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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2021-10 CentOS board meeting Attendees Board members Brian “bex” Exelbierd Thomas Oulevey Davide Cavalca Jim Perrin Tru Huynh Mike McLean Josh Boyer Directors Absent Pat Riehecky Karanbir Singh Johnny Hughes Guests Shaun McCance Matthias Runge Lance Albertson Brian Stinson Alfredo ** 22h05 ** Agenda Previous minutes https://blog.centos.org/2021/09/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-for-2021-09-08/ On going discussion Nothing to report. Issues https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues […]
During the past quarter (August, September, October) the Promo SIG has been involved in the following activities: Community/Membership In the most recent quarter, I (Rich Bowen) have been trying harder to engage more of the community in the promotion of the project, rather than doing it all myself. This has been met with mixed success, […]
This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team in Red Hat. Each quarter, the CPE Team—together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives—chooses initiatives to work on in the quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives, plus […]
Purpose The CentOS NFV (Network Function Virtualization) SIG provides a CentOS-based stack that will serve as a platform for the deployment and testing of virtual network functions (VNFs) and NFV component packages on compliant CentOS platform. Membership Ales Musil (amusil) has joined as new SIG member. Welcome on board! Packages New package openvswitch2.16 has been […]
Today we have heard from KB that he is stepping down from the CentOS Board of Directors. On behalf of the Board, I want to thank KB for his years of leadership. His work on the project, and in the community, has made the world a better place in tangible ways that affect millions of […]
The CentOS Automotive SIG launched in August following approval from the CentOS Board in July. This SIG, instigated by Red Hat and open to all, is meant to be a neutral public space for collaboration between third parties interested in open development of software targeted at in-vehicle automotive use cases, and to provide automotive projects […]