Agenda for the Flatcar Developer Sync on Wednesday, 28th of January 2026, 2:30pm UTC

[LexiNadolski]

In our monthly Flatcar developer syncs maintainers review development / roadmap progress, discuss special projects like OS composability, secure / trusted boot, vendor support, and CNCF incubation status. We provide an overview of ongoing work, give an outlook of future work, and plan the next release.

Join if you're curious about current or future Flatcar development and/or to raise visibility of a feature, bug, or PR.

• Jitsi Link: https://meet.flatcar.org/OfficeHours
• Youtube live stream / recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/iwClsL9ICMk
  • All recordings: https://www.youtube.com/@FlatcarLinux/live
• Community Calls calendar (all future calls): link
  • iCal version: link

Administrative tasks checklist before the meeting

See https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-app-jitsi?tab=readme-ov-file#operate-jitsi for thorough runbook.

• Update Youtube Studio with upcoming stream information, copy streaming link
• Update this Agenda with streaming link
• Create and post announcements to Matrix, CNCF and Kubernetes slack
• Update matrix channel Youtube widget

Welcome

• Brief intro/check-in of the new participants in the Jitsi call. Please introduce yourself and share what brings you here today.

Monthly Contributions and Advisory status Review

1. Discuss the latest Monthly Contributions Report
   • Also see https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/cncf/overview/github?project=flatcar&repository=&routedFrom=Github
   • First-Time Contributors in the last month:
     • jozzsi - https://github.com/flatcar/bootengine/commits?author=jozzsi&since=2025-12-22&until=2026-01-21
2. Review of last month's advisory stats in the latest Contributions Report
   a. Advisory status and planning: Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)

Ongoing and Planned Tasks Review

Discussion

1. Roadmap review: Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view) (@t-lo)
2. Projects status review:
   a. Composable OS: sysext and ClusterAPI (@t-lo) - Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)
   b. SecureBoot / Trusted Boot (@sayanchowdhury ) - Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)
   c. CNCF Graduation process (@John15321 / @LexiNadolski ) - Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view):
   d. Flatcar infrastructure status (@tormath1) - Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)
   e. Nebraska status (@ervcz) - Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)
   Nebraska OIDC Refactor with breaking change
3. Maintainer team tactical / implementation (aka "line work") status review (@sayanchowdhury): Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)

Open Mic: Work to assign / User issues and PRs to discuss?

• Release: OpenSSL fixes, GnuPG only in Alpha (@sayanchowdhury / @tormath1 )
• Cover ARM64 test situation in dev sync (@tormath1)
• Akamai partnership and Equinix Metal offboarding (@tormath1)

Release Planning

• Ongoing and upcoming releases tracker: (Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)) (@sayanchowdhury)
• Talk about the upcoming release and the status of the packages
• Status of the ongoing release
• Preparation of the next release

Q&A

• Questions from community participants, answered by the Flatcar maintainers

Administrative tasks after meeting concluded

• Create a new Github discussion for the next Flatcar developer sync: https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/discussions/new?category=flatcar-developer-sync
• Close this discussion as "Resolved".