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Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 03 2026

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This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.

Week: 12 Jan - 16 Jan 2026

Fedora Infrastructure

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure.
It's responsible for services running in Fedora infrastructure.
Ticket tracker

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding CentOS Infrastructure and CentOS Stream Infrastructure.
It's responsible for services running in CentOS Infratrusture and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

Release Engineering

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora releases.
It's responsible for releases, retirement process of packages and package builds.
Ticket tracker

Mass Rebuild is GO for Wednesday, January 14th.

QE

This team is working on day to day business regarding Fedora CI and testing.

Multi-signed shim Test Day is live
The OpenQA needly editor Needly from Lukas Ruzicka is now packaged on Flathub
An OpenQA test for Fedora Media Writer is mostly done, now testing on staging

Forgejo

This team is working on deployment of forge.fedoraproject.org.
Ticket tracker

Fedora Localization migration - Groups [A] [B] [C], teams and namespaces created
Konflux integration organisation and groups created
Forge action runner for quality organization
Konflux pipelines for distgit added - images for distgit instance ready on quay. Work in progress for fedora-rawhide based images.

RISC-V

We're still blocked by a complex in potential both binutils and debugedit We have a reproducer and some leads, but no clear "chain of blame" yet. We're still actively working on this with several folks.
- (Details: We have about 1433 packages that build something that include `*.a` (archive file). We know the affected packages are roughly <200 packages , but that's likely because we're just shipping the static libraries. The count of 1433 drops to 440 if we exclude OCaml, GHC, and MinGW.)

UX

We have a new teenage contributor in Fedora Design! He has completed his first ticket
Logo variations for Project Hummingbird have been uploaded.
All files for printed materials created for Fedora at FOSDEM have been sent to stakeholders.
Held an initial brainstorming session for revamping the Fedora Design docs [epic].

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #admin:fedoraproject.org channel on matrix.

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16 Jan 2026 10:00am GMT

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16 Jan 2026 9:00am GMT

Remi Collet: ⚙️ PHP version 8.3.30, 8.4.17, and 8.5.2

RPMs of PHP version 8.5.2 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

RPMs of PHP version 8.4.17 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

RPMs of PHP version 8.3.30 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

ℹ️ These versions are also available as Software Collections in the remi-safe repository.

ℹ️ The packages are available for x86_64 and aarch64.

ℹ️ There is no security fix this month, so no update for version 8.2.30.

Version announcements:

ℹ️ Installation: Use the Configuration Wizard and choose your version and installation mode.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.5 installation (simplest):

On Enterprise Linux (dnf 4)

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.5/common

On Fedora (dnf 5)

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.5
dnf update

Parallel installation of version 8.5 as Software Collection

yum install php85

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.4 installation (simplest):

On Enterprise Linux (dnf 4)

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.4/common

On Fedora (dnf 5)

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.4
dnf update

Parallel installation of version 8.4 as Software Collection

yum install php84

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.3 installation (simplest):

On Enterprise Linux (dnf 4)

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.3/common

On Fedora (dnf 5)

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.3
dnf update

Parallel installation of version 8.3 as Software Collection

yum install php83

And soon in the official updates:

Fedora Rawhide now has PHP version 8.5.2
Fedora 43 - PHP 8.4.17
Fedora 42 - PHP 8.4.17

⚠️ To be noticed :

EL-10 RPMs are built using RHEL-10.1
EL-9 RPMs are built using RHEL-9.7
EL-8 RPMs are built using RHEL-8.10
intl extension now uses libicu74 (version 74.2)
mbstring extension (EL builds) now uses oniguruma5php (version 6.9.10, instead of the outdated system library)
oci8 extension now uses the RPM of Oracle Instant Client version 23.9 on x86_64 and aarch64
A lot of extensions are also available; see the PHP extensions RPM status (from PECL and other sources) page