(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 […]
Join us this weekend (August 4th - 5th) in Bengaluru for DevConf.in, the second annual Developers' Conference. We want to draw particular attention to two talks. Bama charan Kundu will be talking about the CentOS Container Pipeline project: Various container build services offer developers to build their image with a git push and scan the container […]
We're just three weeks away from our upcoming Dojo at DevConf.us. We've recently added a new keynote to kick the day off, and an awesome evening event. Further event details are available on the CentOS Events Wiki, but here's the highlights: The day starts at 9am with a keynote from Brendan Conoboy, who will be […]
With the release of CentOS 7.5.1804, the CentOS Project has taken the next big step in improving software delivery security by signing all repository metadata for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 for all architectures, including the repositories for CentOS Special Interest Groups (SIGs) produced by the CentOS Community Build System (CBS). Wait, what do you […]