Summary
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Fedora 44 was pushed back to April 28 after two delays due to persistent blocker bugs.
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Four confirmed blocker bugs (installer, keyboard layout, btrfs) must be fixed before release.
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More recommended blockers (ThinkPad X1 black screen, slow Wi‑Fi) may cause additional delays.
Fedora was the Linux distro that got me off Windows, and one of its main advantages, in my opinion, is its stability. I’ve very rarely had problems using the OS, and everything I’ve encountered has been both easy to fix and pretty quick to fix. So, as you might expect, if a new release of Fedora has a few nasty bugs, the community would rather delay the release than destroy people’s faith in the OS and ship it.
Fedora 44 is currently experiencing some nasty issues. After being scheduled for release on April 14th, it was pushed back to April 21st after some bugs persisted. Now the release date has been pushed back to April 28th for the second time because some nasty ‘blockers’ are holding everything up.
Fedora 44 is battling four blocker bugs that prevented it from being released
Hopefully they will fix it soon
As reported LinuxiacThe release of Fedora 44 has been delayed until April 28. This is the second delay since the OS missed mid-April, and the main reason is what the Fedora community calls “blocker bugs.” When a new version of Fedora is ready for release, someone may suggest specific bugs in the OS as blocking bugs. The community then votes on whether it qualifies as a blocker bug; if it passes, the community must fix it before the OS is ready for release. As long as the blocker error persists, the OS is not released.
Currently, blocking bug tracker There are four confirmed blocker bugs:
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anaconda |
ON_QA |
System installation failed: Saving configuration files and kickstarts org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: Object ‘NoneType’ does not have attribute ‘path’ |
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plasma installation |
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Selecting a non-ASCII capable keyboard layout should automatically select US English as the second layout |
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plasma installation |
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plasma install Keyboard layout page preselection broken – always shows English (US) if system language, otherwise nothing |
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to be a python |
ON_QA |
Incompletely propagated btrfs causes anaconda to not see the drive and crash on rescan. |
Four proposed blocker bugs are also reviewed, including the black screen issue with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 and slow Wi-Fi connections on specific laptops. If any of these are added to the list of confirmed blocker bugs, they should be fixed before Fedora 44 is released. Unfortunately, all we can do is watch and wait until Fedora 44 gets a third delay; We hope that the community does not need to resort to this.
