Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-14 – 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)!
The F36 Final freeze is underway.
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Announcements
- F36 Final freeze began 2022-04-05.
- The F36 Release Party will be 13–14 May.
- Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevConf | Łódź, PL | 1–2 Sep | closes 9 Apr |
| TechBash | Pocono Manor, PA, US | 8–11 Nov | closes 13 Apr |
| openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, DE | 2–4 Jun | closes 14 Apr |
| DevConf.US | Boston, MA | 18–20 Aug | closes 15 Apr |
| Upstream | virtual | 7 Jun | closes 15 Apr |
| DebConf | Prizren, XK | 17–24 Jul | closes 15 Apr |
| Beer City Code | 6 Aug | Grand Rapids, MI, US | closes 16 Apr |
| OSCAL | Tirana, AL | 18–19 Jun | closes 19 Apr |
| Strange Loop | St. Louis, MO, US | 22–24 Sep | closes 20 Apr |
| All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US | 30 Oct–2 Nov | closes 22 Apr |
| Container Days | Hamburg, DE & virtual | 5–7 Sep | closes 30 Apr |
| ShipItCon | Dublin, IE | Sep | closes 30 Apr |
| Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, IE & virtual | 13–16 Sep | closes 30 May |
| PyCon SK | Bratislava, SK | 9–11 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
Upcoming test days
- 2022-04-04–11 — Fedora CoreOS Test Week
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1955416 | shim | POST |
| 2037047 | selinux-policy | ON_QA |
Meetings & events
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- F36 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5232 |
| F35 | 3861 |
| F36 (pre-release) | 1772 |
| Rawhide | 6520 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 705 packages fail to build from source
- 55 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2022-04-19 — Early target date
- 2022-04-26 — Target date #1
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Changes
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 1 |
| ON_QA | 48 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2057563 | plasma-discover | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 2067151 | xorg-x11-server | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2071098 | anaconda | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 2071259 | gnome-initial-setup | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2071343 | openssl | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2063156 | mutter | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2070764 | selinux-policy | ON_QA | Proposed(Final) |
| 2072445 | gnome-connections | VERIFIED | Proposed(Final) |
| 2072462 | gnome-connections | ASSIGNED | Proposed(Final) |
| 2072490 | gnome-connections | VERIFIED | Proposed(Final) |
| 2072513 | gnome-connections | VERIFIED | Proposed(Final) |
| 2068470 | gnome-control-center | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2073206 | gnome-shell | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2073353 | gnome-software | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2053729 | kernel | VERIFIED | Proposed(Final) |
| 2071226 | mutter | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2072070 | wpa_supplicant | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 37
- 740 packages fail to build from source
- 60 packages fail to install
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | FESCo #2713 |
| Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional | Self-Contained | Rejected |
| Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards | System-Wide | Withdrawn |
| Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2773 |
| Support FIDO Device Onboarding | Self-Contained | FESCo #2777 |
| Build Fedora IoT Artifacts with osbuild | Self-Contained | FESCo #2778 |
| Signed RPM Contents | System-Wide | FESCo #2770 |
| Deprecate Legacy BIOS | System-Wide | Announced |
| RPM 4.18 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Legacy Xorg Driver Removal | 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.