March 2024 News

• CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will both go EOL in just a couple months. Fabian Arrotin posted some details on how this will affect CentOS infrastructure. As a reminder, we have a blog post with EOL details and migration options.

• CentOS will migrate from Mailman 2 to 3 soon. Fabian Arrotin has asked for feedback on details of the migration, including possibly renaming some lists.

• Brian Stinson announced that CentOS Stream is now available in Azure community galleries. Read the blog post for details on how to use it.

• The Kmods SIG is once again able to provide kernel mods built for RHEL targets.

• The videos from CentOS Connect are available to watch on YouTube.

• Speaking of CentOS Connect, registered attendees received a link to a survey about the event. If that survey is sitting in your inbox, please take a few minutes to fill it out. It helps us make a better event next year.

Cloud SIG

Packaging and maintaining different FOSS based Private cloud infrastructure applications that one can install and run natively on CentOS Stream.

• RDO is preparing the next OpenStack release Caracal/2024.1
• OKD releases are currently on hold. OKD has so far been re-using images from OCP CI, which have pivoted from a UBI base to a RHEL one. This makes them inadequate for distribution with OKD. A process is being set up to build all components on a CentOS 9 Stream base. OKD releases will resume once the process is implemented.
• OKD releases are currently on hold. OKD has so far been re-using images from OCP CI, which have pivoted from a UBI base to a RHEL one. This makes them inadequate for distribution with OKD. A process is being set up to build all components on a CentOS 9 Stream base. OKD releases will resume once the process is implemented.

Storage SIG

Purpose

The CentOS Storage Special Interest Group (SIG) is a collection of like-minded individuals coming together to ensure that CentOS is a suitable platform for many different storage solutions. This group will ensure that all Open Source storage options seeking to utilize CentOS as a delivery platform have a voice in packaging, orchestration, deployment, and related work

Releases

• GlusterFS 10 and 11 have been updated to 10.5 and 11.1 respectively. It has been decided not to package GlusterFS in CentOS Stream 10.
• Ceph Pacific (16) has been updated to 16.2.14. By the time you read this it will have been updated to 16.2.15, its last update.
• Ceph Quincy (17) has been updated to 17.2.7.
• Ceph Reef (18) was released, and has since been updated to 18.2.1
• Ceph Squid (19) is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2024.
• NFS-Ganesha 5 (including libntirpc 5) has been released. Ganesha has been updated to 5.7; libntirpc is 5.0
• Apache Arrow (libarrow) and Apache ORC (liborc) are now packaged in EPEL
• Samba 4.18 has been updated to 4.18.10.
• Samba 4.19 has been updated to 4.19.5.
• Samba 4.20 is scheduled to be released in March 2024.
• Samba 4.20(yet to release) will be the last version packaged on CentOS Stream 8.

Automotive SIG

The Automotive SIG provides a center of gravity for CentOS automotive projects. The SIG produces three types of artifacts:

• AutoSD, a streaming distribution of CentOS designed for in-vehicle automotive use cases.
• An Automotive SIG RPM repository that allows the community to expand the content of AutoSD or experiment with some of its parts.
• Sample images, built using OSBuild, which provide examples of how to assemble production images based on AutoSD, customized for some hardware, including container images, based on CoreOS/ostree technologies.

AutoSD, or Automotive Stream Distribution, is a streaming distribution for automotive in-vehicle software development based on CentOS Stream. It is transparently the upstream project for Red Hat's eventual in-vehicle OS product. AutoSD has been downloaded and used by many organizations who have commented or asked for help, so we know it is getting some traction though of course we don't have exact metrics on usage.

Over the past year, we have done many things!

• The BlueChi project, a lightweight container management system, was developed in the automotive SIG and contributed to the Eclipse SDV Working Group.
• AutoSD documentation has been much improved.
• A new TI-based SOC (AM69) works with AutoSD.
• CentOS automotive folks spoke at a number of events last year, including Eclipse SDV Community Days at EclipseCon.
• Leo Rossetti's kubernetes spec (based on podman) was merged in the SOAFEE architecture repository for the 2.0 release

In addition, there is a great deal of work in progress:

• Adding BlueChi support for EWAOL in the upcoming SOAFEE 2.0 draft specification.
• Adding podman, quadlet and systemd in Linaro's TRS (Trusted Reference Stack)
• Further documentation upgrades, including an upcoming Getting Started Guide.

Meetings are the first Wednesday of each month - please send email to jefro@redhat.com to be included on the invite. We hope you will join us!