Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen as a “No-Go” was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting.
While years ago Fedora Linux was notorious for its release delays in order to address blocker bugs, more recently they have managed to be rather on-point for releases. In fact, recently they have begun hitting early release targets a week before their actual planned target release dates. But for Fedora 43, that early release target isn’t happening.
It was declared at today’s Fedora 43 release meeting a NO-GO for next week. Outstanding Fedora 43 blocker bugs are preventing that release from next Tuesday, the 21st.
The Fedora 43 blocker bug list currently has ten accepted blockers, including several bugs around the Anaconda installer, GDM and GNOME Shell issues, and also hardware regressions like the Mediatek MT7922 WiFi support. Some of these bugs have been verified and some just awaiting QA validation. But long story short, Fedora 43 at the moment isn’t in a shape for its official release.
Fedora developers will meet again next Thursday for seeing if the blocker bugs are addressed by then for then releasing Fedora 43 on 28 October. If that doesn’t go well, the weekly cycle continues with backup release dates of 4 November and 11 November.
