CentOS Blog: CentOS Community Newsletter, June 2021

(Yes, we're a little late this month. Sorry about that.)

Dear CentOS Enthusiasts,

Here's what's happening around the CentOS community lately.

CentOS Linux 8.4 Released

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2105, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Source Code. More details are available at , and we welcome your further questions, which you can bring to any of our mailing lists or other public forums.

Topics discussed include proposed special interest groups (SIGs), the downstream rebuild projects, the various Free RHEL offerings, and many other things.

IRC Moving To Libera.Chat

Due to recent changes in the management of the Freenode IRC network, the CentOS project has decided to for simple text-based discussion of a variety of topics around the project.

There are many IRC clients available, or, if you prefer, you can connect with the , (two of the positions are already filled) or apply directly here:

• , and will be the basis of some policy rewriting that the Community Architect will be doing over the coming months. If you're interested in being involved in that process, please watch the centos-devel mailing list for more information once that process starts.
  
  

  Virtualization SIG

  
  
  - upstream released 4.4.6 based on CentOS Stream 8
  
  
  - oVirt within VIrt SIG released builds to CentOS Stream repos
  
  
  - oVirt Spring 2021 survey results available:  to version 5.12. At the same time, and a bit related, collectd upstream has a CI issue we can not fix at the moment. Thus, there was a as tool to allow multi-tenant log aggregation.

  
  

  Following the lead of the CentOS project itself, we have switched our IRC channel over to libera.chat.

  
  

  Issues for the board

  
  

  Nothing to report.

  
  

   

  
  
  
  

  Proposed: Kmods SIG

  
  

  There's a proposal for a kmods SIG that will come before the Board of Directors next month. The proposal is now was approved, and they had their .

  
  

  And you can read the news from the Rocky Linux project , and caps and shirts at the Red Hat Cool Stuff Store.

  Vollständiger Original-Artikel

  Den kompletten Beitrag mit allen Details direkt auf blog.centos.org lesen.

  ↗ Original-Artikel auf blog.centos.org lesen