Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-52 – 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
- A multi-hour infrastructure outage is planned for 10 January, beginning at 1900 UTC.
- You can now add your Fediverse URL to your Fedora wiki profile.
- Fedora is now officially on the Fediverse
- Congratulations to the winners of the F37 elections
CfPs
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- A new Flatpak SIG is forming.
Meetings & events
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F36 | 4637 |
| F37 | 2346 |
| Rawhide | 7247 |
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 |
| 2149632 | gtk3 | NEW |
Fedora Linux 38
- 602 packages fail to build from source
- 38 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generator | System-Wide | FESCo #2898 |
| GNU Make version 4.4 | System-Wide | FESCo #2916 |
| Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags | System-Wide | FESCo #2917 |
| Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissions | System-Wide | FESCo #2919 |
| Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2920 |
| Fedora Budgie Spin | Self-Contained | FESCo #2921 |
| Use mdadm for BIOS RAID Support in Anaconda | Self-Contained | FESCo #2922 |
| Pyramid 2.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2924 |
| Xfce 4.18 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2925 |
| Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 | System-Wide | FESCo #2926 |
| X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients | System-Wide | FESCo #2927 |
| Shorter Shutdown Timer | System-Wide | Announced |
| Rpmautospec by Default | System-Wide | Announced |
| Noto Fonts For More Languages | System-Wide | Announced |
| GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1) | System-Wide | Announced |
| FPC repackaging | Self-Contained | 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 | FESCo #2918 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.