Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-24 – Fedora Community Blog
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
- Official IRC channels have moved to Libera.Chat.
- The Annual Fedora Survey is open through the end of June.
- rpmautospec is now enabled in Koji.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| AnsibleFest | virtual | 29–30 Sep | closes 29 June |
| Nest With Fedora | virtual | 5-8 Aug | closes 16 July |
| Ohio Linux Fest | Columbus, OH, US | early Dec | closes 1 October |
Help wanted
- 230 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1953675 | kf5-akonadi-server | NEW |
| 1951492 | annobin | ASSIGNED |
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
Releases
Fedora Linux 35
Schedule
- 2021-06-23 — Change submission deadline (Changes requiring infrastructure changes)
- 2021-06-29 — Change submission deadline (System-Wide Changes, Changes requiring mass rebuild)
- 2021-07-20 — Change submission deadline (Self-Contained Changes)
- 2021-07-21 — Mass rebuild begins
- 2021-08-10 — F35 branches from Rawhide, F36 development begins
For the full schedule, see the schedule website.
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Make btrfs the default file system for Fedora Cloud | System-Wide | Approved |
| Sphinx 4 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Build Fedora Cloud Images with Hybrid BIOS+UEFI Boot Support | System-Wide | Approved |
| Replace the Anaconda product configuration files with profiles | Self-Contained | FESCo #2622 |
| Use yescrypt as default hashing method for shadow passwords | System-Wide | FESCo #2623 |
| Python Packaging Guidelines overhaul | System-Wide | Announced |
| Remove authselect-compat package | System-Wide | Announced |
Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.