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Friday, 14, July 2023 spotz announcement, Community, General 9 Comments

Growing a community and making it easier for folks to contribute is a critical element of success. We are excited by the interest in working with the CentOS project. Since Spring 2023, the CentOS Board and members of the community have been working on a set of guidelines to help define what success means for […]

New CentOS Director – Amy Marrich

Tuesday, 1, March 2022 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

Every six months (in January and August) the CentOS board has the opportunity to reelect, or replace half of the directors. This staggered approach was adopted so that we are never in a situation where the entire board (or even a significant majority) is replaced, leaving no experienced directors. In the January 2022 board meeting, […]

New CentOS Director – Celeste Lyn Paul

Tuesday, 22, February 2022 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

Every six months (in January and August) the CentOS board has the opportunity to reelect, or replace half of the directors. This staggered approach was adopted so that we are never in a situation where the entire board (or even a significant majority) is replaced, leaving no experienced directors. In the January 2022 board meeting, […]

Introducing CentOS Stream 9

Friday, 3, December 2021 Rich Bowen announcement 22 Comments

The CentOS Project is delighted to announce the availability of CentOS Stream 9, the latest major release of the CentOS Stream distribution. What’s Great About CentOS Stream CentOS Stream is Continuous CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Before a package is formally introduced to CentOS Stream, it undergoes […]

Announcing the latest release of CentOS Linux 8 (2111)

Tuesday, 16, November 2021 Johnny Hughes announcement No Comments

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2111, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Source Code. **PLEASE NOTE:** CentOS Linux 8 will EOL on 31 December 2021. We will handle […]

Announcing availability of Gitlab for the CentOS project

Wednesday, 10, November 2021 lgriffin announcement 2 Comments

You may recall that CPE ran a requirements session to figure out a future home for storing our source code. Gitlab was chosen as the destination based on the varied requirements. Over the past year, CentOS Stream has been developed through Gitlab. We used this period of time to test the workflows and we are […]

CentOS Board welcomes new directors

Wednesday, 9, June 2021 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

The CentOS Board of Directors is delighted to welcome two new directors - Davide Cavalca and Josh Boyer - to the Board. Please join us in welcoming them, and thanking them for their willingness to dedicate some of their time to the endeavor of steering the CentOS Project. Once again, we thank outgoing directors Karsten […]

CentOS Linux 8 (2105) Released

Thursday, 3, June 2021 Johnny Hughes announcement 12 Comments

Release for CentOS Linux 8 (2105) We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2105, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Source Code. As always, read through the Release Notes at: […]

CPE is hiring

Wednesday, 5, May 2021 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

The Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short, is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. See our wiki page here […]

CentOS Online Dojo, May 13th, 14th, CfP now open

Wednesday, 3, March 2021 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

TL;DR: Online Dojo will be held May 13th, 14th, 2021 Dojo CFP open now at forms.gle/wRa8r5ZRHrqnZ6VF6 Closes April 5th, 00:01 UTC As promised in my email a few weeks ago, we're going to try to do online Dojos quarterly for the coming few quarters, and we're pleased to announce the first of these. We will […]