Would you believe it? The Fedora 34 Beta is here! 🥳 You can help test the next release of Fedora Linux before the final release date in April. 🔧

https://twitter.com/fedora/status/1374360990482100224

What are some of the biggest highlights of Fedora 34? The Fedora Magazine has the full scoop. Read more about GNOME 4️⃣0️⃣ in Fedora Workstation, the migration from PulseAudio to PipeWire 🎶, and additional improvements to the Btrfs file system 🖥 introduced in Fedora 33.

(P.S. — There is also a rumor of a new i3 Spin too 😉)

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-the-release-of-fedora-34-beta/

***REMINDER***

The planned outage for the new Fedora Account System is beginning, estimated for 2 days.

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9747

To follow up on the Telegram Desktop package in RPM Fusion, new updates are being pushed by a new maintainer.

New package details here: https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=492

How small can Fedora Linux be? Let's find out…

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SmallerContainerBase

In case you were watching the Fedora Twitter today… #FedoraRatesFedoras

https://twitter.com/fedora/status/1377745840207454209

Important message from the Fedora Council to the Fedora Community: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-council-statement-on-richard-stallman-rejoining-fsf-board/

Wednesday 7 April is the Fedora Linux 34 Upgrade Test Day! As part of the preparation for Fedora Linux 34, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f34-upgrade-test-day/

"For the most part I believe there are four key reasons for this shift away from running Fedora-based projects and toward Debian, Ubuntu and Arch. One, and perhaps the most obvious, is that people don't make full, independent projects based on Fedora because people who like working with Fedora create spins or labs which are incorporated in the Fedora infrastructure. If you want to throw together your own spin of Fedora with a different desktop, theme, and tools, then you can create a spin and host it with the Fedora project. Fedora Workstation, Server, Silverblue, CoreOS, and over a dozen spins & labs all live together in the same infrastructure so people don't think of them as separate projects."

[…]

"In summary, I'd say that Fedora lost its position at the top of the market share charts. Then people who were using it found that, as a base, it either moved too quickly (for people who wanted long term support releases) and too slowly for people who like rolling releases. At the same time Fedora's infrastructure hosts multiple projects (over a dozen) which, in the Debian and Arch families, would be set up as entirely separate projects with their own websites and project names. This makes Fedora's share of current distributions smaller and to appear even smaller than it is."

Agree? Disagree? Let us know your thoughts on this opinion article from Distrowatch.

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20210329#qa

Help wanted: program management team

"I’d love to spend time in different Fedora teams helping them with program management work, but there’s only so much of me to go around. Instead, I’m putting together a program management team. At a high level, the role of the program management team will be two-fold. The main job is to embed in other teams and provide support to them. A secondary role will be to back up some of my duties (like wrangling Changes) when I am out of the office."

If you’re interested, fill out the When Is Good survey by 15 April, or read on for more information.

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-wanted-program-management-team/

https://whenisgood.net/758kw5n

Today is Fedora Linux 34 Virtualization Test Day!

As a part of this Test Day, we would be testing all forms of Virt capabilities on a bare-metal installed with your favorite distro. We are looking for folks testing KVM, VirtualBox and GNOME Boxes as a part of this test day!

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2021-04-13_Virtualization

Do you want to know about some of the Fedora 34 features? Read this Feature Focus about BTRFS transparent compression on our magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-workstation-34-feature-focus-btrfs-transparent-compression/

Fedora Linux 34 Cloud Test Day starts Today

The test day focuses on testing Fedora Cloud which will be shipping as a part of Fedora 34 Release. You can test the cloud on bare-metal by using a tool called testcloud and even sign up for an Amazon account and test AMIs as well. We are going to roll-out a Cloud Test Day Badge to folks who successfully submit the results!
More details about how to get started with the tools can be found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2021-04-16_Fedora_34_Cloud_Testday
Results can be submitted underneath the test cases here : https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/112

Do you like WireGuard? Interested in better support for WireGuard VPNs on Fedora Linux and NetworkManager? Fedora intern Shreya Gupta shares her experience working in the Fedora Project for Outreachy 2020 as she integrated WireGuard support into NetworkManager.

Stay tuned for easy setup and configs for WireGuard VPNs in Fedora in the near future.

https://blog.shreya.codes/contributing-to-nmstate-as-outreachy-intern

Fedora Account infrastructure is having difficulties. For updates, follow the Fedora Infrastructure team ticket.

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9884

And we're back! Account System access restored. Please report any further issues by leaving a comment on this @fedoranews post.

Setup your home lab's to be faster with dnf local plugin:
https://fedoramagazine.org/use-the-dnf-local-plugin-to-speed-up-your-home-lab/

P.d. Did you catch that beautiful new logo ;) ?

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Fedora 34 is a GO for April 27th! It's officially official!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Fedora 34 is out now! Go and grab your image on https://getfedora.org/ or if you're on F34 beta do a dnf update