Fedora 43 template?

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I’ve noticed that the fedora-43 template is available in the qubes-templates-itl repository instead of the testing repository.

However, there has been no official announcement about the Fedora 43 template being released to stable.

If it’s still considered a testing package, why is it in the stable repo instead of testing?

If it has been released to stable, why was there no announcement?

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Hmm, assume it’s -at least- stable now, but status still is “before announcement”. Speaking from me - no problems seen here with 43 (for my stuff). I immediately tried 43 after the 4.3 upgrade/fresh install (on my both machines) and dropped 42.

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I’ve been using it for around a month with no issues whatsoever.

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Dito.

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Hm, the issue for the Fedora 43 template (#10102) currently has only the first subtask (out of 7) completed, and the issue hasn’t been updated since 2026-01-04, which is the same date as the qubes-template-fedora-43-* packages in https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.3/templates-itl/rpm/.

It looks like the template still at least needs to go through testing first, so I think the packages may have accidentally been uploaded to stable instead of testing. (See below for update.)

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The templates did spend 6 days in the testing repo before @marmarek stabilized them:

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Okay, looks like it was not an accident after all, and the templates were intentionally moved to the stable repo. We’ll publish an official announcement about their availability soon.

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I’ve been using Fedora 43 for a few months now and I have no major complaints. However, the Fedora Settings menu is not launching, so I can’t change the theme to dark, which is annoying.
Was there a workaround for that?

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Works fine over here. What do you get when you do some xfce4-appearance-settings in the terminal of that Qube using the fedora-43-xfce template?

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It just freezes for a few secs and exits. No errors. I assumed it was because it’s a testing template, but it looks like a me problem. I’ll look into it now that I know. I don’t want to hijack the post to troubleshoot.

Thanks for pointing that out.

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Announcement is live:

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