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A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time,affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates. | |||
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader [[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]] briefed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002768.html</ref>, "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point. Community testing for | On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader [[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]] briefed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002768.html</ref>, "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point. Community testing for | ||
Revision as of 19:57, 14 February 2010
Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS
Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1] that the Fedora Project recently had been issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that had been caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. He also mentioned, "However, this update has been found to break some BIND configurations as seen in this bug: [2]
The problem occurs in these packages:
- dnssec-conf-1.21-3.fc11
- dnssec-conf-1.21-7.fc12
To determine if your system is affected, run the following command:
- rpm -q dnssec-conf
If one of the above package descriptors does not appear, your system is not affected and you may safely ignore this message. If you are affected, please continue reading.
- Workaround
If you have already accepted this update, you can downgrade the package and start the failed BIND (named) daemon again using these commands:
- su -c 'yum downgrade dnssec-conf'
- su -c 'service named start'
- Solution
System owners running BIND name servers on Fedora 11 or 12 systems are advised not to accept the specific dnssec-conf pacakge updates listed above. There are several ways to avoid these specific updates.
- If you use the PackageKit graphical client, or another graphical client, deselect the dnssec-conf update in the dialog that lists package updates.
- If you use the yum command-line client, use this command to exclude dnssec-conf from the list of packages to be updated:
- su -c 'yum --exclude=dnssec-conf update'
- Remediation
A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time, affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates."
Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:29:27PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
- Remediation:
A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time,affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields briefed[1], "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point. Community testing for these packages would be appreciated. To install them:
- su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnssec-conf'
To report findings:
Fedora 12 re-spins Released
Ben Williams announced[1] that the Fedora Unity Project was proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12. He also mentioned, " These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of February 2nd, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Wednesday February 10th, 2010 (saving about 437MB of updates for a default install).
Go to [2] to get the bits!
We are glad to be able to announce the current Fedora 12 Re-Spin, 20100202, despite problems in this Re-Spin. Nonetheless, we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note:
Due to a newly discovered bug the re-spins do not include all the SCSI drivers (BUSLOGIC as an example which is used by VMware)
We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin:
- vwbusguy- Scott Williams
- Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams
- kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen
- fenrus2 Dennis Johnson
- BobLfoot Bob Lightfoot
- adm1 Davis Leggett
Fedora Unity Re-Spin 20100202 Changelog ([3] )
Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix ([4])
About Fedora Unity Re-Spins
Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included.
This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process.
Go to [5] to get the bits!
Assistance Needed
If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team.
Contact information is available at Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag"
New paths for development
Jesse Keating announced[1],"As part of the No Frozen Rawhide[2] initiative, a couple new paths are showing up on our public mirrors. Previously rawhide was published to pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>. In the very near future that path will change to pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/<arch>. At the same time, a new path will appear, pub/fedora/linux/development/13/<arch>. This path will be where the Fedora 13 stabilization happens as we work toward releasing Fedora 13. Rawhide will move on and start seeing changes more appropriate for Fedora 14 and beyond.
This change will happen at the Alpha freeze point, which is this coming Tuesday. In the mean time, these new paths are visible on our master mirror but they are just hardlinks back to the existing content in pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch> These hardlinks are there to help mirrors prepare for the new paths.
Look forward to more announcements regarding No Frozen Rawhide as the freeze date nears!"
FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Reminder: Fedora 13 Feature Freeze in Six Days (2010-02-09)
John Poelstra announced[1], "A friendly reminder that this coming Tuesday, February 9, 2010, is FEATURE FREEZE.". While letting everyone know about the Feature Freeze, he mentioned that Feature Freeze means that all accepted feature for the release are significantly "feature complete", ready for testing, and have a current status.
He also mentioned, "If you have any questions about what this means, please ask now.
Features which are not significantly feature complete at Feature Freeze will be accepted on an exception basis by FESCo or deferred to Fedora 14.
p.s. If you have questions about our release processes or milestones please reply to this email or contact me directly and I will be glad to assist. A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here: [4]"
Outage Notification
Outage Notification - 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC
Mike McGrath announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2]
or run: date -d '2010-02-04 23:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
- Bodhi
- Buildsystem
- CVS / Source Control
- Database
- Fedora Account System
- Fedora Community
- Fedora Hosted
- Fedora Package Database
- Mirror System
- Translation Services
- Websites
Unaffected Services:
- DNS
- Fedora People
- Fedora Talk
- Torrent
Ticket Link: [3]
Reason for Outage: Network team is working on stuff in PHX2. This is a "there may be an outage" type deal so it's quite possible this will have no impact on us.
Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage."
Outage Notification - 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC
Stephen John Smoogen announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately X hours. Outages will be small but noticble forsmall segments as systems are updated and rebooted.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2]
How to or run: date -d '2010-02-10 17:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
All systems will be rebooted, but services should only be impacted in small increments as we take down things in a loop.
Ticket Link: [3]
Reason for Outage: Monthly updates and security updates.
Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage. Note that the Fedora Infrastructure team does not run bugzilla.redhat.com, though."
FEDORA EVENTS
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 2010)
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_4
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
Additional information
- Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
- Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
- Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
- Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
- Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
- LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.