Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-49 – 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 35 will reach end of life on Tuesday.
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
- There will be a multi-hour infrastructure outage beginning at 1900 UTC on Tuesday 13 December.
- Voting in the Mindshare and FESCo elections is open through 2359 UTC on 22 December.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElixirConf EU | Lisbon, PT | 20–21 Apr | closes 11 Dec |
| UX Scotland | Edinburgh, GB | 7–9 Jun | closes 12 Dec |
| FOSDEM: main track | Brussels, BE | 4–5 Feb | closes 15 Dec |
| NodeJS One Africa | Cape Town, ZA | 8–9 Mar | closes 16 Dec |
| NodeJS One Africa | Johannesburg, ZA | 13–14 Sep | closes 16 Dec |
| FOSDEM: Distributions Devroom | Brussels, BE | 5 Feb | closes 31 Dec |
| CypherCon | Milwaukee, WI, US | 30–31 Mar | closes 31 Dec |
| JSHeroes | Cluj-Napoca, RO | 18–19 May | closes 31 Dec |
| DevRelCon | Yokohama, JP | 10–11 Mar | closes 31 Dec |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Boston, MA, US | 10–12 Jul | closes 5 Jan |
| Devoxx UK | London, UK | 10–12 May | closes 10 Jan |
| Scalar Conference | Warsaw, PL | 23–24 Mar | closes 10 Jan |
| Hack in Paris | Paris, FR | 26–29 Sep | closes 14 Jan |
| VueConf | New Orleans, LA, US | 25–26 May | closes 15 Jan |
| JS Day Canarias | Tenerife, ES | 25–28 May | closes 15 Jan |
| PyCon Italia | Florence, IT | 25–28 May | closes 16 Jan |
| DevConf | Cape Town & Pretoria, ZA | 23 & 25 May | closes 17 Jan |
| MagnoliaJS | Jackson, MS, US | 17–18 Oct | closes 31 Jan |
| Connectaha | Omaha, NE, US | 24 Apr | closes 31 Jan |
| Write The Docs | Portland, OR, US | 7–9 May | closes 6 Feb |
| Newcrafts | Paris, FR | 25–26 May | closes 12 Feb |
| Open Source North | St. Paul, MN, US | 24 May | closes 18 Feb |
| JSDay IE | Dublin, IE | 26 Sep | closes 28 Feb |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- Updates to deprecated Fedora Developer pages are needed.
- A new Flatpak SIG is forming.
Meetings & events
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3645 |
| F36 | 4612 |
| F37 | 1977 |
| Rawhide | 7014 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2015490 | initial-setup | ASSIGNED |
| 2134824 | kernel | VERIFIED |
| 2149632 | gtk3 | NEW |
Fedora Linux 37
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-12-09 — Election voting begins (FESCo and Mindshare)
- 2022-12-16 — Election voting begins (Council)
- 2022-12-22 — Election voting ends
Fedora Linux 38
- 678 packages fail to build from source
- 33 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-12-21 — Deadline for Changes requiring infrastructure changes
- 2022-12-27 — Deadline for System-Wide Changes and Changes requiring a mass rebuild
- 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable) | System-Wide | Approved |
| Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generator | System-Wide | Announced |
| Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Remove Guile Support from GDB | Self-Contained | Approved |
| LLVM 16 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Add Fedora Auto Firstboot Services to desktop variants | System-Wide | Approved |
| Golang 1.20 | System-Wide | FESCo #2913 |
| Fedora Sway Spin | Self-Contained | FESCo #2914 |
| libpinyin 2.8 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2915 |
| GNU Make version 4.4 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags | System-Wide | Announced |
| Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissions | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora Linux 39
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Replace DNF with DNF5 | System-Wide | FESCo #2870 |
| Boost 1.81 upgrade | 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.