[BRLTTY] Brltty in Fedora 44

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026, Christian Schoepplein wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK Fedora 44, which will be released in one day, will contain brltty 
> 6.8.x and not the newest brltty release. Does anyone know why and how we can 
> get the newest brltty release in the new Fedora distribution?

The timing was unfortunate. Fedora 44 branched from Rawhide on February 
3, 2026 — the very same day BRLTTY 6.9 was released upstream. Whatever 
was in Rawhide at branch time becomes the baseline for the release, and 
after that the Final Freeze (March 31 – April 14) limited what could 
still land. So 6.8.x is what's shipping on the install media tomorrow.

That said, this doesn't mean F44 users are stuck on 6.8.x. New upstream 
versions routinely reach stable Fedora releases as post-release updates 
via Bodhi: the package maintainer builds 6.9, submits it to 
updates-testing, and once it gathers enough karma (or hits the 
time-based threshold) it gets pushed to stable. Users then receive it 
through normal dnf upgrade.

So the path forward is to coordinate with the Fedora brltty package 
maintainer about packaging 6.9 as an update for F44 (and Rawhide / F45 
in parallel).


Nicolas