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 […]
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 […]
Once upon a time, there was a repository called fasttrack, and it used to get low priority updates before going through all the usual checks. Eventually, that repo was deprecated, we couldn't delete it without breaking compatibility, so it just stayed there, empty and silent. A few days ago, a bug appeared in bind, that […]
2018-12-12: We published new Vagrant images, v1811.02, fixing CentOS bug 15552 (wrong permissions on file /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant cause visudo -c to report an error, which can result in problems with Puppet). 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 […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1811), an operating system designed to run Linux containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. CentOS Atomic Host includes these core component versions: atomic-1.22.1-26.gitb507039.el7.centos.x86_64 cloud-init-18.2-1.el7.centos.1.x86_64 podman-0.11.1.1-3.git594495d.el7.centos.x86_64 docker-1.13.1-84.git07f3374.el7.centos.x86_64 etcd-3.2.22-1.el7.x86_64 flannel-0.7.1-4.el7.x86_64 […]
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 […]