Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the general public is also welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora Linux before, this is the perfect way to get started.
There are two overlapping test periods in the coming week.
- Monday 07 April through Friday, April 11, focuses on testing Fedora IoT .
- Tuesday 08 April through Tuesday, April 15, focuses on testing the GNOME 48 desktop and core applications.
Fedora IoT
For this test week, the focus is all-around; test all the bits that come in a Fedora IoT release as well as validate different hardware. This includes:
- Basic installation to different media
- Installing in a VM
- rpm-ostree upgrades, layering, rebasing
- Basic container manipulation with Podman.
We welcome all different types of hardware, but have a specific list of target hardware for convenience. This test week will occur Monday 07 April through Friday 11 April.
GNOME 48 Test Week
The Desktop/Workstation team is working on final integration for GNOME 48. This version was recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora desktop and Quality teams are organizing a test week from Tuesday, April 08, 2025 to Tuesday, April 15, 2025. The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate.
How does a test week work?
A test week is an event where anyone can help ensure changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and everyone is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.
To contribute, you only need to be able to do the following things:
- Download the test materials, which include some large files.
- Read and follow the directions step by step.
Happy testing and we hope to see you at one (or more!) of the test day events.
Bonney
Hi !
Will there be an option during installation in future versions, where you can tick some boxes to get videos work on Fedora Linux? Even YouTube sometimes gives an error. Twitch does not work at all.
I don’t understand coding so that rpmfusion thing is not an option for me :/ otherwise Fedora Linux seems pretty solid. In other Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu the videos work across the line so why not Fedora Linux?
Stuart Gathman
No coding required. Install rpmfusion-free-release from the rpmfusion repo.
Talk to US govt about why Fedora can’t include video players directly.
If you want to play copy protected DVDs, that does require a little more work. (Install libdvdcss from outside US.) Again, complain to US govt. You can even play copy protected blu-ray with similar software that shall not be named. (You’ll need master key hidden in plain sight all over the internet.)
Note that playing media you have legally bought and paid for with software of your choice is actually legal in US – it is brain dead enforcement that is at issue.