Originally published at: Fedora Operations Architect Report – Fedora Community Blog
Welcome to 2025 fellow Fedorans, and what a year it’s going to be! We are in the middle of development for the Answer to life, the universe and everything release, plus we are starting to plan our eventual migration to a new git forge. And Im sure theres a lot more ‘fun’ stuff to look forward to too, we just might not know what they are yet Below is a short roundup from some things around the project if you care to read on
Fedora Linux 42
Fedora Linux 42 is currently in development, and for the most recent set of changes planned in this release, please refer to our change set page. Our release schedule is also live, and a reminder of some key dates are below:
- All submission deadlines for system wide and self-contained changes have now passed. Please target F43 or later for any proposals you may have
- February 4th – Changes need to be Testable
- February 4th – Branching
- February 18th – Changes need to be Complete
- February 18th – Beta Freeze
The changes that are currently in our community feedback period are :
- CoreOSOstree2OCIUpdates
- Deprecate Zezere
- Edk2Security
- EROFSforLiveMedia
- Haskell GHC 9.8 and Stackage 23
- IBus 1.5.32
- ibus-libpinyin 1.16
- Idris2
- PlymouthUseSimpledrm
- Promote KDE Plasma Desktop variant to Edition
- Replace Cockpit Navigator With Cockpit Files
- X86 MIPI CameraHwEnablement
Fedora Linux 43
From 8th February 2025, we will be in F43 development. Please bookmark our schedule for some key dates for Changes, mass rebuild, branching, etc.
Hot Topics
Join the Git Forge open meetings every Wednesday @ 1400 UTC in #fedora-meeting on matrix. The meeting is in Fedocal in the Fedora Release calendar and its an open meeting to join and ask questions on whats happening, and how to help with the work. The first meeting happened last week and a summary was posted to discussion.fpo. You can find all the links that were shared too from that post, or from the meetbot logs.
For all the latest on the boot-c initative, check out the latest bootc post on discourse!
Did you know there are EPEL Office Hours? If not, check out the details on how to join and when they happen on the announcement post!
Events
FOSDEM 2025 returns on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February in Brussels, Belgium. If you are attending and want to connect with some folks from around the Fedora Project, you can add your name to the Fedora @ FOSDEM wiki page.
CentOS Connect also returns to Brussels on 30th and 31st January 2025. For more information and to register for the event, check out the event page.
KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe is coming up in London, United Kingdom from April 1st – 4th, and registration is still open to attend.
Open Source Summit North America cfp is open until February 17th, so don’t delay if you want to submit your talk idea(s) to attend this years event in Denver, Colorado on June 23rd – 25th.
Devconf.cz call for papers is open! The event will take place in Brno, Czechia on June 12th – 14th 2025. Be sure to visit their event website for more information on talk themes, tracks and general stuff about the conference.
Flock to Fedora is in Europe this year, in June! We will have more information to share with you in the coming week – cfp and event information, but be sure to earmark June (hint – the week before or after devconf.cz) as we would love to see as many folks from our wonderfully diverse and interesting community as possible there.
Media Things
Do you have an idea for an episode of the Fedora Podcast, or want to see what some of the upcoming episodes will be? Bookmark The IT Guy’s discussion post on planning for the podcast!
Missed some of Fedoras recent release watch parties? Never fear! All talks are now available on the Fedora Youtube Channel in the ‘latest’ video tab. Happy Streaming!