Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-50 – 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)!
This will be the last Friday’s Fedora Facts for 2021. See you next year!
Announcements
- The Taiga instance on teams.fedoraproject.org will be retired on 17 December.
- EPEL 9 is now available
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distributions DevRoom @ FOSDEM | virtual | 5–6 Feb | closes 20 Dec |
| CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEM | virtual | 3–4 Feb | closes 9 Jan |
| Red Hat Summit | TBD | late spring | closes 5 Jan |
Help wanted
- 331 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5502 |
| F35 | 2225 |
| F36 (rawhide) | 6818 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 273 packages fail to build from source
- 79 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2021-12-22 — Deadline for Change proposals that require infrastructure changes
- 2021-12-28 — Deadline for System-Wide Change proposals and proposals that require mass rebuild
- 2022-01-18 — Deadline for Self-Contained Change proposals
- 2022-01-19 — Mass rebuild begins
- 2022-02-08 — F36 branches from Rawhide; Rawhide begins F37 development
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL 14 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| LXQt 1.0.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. | Self-Contained | FESCo #2708 |
| Enable fs-verity in RPM | System-Wide | FESCo #2711 |
| Switch GnuTLS to allowlisting | System-Wide | FESCo #2712 |
| Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | FESCo #2713 |
| Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver | System-Wide | FESCo #2714 |
| GHC compiler parallel version installs | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Keylime subpackaging and agent alternatives | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Golang 1.18 | System-Wide | Announced |
| DIGLIM | System-Wide | Announced |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.