Across the Fedora project, a major unified focus is the urgent preparation for the Fedora 45 Beta Freeze on August 25, 2026. Multiple groups—including Release Engineering, Quality, and various architecture and desktop SIGs—are finalizing mass branching, managing fails-to-install (FTI) packages, and conducting Blocker Review meetings to triage critical issues, such as widespread rpm-ostree breakages caused by the recent RPM repository configuration relocation to /usr. Concurrently, significant infrastructure shifts are a central theme, highlighted by the decommissioning of pagure.io into a read-only static archive and the formulation of usage policies for the new Forgejo-based Fedora Forge. Finally, routine package and system maintenance remains a shared priority, with teams actively auditing inactive maintainers, coordinating mass rebuilds for EPEL 10.3 and RISC-V, and modernizing packaging strategies across language-specific ecosystems like Python, Perl, and Rust.

Announcements

Significant infrastructure shifts are underway as pagure.io transitions to a permanent, read-only static archive, cementing the new Forgejo-based Fedora Forge as the primary development platform. Accordingly, the Fedora Council is finalizing the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, which restricts the new forge strictly to Fedora-related projects, marking a departure from the previous general-use scope of Pagure. In brighter community news, the Fedora Badges service has been completely rebuilt from the ground up into a fast, modern single-page application and is currently heading to production.

As Fedora 45 approaches its Beta Freeze, developers are urgently reminded that all F45 system changes must be marked "Complete" by August 25. Concurrently, routine maintenance has identified over 200 inactive packagers for the F45 release cycle; affected contributors must comment on their tracking tickets to avoid being removed from the packager group. Finally, contributors and general Linux enthusiasts are invited to participate in the Fedora 45 Test Days starting August 17 to help evaluate major upcoming software changes—including GNOME 51, RPM 6.1, and OpenSSL 4.0—on both real hardware and virtual machines.

Council

This week, the Fedora Council focused on policy development and event planning. A revised draft (Version 3) of the Fedora Forge Usage Policy was published for an extended community feedback period before an impending Council vote. Additionally, the Council began brainstorming Call for Papers (CfP) themes for Flock to Fedora 2027, and initiated a discussion on clarifying the AI-Assisted Contributions Policy regarding commit message attribution.

See the detailed report for the Council team.

Learn more about the Council team.

FESCo

FESCo had a busy week managing package maintainer responsiveness, assessing feature changes for Fedora 45, and planning the requirements for Fedora's upcoming Bugzilla replacement. The committee addressed major regressions in rpm-ostree caused by the RelocateRpmRepoConfigsToUsr change, opting to grant maintainers a few more days to implement fixes before forcing a revert. In addition, FESCo handled multiple non-responsive maintainer tickets and approved several system-wide changes, including dropping the NIS profile from authselect and updating python-cloudflare for certbot.

Decisions

• FESCo approved the Change to Drop low-memory-monitor package, retiring it and starting a non-responsive maintainer process for its owner.
• The committee agreed to give developers until Friday to fix the rpm-ostree breakages caused by the RelocateRpmRepoConfigsToUsr change; otherwise, the change will be reverted for Fedora 45.
• FESCo approved the Authselect Remove NIS Profile change proposal.
• An updates policy exception for python-cloudflare was approved to facilitate a major update to certbot.
• Due to a lack of majority during the meeting, FESCo decided to return the vote for Changes Discussion Only On Devel List to the ticket.
• The following changes were officially marked as accepted for Fedora Linux 45: Anaconda WebUI Fedora Atomic, Encapsule isolated devel containers, Web Based Remote Installation Support for Atomic Desktops, and IBus 1.5.35.

See the detailed report for the FESCo team.

Learn more about the FESCo team.

Mindshare

The Mindshare group met on August 20, 2026 (meeting log) to share recent announcements and review open tickets. Key news included the production launch of Fedora Badges v3.x (Announcement, Try out) and Framework's announcement of their new Laptop 12 featuring an optional Fedora KDE pre-installation.

Due to low attendance, comprehensive ticket resolutions were largely deferred to asynchronous communication. Members reviewed event planning for Data Con LA 2026 (Issue 143) and All Things Open 2026 (Issue 128). They also discussed structural topics, including how to handle historically vacant Marketing and CommOps seats (such as CommOps Issue 145) on the committee.

Decisions

• The committee decided to alternate future weekly meetings between Matrix chat and video formats to improve attendance (see Issue #135).
• Committee discussions regarding the vacant Marketing and CommOps seats (e.g., CommOps Issue #145) will be moved to the main Mindshare channel to determine whether to bring those seats back to the broader electoral pool.
• It was decided to resolve Issue #131 asynchronously by the end of the month via a final summary comment.

Learn more about the Mindshare team.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Diversity & Inclusion group has begun early planning for the 2026 Fedora Week of Diversity. The event is tentatively scheduled around October 9th as a short, 2-to-3-hour virtual event featuring 10-to-20-minute talks. The current proposed theme is "Respect the Culture," though the group is actively open to brainstorming other options.

Learn more about the Diversity & Inclusion team.

Workstation / GNOME

This week, the Workstation Working Group focused on cleaning up default installations and third-party repositories. They discussed the removal of GNOME Boxes from the default installation, a change likely slated for version 52, while keeping GNOME Connections. Additionally, they approved the removal of PyCharm from third-party repositories due to its outdated Community Edition.

Elsewhere on the forum, users expressed concerns over the maintenance status of Ptyxis and suggested Fedora prepare a contingency plan. More details can be found in the Workstation Working Group Meeting Summary and the Ptyxis discussion.

Decisions

• Approved the removal of PyCharm from the Fedora Workstation third-party repositories, as the Community Edition no longer exists as a separate codebase. (Meeting Summary)
• Decided to remove GNOME Boxes from the default installation, effectively delaying the action until version 52, while keeping GNOME Connections in the default set. (Meeting Summary)

See the detailed report for the Workstation / GNOME team.

Learn more about the Workstation / GNOME team.

KDE

This week, the KDE group announced that KDE Gear 26.08.0 is built for Fedora 44+ and ready for community testing. Community discussions focused on user requests for changes to the Fedora repositories and spins, specifically regarding the inclusion of Kgamma2 for Wayland and a debate over offering a "Minimal Installation" option for the KDE desktop to reduce default application bloat.

In addition, the Fedora QA team notified the KDE mailing list about the upcoming Fedora 45 Blocker Review Meeting for the Beta release, encouraging early votes on proposed blocker bugs.

Decisions

• The KDE Plasma Edition SiG released the KDE Gear 26.08.0 update to Bodhi for community testing on Fedora 44 and newer.

See the detailed report for the KDE team.

Learn more about the KDE team.

Server

The Server working group held a meeting this week focusing on Fedora 45 release testing, Ansible support restructuring, and documentation improvements. A new member joined the group to help document homelab, Podman, and systematic backup strategies. Additionally, Adam Williamson announced the upcoming Fedora 45 Blocker Review Meeting, encouraging members to review and vote on proposed blockers in advance.

Decisions

• The group agreed to split the current 'post-installation' documentation article into several shorter, more specific articles (e.g., First steps, Networking, Storage, Security hardening, Automatic updates, Backups) housed in a separate subdirectory.
• The group decided that the Ansible postinstall role will be structured as a single role using boolean variables to toggle specific tasks, which will eventually be packaged as an Ansible Collection and distributed via both Ansible Galaxy and RPM.

See the detailed report for the Server team.

Learn more about the Server team.

Infrastructure

The Infrastructure team completed a major planned outage to apply updates, reboot servers, and advance the RHEL 10 migration, which now has only 33 hosts remaining. Notable infrastructure changes included moving download servers to BBR congestion control for improved syncing, preparing the pagure-ro01 VM as a read-only archive ahead of the pagure.io shutdown, and successfully migrating the Matrix moderation bot to official Fedora infrastructure. Additionally, the the-new-hotness bot was fixed to resume filing Bugzilla bugs after a token expiration.

In the community and services space, a discussion is ongoing regarding the deprecation of the retrace.fedoraproject.org server, as the maintaining ABRT team no longer exists. While QA finds the service valuable, it currently lacks active maintainers. Forgejo development continued with monitoring implementation and SSH enabled on staging, while several authentication bugs affecting FreeIPA and accounts.fedoraproject.org are under active investigation.

Decisions

• The pagure-ro01 VM is now live and will serve as the read-only static archive for the upcoming pagure.io turnoff.
• The official Matrix Moderation bot has been migrated to Fedora infrastructure (@moderation:fedoraproject.org), with a draft policy introduced for managing official Fedora Matrix rooms.
• The retrace.fedoraproject.org server is slated for retirement due to a lack of active maintainers, pending a final call for volunteer engineers.
• Download servers have been moved to BBR congestion control, resulting in significant package syncing gains.

See the detailed report for the Infrastructure team.

Learn more about the Infrastructure team.

Release Engineering

The Release Engineering team focused heavily on the Fedora 45 release cycle, finalizing post-fixes for the mass branching process and preparing for the Beta Freeze scheduled for August 25. As part of this cycle, FTI (Fails To Install) packages in the NEW state were processed for retirement, and a Blocker Review meeting was announced for the upcoming Beta release. Furthermore, progress was made on infrastructure improvements, such as preparing the new Fedora 46 (Rawhide) openh264 builds for Cisco and enhancing documentation.

A significant operational shift highlighted this week is the full transition to self-service package unretirements. Maintainers opening unretirement tickets were directed to use the fedpkg request-unretirement command instead. To support this, the background tooling (toddlers) was updated with retry logic and fixes for Koji tag resolution on Rawhide. The team also handled routine requests to untag buggy updates (such as freeipa and bash-color-prompt) to prevent widespread test failures, and processed multiple EPEL stalled package handovers.

Decisions

• Package unretirements are now fully self-service. Maintainers should use fedpkg request-unretirement instead of opening Releng tickets, as advised in multiple unretirement requests.
• The Fedora 45 Beta Freeze will take effect on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
• bash-color-prompt-0.96-1.fc46 was untagged due to unintended visual changes to the root terminal prompt.
• freeipa-4.13.3-1.fc46 was untagged to prevent a serious upgrade bug from gating all subsequent Rawhide updates.

See the detailed report for the Release Engineering team.

Learn more about the Release Engineering team.

Quality

Fedora 45 branching is mostly complete, though it was heavily complicated by the late-stage landing of the RPM repo config relocation to /usr. This required urgent patching across Anaconda, openQA, and Kiwi, and currently leaves ostree broken. Early manual validation testing for Fedora 45 is ongoing and has already surfaced notable bugs, including missing initial setup screens on non-graphical disk images (affecting Server and Minimal) and system freezes during shutdown.

In broader community news, a significant discussion highlighted performance and efficiency regressions caused by the default switch from power-profiles-daemon to tuned-ppd. Users and developers are actively debating whether to adjust the default TuneD profiles or revert the change entirely. Additionally, QA efforts are moving forward to formally propose replacing the unmaintained mcelog package with rasdaemon.

Decisions

• The group agreed to support an upcoming formal Change proposal to replace mcelog with rasdaemon by default, as mcelog is minimally maintained and fails on modern, unsupported CPUs. (Discussed in the Quality meeting and forum thread)

See the detailed report for the Quality team.

Learn more about the Quality team.

Design

This week, community members praised the newly revealed Fedora 45 wallpaper on the Fedora 45 Wallpaper Inspiration Poll. The team is already preparing for the next release, having recently held the Fedora 46 wallpaper mindmap call. In documentation news, the Design Docs have been revamped with newly published How We Work and Meetings pages.

On the tracking side, a contributor is asking for scoping clarification on the Community Personas project to determine whether deliverables should include a comic or just character illustrations. Additionally, older legacy repositories like designassets have been successfully migrated to the new design organization on Forge to preserve their history before Pagure is deprecated.

Decisions

• The legacy designassets repository (along with several others) was formally migrated to the new design organization on Forge to preserve historical content before Pagure is retired (Ticket #82).

Learn more about the Design team.

Docs

This week, the Docs team and community members engaged in a discussion regarding the Fedora Installer's recommendation for a separate /boot partition, exploring the technical constraints and historical reasons behind it. Additionally, a broken link reported on a Fedora test results wiki page was addressed and resolved after being properly routed to the Quality team.

Decisions

• Outdated links to the relval package documentation in the Release validation instructions wiki template were fixed by the Quality team. (Issue #61)

See the detailed report for the Docs team.

Learn more about the Docs team.

Internationalization

The Internationalization group held a meeting on August 17 to review the progress of Fedora 45 changes, bug triaging for Fedora 43, and upcoming test events. Three changes for Fedora 45 (Fontconfig 2.18, LibreOffice Dictionaries, and IBus 1.5.35) have been accepted and will be transitioned to the MODIFIED state before next week's ON_QA deadline. Contributors were also reminded of key Fedora 45 milestones approaching on August 25, including the Beta Freeze, Bodhi updates-testing activation, and the 100% Code Complete deadline.

Learn more about the Internationalization team.

Legal

Vitaly inquired on the legal mailing list about the licensing of a JavaScript port of CPython's argparse (thread). The question centered on whether the port could be licensed under PSF-2.0 alone, rather than carrying the full CPython license stack, since the original code was added in 2010. Richard Fontana followed up by addressing the question directly on the upstream pull request.

Learn more about the Legal team.

COPR

Branched Fedora 45 chroots, which are builds copied from Rawhide, are now enabled and available for use in Fedora Copr. This update was announced on the copr-devel mailing list.

Decisions

• Branched Fedora 45 chroots have been enabled in Fedora Copr (source).

Learn more about the COPR team.

EPEL

This week, the EPEL team's primary focus was preparing for the upcoming EPEL 10.3 mass branching scheduled for August 24, 2026. This process will create the EPEL 10.4 tags and involves temporarily disabling builds to the epel10-candidate target, as announced on the epel-announce and epel-devel mailing lists and discussed during the weekly meeting.

Additionally, the team discussed two package updates moving into testing: the new epel-release update for CentOS Stream 10 and a long-awaited ffmpeg compatibility package for EPEL 9. Both updates require community testing and feedback.

Decisions

• Proceed with the EPEL 10.3 mass branching on 2026-08-24, temporarily disabling builds to the epel10-candidate target during the process.

See the detailed report for the EPEL team.

Learn more about the EPEL team.

Atomic

This week, the Atomic group saw brief activity across two forum discussions. A moderator action took place on an older discussion regarding Lenovo shipping ThinkPad laptops with Fedora, splitting off newer posts into a dedicated topic for new AI-ready ThinkPad models.

Additionally, a discussion regarding the behavior of /opt and /usr/local as symlinks in Silverblue and bootc images received a response. It was clarified that existing systems heavily rely on this legacy behavior, and any proposed changes to make them regular directories would require a comprehensive migration path.

Learn more about the Atomic team.

CoreOS

The CoreOS group met on August 19, 2026 (meeting log) to review the Fedora 45 Release Schedule ahead of the beta freeze. The team evaluated several proposed Fedora 45 system-wide changes to determine their impact on Fedora CoreOS, updating their F45 tracker. Most reviewed changes, such as LLVM 23, CMake variable drops, and disabling vendor changes by default, are expected to be transparent to FCOS.

The group also discussed ongoing work and blockers. Incomplete branching for fedora-bootc images is currently holding up Rawhide and Fedora 45 progress. Ongoing investigations continue for the relocation of RPM repo configs (Issue #2172) and the impacts of an OpenSSL upgrade (Issue #2165) and RPM cryptographic policy changes (Issue #2085).

Decisions

• Determined that the DisableVendorChangeByDefault change does not require specific accommodation work for FCOS, though users performing derived container builds should be aware of potential impacts.
• Confirmed that the LLVM-23 and CMake_drop_install_vars transitions should be transparent to FCOS.
• Decided to adopt the Grub2LightForConfidentialComputing bootloader exclusively in future confidential computing efforts (e.g., sealed/UKI images), rather than utilizing it for general usage in F45.
• Assigned enablement and dependency testing for FESCO Ticket #3661 (conditional on Fedora 45+) to volunteer Angel Cervera Roldan.

Learn more about the CoreOS team.

IoT

The Fedora IoT Working Group met to discuss the status of stable and upcoming releases ahead of the Fedora 45 Beta Freeze on August 25, 2026. Fedora 44 remains stable, with testing progressing well on a new Greenboot update. However, both Fedora 45 and Fedora 46 have encountered critical installation failures that caused their OpenQA tests to be canceled. The group is actively triaging these bugs, particularly focusing on issues related to Anaconda and rpm-ostree.

Decisions

• File a bug against Anaconda regarding the recent installation failures and officially flag it as a blocker for the Fedora 45 Beta release.
• Open an official issue/bug tracker for the rpm-ostree failure impacting Fedora 45, as the primary maintainer is currently on PTO.

See the detailed report for the IoT team.

Learn more about the IoT team.

ARM

Adam Williamson announced the upcoming Fedora 45 Blocker Review meeting, scheduled for August 24, 2026, at 16:00 UTC on Matrix. The agenda includes evaluating 3 proposed blockers and 3 proposed freeze exceptions for the Beta release against the Fedora Release Criteria.

Learn more about the ARM team.

Hummingbird

The Hummingbird group held its community meeting on August 20, 2026 (summarized here). Key updates included the introduction of the Gorget project for managing source tarballs and dependencies, progress on the bootable host (which is dropping the "bootc" name for trademark reasons), and broader Fedora Atomic Initiative efforts to expand Konflux access outside of Red Hat. The group celebrated reaching 3,100 packages in the repository and over 500 users of their images on public GitHub.

A major topic of discussion centered around establishing contributor pathways and building trust within a highly automated, SLSA-compliant environment. The team acknowledged that current restrictions (such as build logs hidden behind private logins) clash with Fedora's open philosophy and act as a barrier to external contribution. To address this, they agreed to break the contributor ladder down into three distinct areas: infrastructure code, build system operations, and image content creation.

Decisions

• The bootable host project is dropping the name "bootc" due to trademark reasons (Meeting notes).
• Managed Konflux infrastructure on the Fedora instance is being made available outside of Red Hat; tenant access can now be granted to anyone with a standard Fedora account (Meeting notes).
• The Hummingbird contributor ladder will be broken down into three distinct pathways to accommodate different access levels and interests: core infrastructure code, internal factory/build system configuration, and image content creation (e.g., spec and container files) (Meeting notes).

Learn more about the Hummingbird team.

Kernel

The kernel-ark os-build branch has been rebased. This continues a standard cadence established since version 5.15, aligning with upstream releases. By rebasing near the end of a release cycle when outstanding merge requests are minimal, the team ensures that patches carried by Fedora remain no more than one release out of date. This practice maintains the project's spirit of openness and makes patches easier to apply to other trees.

Decisions

• The kernel-ark os-build branch was rebased, continuing the established cadence of rebasing for every upstream release (which will continue for 7.3, 7.4, etc.).

Learn more about the Kernel team.

RISC-V

The Fedora RISC-V group successfully concluded the mass rebuild for Fedora 45, leaving a delta of fewer than 1,000 packages. The team is preparing to analyze the remaining "fails to build from source" (FTBFS) packages and unresolved dependencies once another full delta rebuild is complete. In the weekly meeting, members also highlighted solid progress on building installer images utilizing Anaconda and image-builder.

On the hardware front, the team is actively debugging glibc mutex failures on Titan (DP1000) boards and has temporarily disabled some builder boards due to proxy issues. Additionally, members suggested starting Fedora 46 preparations earlier than usual to maintain momentum while the package delta remains manageable.

Decisions

• Temporarily disabled specific hardware boards in the build cluster due to a proxy failure (source).
• Enabled coredumps to investigate and resolve glibc mutex failures occurring on Titan (DP1000) boards (source).

Learn more about the RISC-V team.

Security

The Security group focused on privacy-enhancing initiatives and SELinux integration for systemd-run0 this week. During their August 20th meeting, the SIG debated adopting a package (ff-disable-ai-ml) that disables Firefox AI/ML features, ultimately concluding that a dedicated Privacy SIG would be a more appropriate home. Consequently, a draft proposal for a new Fedora Privacy SIG was created and is currently open for feedback.

In SELinux developments, discussions on the systemd-run0 policy issue thread yielded a path forward for making run0/systemd natively SELinux-aware. This upstream fix will dynamically calculate target user contexts, bypassing the current architectural limitations of PAM transitions via PID 1.

Decisions

• The proposal to move the ff-disable-ai-ml repository to the Security SIG was placed on hold in favor of creating a dedicated Privacy SIG. (Meeting Log)
• The group agreed to draft a proposal for a new Fedora Privacy SIG. (Meeting Log)
• It was agreed to pursue an upstream fix making systemd-run0 natively SELinux-aware, rather than relying on static policy rules to handle transitions. (Mailing List)

See the detailed report for the Security team.

Learn more about the Security team.

DotNET

This week, Amine Kheddache introduced a free AI chat platform called Ptero on the DotNet SIG mailing list. The tool requires no signup and provides access to multiple large language models. It is designed to assist C# and .NET developers with debugging, generating boilerplate code, brainstorming architecture patterns, and explaining complex concepts like LINQ and async.

Learn more about the DotNET team.

Perl

This week, the Perl group focused on routine package updates and continuous integration testing. Michal Josef Špaček opened and merged four pull requests (PRs 13 through 16) to bump the perl-Mozilla-CA package to version 20260813. In addition, Steve Traylen continued work on PR #5 for perl-SQL-Abstract to disable the Perl bootstrap, successfully triggering a Packit CI scratch build to test the configuration.

Decisions

• Merged updates to bump the perl-Mozilla-CA package to version 20260813 via PR #13, PR #14, PR #15, and PR #16.

Learn more about the Perl team.

Python

This week, the Python group clarified that redundant manual license file declarations can be safely removed from specfiles in favor of using %pyproject_save_files --assert-license unconditionally, provided the package requires flit-core 3.11 or newer (Drop second copy of LICENSE file?).

The group also agreed on a migration strategy for the backwards-incompatible flit-core v4 release. To avoid widespread build failures for packages pinning flit-core < 4, the primary package will be updated to v4 while simultaneously introducing a deprecated v3 compatibility package. This will allow time to gradually patch dependent users (Plan for flit-core v4).

Decisions

• Specfiles requiring flit-core >= 3.11 can safely drop manual %license directives and rely exclusively on %pyproject_save_files --assert-license (Source).
• The migration to flit-core v4 will be handled by updating the main package to v4 and providing a deprecated v3 compatibility package, allowing dependent packages to be patched incrementally over time (Source).

Learn more about the Python team.

Rust

This week, the Rust group discussed a proposal for a new RPM packaging strategy aimed at eliminating the large volume of empty feature subpackages by using conditional metadata dependencies instead. Contributors weighed the impact of the currently generated Rust feature packages, noting that while they constitute a significant percentage of Fedora's package count, their actual payload and size remain negligible. Additionally, a new package review request for rust-ssh2 was submitted.

See the detailed report for the Rust team.

Learn more about the Rust team.

Other Discussions

• Jakub Kadlčík provided an update on a prototype for a reimagined Fedora Package Review Process using Forgejo pull requests, custom Copr build scripts, and vendored dependency handling.
• Yann Droneaud asked if the kernel configuration and System.map files duplicated between /boot and /lib/modules could be deduplicated using symlinks, successfully testing a boot where symlinks pointed to /lib/modules.
• Orion Poplawski announced that the community.mysql ansible collection has been renamed and is seeking a new maintainer for the ansible.mysql collection.
• Following an s390x builder outage, Kevin Fenzi and Michel Lind discussed resource constraints and Koji lag metrics, noting that s390x builds are significantly delaying active maintainers.
• Petr Sklenar reported that an update to file 5.47 caused systemd .service files to be misidentified, breaking brp-mangle-shebangs; maintainers are advised to explicitly install unit files with 0644 permissions.
• Gwyn Ciesla volunteered to step in and save the matrix-synapse package after it was retired due to failing to install.
• Adam Williamson requested that developers stop hardcoding static lists of Fedora releases in their tooling, recommending automated endpoints like Bodhi's releases API.
• Henryk Paluch asked for clarification on the pagure.io decommissioning, and it was clarified that src.fedoraproject.org (dist-git) remains unaffected until a future migration to Forgejo.
• Bojan Smojver submitted a pull request to Bodhi to systematically address compose failures caused by hitting open file limits.
• Norbert Manthey proposed extending Fedora's default compiler flags (e.g., -fno-strict-overflow) to prevent overly aggressive optimizations that could introduce security vulnerabilities.
• Other discussions this week included a report of a nonresponsive maintainer for low-memory-monitor, stats from the inactive packager check for F45, a non-responsive maintainer check for ddcutil, an announcement that pagure.io is now a read-only static archive, a request to retire python-PyPDF2 and pdf-stapler, a call for package review swaps, the unretiring of bodhi-server, a reminder of the F45 Changes Complete deadline, and a notice regarding a license change in mysql-connector-java.

Orphaning packages

• Peter Hutterer announced he is orphaning evtest, evemu, and several X11 utilities as they are unmaintained upstream.
• Neal Gompa orphaned showtime because the upstream project now refuses bug reports from non-Flatpak builds; it was quickly adopted by Fabio Valentini.
• Lumír Balhar orphaned python-tiktoken, which is a leaf package.

Package updates

• Julian Anderson requested a Koji retrigger for golang 1.25.13 and 1.26.6 updates, which were then fixed by Alejandro Saez Morollon after identifying an upstream regression.
• Dan Horák issued a heads up for an update to sg3_utils-1.49 containing a soname bump, requiring a sidetag rebuild for dependent packages.
• Jerry James notified the list of a soname bump for z3 that will require reverse dependencies to be rebuilt.

New contributor introductions

• Jose Lopez introduced themselves as an embedded systems engineer interested in packaging, low-level Linux development, and eventually Linux kernel drivers.

Contribution opportunities

For contributors interested in Testing, Quality Assurance, and General Feedback, there are numerous entry-level opportunities across the project that do not require specialized team membership. Community members are highly encouraged to help with Fedora 45 early manual validation testing, test branched F45 builds, and participate in the Internationalization Test Week starting September 7. Users can quickly assist by testing the KDE Gear 26.08.0 Bodhi update, the new epel-release update, and the freshly launched Fedora Badges v3.x platform. Furthermore, anyone can help shorten release meetings by asynchronously voting on blocker bugs and freeze exceptions using the Blockerbugs app. General feedback is widely requested on several community-wide topics, including the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, AI-assistance attribution in commits, the Privacy SIG proposal, and the Ptero AI tool for .NET (mailing list thread).

Those with Writing, Design, and Event Organization skills are highly sought after to support project infrastructure. Documentation writers can tackle server-side "white spots" (like Podman containers, HPC, and domain controllers), review installer and partition layout guides, or update Workstation marketing materials to reflect that GNOME Boxes is no longer a pre-installed application. Artists and UX contributors are invited to help shape and illustrate the Community Personas project, review legacy assets in designassets, or propose new QA data visualizations in Ticket #923. On the events and community side, volunteers are needed to organize the 2026 Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD)—which has openings for schedule management, marketing, and video editing—or staff the Fedora table at All Things Open 2026 (Issue #128). Contributors seeking leadership roles can also look into open committee seats on CommOps (Issue #145).

Contributors proficient in Package Maintenance can step in to keep the distribution healthy by adopting orphaned packages, claiming retired packages using fedpkg request-unretirement, or co-maintaining packages currently facing the non-responsive maintainer process (Ticket #3678 / sponsors issue tracker). Language-specific packagers can provide feedback on the proposal for "features/extras" packaging without subpackages, assist with the Python flit-core v4 migration by patching dependency constraints, or review pending packages like rust-ssh2. Community members are also encouraged to participate in cross-team package review swaps to help unblock dependencies.

Finally, there are critical Systems Engineering and Debugging tasks for developers and sysadmins. The Infrastructure team welcomes newcomers to help port packages for the RHEL 10 migration and is urgently seeking 1-2 engineers to take over maintenance of the retrace (FAF) crash analytics server. System architects and engineers can jump in to investigate severe installation failures, such as IoT's Anaconda boot failure and rpm-ostree bugs, or analyze CoreOS's OpenSSL upgrade impacts and FESCO Ticket #3661 enablement. There are also specialized opportunities to investigate RISC-V mass rebuild build failures, help systemd-run0 become natively SELinux-aware upstream, or submit YAML manifests and container files to the new Hummingbird build factory using standard pull requests.

Across the various Fedora groups, the overarching focus this week was on the successful Fedora 45 mass branching and its subsequent release preparations, which drove extensive testing, mass rebuilds (particularly for the RISC-V architecture), and CI/CD validation efforts. Concurrently, infrastructure and engineering teams were heavily engaged in major system upgrades, notably migrating services to RHEL 10, executing planned server outages, transitioning repositories to Forgejo, and implementing network blocklists to mitigate aggressive automated scraping that temporarily disrupted operations. Policy and governance updates were also a central theme, as the Council and FESCo worked to finalize the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, establish new Conflict of Interest guidelines, and address community concerns regarding AI-integrated software and regulatory liability under the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Finally, routine ecosystem maintenance and security remained high priorities, evidenced by the active processing of non-responsive maintainers, Out-of-Band security patching for vulnerabilities like the "Zapscape" kernel flaw, and ongoing dependency and macro improvements across language stacks like Python and Go.

Announcements

On the development and infrastructure front, Fedora 45 successfully completed its mass branching on August 11 (following an initial notification), placing the release into a post-branch freeze until a successful compose. Change owners were also reminded that all F45 changes needed to be testable by August 11. Contributors should prepare for a six-hour planned infrastructure outage on August 20 for server upgrades and RHEL 10 migrations. Policy updates are also underway, with the Council seeking feedback on the proposed Fedora Forge Usage Policy for the project's internal Forgejo instance. In broader ecosystem news, Mark J. Wielaard was honored with the Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom by the Software Freedom Conservancy for his decades of foundational work on tools like Valgrind, elfutils, and Sourceware.

For those looking to get involved, the Fedora QA team is calling for volunteers for the upcoming Fedora 45 Test Days (detailed further in a Fedora Magazine article), starting with GNOME 51 on August 17 and followed by testing for RPM 6.1 and installation media. If you are a newcomer unsure of where to start interacting with the community, Episode 058 of the Fedora Podcast provides a comprehensive guide to Fedora's communication channels. Finally, users can check out a new tutorial on how to monitor NVMe and SSD drive health using Performance Co-Pilot (PCP).

Council

This week, the Council focused heavily on community policies and governance processes. Significant progress was made on the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, with the Council agreeing to adjust guidelines around Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and dropping the automated repository archival rule in favor of a mandatory "tickets" contact repository for organizations. Additionally, the Council agreed to propose a new Conflict of Interest guideline requiring neutral oversight during private decisions involving access rights.

Other major topics included a proposal by Red Hat to act as the Open Source Software Steward for Fedora under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to shield volunteer contributors from regulatory liability. The community also discussed user concerns over AI features embedded in packaged software, clarifications to the AI-Assisted Contributions Policy, and an updated draft of the Fedora Innovation Lifecycle to create a sandbox for large experimental changes.

Decisions

• Agreed to update the Fedora Forge Usage Policy to include a short sentence on handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII) under the Code of Conduct section, address remaining feedback in a v.3 draft, and allow one more week of community review before voting.
• Agreed to propose a new Conflict of Interest guideline for governance groups, stating that private decisions regarding access rights should require mediation or oversight from project leadership (FPL/FCA/FOA) if a conflict of interest exists, and to gather community feedback before formalizing the change.

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FESCo

This week, FESCo held one meeting, participated in three forum discussions, and handled 19 tickets. During the meeting, FESCo noted that the completion deadline and mass branching for Fedora 45 had arrived, and briefly discussed the need for mitigations against aggressive automated scraping on the src.fedoraproject.org infrastructure. On the forums, community members initiated a discussion on whether Fedora needs a formal policy or labeling system for packages that introduce AI-powered features, highlighting concerns about data privacy and unexpected behavior.

A significant portion of FESCo's activity in tickets involved voting on Change proposals for F45 and F46, resulting in the approval of several new features including a WebUI installer for Fedora Atomic, the deprecation of the NIS profile in authselect, and the introduction of a new encapsule developer container tool. Additionally, FESCo processed multiple non-responsive maintainer tickets, resulting in the orphaning of some packages and the assignment of new maintainers to several critical components like thermald and mcelog.

Decisions

• Approved Change: Web Based Remote Installation Support for Atomic Desktops (Ticket #3670).
• Approved Change: Anaconda WebUI Fedora Atomic (Ticket #3666).
• Approved Change: Encapsule isolated devel containers (Ticket #3668).
• Approved Change: IBus 1.5.35 (Ticket #3669).
• Approved Change: Authselect Remove NIS Profile (Ticket #3662).
• Approved Change: Disable in Kernel Crypto Userspace API Phase 1 (Ticket #3667).
• Approved Change: Enable systemd-oomd and zram swap for CoreOS (Ticket #3661).
• Approved Change: Sequoia openpgpverify (Ticket #3660).
• Approved an updates policy exception for python-cloudflare (Ticket #3674).
• Approved a one-time updates policy exception for thermald across all Fedora branches to fix power management issues (Ticket #3673).
• Approved the non-responsive maintainer process for the owner of python-avocado and python-aexpect, leading to the packages being orphaned (Ticket #3659).
• Approved adding new co-maintainers for thermald, libfprint, fprintd, and fwts under the non-responsive maintainer policy (Ticket #3672).

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Ambassadors

This week, the Ambassadors group received a single announcement regarding the Call for Sessions for the Everything Open 2027 conference. Fedora contributors are encouraged to submit proposals for talks or tutorials relating to Linux, open source, security, or operations by September 6, 2026. For more details, see the mailing list post.

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Workstation / GNOME

This week, the scheduled Workstation Working Group meeting was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. The primary discussion in the community centered around the future of the Ptyxis terminal emulator in Fedora, as its original author confirmed he is no longer maintaining the project.

Community members discussed potential alternatives to replace Ptyxis, including Ghostty and GNOME Console. To determine an official path forward and prevent wasted effort by community translators on an abandoned upstream project, a formal ticket was filed with the Workstation Working Group.

See the detailed report for the Workstation / GNOME team.

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Server

During the week of August 10-16, 2026, the Fedora Server group focused on Fedora 45 branched release testing and documentation restructuring. The group celebrated the availability of group-wide CI/CD runners for the first time. Significant discussions were held regarding the Home Server spin-off, specifically evaluating a new virtualized Kiwi development and testing environment.

In documentation, the group decided to streamline by merging tutorial and use-case files into a single "Use cases" section. Testing for F45 is actively underway, though a partition type issue in the VM build requires a fix.

Decisions

• The documentation structure will be updated by creating a new "use cases" section that merges all use-case and tutorial files, leading to the deletion of the dedicated "Tutorials" section.
• The Working Group will finalize the specific restructuring details for the post-installation documentation sections in the related tracking ticket and vote on it during the next meeting.
• All working group members are requested to test the new virtualized build environment by following the Home Server README to build a dummy Fedora image.

See the detailed report for the Server team.

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Infrastructure

This week, the Infrastructure team focused heavily on migrating services to RHEL 10, scheduling a major 6-hour outage for August 20 to handle mass updates, reboots, and VM reinstallations. To combat severe scraping traffic on Fedora infrastructure (which temporarily spiked server loads and disrupted Anubis on Pagure), the team successfully implemented a new user-agent blocklist. The team is also officially migrating the Matrix moderation bot to Fedora's OpenShift infrastructure, alongside drafting new policies for "official" Matrix rooms. Finally, the legacy retrace.fedoraproject.org server is being decommissioned due to a lack of maintenance.

Decisions

• A 6-hour infrastructure outage is scheduled for August 20 at 20:00 UTC for mass updates, reboots, and RHEL 10 migrations.
• The unmaintained retrace.fedoraproject.org server will be shut down and decommissioned.
• The primary rsync servers have been switched to the BBR congestion control algorithm to improve download speeds.
• The Fedora Matrix moderation bot will be officially migrated to Fedora Infrastructure (@moderation:fedoraproject.org).

See the detailed report for the Infrastructure team.

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Release Engineering

This week, the Release Engineering team successfully completed the mass branching of Fedora 45 off of Rawhide, with Rawhide officially transitioning to Fedora 46. Concurrently, the mass re-signing process for Fedora 45 packages and the generation of the Fedora 47 IMA key took place. Additionally, the team finalized the migration of all Release Engineering repositories to Forgejo (fedora-scm-requests).

Other notable activities involved fixing an early signing issue for ELN packages, updating staging environments for koji-image-builder testing, and refining internal tools, such as creating a dedicated team to validate SCM requests and reduce notification spam. Maintainers are also reminded to use the new fedpkg request-unretirement feature instead of filing Releng tickets for routine package unretirements.

Decisions

• Fedora 45 was successfully branched from Rawhide, making Rawhide officially Fedora 46.
• Package maintainers no longer need to open Release Engineering tickets for package unretirements; they must now use the fedpkg request-unretirement command (requires fedpkg v1.48+).
• All Release Engineering repositories have been fully migrated to Forgejo.
• A new group (forge-releng-scm-validators) was established to handle SCM requests directly, resolving the issue of excessive pings to all members of the releng organization.
• The Fedora 43 signing key was removed from the coreos-pool and replaced with the Fedora 46 key.
• Nonresponsive maintainer processes were executed for the user cleber, resulting in the orphaning of their packages.

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Quality

The Quality group focused on system performance, package default configurations, and preparations for the Fedora 45 release. Significant attention was brought to performance and power efficiency regressions caused by the switch to tuned-ppd, prompting discussions on how to better adjust the default TuneD profiles. Additionally, community testers successfully verified a critical GRUB Out-of-Memory fix in Rawhide.

In Quality Engineering (QE), early manual validation testing for Fedora 45 has started and already uncovered several significant bugs. The team also prepared tooling for the upcoming release, testing Issuebot in production and marking it ready for F45.

Decisions

• Issuebot has been successfully tested in production and is formally ready to run for the Fedora 45 release cycle.
• The GRUB Out-of-Memory fix was verified to work in Rawhide, allowing the pending rollout to Fedora 44 to proceed.

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Design

Between August 10 and August 16, 2026, the Design team continued to refine key graphical assets for Fedora projects and internal tools, alongside ongoing UX work for the Fedora Design Docs revamp. Major discussions revolved around finalizing the character details for the LoLa AI Package Manager mascot and aiming to complete avatars for the Fedora Matrix bots by the end of the current sprint. Additionally, historical design assets were preserved through a repository migration from Pagure to the active Forge.

Decisions

• Migrated the legacy designassets repository from Pagure to the Design organization on Forge to preserve historical content and history.
• Utilized the Matrix ID @admin:fedoraproject.org as the official handle for the newly rolling-out moderation bot, which will require an avatar.

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Docs

The Docs team met to discuss ongoing efforts to clean up outdated Fedora Wiki pages, exploring automated approaches using the MediaWiki API to replace tedious manual deletions. They also evaluated a new experimental CI site builder relying on Podman and discussed adopting the Vale linter, deciding to introduce it as a recommendation for local authoring before enforcing it in CI. Concurrently, a community forum discussion took place regarding the documentation and rationale behind recommending a separate /boot partition in Fedora installations. Team tickets tracked a new membership request, a broken link in the Server test results wiki page, and the extensive historical wiki cleanup effort.

Decisions

• The Vale linter will be introduced as a recommended tool for local authoring rather than a strict CI requirement to avoid blocking contributors with excessive errors.
• Mass deletion of obsolete Docs-related wiki pages (such as Fedora 8 and 11 guides) will continue, with script-based automation via the MediaWiki API being actively explored to streamline the process.

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Internationalization

This week, the Internationalization group received a cross-posted invitation to speak at the Everything Open 2027 conference. Community members are encouraged to submit session proposals covering topics like Linux, open source, AI, security, and operations before the September 6, 2026 deadline.

See the detailed report for the Internationalization team.

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Legal

This week, the Legal group discussed whether Copr projects are permitted to download and use proprietary software, specifically the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit, during the build process for otherwise free and open-source packages like cuda-python. The primary concern raised was that utilizing proprietary dependencies during a build could inadvertently include proprietary code in the resulting binaries, such as through inlined headers. The prevailing consensus was that this practice is not allowed if it results in the distribution of content that violates Fedora's allowed licensing rules.

Decisions

• Software built, hosted, and distributed in Copr must be governed entirely by an acceptable Fedora license. Downloading proprietary software (like the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit) during a Copr build process is generally unacceptable if it causes the resulting binary to include proprietary content, such as inlined code from proprietary headers.

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COPR

A scheduled outage for the COPR servers was announced for 2026-08-12 at 07:30 UTC, lasting approximately three hours. The downtime allowed the team to update COPR packages to newer versions, providing bug fixes and new features to the general Linux community using the build service.

Community members with questions or issues were encouraged to use the Fedora Build System Matrix channel (#buildsys:fedoraproject.org) or comment on the associated infrastructure ticket.

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EPEL

This week, the EPEL group focused heavily on repository architecture and package updates. The Steering Committee unanimously approved the "de-z-ification" of EPEL 10, aligning its repository structure with the upcoming EPEL 11 release by utilizing the $stream variable for CentOS while leaving RHEL without a suffix.

In package news, maintainers announced the migration of libgit2 dependents in EPEL 9 and EPEL 10 to the supported v1.9 branch to address security vulnerabilities, as well as minor updates to uv and ruff in the EPEL 10.3 testing repositories.

Decisions

• The EPEL Steering Committee unanimously approved the "de-z-ification" of EPEL 10. CentOS streams will use suffixed repository paths (e.g., epel-10s) while RHEL uses unsuffixed paths (e.g., epel-10), aligning with the approved EPEL 11 design.
• Packages depending on libgit2 in EPEL 9 and EPEL 10 will be migrated from the obsolete v1.7 branch to the supported v1.9 branch via pull requests.

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ELN

The ELN group met this week to discuss recent updates, including the publication of bootc images, the minimization of go-vendor-tools for RHEL 11, and variant reorganizations such as moving Live images to a new AltImages variant and adding a new Extensions variant. The group also noted the F45 branching process, which temporarily paused builds, and highlighted that the next branching in six months will coincide with the RHEL 11 branching.

Additionally, the group discussed mitigating database bloat in Koji caused by failing draft build retries. A proposal was also made to adopt a separate GPG key for ELN content starting with Fedora 46 to reduce the frequency of key rotations from twice a year to once every three years.

Decisions

• Pursue a dedicated GPG key for ELN content starting with the F46/EL11 branching cycle to reduce key rotations, initiating the process by filing a releng ticket.
• Deploy a fix to the build sync tooling to prevent retries of consistently failing draft builds from rapidly filling up the Koji database.

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Atomic

The Atomic group had a quiet week. During a brief meeting, members noted that ongoing Konflux integration work for Atomic Desktops is continuing. On the forums, a community member inquired about /opt and /usr/local functioning as symlinks in Silverblue and asked whether future Fedora bootc images will transition to using regular directories instead.

Learn more about the Atomic team.

CoreOS

CoreOS met once this week to discuss the Fedora 45 release schedule and a severe kernel vulnerability. Fedora 45 recently branched from Rawhide, and the team is preparing the necessary updates for coreos-installer and bootc images, alongside monitoring for F46 key signing issues in Rawhide.

The team also reviewed the recent "Zapscape" kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-64561). They decided to issue an out-of-band kernel update for the testing and next streams to mitigate the issue for VM workloads immediately, rather than waiting for the scheduled stable release next week.

Decisions

• Issue an out-of-band kernel update for the testing and next streams to address the Zapscape vulnerability (CVE-2026-64561) prior to the next scheduled stable release.
• Use a package override via GitHub actions to fast-track the fixed kernel without promoting the entire testing-devel/next-devel stream.

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ARM

During this week, the ARM group had a brief discussion regarding kernel availability for the Raspberry Pi 5. A community member inquired about a Fedora 44 (F44) kernel, noting the reliability of the current F43 kernel updates. It was confirmed that F44, F45, and Rawhide kernels are already available for the device in the existing COPR repository.

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Alternative Images

In their recent meeting, the Alternative Images group announced that RISC-V tags and targets have been successfully set up, representing a major first step toward creating new RISC-V images. Furthermore, Kiwi descriptions for RISC-V have been provided by Andrea.

The group is designating the upcoming week as "image week." During this time, they will conduct their regular quarterly image updates and officially begin generating RISC-V images specifically for QEMU virtual machines and P550 hardware.

Decisions

• To begin generating RISC-V images specifically targeting QEMU and P550 hardware during the upcoming week.
• To proceed with the regular quarterly image updates next week.

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AI & ML

The AI & ML SIG met to discuss the upcoming ROCm 7.14 update for Fedora 46 and the use of the pi-coding-agent tool (available in Fedora 45) for automating day-to-day packaging review tasks. A major point of discussion was a proposal to split the AI/ML SIG into two distinct groups (packaging vs. end-user AI adoption). The group unanimously decided against the split, opting to maintain a "big-tent" approach while improving documentation to clarify roles. In other news, an all-new Electron RPM was submitted to unblock Podman Desktop in Fedora, alongside updates to Podman Desktop in COPR and a proof-of-concept Atomic Fedora CSB bootc image.

Decisions

• The proposal to split the AI/ML SIG into two separate groups (Packaging and AI Use) was rejected; the SIG will maintain a unified, "big-tent" structure.
• Clarified that membership in the general ai-ml-sig FAS group does not grant packaging commit rights, maintaining a clear security boundary for compliance efforts like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

See the detailed report for the AI & ML team.

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RISC-V

The Fedora 45 RISC-V mass rebuild is 85% completed (around 20,000 packages), significantly aided by community members and Red Hatters who contributed new builders to parallelize the process. You can view the rebuild status numbers here. Other focus areas included investigating a failed LLVM build with RISC-V patches, co-writing Koji querying scripts, and exploring "Agentic SDLC" ideas for automated FTBFS triage and image boot testing.

A major challenge this week involved AI scrapers bringing down the Koji hub over the weekend, which resulted in numerous build failures.

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Security

The Security group held an open-floor meeting this week, where members discussed their roles, kernel maintenance, and the upcoming packaging of module-jail for Fedora. On the forums, a mass scan report from OpenScanHub was published for Fedora 45 Critical Path Packages, calling for maintainers to review AI-flagged security findings. Additionally, a complex architectural issue regarding systemd-run0 and SELinux was brought to the mailing list, with a request for community input on the best path forward.

Decisions

• Justin Forbes will maintain the Fedora package for module-jail and work to integrate it into the proper repositories as an opt-in security feature.

See the detailed report for the Security team.

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Go

The Go SIG met this week and primarily discussed the upcoming Go 1.27.0 release, which is expected soon alongside embargoed CVE patches for the 1.26 and 1.25 branches. The group also discussed architecture support, noting that i686 (32-bit x86) builds are increasingly being excluded from specific packages, though linux/386 remains a first-class port in the Go ecosystem and cannot be entirely purged yet due to system dependencies.

Decisions

• The SIG will run a mass prebuild once Go 1.27.0 is released to identify and fix any broken packages before requesting a mass rebuild.

See the detailed report for the Go team.

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PHP

This week, the PHP group received an update regarding an ongoing dependency resolution issue in EPEL where php-devel incorrectly pulls in php8.4-devel instead of the default PHP 8.3 stack. Remi Collet reported that although the package itself has been fixed, both the affected and fixed versions currently coexist in the EPEL-10.3 buildroot, meaning the issue remains unresolved.

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Python

This week, the Python group evaluated a provisional dependency patching macro to simplify package builds and discussed formalizing its behavior. They also reached consensus on an RFC to expand automatic python(abi) dependencies to all file types installed in Python library directories.

Additionally, discussions were opened regarding a migration strategy for the upcoming flit-core v4 release to ensure compatibility ahead of the Fedora 46 branch, and guidance was provided to packagers dealing with upstream applications that pollute the global Python namespace.

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Other Discussions

This week in Fedora, there were updates to the package review process and SCM request infrastructure, along with a multitude of package updates, soname bumps, and mass branching for Fedora 45.

• Fedora Package Review Process reimagined prototype development is ongoing, with Jakub Kadlčík updating the Copr custom build feature implementation and support for vendored sources to inch closer to an optimal Forgejo and Packit integration.
• A new tool named Kiritan was introduced by Fyra Labs as a Rust-based alternative to createrepo_c, promising significantly faster execution and lower RAM usage.
• The pagure.io sunset & scm-requests migration is officially finished for SCM requests, and the team is now finalizing a static page mirror and a workaround for private issues.
• In the binary content in node_modules thread, Gordon Messmer announced a major update to npm2rpm, providing new test packages for evaluating node dependency bundling.
• A non-responsive maintainer check was initiated by Federico Pellegrin to contact Lubomir Rintel (lkundrak) due to unanswered PRs and bugs across multiple packages.
• A discussion about compose failures with too many files concluded that the issue is likely due to a file descriptor leak in Bodhi rather than system file limits being configured too low.
• The community celebrated as Mark J. Wielaard received the Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom at FOSSY 2026, recognizing his decades of service maintaining essential tooling like Valgrind, elfutils, and Sourceware.
• Maxwell G started a nonresponsive maintainer check for Sandro (gui1ty), noting a lack of activity since late 2025 across 77 packages.
• Tomas Kopecek proposed to drop Python 2 support from remaining Koji components in upcoming releases (1.37 or 1.38), creating a legacy branch for security updates instead.
• Other discussions this week included a call for sessions for Everything Open 2027, a planned infrastructure outage on August 20, the planned shutdown of the unmaintained retrace.fedoraproject.org service, the successful completion of the Fedora 45 Mass Branching (after its initial announcement), a reminder for the F45 Changes Testable deadline, reports on findings by static analyzers for F45 Critical Path Packages, and an error in the procps Ukrainian translation file.

Orphaning packages

• Gabriel L. Somlo is orphaning yosys, nextpnr, and related packages, which were subsequently picked up by Alexander F. Lent.
• Peter Hutterer is orphaning evtest, evemu, and several X11 utilities, with xkill already claimed by Artur Frenszek-Iwicki.
• An automated report detailed a large list of orphaned packages looking for new maintainers before they are automatically retired.
• Lumír Balhar is orphaning python-pipdeptree due to upstream shifting the main engine to Rust, complicating its dependency chain.

Package updates

• Pavel Raiskup announced the release of Mock v6.8 and mock-core-configs v45.1, featuring a new separate_check config option and a system_monitor plugin, though manual side-tag builds were needed to bypass some Bodhi gating issues.
• Marek Kasik prepared a poppler soname bump to 26.08.0 in Rawhide, coordinating rebuilds with dependent packages like Inkscape and LibreOffice.
• Luya Tshimbalanga announced the f45-backgrounds update, detailing fixes to allow lossy JPEG XL wallpapers to correctly render on KDE Plasma.
• Xavier Bachelot announced a libnfs 7.0.0 soname bump, providing a side tag for dependent package maintainers to rebuild against.
• Kaleb Keithley is updating Apache Thrift to 0.24.0, which includes a SONAME bump in rawhide.
• Milan Crha announced a libedataserver soname version bump for the 3.61.2 release in Rawhide.
• Jerry James notified the list about an upcoming z3 version 5.1 soname bump.
• Michael J Gruber announced a soname bump for girara, zathura, and mupdf to bring the latest versions to Fedora via side-tags.
• Ondrej Nosek released rpkg-1.70 and fedpkg-1.48, noting that the projects are now hosted on Fedora Forge and documentation is available on Readthedocs.
• Fabio Valentini warned about an upcoming pygit v1.20.0 update that removes several deprecated symbols and breaks backwards compatibility.

New contributor introductions

• Dirk Nehring introduced themselves as a long-time Linux user and VDR plugin author, looking for a sponsor to help package and maintain VDR plugins in Fedora.

Contribution opportunities

Community members with hardware access or environments for testing can immediately contribute to quality assurance efforts across various groups without needing prior team membership. Testers are needed to validate Fedora 45 bare-metal and VM builds, monitor Rawhide for CoreOS key signing breakages, and test new out-of-band CoreOS kernel updates addressing Zapscape. Users with specific hardware can test kernels on Raspberry Pi 5 or prepare to test upcoming RISC-V and P550 alternative images. Additionally, general contributors can test pi-coding-agent in Fedora 45, evaluate the provisional Python %pyproject_patch_dependency macro, run the Home Server README image build, clone the experimental docs-fp-o-ci-test site builder, or evaluate the separate_check feature in Mock 6.8. Those experiencing performance drops on modern hardware can also assist the Quality team in debugging TuneD configuration profiles.

Developers and packagers can step up to adopt orphaned packages (such as python-avocado, evtest, bottles, and Zim), or sponsor new maintainers like Dirk Nehring (Ticket #13470 for rust-plotters-backend). There is a high demand for fixing Fails To Build From Source (FTBFS) issues during the Go 1.27.0 mass prebuild, RISC-V LLVM patches, and EPEL migrations. Scripting opportunities include refining mass rebuild scripts (Ticket #13428, PR #13051), improving Bodhi update checks (Ticket #13468), assisting with a test assets repository server, packaging Zig applications for Workstation, or designing UI-side Ansible tasks for Zabbix. Additionally, package maintainers should review the August 2026 OpenScanHub report to resolve static analyzer findings or take over the retrace.fedoraproject.org service.

Contributors with writing or visual design skills can pick up valuable tasks without deep technical setups. The Design team welcomes interns and new contributors to illustrate Community Personas or create event flyers using tools like Inkscape. Writers can restructure the Server post-installation guide into self-contained AsciiDoc topics, write Kickstart coverage for dnsmasq, clean up legacy wiki pages (Issue #43), fix documentation links like relval (Issue #61), or propose content to the AI/ML documentation (Issue #38). Contributors can also clear legacy pagure.io links from the Fedora Ansible repository comments. Translators, however, are asked to pause localization on Ptyxis until a new default Workstation terminal is finalized.

Anyone in the wider community can provide valuable feedback on overarching project governance, legal policies, and community advocacy. Open discussions seeking input include the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, the Innovation Lifecycle proposal, Workstation WG issue #520 regarding terminal emulators, and the overarching policy on packages containing AI-powered features. Legal experts can evaluate open-source licensing edge cases involving dynamic linking or draft the GPU Acceptable Use Policy (Issue #35), while SELinux experts can advise on systemd-run0 integration. Finally, all contributors are encouraged to share their Fedora-related expertise by submitting session proposals to the Everything Open 2027 conference before September 6, 2026.

Across various Fedora groups, a major shared focus this week was preparing for the upcoming Fedora 45 release cycle, which included executing mass rebuilds, coordinating early manual validation testing, and finalizing change proposals ahead of the imminent branching deadline. Infrastructure transitions were another critical common item, particularly the project-wide effort to gather requirements for replacing Red Hat Bugzilla and the successful migration of source control requests from Pagure to Fedora Forge, which requires maintainers to update their fedpkg toolchains. Hardware architecture improvements were also prominent, with multiple groups dedicating resources to testing and expanding build capacities for ARM and RISC-V devices. On the community front, organizing teams focused heavily on preparations for the FrOSCon 2026 event, while several other groups—including Packaging and Diversity & Inclusion—chose to pause regular meetings or shift to ad-hoc structures to prevent organizer burnout. Finally, navigating the rise of Artificial Intelligence emerged as a cross-cutting theme, prompting discussions around user privacy, default opt-in policies for third-party packages, and strategies for local AI development.

Announcements

Major workflow transitions are underway for Fedora contributors, starting with the planned decommissioning of Red Hat Bugzilla within the next six months. FESCo has opened a ticket tracker for planning and gathering requirements for a future Red Hat BugZilla replacement to document workflows impacted by this shift. Additionally, the fedora-scm-requests queue has officially migrated from Pagure to Fedora Forge following its scheduled start on August 5th. Maintainers must update to the new fedpkg version 1.48 to continue submitting new package and branch requests, as the old Pagure system is now obsolete. In other maintenance news, a final reminder was issued listing long-term FTBFS (Fails to Build From Source) packages slated for retirement from Fedora 45, urging maintainers to fix or seek exemptions for affected software. Finally, the Fedora RISC-V community is seeking testers for an updated Fedora 44 server image that features out-of-the-box support for SpacemiT K3 boards and improvements for K1 hardware.

For the broader Linux community, new guides are available detailing how to run Ollama locally with Podman on Fedora Linux for containerized, private AI development, and how to monitor your drive health with Performance Co-Pilot to prevent sudden data loss from failing NVMe or SSD drives. Lastly, a recent attendee shared a positive retrospective on developing with Fedora and their first Flock conference, highlighting the community's welcoming culture and the behind-the-scenes efforts of volunteers and sponsors.

Council

Between August 3 and 9, 2026, the Council discussed a new user concern regarding the introduction of AI-powered features in third-party packages, highlighting the need for packaging guidelines around user privacy and opt-in defaults. The Council also continued reviewing the proposed Fedora Forge Usage Policy, incorporating community feedback into a new draft. Additionally, a temporary "private issues" workaround was proposed for Fedora Forge while native support is being developed upstream, sparking discussions on how the Council and other sensitive groups will handle private tracking.

Decisions

• No formal Council decisions were finalized during this period.
• The Fedora package maintainer for Atuin decided to disable its new AI and hex features by default due to dependency creep and privacy concerns, pending a more robust opt-in or sub-packaging strategy.

See the detailed report for the Council team.

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FESCo

This week, FESCo focused heavily on reviewing and voting on F45 and F46 Change Proposals, handling administrative tickets, and addressing updates policy exceptions. Several major Change Proposals were formally approved for Fedora 45, including the modernization of the ODBC Stack, enabling systemd-oomd and zram swap for CoreOS, and transitioning to Sequoia for openpgpverify. Conversely, the committee rejected the proposal to hardcode nss-altfiles in authselect profiles, encouraging further collaboration among affected initiatives like CoreOS and atomic bootc.

In addition to changes, FESCo initiated a project-wide requirements gathering phase for Fedora's eventual Bugzilla replacement. They also approved an urgent updates policy exception for thermald to resolve power management issues on newer Intel laptops, and handled several non-responsive maintainer tickets to ensure long-term package health.

Decisions

• Accepted multiple F45 Changes: ODBC Stack Modernization, LibreOffice Dictionaries, Native Butane Config Support in Ignition, LibreOffice html help, Authselect Remove NIS Profile, Enable systemd-oomd and zram swap for CoreOS, and Sequoia openpgpverify.
• Rejected the F45 Change: Authselect: Hardcode nss-altfiles in profiles, requesting further collaboration among atomic, bootc, and coreos teams to find a viable solution.
• Approved an urgent updates policy exception for thermald across all Fedora branches to fix Intel power management issues.
• Approved a Soname Change Policy Exception Request for Qt-Advanced-Docking-System.
• Approved non-responsive maintainer actions for benzea, granting ngompa co-maintainer admin rights for thermald, libfprint, fprintd, and fwts.
• Agreed to launch a project-wide requirements gathering tracker to collect user stories and identify a suitable Bugzilla replacement.
• Updated the release schedule for F46 onwards to move the Major Toolchain Updates/Changes deadline to a week before the mass rebuild.

See the detailed report for the FESCo team.

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Packaging Committee

The Packaging Committee held a brief meeting this week. The agenda was notably light, with no new tickets submitted for review. The only active item mentioned was a work-in-progress pull request for Node.js. Due to upcoming vacations for key members, the committee agreed to suspend meetings for the rest of August.

Decisions

• The committee will skip its next scheduled meeting in two weeks due to member vacations, postponing the next gathering until the first week of September.

See the detailed report for the Packaging Committee team.

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Mindshare

Mindshare held a brief meeting this week but concluded early due to a lack of quorum. Despite the early adjournment, organizers noted ongoing progress on various tickets and highlighted upcoming events, specifically FrOSCon and Data Con LA.

Additionally, community members are actively organizing the Fedora presence for FrOSCon 2026. The project booth is confirmed and swag items are being gathered, alongside an open call for volunteers to assist at the booth and share their work with attendees.

See the detailed report for the Mindshare team.

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Ambassadors

The Ambassadors group focused entirely on final preparations for the Fedora booth at FrOSCon 2026, which takes place August 15-16 near Bonn, Germany. The team has successfully secured a booth space, promotional materials, and a new tablecloth, and they are actively seeking volunteers and project showcases from the community to help run the event.

See the detailed report for the Ambassadors team.

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Diversity & Inclusion

The Diversity & Inclusion group is putting its regular team meetings on hiatus to prevent organizer burnout and shift focus toward concrete, event-driven goals. Discussion in the "Time to take a break?" thread confirmed that regular meetings have become stagnant without specific deliverables, and organizers will now lean into forming ad-hoc teams for events like the Fedora Mentor Summit, Fedora Week of Diversity, and Fedora Appreciation Week.

Calendar entries for the regular DEI meetings are being removed, but this will not halt ongoing initiatives. Future activities will be organized through dedicated calls for volunteers and planned in their respective event repositories.

Decisions

• Regular DEI Team meetings are officially placed on hiatus, and corresponding Fedora and Google Calendar entries are being deleted.
• Future DEI efforts will shift to an ad-hoc, event-specific model focusing on time-boxed initiatives rather than standing meetings.

See the detailed report for the Diversity & Inclusion team.

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Workstation / GNOME

The Workstation Working Group discussed upcoming upstream GNOME changes, including plans for GNOME 52+ to replace GNOME Software with a Flatpak-focused installer called "Bazaar" and a new system updater, though Fedora will stick with GNOME Software for the time being. The group also evaluated newly integrated features like the IBus speech-to-text functionality, noting performance delays and missing default models, and reviewed the transition of GNOME Boxes to a Flatpak-only application which currently requires further polish on fractionally scaled screens.

On the forum side, community members engaged in a technical discussion regarding Btrfs RAID1 and nodatacow files (such as Libvirt virtual machine images), proposing theoretical file system mechanisms to ensure data recoverability during bit rot without full metadata checksumming.

Decisions

• Fedora will continue using GNOME Software for the time being, despite upstream GNOME's long-term plans (GNOME 52+) to replace it with a new installer called Bazaar.
• The memory retention issue in IBus speech-to-text, where the model remains loaded after the input method is removed, will be officially treated and tracked as a bug.

See the detailed report for the Workstation / GNOME team.

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KDE

The KDE group discussions this week focused on a user-reported issue regarding computer freezes under Plasma (Wayland) after upgrading to Fedora 44. The system becomes unresponsive during screen lock, with the nvidia-modeset/kthread_q process consuming 100% of the CPU, requiring a sysreq reboot to resolve.

See the detailed report for the KDE team.

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Server

This week, the Server Working Group officially reached quorum with the addition of new members and made progress on release testing and automation infrastructure. Discussions centered heavily on upcoming Fedora 45 changes, identifying bugs in VM and ARM partition types, and reviewing default packages to prevent unnecessary bloat in server environments.

The group also advanced its Ansible support project by merging initial post-installation modules and beginning work on a CI pipeline using self-hosted Forge runners. Furthermore, the WG continued refining its documentation structure, debating the best ways to present post-installation configuration tasks to users.

Decisions

• The Working Group decided to contact the upstream Cockpit team to request the removal of unnecessary dependencies, such as SPICE, from the Cockpit VM module to prevent unwanted package bloat on standard server installations.
• The Server Working Group's Ansible repository will be formally structured around small, tightly focused roles that are assembled into larger playbooks, avoiding monolithic scripts.

See the detailed report for the Server team.

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Infrastructure

The Infrastructure team was highly active this week, handling multiple system migrations, upgrades, and investigating service anomalies. Key efforts included advancing the RHEL 10 migrations for miscellaneous hosts, rolling out OpenID Connect enrollment for the Release Schedule Planner, and addressing intermittent authentication issues following the recent IPA cluster reinstall. The team also announced an upcoming scheduled outage for the Copr servers and discussed transitioning Matrix moderation duties to official Fedora infrastructure, including a formalized policy for official Matrix rooms.

Additionally, developers introduced substantial updates to Tahrir, the Tahrir API, and Forgejo, improving performance and enabling new features like private issue tracking in the forge environment. Investigations were also launched into src.fedoraproject.org 503 errors caused by heavy scraper activity and Fedora mailing list emails being falsely flagged as spam by the SpamHaus blocklist.

Decisions

• Migrate the Matrix moderation bot hosting to official Fedora infrastructure (@moderation:fedoraproject.org).
• Implement a new policy for official Fedora Matrix rooms, requiring the moderation bot to be present, a :fedoraproject.org room alias, and appropriate sub-space assignment.
• Block the creation of a Bugzilla component and FAS group for Security Bugs until FESCo formally approves the proposed security policy changes.
• Create new Fedora Account System (FAS) tracking groups for Copr projects: netfyr and sosreport.

See the detailed report for the Infrastructure team.

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Release Engineering

This week, the Release Engineering team focused heavily on infrastructure migrations and preparations for the Fedora 45 release cycle. A major milestone was the successful migration of the scm-requests repository from Pagure to Forgejo on August 5th, which necessitates that community members update their fedpkg utilities to version 1.48 or greater. The team also began extensive preparations for the F45 mass branching scheduled for August 11th, which included executing the mass re-signing of F45 content with the new F46 key.

In addition to release cycle preparations, the group handled various system and package fixes. They deployed a fix to prevent releng-bot from pinging unrelated users during SCM requests, resolved an issue where ELN packages were signed with the wrong key, and bypassed a Bodhi sidetag limitation affecting shadow-utils. Multiple package unretirement and stalled maintenance requests were processed, and the team highlighted that unretirements can now be executed directly via the updated fedpkg CLI without requiring a ticket.

Decisions

• The fedora-scm-requests repository was officially migrated from Pagure to Forgejo; maintainers must update to fedpkg v1.48 or greater to submit new package and branch requests.
• Package unretirements no longer require a Release Engineering ticket; maintainers should now use the newly introduced fedpkg request-unretirement command.
• Created a dedicated forge-releng-scm-validators group to handle SCM request approvals, preventing releng-bot from unnecessarily pinging unrelated community members.
• Created the quay.io/fedora/eln-bootc repository to enable the uploading of ELN bootc images from composes.

See the detailed report for the Release Engineering team.

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Quality

The Quality team focused heavily on early manual validation for Fedora 45 this week, placing a special emphasis on ARM devices to catch significant bugs before the branch and freeze periods. The team is also actively organizing the next round of Fedora Test Days and collaborating with the Data team to identify interesting QA and build metrics—such as Bodhi karma and Koji completion rates—for future data visualizations.

In addition to testing, the group discussed hardware monitoring defaults, noting that the mcelog daemon consistently fails on modern AMD CPUs. They are currently gathering community feedback on potentially replacing it with rasdaemon. Tooling improvements were also a major theme, with updates to fedora-easy-karma, a revived issuebot in staging, and discussions around deploying a shared test asset server for openQA and Fedora CI.

Decisions

• Begin early manual validation testing for Fedora 45 prior to branching and freezes, with a particular focus on ARM hardware.
• Initiate a broader community discussion regarding replacing the mcelog daemon with rasdaemon by default due to hardware incompatibility on modern CPUs.
• Add the currently proposed Test Day events to the Fedora Test Days calendar to prevent concurrent scheduling overlaps.
• Explore the integration of actual user-runnable regression test suites (e.g., Vulkan/GL conformance, kernel test suites) into upcoming Test Days.

See the detailed report for the Quality team.

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Design

The Design team concluded the community poll for the Fedora 46 wallpaper inspiration, selecting American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck as the winner. Following the poll, the team is organizing a mind map meeting to brainstorm the wallpaper's conceptual design. In other activities, community members shared a proposed wallpaper on the mailing list, and drafts for revamped Design Documentation pages were posted for review.

Decisions

• The Fedora 46 wallpaper design will be inspired by American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck.

See the detailed report for the Design team.

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Internationalization

The Internationalization (i18n) group held a meeting this week to review the progress of Fedora 45 changes and coordinate upcoming release deadlines. Key discussions involved tracking the completion of F45 changes, ongoing bug triaging efforts for Fedora 43, and scheduling the upcoming internationalization test week.

Decisions

• The Fedora 45 i18n test week is scheduled to take place from September 7th to September 13th, 2026.

See the detailed report for the Internationalization team.

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EPEL

This week, the EPEL group focused significantly on improving the repository structure and mirror paths for EPEL 11 to avoid user errors during mirroring and upgrades. The steering committee successfully voted to adopt a new "de-z-ification" policy for EPEL 11, which will rely on the $stream variable for CentOS Stream users rather than adding a 'z' suffix for RHEL minor versions. Additionally, the community discussed potential breaking updates to packages like certbot, uv, and ruff in EPEL 10, and highlighted a new way to track RHEL lifecycle milestones via the Red Hat Insights roadmap.

Decisions

• Approved the EPEL 11 portion of the "de-z-ification" policy, which will restructure repository names, redirects, and symlinks to utilize the $stream variable for CentOS Stream rather than the $releasever_minor 'z' suffix for RHEL systems.
• Agreed that the official branch naming for the CentOS Stream variant in EPEL 11 will be 11s.

See the detailed report for the EPEL team.

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ELN

The ELN SIG met this week to discuss significant updates to their build pipeline and image generation processes. Key highlights include the production deployment of ELNBuildSync 2.0.1, the inclusion of bootc images in standard composes, and the successful migration of all major cloud images (EC2, Azure, GCE, qcow2) to image-builder.

Additionally, the group discussed restructuring ELN variants, introducing a new AltImages variant for live images and a new Extensions variant to decouple RHEL Extensions from EPEL. Plans were also outlined to completely split ELN Extras into its own target to cleanly bootstrap EPEL N+1 and preview CentOS SIGs, with a call for community feedback on the design.

Decisions

• Re-tool ELN Extras to build in a completely separate target and compose to properly isolate EPEL macros and facilitate CentOS SIG previews.
• Separate RHEL Extensions content into a distinct Extensions variant rather than an EPEL allowlist due to a lack of overlap.
• Migrate WSL image builds to image-builder following the successful migration of hyperscaler cloud images.
• Merge GitLab MR 86 to minimize dependencies in go-vendor-tools and cut a new release.

See the detailed report for the ELN team.

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Atomic

The Fedora Atomic Initiative met this week to discuss infrastructure updates and package releases. Progress was made on configuring Konflux service accounts for the Fedora Forge, with a new merge request proposed to unblock testing. Additionally, a recent policy change for the bootc package means that Bodhi updates now only require a +1 score to proceed, which should clear up the backlog of aging updates. In release news, bootc 1.16.6 has reached the stable repository, and work is underway for the 1.16.7 release.

Decisions

• Bodhi updates for the bootc package now only require a +1 score to proceed, which will prevent updates from sitting in the backlog until they become obsolete.

See the detailed report for the Atomic team.

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CoreOS

CoreOS held a meeting on August 5 to review ongoing action items and prepare for the upcoming Fedora 45 branching. Key discussions included ongoing tests for the /boot partition size to prevent data corruption during re-provisioning, preparations for the Fedora 45 Test Day, and the integration of approved FESCo changes into Rawhide. Additionally, the team discussed the pending archival of the Butane repository into Ignition.

Decisions

• Contributors with pending pull requests to the Butane repository should hold off or expect delays, as the repository is being archived and its codebase is being merged into the Ignition repository following the approval of FESCo ticket #3650.

See the detailed report for the CoreOS team.

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AI & ML

This week, the AI & ML group focused on administrative tasks, specifically processing a membership update. A contributor requested to be removed from the group and related access lists due to time constraints and the challenges associated with packaging complex upstream AI projects. The request was completed, and the contributor was successfully removed from the relevant groups.

Decisions

• Approved and processed the removal of contributor salimma from the AI/ML and PyTorch Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

See the detailed report for the AI & ML team.

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RISC-V

The RISC-V group focused primarily on the ongoing Fedora 45 mass rebuilds, successfully resolving a major Python 3.15 Beta 4 ABI breakage and completing the bootstraps for Perl 5.44 and Rust. Rebuilds for OCaml have started, with Golang and R queued up next.

Significant hardware additions were made to the build pool, including five Milk-V Titan (DP1000) machines and four SpacemiT K3 systems, to improve build capacity. The team also addressed hardware instability challenges with SpacemiT K1/K3 SoCs linked to vector instructions and OpenSBI issues, and discussed a gnulib/glibc conflict that required a workaround.

Decisions

• Implemented a workaround in Fedora to address a gnulib/glibc compatibility bug (Sourceware BZ 34437 / Fedora BZ 2502638) that was causing build failures.
• Expanded the RISC-V build pool by officially integrating five Milk-V Titan machines and four SpacemiT K3 systems.

See the detailed report for the RISC-V team.

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Security

This week, the Security group discussed recognizing vulnerability reporters with a dedicated Fedora badge and evaluating compliance with the linux-distros mailing list rules. In the forums, a community review of the new Fedora-maintained hardening documentation led to minor improvements, while the OpenScanHub team published their latest static analyzer findings for Fedora 45 critical path packages.

Decisions

• Approved moving forward with a Vulnerability Reporting Badge to reward individuals who report security flaws.
• Decided to consult Fedora Legal to determine if the existing Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) satisfies linux-distros rules, or if a separate Fedora Pre-Disclosure-Agreement (FPDA) is needed.

See the detailed report for the Security team.

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DotNET

The DotNET group confirmed the final steps for the end-of-life (EOL) transition for .NET 8 and .NET 9. Omair Majid announced that the dotnet8.0 and dotnet9.0 packages will be dropped from Rawhide shortly, timed to occur just before the Fedora 45 branch day on August 11, 2026.

While they are being removed from Rawhide, both versions will remain available and continue to receive updates in existing Fedora versions (up to Fedora 44) until their official EOL in November 2026. Michael Cronenworth acknowledged the change, noting that Jellyfin 12 is currently on the horizon with release candidates available.

Decisions

• The dotnet8.0 and dotnet9.0 packages will be dropped from Rawhide ahead of the Fedora 45 branch day.

See the detailed report for the DotNET team.

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Perl

This week, the Perl group focused heavily on routine package maintenance, consisting of upstream version bumps and importing packages into EPEL branches. Key updates included merging newer releases for packages like perl-ExtUtils-CppGuess, perl-PDF-Reuse, perl-HTTP-Cookies, perl-Crypt-SMIME, and perlbrew. Additionally, successful efforts were made to integrate perl-Protocol-WebSocket into EPEL8 and EPEL9, alongside establishing the first EPEL10 build for perl-SQL-Abstract.

Decisions

• Merged version bumps for perl-ExtUtils-CppGuess (0.271), perl-PDF-Reuse (0.44), perl-HTTP-Cookies (0.12), perl-Crypt-SMIME (0.34), and perlbrew (1.02) to keep packages aligned with upstream releases.
• Approved and merged EPEL package imports for perl-Protocol-WebSocket (EPEL8 and EPEL9) and perl-SQL-Abstract (EPEL10) to expand package availability for Enterprise Linux distributions.

See the detailed report for the Perl team.

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Ruby

Vít Ondruch announced that following the recent landing of Ruby on Rails 8.1 in Fedora, an update for version 8.1.3.1 was also released this week. The community is encouraged to test these new releases and report any issues they might encounter.

Decisions

• Pushed the Ruby on Rails 8.1.3.1 update to Fedora.

See the detailed report for the Ruby team.

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Other Discussions

This week in the Fedora community, discussions focused on transitioning away from Red Hat BugZilla, establishing style guides for mailing lists, and managing the email volume on the devel list. Additionally, there were multiple package soname bumps, discussions about orphaning outdated packages, and warm welcomes to several new package maintainers.

Contribution opportunities

Contributors with testing and quality assurance skills can easily jump into numerous highly accessible opportunities. The community is invited to test the Packager Dashboard staging environment and report bugs on its issue tracker. Testers are also needed for Fedora 45 manual validation (especially on ARM), F45 Server bare-metal/VM images, fedpkg v1.48+ features, Flatpak-only GNOME Boxes on fractionally scaled displays, newly landed Ruby on Rails 8.1, dotnet10.0, and Atomic's bootc 1.16.6. Hardware owners can evaluate /boot partition scenarios (notes), test Omni F44 images on SpacemiT K1/K3 or Milk-V Titan, and assist with testing LLVM pull request 629. Additional opportunities include Fedora 43 i18n bug triaging and contributing to Test Day planning.

For those with strong communication, writing, or organizational skills, community feedback is actively sought on the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, the AI-powered features policy, and hardware monitoring defaults (mcelog vs. rasdaemon). Contributors can submit user stories to the FESCo Bugzilla replacement tracker, restructure Server post-installation guides, or review Design Processes documentation. Event enthusiasts can volunteer for the FrOSCon 2026 booth, give talks, create A4 teaser pages for project showcases, or join organizing efforts for Fedora Week of Diversity, Appreciation Week, and the Mentor Summit.

Developers, designers, and system architects can tackle highly specific technical challenges across the project. Programmers can debug memory leaks in GNOME's new IBus speech-to-text, troubleshoot KDE Plasma Wayland screen lock freezes with NVIDIA drivers, and investigate OpenSBI bugs on RISC-V K1/K3 SoCs. System architects are invited to help design the ELN and ELN Extras separation (Issue #61 and Issue #62). Designers can streamline GNOME's action dialog buttons, design the Vulnerability Reporting Badge, or join #design:fedoraproject.org for the Fedora 46 wallpaper brainstorm. Data enthusiasts can also suggest QA-related data visualizations.

Contributors experienced in package maintenance and systems administration can make an immediate impact by adopting orphaned or non-responsive packages such as nextcloud-client, rust-zoxide, cinnamon-screensaver, and python-pivy, or by helping the AI & ML group package PyTorch. Packagers are also needed to resolve Failing to Install (FTI) EPEL packages, test EPEL 10 uv and ruff updates, minimize go-vendor-tools dependencies, and apply OpenScanHub security patches. Systems administrators can write Server Ansible roles, configure self-hosted Forge runners, and help implement RPM macro and Lua support for the Fedora 45 PURL proposal.

Across the various Fedora teams, a major shared focus is the ongoing infrastructure migration to Fedora Forge (Forgejo) and the formalization of its usage policies, a coordinated effort involving the Council, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, and Security groups. Quality assurance and release readiness for Fedora 45 also dominate the updates, highlighted by approaching testable deadlines, mass branching preparations, and FESCo's system-wide approval of gating all stable release updates using the rmdepcheck dependency checker. Meanwhile, user-facing and quality teams are heavily collaborating to troubleshoot critical system issues—most notably a Fedora 44 Workstation login lockout bug—while language-specific SIGs (Go, Perl, Ruby, Rust) are addressing routine maintenance, unannounced soname bumps, and evolving packaging standards. Finally, community outreach and organization remain highly active, with teams like Mindshare and Ambassadors rallying volunteers for upcoming events like FrOSCon 2026, and multiple working groups actively streamlining their documentation and meeting structures to improve contributor onboarding and combat maintainer burnout.

Announcements

Important deadlines and policy updates are approaching for Fedora contributors. First, the Fedora 45 Changes TESTABLE deadline is set for August 11, 2026, requiring all change owners to verify their tracker bugs are in a testable state. Additionally, maintainers should review the list of long-term FTBFS packages scheduled for retirement from Fedora 45 around August 5. On the infrastructure side, the Fedora Council has opened the proposed Fedora Forge Usage Policy for community feedback until August 13, establishing clear scopes and guidelines for the project's internal Forgejo instance. Finally, the long-running CLE "Community update" is officially retiring and being replaced by this new "This Week in Fedora" report to keep contributors informed.

In broader community news, a recent article highlights Peter Boy's work with the Docs Team to explain why Fedora needs more than just technical contributors. For those who missed the recent contributor conference in Prague, a new Flock 2026 Afterburn retrospective shares insights and survey results from the successful event. The project's multimedia outreach continues to see steady audience growth across platforms according to the Fedora Podcast 2026-Q2 metrics report. As part of that ongoing output, the team has just released Episode 057 diving into the history and mechanics of EPEL with Red Hat's Carl George, exploring a tool relied upon across the entire enterprise Linux ecosystem.

Council

The Council focused heavily on policy formalization and infrastructure migration this week. During their bi-weekly meeting, they agreed on edits to the Fedora Forge Usage Policy, settling debates on automated repository archiving by favoring manual oversight, and initiated the official community feedback phase. They also debated a draft Conflict of Interest Policy to handle sensitive governance decisions, and officially closed outdated requests to abolish the Fedora Contributor Agreement. Furthermore, discussions opened regarding the transition of the Digital Public Goods Alliance representative role following the FCA transition.

The Council also handled several operational and community requests. They approved an exception for FreeIPA to be hosted on Fedora Forge and decided to migrate the Fedora Budget repository while explicitly purging old private financial issues. Finally, the Council addressed trademark and organizational queries, declining a suspicious SIG creation request, signaling support for a trademark request for community stickers in Slovakia, and clarifying rebranding requirements for Fedora Remixes.

Decisions

• Approved an edit to the Fedora Forge Usage Policy regarding repository archiving, removing the automated 6-month rule, and initiated the official policy change process.
• Closed tickets #410 and #460 (Abolish Fedora Contributor Agreement / Re-license fedora-logos) as deferred/wont-fix due to a lack of capacity and legal constraints.
• Agreed to migrate the Fedora Budget repository to the Council space on Fedora Forge and delete all of its old private issues containing personal data.
• Approved an exception request (Ticket #575) allowing the FreeIPA organization to be hosted on Fedora Forge.
• Denied a suspicious Forge organization request for a new "Software Engineering SIG" (Ticket #573) because it did not follow the documented process.

Learn more about the Council team.

FESCo

This week, FESCo approved several significant system-wide changes, most notably retargeting the Enable Shadow Stack by Default on x86_64 change to Fedora 46 to ensure ample time to fix PyPI and Nvidia driver compatibility. Other major approvals include ODBC Stack Modernization, Native Butane Config Support in Ignition, and the libxml2 2.15 update which officially deprecates Python bindings and requires a mass rebuild. FESCo also fast-tracked and approved a proposal to gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck to enhance update stability.

In contributor and project news, FESCo granted Proven Packager status to mschorm, merged an adjusted mid-term election policy, and sent final reminders for the upcoming 2FA requirement for all provenpackagers. Ongoing discussions are exploring the Forgejo distgit migration, a Bugzilla replacement tracker, and handling prohibited pre-built binary executables in node_modules. Furthermore, proposals to enable systemd-oomd and zram swap for CoreOS and use Sequoia's OpenPGP implementation are currently under active vote.

Decisions

• Approved the 'Enable Shadow Stack by Default on x86_64' Change, retargeting it for Fedora 46.
• Approved the 'libxml215' Change for Fedora 45.
• Approved the FastTrack proposal to gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck.
• Approved the 'Native Butane Config Support in Ignition' Change.
• Approved the 'ODBC Stack Modernization' Change.
• Approved the 'LibreOffice Dictionaries' Change.
• Approved the 'LibreOffice html help' Change.
• Approved allowing the ELNBuildSync (EBS) service to use draft builds in Koji sidetags inherited from eln-build.
• Approved an adjustment to the election policy regarding seats filled after a member steps down mid-term.
• Approved a one-off slightly incompatible update request for rust-routinator.
• Approved the Request to become Proven Packager for mschorm.

Learn more about the FESCo team.

Mindshare

This week, Mindshare welcomed a new contributor who expressed interest in joining the CommOps team, pointing them to the Matrix chat and Forgejo issue tracker for immediate engagement opportunities. Additionally, preparations are actively underway for FrOSCon 2026, a free FOSS conference happening August 15-16 near Bonn, Germany. The team has secured a booth and is calling on community members to volunteer, create A4 project teasers to spark conversations, and join the pre-event hike to Drachenfels castle.

Decisions

• Confirmed that a Fedora project booth will be hosted at FrOSCon 2026.

Learn more about the Mindshare team.

Ambassadors

The Ambassadors group is calling for all hands on deck to prepare for FrOSCon 2026, scheduled for August 15-16 near Bonn, Germany. A Fedora booth is confirmed, and contributors are highly encouraged to engage by joining the Matrix room, adding their names to the event Wiki, or creating A4 teaser pages to spark conversations about their Fedora projects at the booth. Additional community-building activities include a planned Friday evening hike to Drachenfels castle, while work on the official event badge is currently pending.

Decisions

• Confirmed Fedora's booth presence and participation at FrOSCon 2026.

Learn more about the Ambassadors team.

Diversity & Inclusion

Justin Wheeler proposed putting DEI Team meetings on hiatus to protect the mental health of the chairs and prevent burnout. The team agreed that regular meetings had become stagnant and decided to shift their focus toward ad-hoc, event-specific teams with concrete goals and timelines, such as the Fedora Mentor Summit or Fedora Week of Diversity. General discussions will continue in the team chat room as needed.

Decisions

• Put regular DEI Team meetings on hiatus and transition to an ad-hoc, event-specific meeting model.
• Delete the regular DEI Team meeting entries from both the Fedora and Google Calendars.
• Open a volunteer call for Fedora Week of Diversity to evaluate if there is enough interest to execute the event later this year.

Learn more about the Diversity & Inclusion team.

Workstation / GNOME

This week, the Workstation/GNOME team discussed a login bug in the Fedora 44 Workstation ISO where users are occasionally locked out after setting their credentials. Contributors are working to gather logs and pinpoint the exact cause within gnome-initial-setup. Additionally, a new implementation restoring Google Drive integration in GNOME is currently under review by upstream maintainers, presenting a great opportunity for community testers to provide feedback.

In networking discussions, the team explored IPv6 prefix delegation issues involving routers that fail to invalidate old prefixes after rebooting, which leads to dropped connectivity. It was noted that router manufacturers like Mikrotik are currently working on firmware updates to align with RIPE recommendations, circumventing the need for immediate workarounds in Fedora's default network behavior.

Decisions

• Determined that the Fedora 44 Workstation login bug is related to user creation during first boot (gnome-initial-setup or shadow-utils) rather than Anaconda, which does not handle user creation on the Workstation Live image.

Learn more about the Workstation / GNOME team.

KDE

A user reported experiencing system freezes under Plasma (Wayland) after upgrading to Fedora 44, specifically noting that the nvidia-modeset/kthread_q process was consuming 100% CPU. The issue occurred on a hybrid graphics setup utilizing an AMD CPU and a discrete NVIDIA GPU running the proprietary NVIDIA drivers (610.43.03).

In the ensuing discussion, a community member advised checking the system and user journals via SSH before performing a forced reboot to isolate the root cause. The user was also directed to seek further assistance on the Fedora Discussion forum, which hosts a larger pool of contributors experienced with NVIDIA troubleshooting.

Learn more about the KDE team.

Server

During this week, the Server Working Group held a meeting to coordinate Fedora 45 release testing, Ansible support, and the Home Server spin-off. Contributors are encouraged to help test Brett's newly finalized Kiwi development environment for the Home Server project. On the automation front, the group is exploring the "AnsibleByExample" standard project layout and GitLab workflows for their upcoming Ansible roles, and an initial post-install role PR is being merged for member testing. For F45 testing, Emmanuel Seyman will review the upstream release changes for potential Server Edition impacts, and interested contributors were directed to the QA SIG to assist with openQA test automation.

Outside of the meeting, a forum discussion regarding IPv6 preferred_lft address routing issues with non-persistent prefixes concluded. A user shared a temporary workaround using Unique Local Unicast (ULA) and NAT while awaiting an upcoming patch from router manufacturer Mikrotik.

Decisions

• Emmanuel Seyman will review the Fedora 45 change list to identify potential issues for the Server Edition.
• The group will evaluate the 'AnsibleByExample' playbook structure and GitLab workflows to standardize their Ansible support repositories.
• John Himpel will merge Emmanuel Seyman's draft post-install Ansible PR to enable wider testing among members.
• The working group will begin testing and providing feedback on Brett's newly established virtualized Kiwi development environment for the Home Server spin-off.

Learn more about the Server team.

Infrastructure

This week, the Infrastructure team focused heavily on resolving post-migration issues following the upgrade of the IPA cluster to RHEL 10. Efforts were directed at stabilizing authentication services, addressing sporadic login errors on accounts.fedoraproject.org, fixing Ipsilon auth failures caused by browser tracking protection, and correcting LDAP schema replication errors. In the forums, a proposal was introduced to place an HAProxy load balancer in front of the IPA cluster to bypass ongoing DNS TTL caching problems. Work also continued on restoring the Koji staging database and migrating miscellaneous infrastructure hosts to RHEL 10.

Other notable discussions included optimizing Zabbix monitoring by implementing service-level layers, re-notifying on critical alerts, and exploring read-only guest access. The team also reviewed a proposal for a "test assets server" designed to drastically reduce network traffic by caching update repositories for Fedora CI and openQA. In parallel, Forgejo integration saw substantial updates, with new monitoring templates and continued progress on the highly requested private issues feature.

Decisions

• Set ipsilon02 as a backup server in HAProxy to mitigate authentication transaction failures caused by browser tracking protection.
• Completely disable (ensure absent) the mod_mime_magic Apache module on proxies and package servers to fix dist-git lookaside cache HTTP header issues.
• Add DNA range variables directly to the IPA Ansible playbook to automatically set them per host.
• Implement a 🔥 keyword highlight in Matrix clients to help administrators quickly spot Disaster-level Zabbix alerts.
• Patrikp will act as the chair for the August 13th Infrastructure meeting.

Learn more about the Infrastructure team.

Release Engineering

The Release Engineering team focused heavily on the final steps for migrating fedora-scm-requests from Pagure to Forgejo. To minimize disruption for contributors, the team agreed to coordinate the fedpkg tooling updates with a firm "flag day", ensuring developers receive appropriate upgrade warnings before the legacy Pagure API is fully disabled. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for the upcoming mass branching tentatively scheduled for August 11th, which includes updates to related Ansible tooling.

On the operations side, the group processed a dozen tickets, yielding several updates relevant to the broader Linux community. The F47 Release Signing Keys have been generated, a new eln-bootc repository was created on Quay to host bootc images for ELN composes, and the f45-perl side tag was successfully merged into Rawhide. Contributors are also reminded that package unretirements (for packages retired less than 8 weeks ago) can now be handled directly via the fedpkg request-unretirement command without needing to open a manual releng ticket.

Decisions

• Coordinate the fedora-scm-requests Forgejo migration using a synchronized 'flag day' to safely transition users to the updated fedpkg CLI, rather than attempting to maintain dual APIs.
• Provide access to staging compose hosts for Pungi PR testing by adding the requesting users to the sysadmin-releng staging group.
• Merge the f45-perl side tag into Rawhide following successful openQA testing.
• Direct package maintainers to use the fedpkg request-unretirement CLI command for recent unretirements rather than processing manual infrastructure tickets.

Learn more about the Release Engineering team.

Quality

This week, the Quality team saw a major workflow change as FESCo approved gating all stable release updates on the rmdepcheck tool, a rule that has already taken effect for in-flight updates. In the forums, contributors highlighted a critical login lockout bug on the Fedora 44 Workstation ISO and issued an important call for testers to evaluate a new Google Drive integration implementation for GNOME.

Additionally, quality engineering efforts successfully pushed a large Python rebuild update through testing and identified issues with Fedora 45 backgrounds via openQA. The team is actively preparing for upcoming Test Days and making numerous infrastructure updates to tools like Issuebot, Testdays-web, and Fedora Easy Karma ahead of the upcoming Fedora branches.

Decisions

• FESCo approved gating all stable release updates on the rmdepcheck reverse dependency static checker. This rule was implemented in production immediately and applies retrospectively to in-flight updates.

Learn more about the Quality team.

Websites and Apps

This week, the Websites and Apps group discussed a proposal to add a warning banner to the Fedora 44 download page regarding a login-blocking bug that reportedly prevents users from logging in after a fresh Workstation install. While the initial request suggested pointing users to a Respins SIG image with a patched Anaconda, QA representatives clarified that user creation is handled during first boot (gnome-initial-setup or plasma-setup), not by Anaconda. Consequently, the discussion pivoted to accurately reproducing the issue, presenting an opportunity for contributors to help collect diagnostic logs for first-boot login failures before any website changes are considered.

Decisions

• No changes or warning banners will be added to the download page until the reported login issue is properly reproduced and the root cause is correctly identified.

Learn more about the Websites and Apps team.

Design

The Design team saw a community member propose a custom wallpaper set for future Fedora releases, though it was noted it may not fit the current Fedora 46 theme. In ticket discussions, progress continued on the Contributor Onboarding Video Series, with the team agreeing on specific public-domain music tracks and moving forward with generating video previews.

Additionally, new UX/UI design requests were opened for a Fedora website credits page and a Project Resistor site redesign, prompting the team to propose a discovery call for the latter. Finally, the team discussed modernizing the outdated "What can I do for Fedora" site, ultimately closing the ticket with the decision to contact the upstream infrastructure maintainers before committing to new mockups, while also dropping the broken link from a new contributor poster.

Decisions

• Proceed with the chosen public-domain music tracks ("Jupiter" and "Never Speak of the Devil") for the Contributor Onboarding Video Series.
• Schedule a discovery call with the Project Resistor team to clarify whether they need mockups or full web development.
• Close the "What can I do for Fedora" redesign ticket to first check with the upstream repository maintainers before doing any design work.
• Remove the outdated "What can I do for Fedora" link from the new contributor poster.

Learn more about the Design team.

Docs

During the July 28 meeting, the Docs team discussed information architecture updates for the site's frontpage. Visual redesigns are delayed for 2-3 months while the Design team is busy, but a new staging landing page (docs.stg.fedoraproject.org) is currently live to test structural changes. The team also evaluated technical challenges regarding Antora repository module splits, noting that future structural updates might require significant URL redirects to maintain links. In broader community news, attendees were informed that a Flock 2026 recap and session videos will soon be available on Fedora Magazine and YouTube.

To improve contributor engagement, the staging site now features a dedicated section for new contributors, and the team is actively seeking collaboration with the Join SIG to refine it. There are also immediate, bite-sized opportunities for community members to get involved: volunteers are highly encouraged to help clean up obsolete Wiki pages in the Docs_Project category by applying a simple redirect macro, and anyone with CSS experience is welcome to help style the new frontpage.

Decisions

• Postpone major visual and CSS updates to the frontpage until the Design team has availability in 2-3 months, focusing entirely on content and information architecture in the meantime.
• Restrict the ongoing wiki deprecation and cleanup efforts strictly to the Docs_Project category to prevent scope creep.

Learn more about the Docs team.

Legal

This week, the Legal team addressed questions regarding firmware distribution and open-source license text anomalies. In a discussion about the foo2zjs printer driver, contributors asked if Fedora could package scripts that download necessary HP printer firmware. Legal clarified that scripts downloading from unofficial third-party mirrors (getweb) are not permitted, but a script fetching from the official OpenPrinting website (getweb-hpplugin) could be acceptable, pending a formal license review of the firmware to ensure it meets Fedora's technical criteria.

Additionally, in a thread concerning "All rights reserved" clauses appearing alongside FOSS licenses like BSD-3-Clause, the team concluded that this phrase is largely a redundant "cargo-cult" addition. Contributors are advised not to worry about it, as it can be safely ignored provided it is associated with a clear, acceptable open-source license grant.

Decisions

• Scripts downloading firmware from unofficial, third-party mirrors are not permitted in Fedora.
• Scripts downloading firmware from official sources (like OpenPrinting) may be acceptable, but the specific firmware license must first undergo a formal legal review against Fedora's technical firmware requirements.
• The phrase "All rights reserved" found alongside upstream FOSS licenses is considered redundant and can be safely ignored as long as it is paired with an acceptable open-source license grant.

Learn more about the Legal team.

EPEL

This week, the EPEL team focused heavily on the EPEL 11 and EPEL 10 directory naming scheme proposal to address feedback from enterprise rebuild communities (such as AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux) regarding private mirrors and repository redirection. During their weekly meeting, the team laid out a timeline to evaluate and implement these changes before the RHEL 10.3 branching to avoid disrupting early adopters. Additionally, on the mailing list, it was announced that FESCo has approved gating all Fedora stable release updates using the rmdepcheck reverse dependency static checker, a policy that will soon be evaluated for EPEL as well.

In broader contributor and community news, routine package maintenance and quality assurance continued, including the introduction of new EPEL 10 packages and efforts to resolve failing-to-install (FTI) and policy-breaking packages in EPEL 9. Community engagement was also highlighted, with an upcoming Fedora Podcast interview featuring Carl George to discuss the EPEL 11 proposal and raise broader Linux community awareness.

Decisions

• The team agreed to schedule a vote on the EPEL 11 portion of the naming scheme proposal for August 5th, and a vote on the EPEL 10 portion for August 12th.

Learn more about the EPEL team.

ELN

During the July 28 ELN meeting, the team announced that ELN bootc images are now building regularly on Konflux. Contributors are currently resolving minor early-testing issues and working to establish an automated pipeline to the production registry (quay.io/fedora/eln-bootc). Additionally, qcow2 and ec2 images are now being successfully built using image-builder and have been validated on AWS, with pull requests open to integrate Azure and GCE support.

Looking ahead to RHEL 11, the group also debated whether to drop hardware firmware (such as linux-firmware) from cloud images. Acknowledging that hardware passthrough is still utilized on some hyperscalers, the group opted to move this conversation to a dedicated issue to carefully evaluate how closely ELN should mirror future RHEL decisions without disrupting existing use cases.

Decisions

• Tasked Simon de Vlieger with investigating how to properly upload and publish Konflux bootc builds to the quay.io/fedora/eln-bootc registry.
• Decided to move the discussion regarding the removal of hardware firmware from ELN cloud images to a separate issue tracker.

Learn more about the ELN team.

Atomic

In the weekly meeting, the team highlighted continued progress on ELN and Konflux integration, specifically regarding plans to migrate base images from GitLab. A blocker regarding a Konflux service account is currently being addressed by the infrastructure team, which is expected to unblock development shortly. Leadership also noted pending action items to formalize the SIG's setup process and establish a dedicated Fedocal calendar for contributors.

Meanwhile, an ongoing forum discussion regarding the proposed systemd-sysexts SIG focused on the administrative steps for launching the group. To navigate confusing documentation rules, contributors agreed to initially outline the new SIG's scope on a standard Fedora Wiki page before requesting a dedicated Forge organization and Matrix channel.

Learn more about the Atomic team.

CoreOS

This week, the CoreOS group focused on upcoming release testing, tentatively scheduling the Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Day and live video meeting for September 21st. Technical discussions highlighted the Ignition Native Butane Support proposal, which will remove the need for an external conversion step during provisioning; the team plans to gather feedback on this from the Flatcar community. Additionally, contributors addressed issues with the CodeRabbit PR bot leaving unprofessional comments in the Afterburn repository, planning to establish a dedicated repository to manage global configuration defaults.

In the forums, progress continued on establishing the systemd-sysexts SIG. Contributors discussed the optimal way to host the SIG's initial documentation, ultimately recommending starting with a Fedora Wiki page before requesting a dedicated Forge organization to bypass current procedural documentation challenges.

Decisions

• Tentatively schedule the Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Day and live video meeting for 2026-09-21, pending the final Beta Release schedule.
• Address inappropriate CodeRabbit PR bot comments by disabling them in affected repositories and creating a central coreos/coderabbit repository for global default configurations.

Learn more about the CoreOS team.

AI & ML

This week, the AI & ML group announced that GPU CI testing is now operational and available for contributors in the AI/ML SIG. Furthermore, the AI Developer Desktop has achieved its initial integration with OpenShell, marking an exciting step forward for the project.

In administrative updates, a contributor requested to be removed from the SIG due to time constraints and burnout. The group processed this request, removing the member from the SIG-related GitLab groups and the pytorch-sig membership to ensure an accurate representation of active contributors.

Learn more about the AI & ML team.

Security

During their weekly meeting, the Security SIG focused on formalizing internal vulnerability management processes and establishing documentation standards. A primary initiative is preparing for Fedora's representation on the private linux-distros mailing list to safely handle embargoed pre-disclosure vulnerabilities. To support this, the team is defining clear policies, establishing a secure Bugzilla workflow, and setting up dedicated access groups. In news relevant to the broader Linux ecosystem, the group is defining and documenting Fedora's role as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and auditing existing documentation to align with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requirements.

To improve contributor engagement opportunities, the team successfully migrated the Defensive Coding Guide from Pagure to Forgejo, opening the door for new community contributions. Discussions are also underway on the forum to review Fedora-maintained hardening guidelines and on the tracker to explore creating a vulnerability reporting badge as a non-monetary bug bounty alternative.

Decisions

• Draft comprehensive documentation detailing Fedora's scope and guidelines as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA).
• Create a new FAS group named sec-bugzappers to manage access for Fedora representatives handling the linux-distros pre-disclosure mailing list.
• Establish a dedicated, private Bugzilla component (proposed as distribution-private or fedora-security) to track embargoed vulnerability reports.
• Draft a platform-neutral policy for handling pre-disclosure vulnerabilities and submit it as a PR to the Security team's documentation.
• Grant all Security SIG members the privilege to create new repositories within the Forge group to remove documentation bottlenecks.
• Close the Pagure repository and officially migrate the Defensive Coding Guide to the Security SIG's Forge namespace.

Learn more about the Security team.

Go

During the Go SIG meeting, the team discussed standardizing CGO_CFLAGS and related compiler flags across Fedora by introducing a new %go_set_cgo_flags macro, which will undergo mass prebuild testing to avoid disrupting existing packages. The group also approved a new SIG membership policy that will be appended to the project README, clarifying the justification required for elevated package privileges. For contributors looking to get involved, assistance is needed to patch downstream packages broken by recent Go 1.27 updates, specifically those affected by changes to json v2, compress/flate, and grpc.

In broader Linux ecosystem news, the unmaintained license-scanning tool askalono has been forked into a newly maintained project named scallion. Fedora's Go packaging stack will pivot to use scallion as its default license detector. Additionally, efforts are underway to provide a minimal go-vendor-tools package for RHEL 11 by stripping optional build-time dependencies, an initiative that presents immediate opportunities for contributors to write tmt-based integration tests.

Decisions

• Approved the new Go SIG membership policy, which will be formalized via a PR to the project repository.
• Agreed to introduce scallion as the replacement for the unmaintained askalono license scanner, with upcoming changes planned for both go-vendor-tools and go2rpm.
• Decided to release go2rpm v2 with the default configuration set to the vendor profile.
• Agreed to support go-vendor-tools in RHEL 11 by isolating the RHEL-specific changes in a separate GitLab branch and developing new tmt-based integration tests.

Learn more about the Go team.

Perl

This week, the Perl group focused heavily on package maintenance, compatibility updates, and version bumps. Several pull requests were merged, including conditionalizing dependencies for perl-Module-Build-Tiny, disabling optional dependencies for perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma in RHEL, and addressing Wx 3.2.9 compatibility in perl-Wx. A patch for OpenSSL 4 ASN.1 strings was integrated into perl-Crypt-SMIME. Additionally, routine version bumps were applied to perl-LWP-Protocol-https (6.17), perl-HTTP-Message (7.04), and perl-ExtUtils-XSpp (0.19).

Other ongoing discussions involved resolving an expected installability failure during the bootstrap of perl-SQL-Abstract and addressing MySQL 9.7 rebuilds for perl-DBD-MySQL, though the latter's PR was closed as the fix was committed directly to the rawhide branch.

Decisions

• Merge pull request to conditionalize CPAN::Requirements::Dynamic dependency in perl-Module-Build-Tiny.
• Merge pull request to disable optional dependencies for perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma in RHEL.
• Merge pull request applying a compatibility patch for Wx 3.2.9 in perl-Wx.
• Merge pull request containing an OpenSSL 4 ASN.1 string patch for perl-Crypt-SMIME.
• Close the perl-DBD-MySQL PR for the MySQL 9.7 rebuild without merging, as it was fixed directly in the rawhide branch.
• Merge version bump pull requests for perl-LWP-Protocol-https (6.17), perl-HTTP-Message (7.04), and perl-ExtUtils-XSpp (0.19).

Learn more about the Perl team.

Python

A contributor raised a packaging question regarding the dupeguru package (Bugzilla 2497737), which is currently waiting for review. The upstream code uses generic top-level modules (core, hscommon, qt), which could cause namespace conflicts with other applications. The main subject of inquiry was whether reorganizing the source tree to place these folders under a specific dupeguru namespace is the recommended approach for Fedora packaging.

Learn more about the Python team.

Ruby

Vít Ondruch announced that the upgrade to Ruby on Rails 8.1 (specifically version 8.1.2) has officially landed in Fedora. An update to the recently released version 8.1.3.1 is planned for the near future, as it was temporarily delayed to meet the change deadline. From a packaging perspective, there were no major structural changes, with the notable exception of Trix being extracted into a separate new package. Contributors and users are highly encouraged to test the new release and report any issues.

Decisions

• Upgrade the Ruby on Rails package to version 8.1.2.
• Extract Trix into a new, separate package.
• Delay the update to Rails 8.1.3.1 temporarily to ensure the 8.1.2 update meets the change deadline.

Learn more about the Ruby team.

Rust

Frank Dana proposed a new packaging method for Rust and Python that would replace feature-specific subpackages with a conditional Requires: ... for syntax in RPM. He argued that the current glut of subpackages creates excessive metadata, bloats dnf search results, and clutters local systems.

During the discussion, Fabio Valentini pointed out that Rust packaging tooling must maintain backward compatibility with RHEL 9, making this unfeasible to implement in the near future, and suggested using fedpkg mockbuild instead of local builds to avoid cluttering personal environments. Carl George noted that since some Python extra subpackages contain actual files (like CLI commands or man pages), the proposed mechanism could not fully replace subpackages, though both systems could potentially coexist.

Learn more about the Rust team.

Other Discussions

• Jakub Kadlčík proposed a reimagined Fedora Package Review Process using a temporary Forge repository, PRs with CI, and testing multiple packages in one go. After feedback regarding SRPM support and vendor archives, he planned to leverage Packit and Copr's custom build scripts instead of Forgejo Actions.
• A Hummingbird Community Meeting took place to discuss the intersection of Linux distributions and AI. Demos included Project Bluefin's autonomous agentic OS factory using Hive and Red Hat Hardened Images acting as a downstream for Fedora Hummingbird Linux.
• A user reported a privacy issue with Firefox RPMs because geoclue2 was installed as a dependency via xdg-desktop-portal. Community members shared configuration workarounds to disable the service's tracking capabilities.
• Simon de Vlieger published a blog post detailing how the Fedora 45 release is produced, explaining the pipeline from raw packages to final artifacts like ISOs and disk images.
• Tomáš Hrčka announced an update postponing the pagure.io sunset. The delay allows the team to finish migrating critical SCM repositories like fedora-scm-requests and to finalize ForgeFiler, a tool handling private issues temporarily missing from Forgejo.
• After a lengthy thread about too much automated email on the devel list, Kevin Fenzi disabled the Rawhide and ELN compose reports. Users who still want these notifications must now subscribe to the test-reports mailing list.
• A Change Proposal to enable Shadow Stack by default on x86_64 in Fedora 45 sparked discussion around compatibility. Discussions are ongoing regarding PyPI wheels built via manylinux, NVIDIA drivers, and Rust binaries (which have already been updated in Rawhide to build with SHSTK enabled).
• Adam Williamson's proposal to gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck was approved by FESCo. The static reverse dependency checker is now active in production, successfully catching several genuine dependency breakages and minor infrastructure blips.
• A proposal to disable Vendor Change by default in DNF5 raised concerns that system upgrades might break for packages transitioning from third-party repos (like RPM Fusion) to official Fedora repos. It was suggested that specific vendor transition configurations could mitigate these issues automatically.
• A Change Proposal seeking to restrict Change discussions exclusively to the devel mailing list while leaving Discourse posts as read-only received mixed feedback. Some members proposed batch-posting announcements or finding a middle ground to minimize the split-brain effect that leads to maintainer burnout.
• Other discussions this week covered issues rendering the f45-backgrounds in KDE, a tech preview for Web Based Remote Installation for Atomic Desktops, a review request for the dupeguru duplicate file finder, the migration of the packager-sponsors tracker to Fedora Forge, community thoughts in regards to Change Proposals, and a reminder about the approaching F45 Changes TESTABLE deadline.

Orphaning packages

• Miro Hrončok posted a list of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in August that have failed to build since Fedora 42.
• Nicolas Chauvet issued a schroedinger retirement notice, retiring the package because it has been unmaintained upstream for 10 years and replaced by ffmpeg.
• Jan Stanek announced that nodejs20 is retired in rawhide following its upstream End of Life, advising users to migrate to nodejs22 or 24.
• Phoebe Harris announced an intention to take ownership of and unretire rust-qrcode and rust-wildmatch to support the clifton application.
• Scott Theisen submitted patches to build the orphaned packages python-markups and retext, though he has not formally adopted them.
• Sergio Pascual started an orphaning blitz by retiring the obsolete C++ array library blitz.
• The automated report of orphaned packages looking for new maintainers detailed numerous unmaintained packages at risk of retirement within six weeks.
• Richard Shaw asked if anyone wants to save python-pivy before it breaks completely due to missing dependencies.

Package updates

• An unannounced soname bump for nettle caused several FTBFS issues; a nettle3.10-devel compat package was shipped to unblock builds while maintainers port to Nettle 4.
• An unannounced soname bump for openssl-pkcs11 broke dependencies for nextcloud-client, requiring provenpackagers to merge PRs and rebuild the client in a side-tag.
• Iker Pedrosa announced a shadow rebase and libsubid SONAME bump being prepared in a side-tag, asking container tool maintainers to rebuild their packages.
• Michel Lind issued an RFC on an incompatible update for routinator due to a major security fix removing a vulnerable feature, which has now been pushed to stable.
• Ben Beasley gave a heads-up about an ABI-incompatible update for rapidyaml 0.16.0 coming to Rawhide.
• Pavel Valena requested testing for an upgrade to dracut 111 in Rawhide.
• Milan Crha announced a short-notice libedataserver soname version bump in Rawhide, providing a side-tag for dependent package rebuilds.
• Fabio Valentini warned of an unannounced soname bump for libgnome-desktop-3 affecting dozens of GNOME-related packages.

New contributor introductions

• Phoebe Harris: An embedded software developer aiming to package the SSH connection manager clifton and Typst.
• Dawid Wrobel: A KMyMoney developer returning to Linux who wants to adopt outdated GNOME extensions and package Betterbird.
• Myriade: A young Rust developer intending to adopt and maintain the orphaned supercollider package.
• Nikolay: A software engineer developing qTox who is interested in deep neural networks and machine learning.
• Vivek Denny: A backend/cloud developer with an interest in low-level systems and networks wanting to give back to open source.