Dear CentOS enthusiast,

For the past several months, the focus has been on FOSDEM, as usual this time of year. Now that FOSDEM is behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the upcoming Dojo at Facebook, and Red Hat Summit. We'd love to see you at one of these events. (or both!) The call for presentations is open for the Dojo, and we're looking for presentations about anything you're doing on top of CentOS. More details below.

In this edition:

News

The CentOS team is pleased to announce that we have updated the kernel, kmod-kvdo, vdo, createrepo_c, and drpm packages in CentOS 8 Stream. These updates have already been published and are propagating out to the mirror network now.

You can read more about that in the CentOS-Devel mailing list archive.

UPDATE: Due to the change in status of Red Hat Summit, we have decided to postpone the CentOS Dojo at Facebook. Please keep checking back for updates.

Releases and updates

We had a fairly typical month of releases and updates:

Errata and Security Advisories

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

Mon Feb 3 2020: CESA-2020:0316 Important CentOS 6 git Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035619.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CESA-2020:0375 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035620.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CESA-2020:0366 Important CentOS 7 qemu-kvm Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035623.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CESA-2018:2916 Important CentOS 7 spamassassin Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035628.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CESA-2019:2079 Moderate CentOS 7 xorg-x11-drv-ati Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035636.html

Tue Feb 11 2020: CESA-2020:0471 Moderate CentOS 6 spice-gtk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035638.html

Tue Feb 18 2020: CESA-2020:0521 Important CentOS 6 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035639.html

Tue Feb 18 2020: CESA-2020:0515 Important CentOS 6 ksh Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035640.html

Tue Feb 18 2020: CESA-2020:0520 Important CentOS 7 firefox Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035641.html

Tue Feb 18 2020: CESA-2020:0541 Important CentOS 7 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035642.html

Tue Feb 18 2020: CESA-2020:0540 Important CentOS 7 sudo Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035643.html

Thu Feb 20 2020: CESA-2020:0550 Important CentOS 7 openjpeg2 Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035644.html

Wed Feb 26 2020: CESA-2020:0374 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035645.html

Wed Feb 26 2020: CESA-2020:0578 Important CentOS 7 python-pillow Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035646.html

Wed Feb 26 2020: CESA-2020:0568 Important CentOS 7 ksh Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035647.html

Wed Feb 26 2020: CESA-2020:0576 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035648.html

Wed Feb 26 2020: CESA-2020:0574 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035649.html

Thu Feb 27 2020: CESA-2020:0631 Important CentOS 6 ppp Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035650.html

Thu Feb 27 2020: CESA-2020:0632 Important CentOS 6 java-1.7.0-openjdk Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035651.html

Thu Feb 27 2020: CESA-2020:0630 Important CentOS 7 ppp Security - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035652.html

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

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

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0380 CentOS 7 mesa BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035621.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0376 CentOS 7 pcp BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035622.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0379 CentOS 7 sg3_utils BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035624.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0373 CentOS 7 libguestfs BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035625.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0367 CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035626.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0381 CentOS 7 NetworkManager BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035627.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0364 CentOS 7 net-snmp BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035629.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0386 CentOS 7 postgresql BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035630.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0369 CentOS 7 systemd BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035631.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0325 CentOS 7 pki-core BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035632.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0370 CentOS 7 mutter BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035633.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0370 CentOS 7 gnome-shell BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035634.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0368 CentOS 7 cups-filters BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035635.html

Thu Feb 6 2020: CEBA-2020:0384 CentOS 7 firewalld BugFix - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-February/035637.html

Events

We have a full schedule of events shaping up for this year - both events that we are producing, as well as larger events at which we will have some kind of presence. Come see us:

FOSSAsia, March 19-21, Singapore. Details

CentOS Dojo at Facebook, April 24th, Menlo Park, California. Details

Red Hat Summit, April 27th - 29th, San Francisco, California. Details

Texas Linux Fest, May 1-2, Austin, Texas. Details

ISC HPC (Supercomputing), June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany. (Tentative)

September 2020 - Dojo at ORNL/UTenn - (Tentative)

CentOS Dojo at CERN, October 23rd, Meyrin, Switzerland. Details

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.

Virtualization SIG

From the oVirt perspective:

- Preparing for oVirt 4.4.0 GA which will support execution on CentOS Linux 8 / CentOS Stream with Advanced Virtualization rebuilt from RHEL.

- Produced Advanced Virtualization builds for Virt SIG and Cloud SIG consumption

- Presented several sessions at DevConfCZ (slides available from https://devconfcz2020a.sched.com/ , video not yet available as far as I can tell) and Fosdem (presentation and videos available from https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/ ) in January 2020

- New members joined the SIG for helping with oVirt: Miguel Barroso (oVirt Networking), Danilo de Paula (Advanced Virtualization)

For Xen: - Updated kernel 4.9.212 - Made official policy for updating default Xen versions; soon to move to Xen 4.12 - Investigating possibility of joining efforts with Xen Made Easy in maintaining kernel, packages - Still waiting for CentOS 8 CBS