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, […]
(A note from Brian Stinson, from the CI team.) Some of you may know that the CentOS Community Build System, and CentOS CI Infrastructures are hosted in Raleigh, North Carolina. I wanted to take this opportunity to let all of you know that outages are possible (but not expected) in the coming days as Hurricane […]
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 August. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change. Releases We're pleased to announce the following releases in August: Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1804) on POWER9 […]
When we consolidated all CentOS Distro builders in a new centralized setup, covering all arches (so basically x86_64, i386, ppc64le, ppc64, aarch64 and armhfp those days), we wanted also to add redundancy where it was possible to. The interesting "SecureBoot" corner case came on the table and we had to find a different way to […]