Fedora 45 has several system-level changes that need testing on real hardware. The first test day up is GNOME 51, starting on 17 August, with more events planned for RPM 6.1, installation media and others. You can participate with a VM for most tests; some hardware-specific testing is more useful on a real machine. Details are contained in this article. Fedora 45 is bringing several changes that deserve testing beyond CI and automated test suites. Here are some of the bigger ones: RPM 6.1: update to 6.1, enforced signature checking, and DNF repo configs relocating to /usr. OpenSSL 4.0 —…
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I’m the author of this article. If you know of an F45 change that should get a test day, let us know – open a ticket at Making sure you're not a bot! tickets and tag it “test days”. The QA team will help set it up. Don’t worry about creating too many tickets – we’re happy to see them.
It would be great if the project would make Silverblue/Kinolite a primary testing target!
The immutable nature makes testing these new versions on real hardware outside a VM far safer for the tester as they can pin/unpin working releases and switch back and forth with just a reboot.
I missed the f44 testing as I couldn’t rebase due to fedora-cisco-openh264 not being built yet. I look forward to f45!
Hey there. I have never been through a test day before. Is there some primer on how this is meant to work? Particularly looking forward to the boot/live media testing, kernel, and stuff to do with the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
Does the scheduling mean there is one day to do both the testing and reporting issues and there is a close date for issues?
A few other questions:
- Is this still due for Fedora 45? Changes/BtrfsWithFullSystemSnapshots - Fedora Project Wiki
- Also curious about the grub+uefi for confidential computing. Instead of grub, wouldn’t a signed systemd-boot and/or UKI be a more appropriate fit in this instance?
Another thing worth noting, by the time Fedora 45 is due for release, Plasma 6.8 would have been released.
@ngompa can probably answer this.
I’ve got F45 Workstation loaded up on one of my laptops this morning to play around with thugs this week. 
No. It never got submitted because the groundwork is not in place.
re: [Bob McBobbington]
Hello Bob,
Test days usually run for several days, not just one.
You can test and report results anytime during that window or later after test days is also fine. The ones with confirmed dates are listed at testdays.fedoraproject.org.
Many of the others are still being planned and only exist as Forge tickets for now and dates will be set later. There’s no hard deadline for reporting, any bugs you find go to Bugzilla as usual.
added comment about plasma 6.8 during f45: Making sure you're not a bot!
The systemd-boot vs GRUB question is an upstream/Fedora engineering topic.
systemd-boot is NOT the default and not officially supported as a bootloader in Fedora. If you want to raise it, fedora-devel mailing list (devel@lists.fedoraproject.org) or Fedora Discussion (discussion.fedoraproject.org) would be the right place.
re: [Todd E Johnson]
That’s a good point about Silverblue/Kinoite - the rebase workflow does make it safer for testing on real hardware. Some of us on the QA team already use it, also for testing.
If you know people who want to help test but don’t want to risk breaking their setup, Fedora Atomic Desktops could be the answer. its worth putting together a guide on how to use it for test day participation.
If you want to take this further, open a ticket at Making sure you're not a bot! and tag it “test days”.
We can discuss using Atomic Desktops for test days there, or bring it up at our Monday QA meeting at Matrix.
Once Fedora 45 is officially released, will I be able to switch to it directly without having to reinstall?
Yes, there are methods for upgrading Fedora Linux from one release to another without having to reinstall: