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Improving CentOS package delivery security with signed repository metadata

Monday, 9, July 2018 Neal Gompa altarch, announcement, builds, distro, General No Comments

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 […]

Meltdown and Spectre: The response from CentOS

Thursday, 18, January 2018 Rich Bowen kernel, security, upgrades No Comments

As you are no doubt well aware, the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are hardware flaws in Intel and AMD chips, and have been all over the tech news for the last few weeks. If you need to get up to speed on what they’re all about, we recommend this great blog post. CentOS, meanwhile, has […]