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)!

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Announcements

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
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
phpdayVerona, IT18–19 Maycloses 15 Jan
PyCon ItaliaFlorence, IT25–28 Maycloses 16 Jan
DevConfCape Town & Pretoria, ZA23 & 25 Maycloses 17 Jan
WASM IOBarcelona, ES23–24 Marcloses 17 Jan
Container Plumbing Daysvirtual22–23 Marcloses 23 Jan
MagnoliaJSJackson, MS, US17–18 Octcloses 31 Jan
jsdayVerona, IT13–14 Aprcloses 31 Jan
ConnectahaOmaha, NE, US24 Aprcloses 31 Jan
Open Source Summit North AmericaVancouver, BC, CA10–12 Maycloses 5 Feb
Write The DocsPortland, OR, US7–9 Maycloses 6 Feb
NewcraftsParis, FR25–26 Maycloses 12 Feb
Open Source NorthSt. Paul, MN, US24 Maycloses 18 Feb
Berlin BuzzwordsBerlin, DE closes 19 Feb
JSDay IEDublin, IE26 Sepcloses 28 Feb
Scenic City SummitChattanooga, TN, US2 Juncloses 1 Mar
Web Weekend KathmanduKathmandu, NP23–24 Sepcloses 21 Apr

Help wanted

Upcoming test days

Have a test day idea for Fedora Linux 38? The call for test days is open.

Meetings & events

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F364612
F372432
Rawhide7258

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug IDComponentStatus
2015490initial-setupASSIGNED
2149632gtk3NEW

Fedora Linux 38

Schedule

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

  • 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes
  • 2023-01-18 — F38 Mass rebuild begins

Changes

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

ProposalTypeStatus
Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer and -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer to default compilation flagsSystem-WideApproved
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generatorSystem-WideApproved
GNU Make version 4.4System-WideApproved
Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flagsSystem-WideApproved
Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissionsSystem-WideApproved
Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7Self-ContainedApproved
Fedora Budgie SpinSelf-ContainedApproved
Use mdadm for BIOS RAID Support in AnacondaSelf-ContainedApproved
Pyramid 2.0Self-ContainedFESCo #2924
Xfce 4.18Self-ContainedFESCo #2925
Unified Kernel Support Phase 1System-WideFESCo #2926
X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped ClientsSystem-WideFESCo #2927
Shorter Shutdown TimerSystem-WideFESCo #2928
Rpmautospec by DefaultSystem-WideAnnounced
Noto Fonts For More LanguagesSystem-WideAnnounced
GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1)System-WideAnnounced
FPC repackagingSelf-ContainedAnnounced
TeXLive2022Self-ContainedAnnounced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

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

Contributing

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