Fedora Linux 42 Release Party
The Fedora community will celebrate the release of Fedora Linux 42 with a virtual Release Party on 29 May 2025. For a few hours, Fedora contributors and leaders will speak about recent changes in Fedora Linux and the Fedora Project. Our global Release Parties are a great way to learn more about the latest Fedora Linux release and also an opportunity to get to know the Fedora contributors behind it all.
We hope you will join us in a celebration of our last six months and the people who make it possible!
Logistics
We will use Matrix for our main stage and event chat, and stream our sessions via Restream in our event room. Please join the room #f42-release party before the start time via your invite link. Registration (free!) is required to gain access to the event room. Registered attendees will receive an invite to the matrix room ahead of the event, and we will have staff on hand to provide invites if there are any complications with the link.
We have opted for this setup for this release party a number of reasons:
1. We don't have the right tools created or in place to get metrics from the matrix room yet. This is something we will look into for F43, but we will need some help from our engineers to figure out!
2. We hope this will deter any spam by making this a private room for event use only.
Date & Time
Thursday, 29 May 2025
1300 - 1600 UTC
Registration link
https://rsvp.fedoraproject.org/releases/f42/
Highlights for this party
- Hear about some of the new changes made to the installer
- Fedora has a new spin - COSMIC!
- Learn about some of the great new features and improvements from your Fedora desktop of choice, whether it's workstation with Gnome, KDE Plasma or an Atomic one
- And lots more!
Schedule
Thursday, 29 May
| Time (EST, UTC-4) | Time (UTC) | Session title | Name of speaker | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | 13:00 – 13:15 | Opening Remarks | Matthew Miller Jef Spaleta Aoife Moloney Justin W. Flory | Join the Fedora Project Leader, Operations Architect, and Community Architect as we kick off the celebration for this release, look back on the last release cycle, and review highlights from this weekend's event | Live |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | 13:15 - 13:30 | Hi, Im Jef! | Jef Spaleta | A self-intro by our new FPL! | Live |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | 13:30 - 13:45 | Fedora WSL | Jeremy Cline | An update on the Fedora WSL change in F42 | Pre-recorded |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | 13:45 – 14:00 | Anaconda Installer Updates | Jiri Konecny | Information on the changes to the installer | Pre-recorded |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | 14:00 – 14:15 | Atomic Desktops | Timothee Ravier | What's new in Fedora Atomic Desktops 42 and what's next | Live |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | 14:15 – 14:30 | Mentor Summit Update | Jona Azizaj | An update on this years Mentor Summit happening at Flock and sharing the work done with the Recognition Program recently | Live |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | 14:30 - 15:45 | Git Forge Update | Akashdeep Dhar | A brief overview of the git forge work | Pre-recorded session |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | 14:45 – 15:00 | RISC-V and Fedora | Kashyap Chamarthy | An update on RICS-V hardware and Fedora | Pre-recorded |
| 11:00 AM – 11:15 | 15:00 – 15:15 | KDE Plasma 6 | Onuralp Sezer | An update on the features in Fedoras latest Edition in F42 | Live |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | 15:15 – 15:30 | Fedora Workstation Update | Matthias Clasen | An update on the latest features in Fedora Workstation for F42 | Live |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | 15:30 – 15:45 | F42 Design | Madeline Peck | An insight into the F42 design process | Live |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | 14:45 – 16:00 | Fedora COSMIC Spin | Ryan Brue | A talk on the Fedora COSMIC Spin | Live |
Announcement links
Here are links to the various announcements that will be shared during the opening and closing sessions.
- HelloTux store (use FEDORA5 for a discount)
The Fedora Community Blog is a great way to keep up on announcements. Subscribe via email, RSS, or watch the Fedora Discussion category.
Recordings
The (unsplit) recordings will be available on Fedora's YouTube channel post event:
