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CentOS Linux 7 will be EOL on June 30. Please migrate to CentOS Stream 9 or another suitable option.
\nVarious services that used CentOS Linux 7 will be retired at the end of June. In particular, the CentOS Forums will be shut down, and redirect to the CentOS category on Fedora Discourse.
\nThe Alternative Images SIG has released live images for multiple desktop environments.
\nThe CentOS mailing lists have been migrated to Mailman 3 with the Hyperkitty web interface.
\nCentOS Stream 10 composes are available for testing and development. These are preview releases, and are not yet intended for production use.
\nCentOS Stream 10 targets are also now available on the CentOS Community Build Service.
\nThe Kmods SIG focuses on packaging and maintaining kernel modules for CentOS Stream and Enterprise Linux.
\nNo SIG members have been added since last report. We welcome anybody that’s interested and willing to do work within the scope of the SIG to join and contribute.
\nThanks to good cooperation with Red Hat and help from the CentOS infrastructure team, the Kmods SIG is once again able to provide kernel modules built for RHEL targets.
\nIn addition to kernel modules built for Enterprise Linux kernels the Kmods SIG now also provides Fedora flavored kernels. This includes both the current stable release as well as LTS versions. See our documentation on available packages for more details on provided kernel versions.
\nThe Virt-SIG aims to deliver a user-consumable full stack for virtualization technologies that want to work with the SIG. This includes delivery, deployment, management, update and patch application (for full lifecycle management) of the baseline platform when deployed in sync with a technology curated by the Virt-SIG..
\nDorinda Bassey presented at FOSDEM:
\n\nSeeteena dropped from Virtualization SIG as email address became invalid.
\nWe collaborated with CentOS Automotive SIG pushing upstream changes to rust-vmm related to virtio-sound and virtio-gpu.
\nThe ISA SIG explores ways to deliver optimized package builds targeted at instruction set architecture (ISA) variants of architectures already supported by CentOS.
\nThe GNU2 TLS descriptors for x86-64 had ABI issues, which have been fixed in Fedora rawhide and Fedora 40. These changes are about to be integrated into CentOS 10 Stream.
\nThe x86 string function performance optimizations were merged from the Hyperscaler SIG repositories into mainline CentOS 8 Stream.
\nOverride packages with CPU optimizations that cannot be put into CentOS 9 Stream proper are now available and can be activated using dnf install centos-release-isa-override on CentOS 9 Stream.
Phoronix used the ISA SIG builds for a benchmarking article: CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids
\nThe current override packages are available here:
\n\nThe Alternate Images SIG's goal is to build and provide alternate iso images for CentOS Stream.
\nTroy Dawson gave a presentation at CentOS Connect at FOSDOM. It was titled Alternative Images SIG - Let's Talk About It
\nWe had our first quarterly update of Live Images
\nWe have added four new Live Images. We now have CINNAMON, GNOME, KDE, MATE, XFCE and MAX. MAX has all of the other Live Image desktops, along with a few others.
\nWe have created scripts to make it easier to build images.
\nThe CentOS Artwork SIG exists to produce The CentOS Project Visual Identity.
\nProvide a shared space to develop and maintain tooling and knowledge base on collaborative gating and testing of CentOS Stream updates before they are published to CentOS mirrors. This includes both - package-level and compose-level integration.
\nThe recording of the April CentOS Board meeting is now available.
\n\nThe recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting:
\nAs you probably know, CentOS Stream development is happening in the open on Gitlab.com. You can see changes happening in real time in the redhat/centos-stream/rpms namespace. You can check open merge request, create yours and provide feedback.
\nYet, due to the limitations of the Gitlab platform, we have not been able to provide an unauthenticated access to the feed of CentOS Stream events.
\nWe are now solving it by publishing all Gitlab events to the Fedora Message Bus.
\nLet's start with the interesting part first.
\nInstall the fedora-messaging package:
\n$ sudo dnf install fedora-messaging
Create a local copy of the configuration file:
\n$ cp /etc/fedora-messaging/fedora.toml ./centos-integration-messaging.toml
Change the routing_keys variable in the configuration file to subscribe to the topic org.centos.sig.integration:
\n routing_keys = [\"org.centos.sig.integration.#\"]
Run the client:
\n$ fedora-messaging --conf ./centos-integration-messaging.toml consume
The client will now listen to the topic on the message bus and will print all messages to the standard output.
\nOf course you can do much more than just printing. For example, you can trigger a Jenkins job with the help of the AMQP Build Trigger, or you can develop your own application.
\nPlease check the Fedora Messaging documentation for more details.
\nBy the way, events from the CentOS Stream build system are also available on the Fedora Message Bus under the topic org.centos.prod.buildsys.
\nThere is a stateless application deployed to the CentOS SIGs Openshift cluster. A webhook on GitLab sends an event to the endpoint of the application, and it then translates the event into a message on the Fedora Message Bus.
\nThe sources are available in the gitlab-webhooks repository. And contributions are of course welcome.
\nThe service is maintained by the community under the umbrella of the CentOS Integration SIG.
\nWe hope that the service will be useful for everyone who wants to build automation on top of the CentOS Stream.
\nWhen you build such an automation - please let us know and consider joining the CentOS Integration SIG.
\nWe might be changing the messaging schema in the future to adopt a more strict message validation, and we would want to know your requirements.
\nWe also may expand the coverage and add events for other namespaces, such as, for example, events from CentOS SIG repositories.
\n", "enclosure": {}, "categories": [ "ci", "SIG", "fedora-messaging", "gitlab" ] }, { "title": "CentOS Infrastructure Update Q1 2024", "pubDate": "2024-05-27 09:21:37", "link": "https://blog.centos.org/2024/05/centos-infrastructure-update-q1-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centos-infrastructure-update-q1-2024", "guid": "https://blog.centos.org/?p=3166", "author": "zlopez", "thumbnail": "", "description": "This is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream. This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading. About Purpose of this […]", "content": "\nThis is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream.
\nThis update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
\n\n
Purpose of this team is to take care of day-to-day business regarding CentOS and CentOS Stream infrastructure. It’s responsible for maintaining the services running in CentOS and CentOS Stream infrastructure and preparing for the new CentOS Stream release.
\nIssue trackers
\n\nThe recording of the April CentOS Board meeting is now available.
\n\nThe recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting:
\nThe CentOS Project , as long as I can remember, wouldn't have been possible without help of various sponsors over the years.
\nMost 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 external mirrors network
\nI recently had a look at the collected stats/metrics from our zabbix monitoring solution and here is an interesting graph about these 4 machines (two in the USA - one on the east-coast and other on west-coast, one in Europe/Germany and last one in Asia/Japan) :
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/equinix-bandwidth-usage.png\")
From that graph (from the last 30 days) it's easy to guess when there is a new CentOS Stream compose going out (still happening for Stream 8 and Stream 9 when we'll publish this blog post), and also still CentOS 7 updates.
\nThat's without counting the various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) repositories which are maintained by community (and for the community).
\nThanks a lot Equinix for sponsoring these machines that really help getting new packages for the distributions but also SIGs content being delivered in a timely fashion to all our users
\n", "enclosure": {}, "categories": [ "Uncategorized" ] }, { "title": "CentOS Board Welcomes Troy Dawson", "pubDate": "2024-04-04 19:26:44", "link": "https://blog.centos.org/2024/04/centos-board-welcomes-troy-dawson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centos-board-welcomes-troy-dawson", "guid": "https://blog.centos.org/?p=3149", "author": "shaunm", "thumbnail": "", "description": "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. […]", "content": "\nCentOS is excited to welcome Troy Dawson to the Board of Directors.
\nThe 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.
\nTroy works on the Emerging RHEL team at Red Hat, which looks at the future of RHEL based on Fedora and CentOS, as well as the CentOS Stream team, which handles the day-to-day maintenance of CentOS Stream. He's a well-known and longtime CentOS and Fedora contributor, having been a Fedora contributor for 12 years and a CentOS contributor for 7. Before working on CentOS, he was one of the co-founders of Scientific Linux.
\nTroy is involved in a number of projects across the CentOS ecosystem. He's actively involved with EPEL, and has been an EPEL committee chair for almost four years. He's a member of the Fedora KDE SIG, which produces the Fedora KDE Plasma edtion. He's the chair and co-founder of the Alternative Images SIG, which is currently producing live CentOS images with both GNOME and KDE, and is working on adding more images. He's a member of the ISA SIG, which tests packages built with new CPU features enabled. And he was a co-founder of the original PaaS SIG, which worked on packaging OpenShift on CentOS (work that is now done in the Cloud SIG).
\nIf you've seen Troy at a conference, you probably saw him wearing one of his Hawaiian penguin shirts. He designs and makes these shirts himself in his side business, Casual Penguins.
\nTroy's extensive experience, community involvement, and general friendliness will be a great addition to the board, and we look forward to working more closely with him.
\n", "enclosure": {}, "categories": [ "Uncategorized" ] }, { "title": "CentOS mailing lists migration to mailman3", "pubDate": "2024-04-03 12:15:24", "link": "https://blog.centos.org/2024/04/centos-mailing-lists-migration-to-mailman3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centos-mailing-lists-migration-to-mailman3", "guid": "https://blog.centos.org/?p=3147", "author": "Fabian Arrotin", "thumbnail": "", "description": "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 […]", "content": "\nDue to a needed upgrade , we'll have to move the existing CentOS
\nmailman instance (aka https://lists.centos.org) to a new server/host.
Migration is scheduled for \"\"\"\"Monday April 8th, 7:00 am UTC time\"\"\"\".
\nYou 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 :
\n- take last mailman2 backup
\n- reimport / convert mailman2 archives to mailman3 DB
\n- DNS propagation for A/AAAA/MX records
Here are also some important information about the mailman2 => mailman3 migration :
\n# Renamed lists
\nWorth knowing that, based on open discussion on the centos-devel list (see whole thread at https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2024-March/165576.html), existing lists will be *renamed* , so while we'll put aliases for incoming mails, each list member will start receiving list mails from new list name. So start updating your filters if you filter on email address instead of \"subject:\"
Here is the overview of the new lists names :
\narm-dev at centos.org => arm-dev at lists.centos.org
\ncentos at centos.org => discuss at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-devel at centos.org => devel at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-announce at centos.org => announce at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-automotive-sig at centos.org => automotive-sig at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@centos.org => discuss-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@lists.centos.org
\nci-users at centos.org => ci-users at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-gsoc: => gsoc at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-mirror at centos.org => mirror at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-mirror-announce at centos.org => mirror-announce at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-newsletter at centos.org => newsletter at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-promo at centos.org => promo at lists.centos.org
\ncentos-virt at centos.org => virt at lists.centos.org
# Authentication
\nMailman2 had no real concept of authentication so you could just subscribe to one or more lists, and have a password associated with your email address for that/these subscription(s).
\nMailman3 itself is split into \"core\" and \"webui\" components, so when we'll import mailman2 lists/config into mailman3, your existing subscriptions will continue to work *but* not your password.
Mailman3 will be configured to support SSO, and so if you already have a FAS/ACO account (https://accounts.centos.org) you'll be able to login directly into new webui and manage your settings/subscriptions *if* your ACO email address of course matches the one you initially subscribed with for lists.centos.org.
\nIf that's not the case, either create an ACO/FAS account that will match and you'll be then able to \"link\" your mailman3 account with FAS and so manage your settings/subscriptions.
\nIf you don't want to, there is always the documented process : https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html#making-a-mailman-account
\n", "enclosure": {}, "categories": [ "Uncategorized" ] }, { "title": "March 2024 News", "pubDate": "2024-03-29 13:54:21", "link": "https://blog.centos.org/2024/03/march-2024-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-2024-news", "guid": "https://blog.centos.org/?p=3144", "author": "shaunm", "thumbnail": "", "description": "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 […]", "content": "\nCentOS 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.
\nCentOS will migrate from Mailman 2 to 3 soon. Fabian Arrotin has asked for feedback on details of the migration, including possibly renaming some lists.
\nBrian Stinson announced that CentOS Stream is now available in Azure community galleries. Read the blog post for details on how to use it.
\nThe Kmods SIG is once again able to provide kernel mods built for RHEL targets.
\nThe videos from CentOS Connect are available to watch on YouTube.
\nSpeaking of CentOS Connect, registered attendees received a link to a survey about the event. If that survey is sitting in your inbox, please take a few minutes to fill it out. It helps us make a better event next year.
\nPackaging and maintaining different FOSS based Private cloud infrastructure applications that one can install and run natively on CentOS Stream.
\nThe CentOS Storage Special Interest Group (SIG) is a collection of like-minded individuals coming together to ensure that CentOS is a suitable platform for many different storage solutions. This group will ensure that all Open Source storage options seeking to utilize CentOS as a delivery platform have a voice in packaging, orchestration, deployment, and related work
\nThe Automotive SIG provides a center of gravity for CentOS automotive projects. The SIG produces three types of artifacts:
\nAutoSD, or Automotive Stream Distribution, is a streaming distribution for automotive in-vehicle software development based on CentOS Stream. It is transparently the upstream project for Red Hat's eventual in-vehicle OS product. AutoSD has been downloaded and used by many organizations who have commented or asked for help, so we know it is getting some traction though of course we don't have exact metrics on usage.
\nOver the past year, we have done many things!
\nIn addition, there is a great deal of work in progress:
\nMeetings are the first Wednesday of each month - please send email to jefro@redhat.com to be included on the invite. We hope you will join us!
\n", "enclosure": {}, "categories": [ "Uncategorized" ] }, { "title": "CentOS Board Meeting Recap, March 2024", "pubDate": "2024-03-28 15:27:53", "link": "https://blog.centos.org/2024/03/centos-board-meeting-recap-march-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centos-board-meeting-recap-march-2024", "guid": "https://blog.centos.org/?p=3141", "author": "shaunm", "thumbnail": "", "description": "The recording of the March 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 […]", "content": "\nThe recording of the March CentOS Board meeting is now available.
\n\nThe recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting:
\n