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 […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.10 and CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 for x86_64. All included packages have been updated to January 28th, 2019. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line […]
NFV SIG Quarterly Report through February 1st, 2019 Purpose The CentOS NFV SIG exists to support Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in CentOS. Specifically, the idea is to be a vehicle to provide packages for implementers of software networks on the CentOS platform. Membership Update In this reporting period, we have had little formal participation. However, […]
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 […]
Purpose The CentOS PaaS SIG is working on delivering multiple PaaS Stacks that are built, tested and delivered into the CentOS Ecosystem for end user consumption, run as a service and also provided in various formats ( rpms, containers, images etc ) for other efforts in the CentOS Ecosystem, that can derive value from this […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.10 and CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 for x86_64. All included packages have been updated to January 1st, 2019. Important changes The centos/7 images use the XFS filesystem again (we had to temporarily switch to ext4 due to filesystem corruption involving qemu and XFS in […]
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 […]