The recording of the April CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: The board discussed what to do with CentOS 7 AMIs after the CentOS 7 EOL. We also discussed communications around the upcoming CentOS Linux 7 EOL and CentOS Stream 8 EOB. The board had a lengthy discussion about trademark usage in mirrors. We discussed events, including the open CFP for Flock to Fedora ..read more

The CentOS Project , as long as I can remember, wouldn't have been possible without help of various sponsors over the years. Most sponsors listed on https://www.centos.org/sponsors sponsored one or more machines hosted in various datacenters over the globe, but some had a huge impact over the content delivery. Some years ago, Packet.net (now Equinix.com) reached out to see how they'd be able to help us at the infra/network/bandwidth level and we agreed to use 4 machines in our mirror.centos.org (and from now on mirror.stream.centos.org pool) machines pool, itself seeding/feeding the whole exte ..read more

CentOS is excited to welcome Troy Dawson to the Board of Directors. The CentOS Board is made up of 10 members, nominated by the community and appointed by a vote of the board. Celeste Lyn Paul decided not to serve another term this year, so the board began the process of selecting a new directory. We'd like to thank Celeste for her service and insights over the last two years. We had a lot of great nominations this time, and we'd also like to thank all the candidates for their willingness to serve, as well as the entire community for being engaged in the process. Troy works on the Emerging RHE ..read more

Due to a needed upgrade , we'll have to move the existing CentOS mailman instance (aka https://lists.centos.org) to a new server/host. Migration is scheduled for """"Monday April 8th, 7:00 am UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2024-04-08 07:00 UTC') The expected "downtime" is estimated to ~60 minutes , time needed to : - take last mailman2 backup - reimport / convert mailman2 archives to mailman3 DB - DNS propagation for A/AAAA/MX records Here are also some important information about the mailman2 => mailman3 migration : # Renamed lists Worth knowing that, based on ..read more

March 2024 News CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will both go EOL in just a couple months. Fabian Arrotin posted some details on how this will affect CentOS infrastructure. As a reminder, we have a blog post with EOL details and migration options. CentOS will migrate from Mailman 2 to 3 soon. Fabian Arrotin has asked for feedback on details of the migration, including possibly renaming some lists. Brian Stinson announced that CentOS Stream is now available in Azure community galleries. Read the blog post for details on how to use it. The Kmods SIG is once aga ..read more

The recording of the February CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: There was some discussion on SIGs, including the SIG Council proposal (Issue 126) and the SIG offboarding procedure (Issue 122). Amy provided a quick recap of events, including the CentOS Classroom at SCaLE. There was a lengthy conversations about how we can better communicate the upcoming EOL dates for CentOS Linux 7 (June 30, 2024) and CentOS Stream 8 (May 31, 2024 ..read more

CentOS Stream 9 for x86_64 is now available in community gallery (feature of Azure Compute Gallery! You have always been able to generate CentOS Stream images and upload them to your tenants in Azure yourself, but getting started is now a little easier by using prebuilt images in the Gallery.  As an open-source community, the CentOS Project does not sell images under any paid offering, does not provide commercial support for CentOS Stream, and does not operate as a standalone legal entity (corporation, non-profit, or otherwise). Until recently this created challenges in trying to get Cent ..read more

SCaLE 21x is happening next week in Pasadena, CA. This is one of our favorite events, and we're excited to be taking part again. Join us at the CentOS Classroom on Thursday, March 14, from 2pm to 5pm. This is a new format we're testing to have small colocated CentOS events at larger open source technology conferences. We'll give an overview of the entire CentOS ecosystem, including CentOS Stream and all the work happening across our SIGs. We'll finish with a packaging workshop delivered by Carl George. Between the two, enjoy a social snack break with free baked goods. If you're coming to SCaLE ..read more

The recording of the February CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: We gave an update on the docs day we held after FOSDEM, including progress on applying for an Outreachy intern for docs. There is a proposal in Fedora to have a public process for setting the priority of the infrastructure team. Since we share some infrastructure, we discussed how this might affect CentOS. The Kmods SIG now has the access they need to build kernel mods ..read more

This report covers work that happened between September 1st 2023 and January 26th 2024. For previous work, see the 2023Q2 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained one new member (Matteo Croce). We welcome anybody that’s interested and willing to do work within the scope of the SIG to join and contribute. See the membership page in our user documentation for the current members list and how to join. Releases and Pac ..read more