• The quokka is the new CentOS mascot.
• Red Hat Summit is May 19-22. Join CentOS on Community Day, and come see us in Community Central in the expo hall. More details are on our Summit event page.
• Flock, the annual Fedora conference, is June 5-8 in Prague.
• Progress is underway in migrating to GitLab.
• The board has decided to retire the Alt Arch SIG and the Feature Request SIG unless somebody revives them.
• The CentOS Cloud SIG is looking for packagers.
• The new Proposed Updates SIG is up and running.

Alt Images SIG

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

Conference Presentations

• CentOS Connect Jan. 2025, Troy Dawson presented CentOS Alt Images: Lets Talk About It

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/
• All CentOS Stream 10 Live images were updated. https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/10-stream/altimages/images/live/
• All CentOS Stream 10 WSL images were updated. https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/10-stream/altimages/images/wsl/

Bugs Fixed / Features Added

• Kinfocenter is now in the CentOS Stream 10 KDE Live images. Issue 5
• CS10 WSL images now have the minimal libraries needed to do graphics if GNOME graphical apps are installed. Issue 14
• WSL images are now built the new way (almost). Issue 12 You can now download one of this quarter's WSL images and install it with just wsl --install --from-file <path to image>
  • Example: wsl --install --from-file ./CentOS-Stream-Image-WSL-Base.x86_64-9-202504070704.tar.xz

Documentation

• We updated the image links on the Alternative Images Download page. https://www.centos.org/altimages/

Storage SIG

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

Stream 9 packages (Use EPEL9 for Dependencies)

• Ceph Quincy (17) is EOL
• Ceph Reef (18) update 18.2.5 is imminent.
• Ceph Squid (19) update 19.2.1 is available now.
• NFS-Ganesha 5 is EOL
• FS-Ganesha 6 and libntirpc 6 updates 6.5 and 6.3 respectively are available now.

Stream 10 packages (Use EPEL10 for dependencies)

• Ceph Squid (19) update 19.2.1 is available now.
• NFS-Ganesha 6 and libntirpc 6 updates 6.5 and 6.3 respectively are available now.

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.

Automotive SIG collaboration

• vhost-device-gpu is now available on Fedora ELN and the team is backporting it to CentOS Stream 10 for inclusion in CentOS Virtualization SIG's kvm-common repository.

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) updates

During the last quarter upstream development of TDX support in KVM was almost completed. As a result we prepared new builds with updated upstream patches. These helped in various ways as a testbed for:

• Kata Containers, whose developers noted a patch that was missing in the upstream submission
• Libvirt, where the previously available patches did not apply anymore and had to be rebased
• CentOS Stream, since the latest kernel build will roughly match the KVM changes to be submitted for the RHEL 9.7 development period

As a result we are now planning what to do later, including more in-development features for use by developers in the virtualization ecosystem.