Dear CentOS enthusiast,

Another month into 2019, and we have a lot to tell you about.

#CentOS15

Yes, we've mentioned this before, but we're still pretty stoked about it. On the 15th, we celebrated our 15th birthday with a small group of friends in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, before our Dojo at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. You can see some of the videos from that event beginning to appear on our YouTube channel.

If you would like to talk about your involvement in CentOS, please get in touch with Rich at rbowen@centosproject.org You don't need to be one of the founders - just to have something interesting to say about your involvement, past, present, and future.

git.centos.org changes

As we mentioned last month, there have been some significant changes to git.centos.org. The service was upgraded/migrated to Pagure. You can read details about the change, and instructions on using the new service on the mailing list archive. And further documentation is now in the wiki, at https://wiki.centos.org/Sources

If you have any questions or difficulties using the new service, please drop by either the centos-devel mailing list, or the #centos-devel IRC channel on Freenode.

Releases and updates

We had another moderately busy month for update and releases.

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during April:

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEEA-2019:0045 CentOS 7 rsync Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023284.html

Errata and Security Advisories

We issued the following CESA (CentOS Errata and Security Advisories) during April:

Mon Apr 1 2019: CESA-2019:0672 Critical CentOS 6 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023255.html

Mon Apr 1 2019: CESA-2019:0680 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023256.html

Mon Apr 1 2019: CESA-2019:0671 Critical CentOS 7 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023257.html

Mon Apr 1 2019: CESA-2019:0681 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023258.html

Mon Apr 1 2019: CESA-2019:0679 Important CentOS 7 libssh2 Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023259.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CESA-2019:0711 Low CentOS 6 openssh Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023261.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CESA-2019:0717 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023265.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CESA-2019:0697 Important CentOS 7 freerdp Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023267.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CESA-2019:0710 Important CentOS 7 python Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023268.html

Tue Apr 16 2019: CESA-2019:0766 Important CentOS 7 mod_auth_mellon Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023270.html

Wed Apr 17 2019: CESA-2019:0230 Important CentOS 7 polkit Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023271.html

Wed Apr 17 2019: CESA-2019:0230 Important CentOS 7 polkit Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023272.html

Fri Apr 19 2019: CESA-2019:0778 Moderate CentOS 7 java-11-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023273.html

Fri Apr 19 2019: CESA-2019:0775 Important CentOS 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023274.html

Fri Apr 19 2019: CESA-2019:0774 Important CentOS 6 java-1.8.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023275.html

Mon Apr 22 2019: CESA-2019:0791 Important CentOS 7 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023276.html

Mon Apr 22 2019: CESA-2019:0790 Important CentOS 6 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023277.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CESA-2019:0818 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023278.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CESA-2019:0809 Important CentOS 7 ovmf Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023280.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CESA-2019:0638 Important CentOS 7 openwsman Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023295.html

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

We issued the following CEBA (CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisories) during April:

Mon Apr 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0689 CentOS 6 tzdata BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023254.html

Mon Apr 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0689 CentOS 7 tzdata BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023260.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CEBA-2019:0719 CentOS 6 nss-pam-ldapd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023262.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CEBA-2019:0718 CentOS 6 autofs BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023263.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CEBA-2019:0716 CentOS 6 cups BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023264.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CEBA-2019:0726 CentOS 6 glibc BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023266.html

Fri Apr 12 2019: CEBA-2019:0728 CentOS 7 glibc BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023269.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0811 CentOS 7 selinux-policy BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023279.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0820 CentOS 7 systemd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023281.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0817 CentOS 7 mutter BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023282.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0816 CentOS 7 sssd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023283.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0815 CentOS 7 pango BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023285.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0807 CentOS 7 gcc BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023286.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0824 CentOS 7 gdm BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023287.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0808 CentOS 7 iproute BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023288.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0825 CentOS 7 gnome-shell-extensions BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023289.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0810 CentOS 7 kexec-tools BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023290.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0826 CentOS 7 scap-security-guide BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023291.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0819 CentOS 7 sos BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023292.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0821 CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023293.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0814 CentOS 7 lvm2 BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023294.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0812 CentOS 7 httpd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023296.html

Tue Apr 30 2019: CEBA-2019:0813 CentOS 7 nss-pam-ldapd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/023297.html

SIG Updates

SIGs - Special Interest Groups - are where people work on the stuff that runs on top of CentOS. We have recently started having SIGs report quarterly, so we have just a few of them each month, getting through the entire list every 3 months.

We have the following SIG reports this month:

NFV SIG

The NFV SIG posted their report to the CentOS blog.

Storage SIG

This is by no means a complete report but here are a few "juicy" notes

hopefully worth sharing!

Starting in May we'll have a new member in the Storage SIG: Francesco

Pantano, he'll start helping us with the maintenance of the

Ceph/ceph-ansible builds (and their deps).

We have in fact finally populated our Ceph Nautilus repo with a initial

Ceph Nautilus build and we also included RC builds of ceph-ansible;

please help us test both Ceph and the deployment tool itself enabling

the SIG repos by installing the new centos-release-ceph-nautilus package.

We're looking for help with the new builds test automation; ideally we'd

like to have automatic promotion into -release repos of the new builds

when these pass testing; if you can or are interested in helping us with

this effort please get in touch!

See you online.

Cloud SIG

Purpose

Packaging and maintaining different FOSS based Private cloud infrastructure applications that one can install and run natively on CentOS.

Membership Update

We are always looking for new members, especially representation from cloud technologies other than RDO.

Releases and PackagesRDO

April 8 - 12 OpenStack Stein Released https://blogs.rdoproject.org/ 2019/04/rdo-stein-released/

Interesting things in the Stein release include:

Ceph Nautilus is the default version of Ceph, a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage, within RDO (or is it the default without OpenStack?). Within Nautilus, the Ceph Dashboard has gained a lot of new functionality like support for multiple users / roles, SSO (SAMLv2) for user authentication, auditing support, a new landing page showing more metrics and health info, I18N support, and REST API documentation with Swagger API.

- The extracted Placement service , used to track cloud resource inventories and usages to help other services effectively manage and allocate their resources, is now packaged as part of RDO. Placement has added the ability to target a candidate resource provider, easing specifying a host for workload migration, increased API performance by 50% for common scheduling operations, and simplified the code by removing unneeded complexity, easing future maintenance.

Other improvements include:

- The TripleO deployment service , used to develop and maintain tooling and infrastructure able to deploy OpenStack in production, using OpenStack itself wherever possible, added support for podman and buildah for containers and container images. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is now the default network configuration and TripleO now has improved composable network support for creating L3 routed networks and IPV6 network support.

April 28 - May 1 OpenInfrastructure Summit Denver Colorado USA

May 2 - 4 Train Release Project Team Gathering Denver Colorado USA

June 3 - 7 Train Milestone 1

June 13 - 14 RDO Test Days Train Milestone 1



Health and Activity

The Cloud SIG remains fairly healthy. However, it is still, for the most part, a monoculture containing only OpenStack.

Issues for the Board

We have no issues to bring to the board’s attention at this time.

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As always, a big thank you to our SIGs, for the work that they do, and for the time taken to check back in with these status reports!

Events

In April, as mentioned above, we ran a CentOS Dojo at ORNL - Oak Ridge National Labs. The presentation slides are starting to get added to the event website. We expect to have the full video from the event within the next week or two.

I'm writing this newsletter from the Open Infrastructure Summit (formerly known as OpenStack Summit), in Denver. We joined our friends from RDO and Ceph, as well as our colleagues from Red Hat, to discuss all aspects of open infrastructure, especially OpenStack.

A high point included the gathering of some of the largest open science clusters on the planet, running their OpenStack/RDO clouds on CentOS

And, coming up, we're planning to run a CentOS Dojo in Boston, on the day before DevConf.US. The call for presentations is open, and we want to hear from you! Talks about anything you're doing in, on, or around CentOS is fair game. Submit your talks HERE.

Contributing to CentOS Pulse

We are always on the look-out for people who are interested in helping to:

report on CentOS community activity

provide a report from the SIG on which you participate

maintain a (sub-)section of the newsletter

write an article on an interesting person or topic

provide the hint, tip or trick of the month

Please see the page with further information about contributing. You can also contact the Promotion SIG, or just email Rich directly (rbowen@centosproject.org) with ideas or articles that you'd like to see in the next newsletter.