Dear CentOS enthusiast,

For those of you who celebrate various things at this time of year, we wish you a wonderful time with family and friends.

IN THIS EDITION:

News

On 2019-11-13 the CentOS Board of Directors held their first meeting following the release of CentOS Linux 8 and announcement of CentOS Stream. As part of that meeting, the Board committed to greater transparency with the CentOS community, and you can read the minutes from the meeting on the CentOS blog.

In CentOS Stream news, Red Hat engineering is working on the procedures and tools for CentOS Stream tickets and patches to flow into the next release of RHEL. We expect to have details after the dojo in Brussels, in late January, which we can then pass on to you.

Releases and updates

This month has seen a moderate number of updates/releases:

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

Fri Nov 1 2019: CEEA-2019:3280 CentOS 6 nspr Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023502.html

Fri Nov 1 2019: CEEA-2019:3280 CentOS 6 nss-util Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023503.html

Fri Nov 1 2019: CEEA-2019:3280 CentOS 6 nss-softokn Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023504.html

Fri Nov 1 2019: CEEA-2019:3280 CentOS 6 nss Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023505.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEEA-2019:3847 CentOS 6 microcode_ctl Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023507.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEEA-2019:3846 CentOS 7 microcode_ctl Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023515.html

Errata and Security Advisories

Fri Nov 1 2019: CESA-2019:3286 Critical CentOS 7 php Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023500.html

Fri Nov 1 2019: CESA-2019:3281 Critical CentOS 6 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023501.html

Fri Nov 1 2019: CESA-2019:3287 Critical CentOS 6 php Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023506.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3755 Important CentOS 6 sudo Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023510.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3836 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023512.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3756 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023514.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3834 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023516.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3872 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023517.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CESA-2019:3878 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023518.html

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEBA-2019:3855 CentOS 6 cluster BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023508.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEBA-2019:3859 CentOS 6 adcli BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023509.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEBA-2019:3858 CentOS 6 samba BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023511.html

Thu Nov 14 2019: CEBA-2019:3857 CentOS 6 sos BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023513.html

Thu Nov 21 2019: CEBA-2019:3856 CentOS 6 udev BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-November/023519.html

Events

SC19

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A few weeks ago we were at SuperComputing in Denver. CentOS is a big part of the SuperComputing ecosystem, with many universities and research organizations using CentOS on their supercomputing infrastructure.

As usual, we spent a lot of time with the student teams in the Student Cluster Competition, where 12 out of the 16 teams were running CentOS. Look for interviews from this event on the CentOS blog in the coming weeks.

FOSDEM 2020, and Dojo

Early next year, we will, as usual, have a table at the annual FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium. This will be held on the first weekend in February, which is the 1st and 2nd of February, 2020. We'll be sharing the space with our friends from Fedora. Please drop by and see us.

And, on the day before FOSDEM starts, we'll be having our annual Dojo at the Marriott Grand Place. That's Friday, January 31st, 2020. The agenda is on the event listing page, and we would love to have you there.

We'll be having a lightning talks section this year, so if you have something you'd like to present about, but don't have enough for a full presentation, bring your notes and your ideas! Tell us about your favorite projects, your interesting discoveries, or your perplexing problem.

Attendance is free, but we would appreciate it if you register, so that we know how many people to plan for.

See you in Brussels!

SIG Reports

The SIGs - special interest groups - are where most of the interesting stuff in CentOS happens. They are communities packaging and testing layered projects on top of CentOS, and ensuring that they work reliably.

SIGs report quarterly on what they've been working on.

CentOS Opstools SIG quarterly report

Purpose

The SIG will provide tools for operators, system administrators, devops and developers doing infrastructure engineering on content based on CentOS Linux.

Membership update

We are welcoming interested parties or persons to contribute. Over the past quarter, we neither saw increase nor decrease.

Health and Activity

We are waiting patiently for cbs to become updated to be able to build packages based on CentOS 8. That becomes more and more a blocker for us. E.g Opstools packages have been replaced by other sources for OpenStack Kolla, since e.g collectd builds based on CentOS 8 are unavailable. Once artifacts produced by the Messaging SIG become available, we'll gladly consume them rather than rebuilding them from other sources like Fedora koji.

Issues for the board

none right now.

Contributing

As with any open source project, there's a lot more than just code. If you want to get involved, but you're not a programmer or packager, there's still a ton of places where you can plug in.

Design - Graphic and design elements for the product itself, the website, materials for events, and so on, are always a great need. This is true of any open source community, where the focus on code can tend to neglect other aspects.

Events - While CentOS has an official presence at a few events during the year, we want a wider reach. If you're planning to attend an event, and want to represent CentOS in some way, get in touch with us on the centos-promo mailing list to see how we can support you.

Promotion - The Promo SIG does a lot in addition to just events. This includes this newsletter, our social media presence, blog posts, and various other things. We need your help to expand this effort.

Documentation - Any open source project is only as good as its documentation. If people can't use it, it doesn't matter. If you're a writer, you are in great demand.

If any of these things are of interest to you, please come talk to us on the centos-devel mailing list, the centos-promo mailing list, or any of the various social media channels.

We look forward to hearing from you, and helping you figure out where you can fit in.