• We're pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Stream 10.
• EPEL 10 has also been announced.
• Along with CentOS Stream 10, we have launched a new website and docs site.
• Our new docs site has Quick Docs, similar to Fedora. Check out the Quick Docs issues for ways you can contribute.
• CentOS now has a Bluesky account.
• Davide Cavalca has proposed that SIGs use GitLab by default.
• CentOS Connect is January 30-31 in Brussels, just before FOSDEM. Register to join us at this free event.

Cloud SIG

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

• RDO has released a RPM-based distribution of OpenStack 2024.2 Dalmatian.
  The release is available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in:
  http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-dalmatian/
• The bootstrap of RDO on CS10 has already started by adding support of CS10 in the CI/CD pipelines. RDO is also actively working on adding CS10 support in upstream OpenDev/OpenStack for projects like Devstack, Packstack, etc.
• RDO is also working in parallel on an experimentation of building OpenStack components from source (S2I) on Konflux. The experimentation is taking place under the rdo-centos10-epoxy application of the CentOS Stream Cloud SiG tenant which is hosted on the Fedora Konflux cluster.

NFV SIG

The CentOS NFV SIG provides a CentOS-based stack that will serve as a platform for the deployment and testing of virtual network functions (VNFs) and NFV component packages on compliant CentOS platform. The NFV SIG builds against both CentOS Stream as well as RHEL buildroots for maximal compatibility.

• openvswitch 3.1 and 2.17 have received frequent updates based off upstream but will be discontinued soon
• openvswitch 3.3 and ovn-24.03 were added in support of RDO Caracal and will continue to receive updates
• openvswitch 3.4 and ovn-24.09 are already available for both CS9 and CS10 but the automation workflow still need to be set up for CS10 builds

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.
We apologize that the Automotive SIG missed its most recent quarterly report. 
Major activities since the last report include:

• New hardware support for the TI AM64/AM69, provided by Texas Instruments. We are now focusing enablement effort on this platform for aarch64 support, and deprecating the Raspberry Pi 4B, though images for the latter continue to be produced.
• The last few months have included a dramatic enhancement and improvement for documentation, reflecting the documentation work being done for the downstream Red Hat product.
• CentOS automotive folks spoke at a number of events, including CentOS Connect, Eclipse SDV at Open Code Experience (OCX), Red Hat Summit, DevConf.us, and Fedora Flock.
• AutoSD has been used in numerous POCs and demos publicly at CES, Red Hat Summit, Open Source Summit NA and EU, and we are aware of its use internally within companies as a POC. It is also being evaluated for use in other transportation arenas, including automated trains and, most recently, discussed at length within ELISA for Space Grade Linux.
• BlueChi is now supported within EWAOL in the upcoming SOAFEE 2.0 draft specification.

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!