Dear CentOS enthusiast,

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

CentOS is 15!

As you may have seen either at recent events, or on social media, we're getting ready to celebrate our 15th birthday! As part of that, Rich has been interviewing various people who were around in those early years, to get some of the back-story on how it all happened. You'll start seeing these interviews on the blog in the month of March.

This week, we have published an interview with Greg Kurtzer, who founded the project in the first place.

Later, we'll be publishing interviews with Karsten Wade, Manuel "wolfy" Wolfshant, and Mike McLean, with others to come.

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.

Releases and updates

February was a very busy month for errata and updates. The links below are to the release notes for each update.

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

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

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEEA-2019:0178 CentOS 7 libreswan Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023152.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEEA-2019:0180 CentOS 7 osinfo-db Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023171.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEEA-2019:0208 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-qed Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023196.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEEA-2019:0208 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-qede Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023198.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEEA-2019:0208 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-qedf Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023199.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEEA-2019:0208 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-qedi Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023200.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEEA-2019:0208 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-qedr Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023201.html

Errata and Security Advisories

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

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0163 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023149.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0160 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023154.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0219 Critical CentOS 7 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023155.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0201 Low CentOS 7 systemd Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023163.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2018:3140 Moderate CentOS 7 gdm Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023179.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0194 Moderate CentOS 7 bind Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023182.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0218 Critical CentOS 6 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023187.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CESA-2019:0159 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023188.html

Fri Feb 8 2019: CESA-2019:0232 Important CentOS 6 spice-server Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023189.html

Fri Feb 8 2019: CESA-2019:0269 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023190.html

Sat Feb 9 2019: CESA-2019:0229 Important CentOS 7 ghostscript Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023191.html

Sat Feb 9 2019: CESA-2019:0231 Important CentOS 7 spice Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023192.html

Sat Feb 9 2019: CESA-2019:0270 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023193.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CESA-2019:0373 Important CentOS 6 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023194.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CESA-2019:0374 Important CentOS 7 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023195.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CESA-2019:0368 Important CentOS 7 systemd Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023202.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CESA-2019:0375 Important CentOS 7 flatpak Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023203.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CESA-2019:0416 Moderate CentOS 6 java-1.8.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023208.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CESA-2019:0415 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023209.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CESA-2019:0420 Important CentOS 6 polkit Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023210.html

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

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

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0171 CentOS 7 grub2 BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023150.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0182 CentOS 7 ImageMagick BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023151.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0172 CentOS 7 nss BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023153.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0184 CentOS 7 sos BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023156.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0198 CentOS 7 qemu-kvm BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023157.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0196 CentOS 7 pacemaker BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023158.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0190 CentOS 7 ipa BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023159.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0185 CentOS 7 xorg-x11-server BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023160.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0176 CentOS 7 xorg-x11-drv-ati BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023161.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0192 CentOS 7 selinux-policy BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023162.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0167 CentOS 7 tomcatjss BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023164.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0193 CentOS 7 glibc BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023165.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0181 CentOS 7 squid BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023166.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0169 CentOS 7 sssd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023167.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2018:3195 CentOS 7 pki-core BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023168.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0199 CentOS 7 policycoreutils BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023169.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0191 CentOS 7 openldap BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023170.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0195 CentOS 7 nvme-cli BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023172.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0189 CentOS 7 mesa BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023173.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0172 CentOS 7 nss-util BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023174.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0197 CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023175.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0183 CentOS 7 krb5 BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023176.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0187 CentOS 7 lvm2 BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023177.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0174 CentOS 7 libvirt-snmp BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023178.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0175 CentOS 7 freetype BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023180.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0177 CentOS 7 fence-agents BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023181.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0179 CentOS 7 389-ds-base BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023183.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0173 CentOS 7 augeas BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023184.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0200 CentOS 7 adcli BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023185.html

Fri Feb 1 2019: CEBA-2019:0170 CentOS 7 efivar BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023186.html

Wed Feb 20 2019: CEBA-2019:0351 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-nfit BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023197.html

Thu Feb 21 2019: CEBA-2019:0389 CentOS 7 kmod-redhat-lpfc BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023204.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CEBA-2019:0412 CentOS 6 unbound BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023205.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CEBA-2019:0413 CentOS 6 binutils BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023206.html

Tue Feb 26 2019: CEBA-2019:0414 CentOS 6 sos BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023207.html

Thu Feb 28 2019: CEBA-2019:C001 CentOS 7 shim BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023211.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.

NFV SIG

There was presentation on NFV SIG at the CentOS dojo.

We hope to get fd.io vpp 19.01 release RPMs in mirrors before the end of February. Stay tuned.

More information on the NFV SIG, including how to get involved, may be found on their wiki page.

Opstools SIG

The opstools SIG has published their quarterly report to the CentOS Blog.

More information on the Opstools SIG, including how to get involved, may be found on their wiki page.

Virtualization SIG

The Virtualization SIG has published their quarterly report to the CentOS Blog.

More information about the Virtualization SIG, including how to get involved, may be found on their wiki page.

Events

FOSDEM was, of course, in February, but we reported on that in last months' newsletter.

This month, we'll be sponsoring FOSSAsia in Singapore! We'll have a CentOS table there, and we'll have participation from numerous of our favorite projects, including Ansible, ManageIQ, Fedora, and Dogtag.

We are ramping up towards the CentOS Dojo at ORNL, which is now just a month and a half away. We have published our speaker list, and the full schedule of talks should be up very soon. Register today to attend! (Registration is free, but due to the nature of the facility, you must register in advance to gain access through security.)

If you would like to host a Dojo, or have a suggestion for where we should have one, please get in touch with the CentOS Promo mailing list.

Other upcoming events are always listed on the events wiki page.

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.