Upgraded my main system ( WRK, 6.19.9 + nvidia rpmfusion style 595.45.04) yesterday from F43 to F44 and it went smoothly with only a minor issue with one app that required some attention.
Unlike the last upgrade from f42 to f43, the ‘dnf offline reboot’ step completed without any errors. Just in case, I’ve since set a PW for the root account and unlocked it! 
akmods compiled the ndivia driver modules on first boot. 
pulled some updates from updates-testing (gnome-50, ibus, and other stuff that I already had installed on f43)
here are a few observations worth mentioning
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had to use option --allowerasing because of package igt-gpu-tools
turns out this package can’t be reinstalled in f44 either, because it still has a dependency on libproc2.so.0. 2436237 – F44FailsToInstall: igt-gpu-tools -
"for some reason the upgraded system reports the repositories used for the upgrade (fedora) as <unknown>.
$ dnf list --installed fedora-release\*
Installed packages (available for reinstall, available for upgrade)
fedora-release-common.noarch 44-0.15 <unknown>
fedora-release-identity-workstation.noarch 44-0.15 <unknown>
fedora-release-workstation.noarch 44-0.15 <unknown>
this is the output of dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 44
fedora-release-common noarch 44-0.15 fedora
replacing fedora-release-common noarch 43-26 updates
fedora-release-identity-workstation noarch 44-0.15 fedora
replacing fedora-release-identity-workstation noarch 43-26 updates
fedora-release-workstation noarch 44-0.15 fedora
replacing fedora-release-workstation noarch 43-26 updates
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several gnome-shell extensions have been disabled
adding “50” to the metadata.json for caffeine and system-monitor-next has fixed that.
Other disabled extensions are Dash to Panel, Just Perfection, Pop Shell. I don’t use them and did not check if the same simple edit would fix those. -
Audacious refused playing https streams e.g. BFBS Edge. Error was something like can’t verify … (forgot to take note if the the error message)
for some reason this can’t be reproduced in a new VM or with my rescue/test system on an external SSD ( original install F41). The fix seems to be
sudo ca-legacy installsudo ca-legacy default
Original install was F38, and upgraded since with every version to F44.So there may be something worth looking into for system that were installed originally with F40 and older.
VLC or deadbeef were not affected.
UPDATE: turns out it is reproducible with any current f43->f44 upgrade. For some reason f42 → f44 upgrade is not affected!.
Installed f43 WRK VM with the f43-everything.iso and upgraded to f44.
- the most annoying thing is that default change for the middle mouse button! Set it to enabled if the previous setting was still default! Change it to default if the previous setting was expl. disabled!
Other then that there is nothing no complain!
Everything works w/o issue so far. Kudos to everyone involved!