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 35 reached end of life on Tuesday.

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Announcements

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
FOSDEM: Distributions DevroomBrussels, BE5 Febcloses 31 Dec
CypherConMilwaukee, WI, US30–31 Marcloses 31 Dec
JSHeroesCluj-Napoca, RO18–19 Maycloses 31 Dec
DevRelConYokohama, JP10–11 Marcloses 31 Dec
USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceBoston, MA, US10–12 Julcloses 5 Jan
Devoxx UKLondon, UK10–12 Maycloses 10 Jan
Scalar ConferenceWarsaw, PL23–24 Marcloses 10 Jan
Hack in ParisParis, FR26–29 Sepcloses 14 Jan
VueConfNew Orleans, LA, US25–26 Maycloses 15 Jan
JS Day CanariasTenerife, ES25–28 Maycloses 15 Jan
PyCon ItaliaFlorence, IT25–28 Maycloses 16 Jan
DevConfCape Town & Pretoria, ZA23 & 25 Maycloses 17 Jan
MagnoliaJSJackson, MS, US17–18 Octcloses 31 Jan
ConnectahaOmaha, NE, US24 Aprcloses 31 Jan
Write The DocsPortland, OR, US7–9 Maycloses 6 Feb
NewcraftsParis, FR25–26 Maycloses 12 Feb
Open Source NorthSt. Paul, MN, US24 Maycloses 18 Feb
JSDay IEDublin, IE26 Sepcloses 28 Feb

Help wanted

Meetings & events

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F364612
F371977
Rawhide7014

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug IDComponentStatus
2015490initial-setupASSIGNED
2149632gtk3NEW

Fedora Linux 37

Schedule

Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.

  • 2022-12-22 — Election voting ends

Fedora Linux 38

Schedule

Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.

  • 2022-12-21 — Deadline for Changes requiring infrastructure changes
  • 2022-12-27 — Deadline for System-Wide Changes and Changes requiring a mass rebuild
  • 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

ProposalTypeStatus
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generatorSystem-WideFESCo #2898
Golang 1.20System-WideFESCo #2913
Fedora Sway SpinSelf-ContainedFESCo #2914
libpinyin 2.8Self-ContainedFESCo #2915
GNU Make version 4.4System-WideFESCo #2916
Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flagsSystem-WideFESCo #2917
Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissionsSystem-WideAnnounced
Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7Self-ContainedAnnounced
Fedora Budgie SpinSelf-ContainedAnnounced
Use mdadm for BIOS RAID Support in AnacondaSelf-ContainedAnnounced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

ProposalTypeStatus
Replace DNF with DNF5System-WideFESCo #2870
Boost 1.81 upgradeSystem-WideFESCo #2918

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.