Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-18 – 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)!
Fedora Linux 36 will be released on Tuesday 10 May.
I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.
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.
- The email address for Fedora Discussion notifications is changing.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| RustConf | Portland, OR, US & virtual | 4–5 Aug | closes 8 May |
| CentOS Summer Dojo | virtual | 17 Jun | open |
| DDD Perth | Perth, AU | 9 Sep | closes 27 May |
| Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, IE & virtual | 13–16 Sep | closes 30 May |
| #a11yTO | Toronto, ON, CA & virtual | 20–21 Oct | closes 31 May |
| I Code Java | Johannesburg, ZA & hybrid | 12–14 Oct | closes 5 Jun |
| PyCon SK | Bratislava, SK | 9–11 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| SREcon22 EMEA | Amsterdam, NL | 25–27 Oct | closes 30 Jun |
| Write the Docs Prague | virtual | 11–13 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE & virtual | 3–5 Oct | closes 6 Jul |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1955416 | shim | POST |
Meetings & events
- 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
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- F36 Release Party — Friday and Saturday in Hopin
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5217 |
| F35 | 4240 |
| F36 (pre-release) | 1812 |
| Rawhide | 6909 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 592 packages fail to build from source
- 52 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2022-05-10 — Target date #3
- 2022-05-11 — Election nominations open
- 2022-05-25 — Election nominations end
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Fedora Linux 37
- 620 packages fail to build from source
- 58 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 |
| Deprecate Legacy BIOS | System-Wide | Rejected |
| RPM 4.18 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Legacy Xorg Driver Removal | System-Wide | Approved |
| Haskell GHC 9 & Stackage LTS 19 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation | Self-Contained | FESCo #2785 |
| Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Node.js 18.x by default | System-Wide | Announced |
| Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Perl 5.36 | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora Linux 38
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Major upgrade of Microdnf | Self-Contained | FESCo #2784 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.