Hi there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
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Looking for new contributors!!
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ELevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/> got a huge update! Read more
below.
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AlmaLinux is up for The Stevie® Awards’ People’s Choice award
<https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/>! If you’d like to support
AlmaLinux with your vote, here’s a link
<https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/> (and thank you!). You'll find
us under the 'Government or Non-profit' category.
Call for help!
Our swag shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/> needs a new tender!
Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye for design? The
Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s there and the
costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us come up with
some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>! Email benny at
almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.
Help on the forums!
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has nearly doubled in the last 6
months, and that means there are more questions than ever to answer! If you
have a few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to help your fellow
sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers, and
feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogSummer events recap
We attended quite a few events this summer, including Southeast Linux Fest,
Academy Open Source days, SIGGRAPH, and Flock to Fedora. Check out this
blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-28-summer-event-recap/> for a
full recap of these events!
From 1 to 400 mirrors; The AlmaLinux Mirror System Story
In August of 2021 we first launched our new and improved mirror system,
including the geo-location feature that allows users to automatically use
the closest mirror to them. Since we launched, we’ve grown from around 100
mirror servers to over 400. We’ve also made a lot of improvements to the
mirrorlist which supports over 1 million systems worldwide. Learn more on
our blog <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-07-mirrors-1-to-400/>!
ELevate gets a huge update - now supports CentOS Stream 8 - 9, Scientific
Linux upgrades, and hardware detection
ELevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/> just received the biggest update
since 2021 when the project was first announced! ELevateNG has been
promoted to stable, and we received tons of community-contributed
feedback. Read
the blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-08-elevate-release/> to
dive into what has been updated.
Upcoming Events
August was fairly light with events, though we did attend SIGGRAPH and
Flock to Fedora. Here’s what’s coming up for the rest of the year:
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NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/en/>, September 24-28, 2024 in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
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All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
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Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
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SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
Stay up to date and join us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
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benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation
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Hi there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes - find more information below!
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Patches for CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) and CVE-2024-6409 are available
for AlmaLinux OS 9 users.
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We're testing a patch for glibc
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A new version of ELevate will be released next week - testers wanted!
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Earlier this month, we announced that CTJ has renewed its platinum
sponsorship. We also announced 3 new 2024 sponsors!
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAnnouncing Silver Sponsor Members -
Codenotary, ATIX AG, StorPool Storage AD
We just announced 3 Silver Sponsor Members for 2024: Codenotary, ATIX AG,
and StorPool Storage AD! We’re so grateful for the contributions of our
every-growing list of sponsor members, as more and more companies prove
that they believe in what we do. You can read more about our sponsors here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-30-announcing-codenotary-atix-storpool/>
!
Testers needed: glibc regression in Enterprise Linux 9.4
Recently, the VFX community was faced with a regression in glibc causing
instability for very commonly used software in RHEL 9.4 and distributions
based on it. The fix has been available upstream but was only recently
released to CentOS Stream 9. We need your help testing the fix before we
consider releasing it ourselves. Learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-25-testing-glibc-needed/>!
Sponsor webinar: Raise Your Application Management Game: AlmaLinux and
Virtuozzo in Action
benny joined a webinar with one of our newest Sponsor Members at the
Foundation to talk about why and how people use AlmaLinux. Watch the
recording here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3NKUT-aL8>!
AlmaLinux Cloud, Container, and Live Media Images Updates
We have been doing a ton of work to automate our image creation, and have
been making some important changes for AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 images. You
can find a complete breakdown in this recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-10-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-…>
.
How to get updates after CentOS 7 end-of-life
On June 30th CentOS 7 hit end-of-life, ending the long-loved and widely
used CentOS Linux era. While the CentOS Project continues on with CentOS
Stream, much of the world still needs another option for upgrading CentOS
7. The AlmaLinux community has a few options you can check out in this blog
post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-09-centos7-updates/>!
AlmaLinux OS 9 Patching for CVE-2024-6409
Another recently disclosed vulnerability in OpenSSH
<https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/2> in glibc-based
Linux systems involves a signal handler race condition, which could expose
your system to potential security risks. The OpenSSH patch for
CVE-2024-6409 has been released and is available for AlmaLinux OS 9 users.
The decision to build the update and push the package to production without
waiting for a CentOS Stream or RHEL update was made by our newly-formed
technical steering committee, ALESCo
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/>. Learn more in
this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-09-cve-2024-6409/>.
Get ready for ELevateNG
In January we announced the availability of ELevateNG
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/> (Next Generation)
for testing. ELevateNG is based on leapp version 0.19.0
<https://github.com/oamg/leapp-repository/releases> and includes upstream
features and bugfixes.
Unless we encounter any blockers, the current version of ELevateNG will
move to stable the week of August 5th. Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-08-elevateng-testing/> to learn more!
Welcoming Cybertrust Japan again as a Platinum Sponsor Member
Our friends at Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd, have renewed their platinum
sponsor membership. As a subsidiary of SB Technology Corp, this level of
commitment to the foundation is huge, and we cannot thank them enough.
Cybertrust Japan’s sizable contributions to AlmaLinux will allow us to
expand AlmaLinux OS’s security and adoption in Asia. We’ve also seen a
noticeable upswing in the adoption of AlmaLinux in Japan! Learn more in
this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-02-ctj-sponsorship/>.
AlmaLinux OS 9 - CVE-2024-6387: regreSSHion
Security is our top priority at AlmaLinux and we aim to deliver patches to
our users as quickly as possible. If you aren’t already aware, a
vulnerability in OpenSSH
<https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3> in glibc-based Linux
systems that was published on July 1, 2024.
We made the decision to make this patch available that same day for
AlmaLinux OS 9 users. The decision to build the update and push the package
to production on our own (without a CentOS Stream/RHEL update) was made by
our newly-formed technical steering committee, ALESCo
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/>.
We are committed to working upstream and have submitted this patch to
CentOS Stream 9
<https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/openssh/-/merge_requests/77>
to benefit the whole ecosystem. You can learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-01-almalinux-9-cve-2024-6387/>.
Upcoming Events
July was also pretty light on events, though we did attend Academy Open
Source Days
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>
and are currently attending SIGGRAPH <https://s2024.siggraph.org/>. Here’s
what’s coming up for the rest of the year:
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Flock to Fedora <https://flocktofedora.org/>, August 7-10 in Rochester
New York, US
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NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/en/>, September 24-28, 2024 in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
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All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
-
Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
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SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
Stay up to date and join us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation
*I am sending this message now because it suits me, but I don’t expect that
you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for
your time zone.*
