Xen4CentOS XSA-108 Security update for CentOS-6

There has been a fair amount of press in the last couple of days concerning Xen update XSA-108, and the fact that Amazon EC2 and Rackspace must reboot after this update:

Rackspace forced to reboot cloud over Xen bug

Amazon Reboots Cloud Servers, Xen Bug Blamed

There are other stories, but those articles cover the main issue.

As KB tweeted, the CentOS-6 Xen4CentOS release is also impacted by this issue and the CentOS team has released CESA-2014:X013 to deal with XSA-108.  There are also 3 other Xen4CentOS updates released:  CESA-2014:X010, CESA-2014:X011, CESA-2014:X012

If you are using Xen4CentOS on CentOS-6, please use yum update to get these security updates ... and like Rackspace and Amazon EC2, you need to reboot your dom0 machine after the updates are applied.

CentOS team at cPanel 2014

The CentOS team will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall for the 2014 cPanel Conference at the Westin Galleria hotel in Houston, Texas from September 30th to October 1st 2014.

CentOS Board members Johnny Hughes (that's me :D) and Jim Perrin will be at the booth whenever the hall is open. 

We are looking forward to lots of discussions and we will have some swag to give out (Tee Shirts .. including the new 10 Year Anniversary tee, Stickers, etc.). We will also be happy to install CentOS on your laptop (or let you do it) ... or if you have a USB key available, we will put a CentOS iso on it for you to use for install later.

If you are going to be at cPanel 2014, come on down and see us!

CentOS Linux 5.11 for x86_64 and i386 is released

The CentOS Linux 5.11 distribution for both the x86_64 and i386 architectures is now released.

If you are running any previous version of CentOS-5 Linux, then you can upgrade simply by using the command:

yum update

ISOs are also available here:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/

Please see the Release Announcement and Release Notes for more details.

 

Critical Bash updates for CentOS-5, CentOS-6, and CentOS-7

There is a critical CVE issue in all versions CentOS that has been fixed today.  Please update your CentOS with this command:

yum update

Information about this issue can be found here:

http://red.ht/1msy8D6

and here:

http://red.ht/1uZGljA

The CentOS release announcements are here:

CentOS-5, CentOS-6, CentOS-7

If you have any other questions about this issue, you can ask on the CentOS mailing list here.

CentOS Dojo Cincinnati, OH (4 June 2014)

The CentOS team is happy to announce that we will be having a CentOS Dojo on Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 at the University of Cincinnati's Dyer Hall (Map | Register | Info)

CentOS Dojos are a one day event that bring together people from the CentOS communities to talk about systems administration, best practises, and emerging technologies. The emphasis is to find local speakers and tutors to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in various scenarios.

Both Jim Perrin and I will be there representing the CentOS Board, and there will be several great speakers (details still being worked out on the exact speaker list).

If you are in the Cincinnati area and use CentOS, please register and come to the event.

See you there !

OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014

I will be representing the CentOS Project at OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014 on May 12th to 16th, 2014.

The CentOS Linux distribution and RPMs produced by RDO are one of the major ways that OpenStack is now being deployed worldwide (CentOS was the 2nd most deployed Operating System in the latest OpenStack User Survey).

If you are using, or plan to use, RDO on CentOS (or OpenStack Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux) then there are several Red Hat tracks available at the summit that would be very informative.

I am also pretty excited about the Red Hat acquisition of Inktank and I would expect to see some noise about that at the summit as well.  Ceph and GlusterFS make up the current members of our CentOS Storage SIG and I look forward to working with both groups in the future. 

I expect that I will be in the Expo Hall from Monday through Wednesday and I will be somewhere at the Summit on Thursday and Friday as well, so if you see an old dude in a CentOS polo, it's likely me.

CentOS Dojo, São Paulo, Brazil: 5 May 2014

The CentOS Project will be having a Dojo in São Paulo, Brazil on Monday, May 5th, 2014 at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima 3900 - Cj 81 Itaim Bibi Sao Paul (map, register, info).

CentOS Dojos are one day events, organized around the world, that bring together people from the CentOS Communities to talk about systems administration, best practices in Linux-centric activities and emerging technologies of note. The emphasis is to find local speakers to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in various scenarios.


This event is sponsored By Red Hat and happens two days before FISL 15 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The CentOS team will also be at FISL 15 and these are our first ever events in South America, so we are pretty excited.

If you are near  São Paulo or Porto Alegre at the beginning of May, please stop by and visit the team.