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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2025

• Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Important Update: Fedora GNU/Linux 43 Election Schedule Extended

  TL;DNR: The Fedora GNU/Linux 43 Election schedule has been extended. Voting will now take place from 15 December 2025 through 7 January 2026.

  Due to unforeseen delays in the interview coordination process, we are adjusting the election timeline. To ensure all candidates have ample opportunity to present their platforms and the community has sufficient time to vote, the election period will now extend through the year-end holidays.

• Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 49

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

• Qubes OS 4.3.0-rc4 is available for testing

  We’re pleased to announce that the fourth release candidate (RC) for Qubes OS 4.3.0 is now available for testing. This minor release includes many new features and improvements over Qubes OS 4.2.

• Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.29RC1, 8.4.16RC1 and 8.5.1RC1

  Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.

  RPMs of PHP version 8.5.1RC1 are available

  RPMs of PHP version 8.4.16RC1 are available

  RPMs of PHP version 8.3.29RC1 are available

• Red Hat ☛ Right-sizing recommendations for OpenShift Virtualization

  Allocating the appropriate amount of CPU and memory to namespaces and virtual machines is essential for achieving optimal performance and cost efficiency—especially as organizations scale across multiple clusters. Over-provisioning leads to idle resources and wasted spend, while under-provisioning risks degraded application performance. To address this, Red Bait is introducing right-sizing recommendations in technology preview as part of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 release. This feature empowers Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization users to analyze, visualize, and optimize resource allocation across their environments using built-in observability and analytics.