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 […]
This Thursday we held our first Dojo at DevConf.us in Boston. We had about 40 people in attendance, and had 9 presenters on a variety of topics. I want to particularly draw attention to our keynote, by Brendan Conoboy, who discussed the relationship - past and future - between Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL, which is […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1807), 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-1.22.1-22.git5a342e3.el7.x86_64 cloud-init-0.7.9-24.el7.centos.1.x86_64 docker-1.13.1-68.gitdded712.el7.centos.x86_64 etcd-3.2.22-1.el7.x86_64 flannel-0.7.1-4.el7.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 […]
Save the date! February 1 in Brussels! As we do each year, we are once again planning to host a CentOS Dojo in Brussels on Friday, February 1st, the day before FOSDEM 2019. Details about this event are on the CentOS wiki, and more details are being added all the time. The Call for Presentations […]
It's time for another community newsletter. As always, we have lots of information about upcoming events, recent releases, and what our SIGs (Special Interest Groups) are working on. You can read the newsletter at https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/1803 Past editions of the newsletter, as well as information about how you can contribute, is available at http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter In the […]