Dear CentOS enthusiast,

Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS

Releases and Updates

The following releases and updates happened in August. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change.

Releases

We're pleased to announce the following releases in August:

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

We issued the following CEEAs (CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory) during August:

CentOS 6 microcode_ctl Enhancement Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2300

CentOS 7 microcode_ctl Enhancement Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2299

CentOS 7 qemu-guest-agent Enhancement Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2460

CentOS 7 device-mapper-multipath Enhancement Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2464

Errata and Security Advisories

We issued the following CESAs (CentOS Errata and Security Advisory) during August:

Important CentOS 6 yum-utils Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2284

Moderate CentOS 6 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2283

Important CentOS 6 openslp Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2308

Moderate CentOS 7 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2286

Important CentOS 7 yum-utils Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2285

Important CentOS 6 kernel Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2390

Important CentOS 7 kernel Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2384

Important CentOS 6 mutt Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526

Important CentOS 7 mutt Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526

Moderate CentOS 7 mariadb Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2439

Important CentOS 7 qemu-kvm Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2462

Important CentOS 6 bind Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2571

Important CentOS 7 postgresql Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2557

Important CentOS 7 bind Security Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2570

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

We issued the following CEBAs (CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory) during August:

CentOS 6 389-ds-base BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2407

CentOS 6 sos BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2406

CentOS 7 tuned BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2528

CentOS 7 pki-core BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2306

CentOS 7 util-linux BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2457

CentOS 7 tomcatjss BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2455

CentOS 7 systemd BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2447

CentOS 7 selinux-policy BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2451

CentOS 7 samba BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2440

CentOS 7 rear BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2458

CentOS 7 oprofile BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2443

CentOS 7 mutter BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2461

CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2465

CentOS 7 logwatch BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2445

CentOS 7 kmod-kvdo BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2450

CentOS 7 kexec-tools BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0807

CentOS 7 jss BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2453

CentOS 7 glusterfs BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2444

CentOS 7 initscripts BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2441

CentOS 7 fence-agents BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2459

CentOS 7 dracut BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2442

CentOS 7 coolkey BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2438

CentOS 7 389-ds-base BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2454

CentOS 7 audit BugFix Update - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2463

SIG Updates

SIGs - Special Interest Groups - are where people work on the stuff that runs on top of CentOS. Here's some of the highlights from a few of our SIGs from the past month

Platform as a Service (PaaS) SIG

Origin 3.10 released, work on 3.11 is in progress

Introducing fkluknav as new SIG member

Discussing consuming Ansible RPMs from the Config Management SIG

Ricardo Martinelli presented at the CentOS Dojo at DevConf.us (video, slides)

NFV SIG

dpdk 17.11 is in buildlogs

vpp 17.10 is in buildlogs

OpenVswitch 2.9.2 is in buildlogs

Virtualization SIG

Switching to Xen 4.8

Xen 4.10 is available in testing

SIG Reporting

If your SIG wants a report to appear in the newsletter, send your report to the centos-devel mailing list with a subject line containing "XYZ SIG Report" (where "XYZ" is the name of your SIG), and we'll include it in upcoming newsletters.

SIG meeting minutes may be read in full in the MeetBot IRC archive.

Events

CentOS participates in many events, in various capacities, in order to build our local communities all over the world.

Recent

In August, we were at three large events:

On August 4th through 5th, DevConf.in was held in Bengaluru, India, and CentOS was there, sharing space with Fedora. DevConf is an annual developers conference which is held in three different locations around the world.

Speaking of which, later in the month we also were at DevConf.US in Boston. This was the first DevConf in North America, and we were delighted to be there.

In addition to the main event, we ran a Dojo on the day before, with presentations covering a wide range of topics. The videos from all of the presentations at the event are now on our YouTube channel.

And, in the last week of August, we were at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver. OSSummit is a great event in that we get a lot of people that may be either new to Linux, or at least to CentOS, and so we have the chance to teach them. But there's also representation from a huge range of industries, and so we get to learn about how CentOS is being used in many different applications.

(If you have photos from any of these events, please consider adding them to the CentOS group on Flickr.)

Upcoming

September looks pretty quiet on the events front (please tell me if you know of any relevant events!), but in October we have two great events.

First, we have the CentOS Dojo at CERN, on October 19th. This is a full day of CentOS technical talks at the legendary CERN facility in Meyrin, Switzerland. Like last year, there's an emphasis on cloud computing, but other topics are also covered. The schedule is published, and registration is open!

The following week, we'll be in Edinburgh for the Open Source Summit Europe. That's a week-long event covering a wide range of technical content around Linux and open source.

We hope to see you there!

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