Fedora 42 out! Get it now!

Fedora 42 was released on tuesday. The "early" milestone even. There was a last minute bug found ( see: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/merely-booting-fedora-42-live-media-adds-a-fedora-entry-to-the-uefi-boot-menu/148774 ) Basically booting almost any Fedora 42 live media on a UEFI install results in it adding the "Fedora" Live media to your boot manager list. This is just booting, not installing or doing anything else. On the face of it this is really not good. We don't want live media to affect installs without installing or choosing to do so. However, in this case the added entry is pretty harmless. It will result in the live media booting again after install if you leave it attached, and if not, almost all UEFI firmware will just see that the live media isn't attached and ignore that entry.

In the end we decided not to try and stop the release at the last minute for this, and I think it was the right call. It's not great, but it's not all that harmfull either.

Datacenter Move news

Networking got delayed and the new date we hope to be able to start setting things up is this coming friday. Sure hope that pans out as our window to setup everything for the move is shrinking.

There was some more planning ongoing, but will be great to actually start digging in and getting things all setup.

AI Scraper news

The scrapers seem to have moved on from pagure.io. It's been basically unloaded for the last week or more. Sadly, they seem to have discovered koji now. I had to block a few endpoints on the web frontend to stop them. Unfortunately there was a short outage of the hub caused by this, and there were 2 builds that were corrupted as a result. Pretty aggravating.

Nftables

Worked with James to roll out our iptables->nftables switch to production. All the builders are now using nftables. Hopefully we will roll out more next week.

Thats it for this week, catch everyone next week!

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