Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-26 – 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
- Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired approximately one week before the F35 branch day.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nest With Fedora | virtual | 5-7 Aug | closes 16 July |
| SeaGL | virtual | 5–6 Nov | closes 5 August |
| Ohio Linux Fest | Columbus, OH, US | early Dec | closes 1 October |
Help wanted
- 170 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
- 11–17 July: Kernel 5.13 test week
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
- 105 packages fail to build from source
- 200 packages fail to install
- 7006 open (Rawhide) bugs
Schedule
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Python Packaging Guidelines overhaul | System-Wide | Approved |
| Remove authselect-compat package | System-Wide | FESCo #2626 |
| Libvirt Modular Daemons | Self-Contained | FESCo #2627 |
| MinGW environment and toolchain update | System-Wide | FESCo #2629 |
| libmemcached-awesome | Self-Contained | FESCo #2630 |
| Optimal LUKS Encryption Sector Size | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Golang 1.17 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Disable SHA1 In OpenDNSSec | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Rebase firewalld to upstream v1.0.0 | System-Wide | Announced |
| LLVM 13 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Boost 1.76 upgrade | System-Wide | Announced |
| GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.37, gdb 10.2) | System-Wide | Announced |
| IBus 1.5.25 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Filtered Flathub Applications | System-Wide | Announced |
| Memory Constraints macros for RPM | System-Wide | Announced |
| Third-party Software Mechanism | System-Wide | Announced |
| Gconv package split in glibc | 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.