September 2023 Newsletter
- The board approved the Integration SIG to verify that products and services built on top of RHEL or CentOS Stream will continue to work on CentOS Stream and the next release of RHEL and will not break on package updates.
- The board approved the ISA SIG to quantify the potential benefits of applying existing compiler technology to distribution packages, targeting more recent CPUs, and evaluating different options for how these optimizations can be maintained in a scalable way, and delivered to end users.
- The CentOS wiki has been archived. We are in the process of finding a new home for any of the content that is still relevant. In the meantime, all content is still available in the archive.
- The Platform Tools team has begun the process of moving bugs from bugzilla.redhat.com to issues.redhat.com, which is running Jira. Going forward, Jira will be the bug tracker for CentOS Stream.
SIG Reports
We publish a rotating selection of quarterly reports from our Special Interest Groups. This issue includes reports from the Kmods, Alternative Images, Artwork, Virtualization, and Hyperscale SIGs.
Kmods SIG
The Kmods SIG focuses on packaging and maintaining kernel modules for CentOS Stream and Enterprise Linux.
- No SIG members have been added since last report. We welcome anybody that’s interested and willing to do work within the scope of the SIG to join and contribute.
- Due to the recent changes in how Red Hat publishes the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux the Kmods SIG currently does not produce any new packages targeting Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This includes updating released packages. Previously released packages are still available. We are working with Red Hat to hopefully solve this situation soon and start providing packages for Enterprise Linux again as we used to before this change.
Alternative Images SIG
The purpose of the Alternative Images SIG is to build and provide alternate iso images for CentOS Stream.
- Blocker resolved: It is now possible to publish images to SIG repo’s, similar to rpms
- No images pushed yet.
- Working on fixing live-image installer bug
- Installer-only images not possible in CBS environment due to no pungi.
- Looking at documenting how to create installer only images using Red Hat’s ImageBuilder.
- Will have templates and/or examples for users to easily create their own CentOS Stream images.
- Looking at documenting how to create installer only images using Red Hat’s ImageBuilder.
Artwork SIG
The CentOS Artwork SIG exists to produce The CentOS Project Visual Identity.
- We continue working on jekyll-theme-centos architecture and design. Specifically, in the following tasks:
- Decoupling theme components into independent projects, to make them reusable in different formats (e.g., jinja for ansible projects, and liquid for jekyll projects).
- Releasing versioned artifacts for each component project.
- Gathering versioned components in jekyll-theme-centos to make new themes based on them.
- Improving content readability and presentation.
- Evaluating to update from Bootstrap 5.2 to Bootstrap 5.3.
- Theme components we are currently working on:
- jekyll-theme-centos-base project (live example) - Base HTML templates, YAML files, SASS files, and images related to CentOS websites.
- jekyll-theme-centos-download project (live example) - HTML templates, YAML files, SASS files, and images related to CentOS download in CentOS websites.
Virtualization SIG
The Virtualization SIG aims to deliver a user consumable full stack for virtualization technologies that want to work with the SIG.
Automotive SIG collaboration
- worked with qemu upstream adding:
- virtio-multitouch and enable GTK3 to use it
- pipewire audio backend
- work in progress with qemu upstream adding:
- virtio shared dma-buf
- working with Automotive SIG Digital Cockpit moving away from the qemu GTK ui backend and instead use the dbus ui backend + libmks
Hyperscale SIG
The Hyperscale SIG has posted their report on the CentOS blog.