Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 on August 1st, 2017 (Info). In the CentOS world, we call this type of release a 'Point Release', meaning that the major version of a distribution (in this case Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) is getting a new point in time update set (in this case '.4'). […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 31 July 2017 and the following changes: we are again using the same kickstarts for Hyper-V and the other hypervisors you can now login on the serial console (useful if networking is […]
One of the daily activities of the CentOS Community Lead is searching the Internet looking for new and interesting content about CentOS that we can share on the @CentOSProject Twitter account, or Facebook, Google +, or Reddit. There's quite a bit of content out there, too, since CentOS is very popular. Unfortunately, some of the content […]
An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.1706), is now available. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. CentOS Atomic Host is available as a VirtualBox or libvirt-formatted […]
2017-07-14: We have release version 1706.02 of centos/6, which fixes a regression introduced by the "stack clash" patch (this made Java crash, just like on centos/7). The packages were all updated to 2017-07-14, and include additional fixes. 2017-07-05: We have released version 1706.02 of centos/7, providing RHBA-2017:1674-1, which fixes a regression introduced by the patch […]
Last week, as I mentioned in my earlier post, I was in Frankfurt, Germany, for the ISC High Performance Computing conference. The thing that grabbed my attention, more than anything else, was the Student Cluster Competition. 11 teams from around the world - mostly from Universities - were competing to create the fastest (by a variety […]
An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.1705), is now available. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. CentOS Atomic Host is available as a VirtualBox or libvirt-formatted […]
Starting with v1705, we are starting to offer the official CentOS images for Vagrant, for the Hyper-V provider. Hyper-V is Microsoft's native hypervisor, available by default in Windows Server 2008 and newer, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 10 Pro, and Windows Hyper-V Server 2012; since it also powers Microsoft Azure, it's probably a good alternative to […]
2017-06-21: We have released version 1705.02 of the official CentOS Linux images for Vagrant, providing important security fixes in glibc and the Linux kernel, addressing the "stack clash" vulnerability. We advise all users to update to this new release. Existing boxes don't need to be destroyed and recreated: running sudo yum update inside the box […]
An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.20170428), is now available, featuring the option of substituting the host’s default docker 1.12 container engine with a more recent, docker 1.13-based version, provided via the docker-latest package. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 […]