Summary
Fedora 44 delayed to Apr 28 after two postponements due to persistent blocker bugs.
Four confirmed blocker bugs (installer, keyboard layout, btrfs) must be fixed before release.
More proposed blockers (ThinkPad X1 black screen, slow Wi‑Fi) could trigger further delays.
Fedora was the Linux distro that got me off Windows, and one of its main fortes, in my opinion, is its stability. I’ve very rarely had issues with using the OS, and anything that I have encountered was both easy to remedy and fixed pretty rapidly. So, as you might expect, if a new release of Fedora has a few nasty bugs in it, the community would rather delay the release than ruin the trust people have in the OS and ship it.
Right now, Fedora 44 is undergoing some nasty issues. Once planned for an April 14th release, it was then pushed back to April 21st after some bugs persisted. Now, the release date has been pushed back a second time to April 28th as some nasty ‘blockers’ are holding things up.
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Fedora 44 struggles with four blocker bugs preventing its release
Hopefully they’ll be fixed soon
As reported by Linuxiac, Fedora 44’s release has been delayed until April 28th. It’s the second delay after the OS missed its mid-April date, and the main cause is what the Fedora community calls “blocker bugs.” When a new version of Fedora is getting prepped for release, someone can propose specific bugs in the OS as a blocker bug. The community then votes on whether or not it qualifies as a blocker bug; if it passes, the community has to fix it before the OS is ready for release. As long as a blocker bug persists, the OS doesn’t get released.
Right now, the blocker bug tracker has four confirmed blocker bugs in place:
anaconda
ON_QA
Installation of the system failed: Storing configuration files and kickstarts org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘path’
plasma-setup
NEW
Selecting a non-ASCII capable keyboard layout should automatically also select US English as a second layout
plasma-setup
POST
plasma-setup Keyboard Layout page pre-selection is broken – always shows English (US) if that is the system language, otherwise shows nothing
python-blivet
ON_QA
An incomplete spanned btrfs makes anaconda not see the drive, and crash when rescanning
There are also four proposed blocker bugs under consideration, including a black screen issue with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 and slow Wi-Fi connections on specific laptops. If any of these get added to the confirmed blocker bug list, they, too, will need fixing before Fedora 44 can be released. Unfortunately, all we can do is watch and wait to see if Fedora 44 will get a third delay; here’s hoping the community doesn’t need to resort to that.
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