Dear CentOS enthusiast, Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS. Releases and updates The following releases and updates happened in October. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change. Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during October: CEEA-2018:2903 CentOS […]
The videos from the recent #CentOSDojo at #CERN are now available on the CentOS YouTube channel. If you have time for only one, be sure to watch the first video, which talks about the challenges that CERN has with the enormous amount of data they produce every day in the LHC. Also recommended, Fabian's discussion […]
Greetings from the mirror-management department! This notice is for those who employ some sort of an automation to download AltArch (ie. aarch64, armhfp, i386, power9, ppc64, ppc64le) CentOS 7 .iso/.raw.xz images from mirror.centos.org. Those using a regular browser to download these images are not particularly affected, and you can continue to the next post on […]
It's been over a year since we published anything about the CentOS Community Container Pipeline. Many interesting things have happened during the past year, many things have changed and there's a complete shift in the architecture of the service that's was rolled out over the last weekend. Wait, I've never heard of this project If […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.5.1804 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.5). All included packages have been updated to September 30th, 2018. Notable Changes The images now use the ext4 filesystem, instead of XFS. We have been getting unbootable images due […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS Releases and Updates The following releases and updates happened in Setember. For each update, the given URL provides the notes about the change. Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during September: CEEA-2018:2675 CentOS 6 […]
After many years of excellent service by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab the CentOS Project has decided to migrate our web-based pastebin instance to a self-hosted platform running on our infrastructure. This has provided us the opportunity to move to a different solution based on the Stikked pastebin server which is a more modern […]
The following CentOS Updates have been announced in the past week: CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2018:2675 - CentOS 6 microcode_ctl Enhancement Update CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:2693 - Critical CentOS 6 firefox Security Update CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2018:2397 - CentOS 7 microcode_ctl Enhancement Update CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:2692 - Critical CentOS 7 firefox […]
A few weeks ago, Fabian passed me the torch in our quest for a fully working EPEL rebuild for armhfp, that included access to the builders, the build system manager and a blind, unfunded trust that I wasn't going to break anything. The plan up to that point was, "if it builds, great, if it […]
On February 1, 2019, we'll be holding our annual CentOS Dojo in Brussels, on the day before FOSDEM starts. FOSDEM, as you probably know, is the annual Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting in Brussels - two days of presentations, projects, and hallway meetings with new and old friends. For the last several years, […]