• CentOS Connect is January 30-31 in Brussels, just before FOSDEM. Register to join us at this free event. You can join remotely as well. Live stream information is on the website.

• Troy Dawson will be presenting CentOS Stream and the Power of SIGs: KDE, Hyperscale, and Beyond in the Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM.

• We'll be presenting a Fedora+CentOS Classroom at SCaLE

• The CentOS Blueskey handle is now just centos.org.

• The Board is moving forward with the proposal to have SIGs use GitLab by default. There are a few technical issues that we have to iron out for certain workflows. If you have any issues with GitLab for your workflow, reach out to the Board.

Hyperscale SIG

The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling.

The Hyperscale SIG has filed their report on the CentOS blog with updates to systemd, the kernel, the RPM CoW stack, and other packages.

Alternate Images SIG

The Alternate Images SIG's goal is to build and provide alternate iso images for CentOS Stream.

Conference Presentations

• CentOS Showcase Nov. 2024, Troy Dawson presented Alt Uses for Alt Images
• CentOS Showcase Nov. 2024, Troy Dawson presented CentOS Stream on Windows

Quarterly Update

• All CentOS Stream 9 Live images were updated. https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/live/
• All CentOS Stream 9 WSL images were updated. https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/wsl/

CentOS Stream 10

• We created CentOS Stream 10 Live images for x86_64 and aarch64. We currently have 4 images. GNOME, KDE, MAX and MIN. https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/10-stream/altimages/images/live/
• We created CentOS Stream 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) images for x86_64 and aarch64 https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/10-stream/altimages/images/wsl/

Documentation

• We created an Alternative Images Information page. This page has some brief information, and direct links to all the latest downloads.
• https://www.centos.org/altimages/

Virtualization SIG

The Virt-SIG aims to deliver a user-consumable full stack for virtualization technologies that want to work with the SIG. This includes delivery, deployment, management, update and patch application (for full lifecycle management) of the baseline platform when deployed in sync with a technology curated by the Virt-SIG.

KVM Forum 2024 presentations

• Dorinda Bassey and Matej Hrica: virtio-gpu - Where are we now?
• Sergio Lopez Pascual: Getting QEMU ready for the Automotive Industry
• Sergio Lopez Pascual: The many faces of virtio-gpu

Membership or leadership changes

• Jean-Louis Dupond joined the SIG (oVirt project)
• George Dunlap stepped down from SIG chair/sponsors and left the SIG (XEN for CentOS Linux 7).
• Sandro Bonazzola is the only remaining sponsor/chair on the SIG, would be nice to have nomination/election of another sponsor soon.
• Kowshik Jois left the SIG (virtualization stack on PPC64LE for CentOS Stream 9).
• Murilo Opsfelder Araújo left the SIG (virtualization stack on PPC64LE for CentOS Stream 9).
• Stephen Zarkos left the SIG (Azure kernel for CentOS Linux 7).
• Spyros Trigazis left the SIG (Kubernetes for CentOS Linux 7).
• Anthony Perard left the SIG (XEN for CentOS Linux 7).
• Eitan Raviv left the SIG (oVirt project).
• Yedidyah Bar David left the SIG (oVirt project).
• Marcin Sobczyk left the SIG (oVirt project).

Automotive SIG collaboration

• vhost-device-sound, vhost-device-scmi and vhost-device-vsock have been added to CentOS Virtualization SIG's kvm-common repository.
• A guide on how to use vhost-device-sound is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vhost-device-sound
• qemu-kvm >= 9.0.0-6.el10 got 'vhost-user-scmi-pci' and 'vhost-user-scmi' devices enabled.

TDX updates

• We have started the work to update confidential computing guest support in H2 2024 (leading to RHEL 9.6), including support for kexec in TDX guests and support for running SNP guests with an SVSM. We plan to update this and KVM up to upstream kernel 6.12 (roughly) before the end of the year. The TDX kernel was updated to include these patches.
• CentOS Stream now include support for running SNP guests in qemu and libvirt.

oVirt updates

• Jean-Louis Dupond joined the oVirt Board
• team.blue is now actively developing the oVirt project.
• The oVirt Project is going to support CentOS Stream 10 and derivatives.