Dear CentOS enthusiast, Another month into 2019, and we have a lot to tell you about. Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter Releases and updates Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during January: Errata and Security Advisories We issued the following CESA (CentOS […]
On February 1st (last week) there were a large number of enhancements/updates released by the CentOS community: Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories): CEEA-2019:0178 CentOS 7 libreswan Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023152.html CEEA-2019:0180 CentOS 7 osinfo-db Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023171.html Errata and Security Advisories We issued the following CESA […]
On Friday of last week, we once again gathered in Brussels for our annual CentOS Dojo at FOSDEM. 14 speakers gave talks on a wide variety of topics, ranging from deeply technical, to community-centered, to a vision of what's coming in CentOS 8. The full schedule is on the event website, and the videos from […]
As per the SIG reporting guide, the Promo SIG offers its quarterly report for the period from Nov 1, 2018 through Feb 1, 2019 Purpose The CentOS Promotion SIG exists to provide promotion, and consistent messaging, of CentOS, both at physical events and online. Membership Update In the reporting period, we have had participation from […]
CentOS SCLo SIG Quarterly report Purpose Packaging and maintaining Software Collections packages, providing the ability to install several versions of various software side by side. Releases and packages Several new software collections were provided: Git 2.18 MySQL 8.0 nginx 1.14 NodeJS 10 PHP 7.2 Varnish 6 Some older software collections were retired due to their […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, We wish you a happy and prosperous 2019, full of CentOS! Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter Releases and updates December was a very busy month for releases and updates. The following releases and updates happened in December. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes […]
01 September 2018 - 31 November 2018 Purpose Packaging and maintaining different FOSS based Private cloud infrastructure applications that one can install and run natively on CentOS. https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud Membership Update We are always looking for new members, especially representation from other cloud technologies. The SIG agreed to replace the inactive SIG Chair, Kushal Das, with […]
We're looking forward to seeing all of you in Brussels next month! The annual FOSDEM CentOS Dojo will be happening, as usual, on the Friday before FOSDEM starts - February 1st, 2019 - at the Marriott Grand Place, just a few minutes walk from Grand Place. We do ask that you register, so that we […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Can you believe it's December already? Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS. Releases and updates The following releases and updates happened in November. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change. Errata and Enhancements Advisories There were no CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements […]
When thinking about the CentOS Project, it’s natural to think of the Linux distro and how it makes operations and administration easy through sane package integration and management. If you are an open source software project, though, how is the CentOS Linux platform useful to you beyond the operating system? This is where SIGs come […]