Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week
Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April.
It was going to be a busy next week with both Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS planned for release, but yesterday at the Fedora Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to push back Fedora 44 until the following week.
There are blocker bugs remaining around non-ASCI keyboard handling, KDE Plasma's plasma-setup Keyboard Layout page being broken, a Btrfs installation issue, and another install issue. There are also two more proposed blocker bugs under consideration as outlined here.
We'll see if these bugs are addressed in the coming days and then they'll decide if the 28 April release date is viable but for the 21st target it was declared a No-Go.
Fedora Workstation 44 features the latest GNOME 50 desktop components. Or for KDE users, Fedora 44 delivers on a unified KDE out-of-the-box experience with Plasma 6.6 and is also using the new Plasma Login Manager in place of SDDM. Fedora 44 also brings live media improvements, enhanced AArch64 EFI system support for Windows on ARM laptops, the latest GCC 16 compiler, and many other updates.
It was going to be a busy next week with both Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS planned for release, but yesterday at the Fedora Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to push back Fedora 44 until the following week.
There are blocker bugs remaining around non-ASCI keyboard handling, KDE Plasma's plasma-setup Keyboard Layout page being broken, a Btrfs installation issue, and another install issue. There are also two more proposed blocker bugs under consideration as outlined here.
We'll see if these bugs are addressed in the coming days and then they'll decide if the 28 April release date is viable but for the 21st target it was declared a No-Go.
Fedora Workstation 44 features the latest GNOME 50 desktop components. Or for KDE users, Fedora 44 delivers on a unified KDE out-of-the-box experience with Plasma 6.6 and is also using the new Plasma Login Manager in place of SDDM. Fedora 44 also brings live media improvements, enhanced AArch64 EFI system support for Windows on ARM laptops, the latest GCC 16 compiler, and many other updates.