April 2022 Newsletter Project News Transition to issues.redhat.com As CentOS Stream 9 stabilizes and we approach a release of RHEL 9, Red Hat is planning to transition to using issues.redhat.com exclusively for reporting issues and requesting features for RHEL and CentOS, deprecating the use of bugzilla.redhat.com. This will be a gradual process as we all […]
March 2022 Newsletter Project News GitLab for CentOS SIGs Pierre-Yves Chibon posted a proposal to centos-devel about making GitLab available to CentOS SIGs. People involved with Special Interest Groups are encouraged to read the proposal and respond with questions or details of whether this proposal would help their SIG. Automovite Stream Distribution The Automotive SIG […]
February 2022 Newsletter Project News FOSDEM Dojo CentOS hosted its annual FOSDEM Dojo. This Dojo was once again virtual. If you missed the Dojo, or you just want to watch it again, all of the videos (and some of the slides) are available on the Dojo wiki page. Also, Aleksandra Fedorova gave a talk at […]
January 2022 Newsletter Project News Update 2022-02-01: These instructions no longer work since the packages were moved from the mirror network to the vault. See the CentOS 8 section of the CentOS Stream page for current instructions. The big news, of course, is that CentOS Linux 8 reached End Of Life on Friday, December 31, […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, As we approach the end of 2021, I wanted to thank all of you who have worked so hard this year towards the betterment of the project. This year we've made governance more transparent, welcomed several new SIGs, made big strides in consolidating infrastructure with Fedora where it made sense, and begun […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, It’s been another busy month in the CentOS project. Here’s some of the highlights from around the community. Project News Karanbir ‘KB’ Singh On October 18th, we had the historic news that project lead and long-term Board of Directors member Karanbir “KB” Singh will resign from the Board, effective immediately. If you’ve been […]
It hardly seems possible that it’s already October. September (and the first few days of October) was very busy in CentOS news. Events We had our first in-person event in almost two years, last week in Seattle, and we have two upcoming events. October CentOS Dojo Later this week we will be holding the October […]
Dear CentOS community, It’s been another interesting and productive month in the CentOS project. If you’d like to contribute your own stories or articles to this newsletter, please join us on the centos-promo mailing list. Project News Public Board of Directors Meetings As part of our onging effort to increase transparency and participation at CentOS, the […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, thanks for joining us for another month's community newsletter. Top news There’s a lot going on on the CentOS community lately. Here are some of the highlights. CentOS Linux 8 EOL You are likely already aware that CentOS Linux 8 will reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2021. However, we […]
Dear CentOS Enthusiasts, Here's what's happening in our community over the past month. CentOS Stream 9 is open for contribution: Container images and a note about new composes We've been working on producing more artifacts for CentOS Stream 9, those can be found at the composes location: https://composes.stream.centos.org You'll notice a few directories under there, […]