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2016-11-28 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2016-11-28 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again tomorrow! Sorry for the late notice. We didn't make it to Fedora 26 cycle planning last week, so let's get to that this week! If anyone has any other items for the agenda, please reply to this email and suggest them! Thanks. Also note I'm not proposing a blocker meeting for tomorrow: we probably deserve a break from those for a week or two! == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 26 initial plans 3. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 26 Rawhide 20161122.n.0 nightly compose nominated for testing
by Fedora compose checker 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

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Fedora 25 released!
by Matthew Miller 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Fedora 25 released! =================== The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 25, the next big step our journey into the containerized, modular future! Fedora is a global community that works together to lead the advancement of free and open source software. As part of the community’s mission the project delivers three editions, each one a free, Linux-based operating system tailored to meet specific use cases: Fedora 25 Atomic Host, Fedora 25 Server, and Fedora 25 Workstation. Each edition is built from a common set of base packages, which form the foundation of the Fedora operating system. As with all new versions of Fedora, Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including: * Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications * Node.js 6.5, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine * Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language * Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython Fedora Workstation ------------------ Providing many of the latest open source developer and desktop tools, Fedora 25 Workstation delivers a host of new features, including the long-awaited official debut of the Wayland display server. Replacing the legacy X11 system, Wayland has been under development for several years and seeks to provide a smoother, richer experience for graphical environments and better capabilities for modern graphics hardware. To further enhance ease-of-use, Fedora 25 Workstation also features GNOME 3.22, which offers multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard settings tool and additional user interface improvements. Workstation users will also be pleased with the inclusion of decoding support for the MP3 media format. Fedora 25 Workstation now makes it easier to for Windows and OS X users to get started, with Fedora Media Writer serving as the default download for those operating systems. This tool helps users find and download the current Fedora release and write it to removable media, like a USB stick, allowing potential Fedora users to “test drive” the operating system from that media environment. Fedora can then be installed to their systems with the same process. For current Fedora users, the upgrade path from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25 has been simplified and streamlined, with typical upgrades taking less than 30 minutes, depending on system configuration and network speed. Upgrades can be started from the command line or from the GNOME Software tool, just like regular security and bugfix updates. For developers, beyond the new docker engine and language support included in the base Fedora 25 packages, Fedora 25 Workstation introduces improved Flatpak support. This tweak makes it easier to install, update and remove Flatpak software and enables this application packaging standard to be more user friendly at the workstation level. GNOME Shell extensions are also no longer checked for compatibility with the current version of the Shell. This was originally required because the GNOME interfaces were changing rapidly during the early days of GNOME 3. Now these interfaces have stabilized, and extensions can generally be expected to work with new releases. Fedora Server ------------- In addition to the flexible multi-role functionality provided by rolekit, Fedora 25 Server now delivers a new SELinux Troubleshooter module for Cockpit. Similar to what is available on Fedora Workstation, the module helps provide suggestions for a user when an SELinux denial is encountered, which otherwise requires log checking and manual workarounds. Fedora 25 Server also will now display SSH keys in the Cockpit system dashboard to make it easier for administrators to see what keys are connecting to a given machine. Additionally, support is now included for multi-step (including two-factor) authentication services. The FreeIPA identity management system has also been upgraded to 4.4 series, which offers a set of new features for servers deployed in an identity management role. Some of these enhancements include: * Topology management: FreeIPA web UI can now be used to visually manage topology graph for large deployments. * DNS sites: DNS management in FreeIPA now supports location-specific placement of services. * Subordinate Certificate Authorities: FreeIPA Certificate Authority now is able to create subordinate CAs to issue certificates with a specific scope. * Kerberos Authentication Indicators: Kerberos KDC now takes Authentication Indicators into account when issuing service tickets. For example, two-factor authenticated Kerberos credentials can now be required prior to obtaining tickets to a VPN service (supported by OpenConnect Server). Fedora Atomic ------------- New in Fedora 25 is the addition of Fedora 25 Atomic Host as one of Fedora’s three editions, replacing Fedora Cloud. While a Fedora Cloud Base image will continue to be available for users seeking to run workloads on a general purpose host, Fedora Atomic Host provides an optimized host designed to create and deploy container-based workloads. Fedora 25 Atomic Host is shipped in several formats, to allow users to spin up virtual machines or install Atomic Host on bare metal. To keep pace with innovations in the world of Linux containers, Fedora Atomic Host is expected to be refreshed on a two-week release cycle (with major releases coinciding with new Fedora versions) and provides an easy upgrade path to accommodate rapid application development. Fedora will also offer a docker-formatted base image, to be updated monthly along with critical security updates, for use in building Linux containers. Spins and More -------------- These are not the only parts of Fedora that are seeing changes in the release today. Our KDE spin features new and improved packages for music, video, and personal information management. Xfce includes improvements to the terminal, notifications, and power management. Mate-Compiz features an update to Mate 1.16 and a complete switch to the GTK+3 toolkit. Downloads --------- You can download the new Fedora 25 starting today! Download Fedora 25 from our Get Fedora site: * Workstation: https://getfedora.org/workstation/ * Server: https://getfedora.org/server/ * Atomic: https://getfedora.org/atomic/ Or, check out one of our popular variants: * Spins: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/ * Labs: https://labs.fedoraproject.org/ Architectures ------------- As always, Fedora is available for 32-bit ARM and 64-bit Intel architecture systems, and select Spins are also available for 32-bit x86. We're also simultaneously releasing for 64-bit ARM, Power (including a little endian variant), and s390x. For these, see: * https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Of particular note to many enthusiasts, this is the first release where we officially run on the Raspberry Pi (versions 2 and 3). More details are available in this Fedora Magazine Article: * https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-support-fedora-25-beta/ Upgrades -------- If you're already running Fedora, you don't need to download or create a boot image. Instead, start the upgrade process from GNOME Software or using DNF System Upgrade at the command line. For instructions, refer * Upgrades: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading Documentation and Common Bugs ----------------------------- Read the full release notes for Fedora 25: * https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Release_Notes/ Fedora 25 common bugs are documented at: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs Thank You! ---------- Fedora would not be possible without the hard work of the very dedicated contributor community. Thanks to the thousands of Fedora contributors and millions of upstream developers who made this release! -- Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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2016-11-21 @ ** 16:00 ** UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2016-11-21 # Time: ** 16:00 ** UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again tomorrow! We haven't met for a few weeks, and it's the end of the Fedora 25 cycle, so we can check that we have everything in line for the Fedora 25 release and start looking forward to Fedora 26. Please note that in most places, daylight savings time ended since the last meeting happened, so the meeting is now at 16:00 UTC. If DST is observed where you live and you put your clocks back in the last few weeks, the meeting will be at the same local time as usual. If you don't observe DST, the meeting will be an hour later than before. If anyone has any other items for the agenda, please reply to this email and suggest them! Thanks. Also note I'm not proposing a blocker meeting for tomorrow: we probably deserve a break from those for a week or two! == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 25 final check-in and retrospective setup 3. Fedora 26 initial plans 4. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 25 Candidate RC-20161119.3 Available Now!
by Fedora compose checker 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

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Fedora 25 Candidate RC-20161120.0 Available Now!
by Fedora compose checker 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

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upcoming build and release developer flag day December 12 2016
by Dennis Gilmore 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Hi All, We are wanting to write to you all about an important date coming up. On the 12th of December 2016 we will be making some important changes that will require changes on every developers machine. In this case developers means every one that interacts with koji using authentication lookaside cache checksum hash. currently packages are stored in lookaside cache using md5sum we will be switching to sha256sum. The support for this has been in fedpkg for awhile, we have not switched the default as once we do any source uploaded with sha256sum will only be able to be verified by a client that supports sha256sum. koji authentication will be switching to Kerberos. Koji supports multiple authentication mechanisms. Fedora infrastructure has set up a freeipa instance internally that has credential syncing to fas. We are working on ensuring that gssapi caching is supported so that you can have multiple TGT's and the ability to work in multiple reams at once. you can get started today by doing kinit <fas username>@FEDORAPROJECT.ORG if you move your ~/.fedora.cert file out of the way authentication will still work. Using well known certs for koji.fedoraproject.org arm.koji.fedoraproject.org ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org s390.koji.fedoraproject.org pkgs.fedoraproject.org this is the last step needed to have fedoraproject.org switch to hsts and default to https:// when connecting to any fedora service. It will also remove a lot of questions that new people have when connecting to koji via https. Disable ssl cert authentication in koji. With the switch to keberos and the change of ssl certificates on the koji and pkgs servers we will be disabling the ability to login to koji using a ssl certificate completely. This change will require new koji client configurations for everyone. Gate rawhide builds. Gating will enable us to sign rawhide builds and switch the rawhide repo to having gpgcheck enabled. In order to achieve everything we have to break end user configurations. All users will need to have new enough versions of fedora-packager, fedpkg, rpkg, koji. the exact versions needed are not yet known as some enhancements are still being worked on. We will be aiming to have everything pushed stable right before the flag day. Some of the changes will not be compatible with the existing setup. We anticipate keeping everyone informed as we move forward about any actions that will need to be taken on the developer side. there is a wiki page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FlagDay2016 that will be updated as more is known. Not in scope at this point is using kerberos for ssh or other apps supported by infrastructure, though it is not ruled out going forward. If you have any questions please respond here or in #fedora-releng on freenode Thanks Release Engineering and Infrastructure

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Fedora 25 Final compose 1.3 is considered as GOLD and the status is GO
by Jan Kurik 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

At the second round of Fedora 25 Final Go/No-Go Meeting, has just been Fedora 25 Final compose 1.3 declared as GOLD. GA of this release is planed on Tuesday 2016-November-22. Meeting details can be seen here: Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-11-17/f25-final-gon… Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-11-17/f25-final-gon… Thanks everyone who participated on this release! Regards, Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Fedora 25 Candidate RC-1.3 Available Now!
by Fedora compose checker 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

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Proposal to CANCEL: 2016-11-14 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hi folks! I'm proposing we cancel the QA meeting again tomorrow. We had to delay the F25 Final release last week, so we'll be mainly on release validation again this week. If you think there is something we need to discuss, please do reply to this mail and we can go ahead and schedule the meeting! Thanks. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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