
• Some docs repos are moving to GitLab.
• Elections voting is open through 16 June.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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:
  • 317 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 37 need a sponsor
• 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.
• Sign up for the Anaconda interface study
• Take the annual Fedora Contributor survey and get a badge!

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
• Docs presentation changes office hours — 1500 Tuesday in #fedora-meeting-1 and 1900 Thursday in #fedora-meeting-2
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5991
F35	4269
F36	2553
Rawhide	6929

Fedora Linux 36

Schedule

• 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
BIOS boot.iso with GRUB2	System-Wide	Approved
Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default	System-Wide	Approved
Enhance Persian Font Support	Self-Contained	FESCo #2801
Return Cloud Base to Edition Status	System-Wide	FESCo #2802
Fallback Hostname	System-Wide	Announced
RPM Macros for Build Flags	System-Wide	Announced
LLVM 15	Self-Contained	Announced
Supplement of Server distributables by a KVM VM disk image	Self-Contained	Announced
Erlang 25	Self-Contained	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

Fedora Linux 40

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Retire python3.7	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.