A Fedora 37 release-date slip

Fedora releases have traditionally happened later than their target date,though the project has done better on that score in recent years. BenCotton has announced inFedora Magazine that the upcoming Fedora 37 release, initially plannedfor October 25, won't be happening until November 15. Theimmediate cause is animpending OpenSSL update which fixes a vulnerability described as"critical".

Ironically, Fedora's openness means we can't start preparing aheadof time. All of our build pipelines and artifacts are open. If wewere to start building updates, this would disclose thevulnerability before the embargo lifts. As a result, we only knowthat OpenSSL considers this the highest level of severity and RedHat's Product Security team strongly recommended we wait for a fixbefore releasing Fedora Linux 37.