CentOS News

Welcome to our new Board members! – Blog.CentOS.org

The CentOS community, along with the Governing Board, is pleased to welcome two new members to the Board. Effective 8th April 2020, Thomas Oulevey and Patrick Riehecky will be joining the project leadership. (See also KB’s announcement on the centos-devel mailing list.) I spoke with Karsten Wade, who is a Continue Reading

CPE February Updates – Blog.CentOS.org

CPE – Community Platform Engineering – is the engineering group within Red Hat which does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work that makes the CentOS and Fedora projects possible. We would like to welcome you all to our first blog update on the CentOS Stream initiative. Over the course of Continue Reading

Acquia’s response to the Mautic Community Manifesto

On 16th August the Mautic Community shared their Manifesto, outlining three key areas where clarity was requested from Acquia. Commitment to keep Mautic Open Source and GPL, including all future versions Mautic remaining Open Source is a key differentiating factor in the market, and Acquia is committed that it will Continue Reading

Mautic Community Governance Model

The Mautic community continues to grow, and with growth comes a need to develop a governance model to enable and empower volunteers.  We want to encourage the community to take up responsibilities and have a say in the direction of the Mautic Open Source project, while working collaboratively with Acquia. Continue Reading

Mautic community forums re-launched

It gives me great pleasure to share that we have just re-launched the Mautic community forums at https://forum.mautic.org.  As many of you will know, most of the forums were disabled due to extreme levels of spam experienced in the past, combined with a lack of resources to deal with the Continue Reading

Creating a Differentiated SD-WAN Service as a Platform for Revenue Generating Value Added Services (VAS)

A Brief State of SD-WAN Services The Communication Service Provider (CSP) community around the world is gradually, but surely, rolling out their SD-WAN solutions and services to the SMB and enterprise market segments. The driving forces empowering these rollouts may differ based on markets conditions and CSPs dominance and position Continue Reading

GitLab Critical Security Release: 11.6.1, 11.5.6, 11.4.13

Today we are releasing versions 11.6.1, 11.5.6, and 11.4.13 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). These versions contain an important security fix, and we strongly recommend that all GitLab installations be upgraded to one of these versions immediately. The vulnerability details will be made public on our Continue Reading

Protecting your data! Fail-safe enhancements to Group Replication.

Group Replication has been around for some time now and the feedback from community is overwhelming. One of the suggestions (BUG#84795) received is related to deploying a mechanism to prevent a server from being updated after stopping group replication. Without this mechanism the server can continue to receive update transactions, Continue Reading

GitLab Patch Release: 9.2.6

Today we’re releasing version 9.2.6 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). This version resolves a number of regressions and bugs in this month’s 9.2.2 release. Please read on for more details. CE/EE: Assignee dropdown does not display selected assignee (!11744) CE/EE: Resolve “pipeline_schedules pages throwing error 500” Continue Reading

Join the Windows Server Tech Community

Launched at Ignite in September 2016, the Microsoft Tech Community grew to more than 50,000 members in its first six months, and that growth continues to accelerate. In this six-minute video, Anna Chu of the Microsoft Community team gives “a lightning tour” of the Microsoft Tech Community’s bells and whistles. Continue Reading