Scientific Linux 7 end of life

2024-06-30 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, Following the upstream release cycle: Scientific Linux 7 reached End of Life June 30, 2024. After this date no additional updates will be published for Scientific Linux 7. Specifically, no security updates for SL7 will be published after June 30, 2024. After June 30 2024: - The in

Scientific Linux 7 End of Life June 30 2024

2024-06-17 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, The end of Scientific Linux is near. Following the upstream release cycle:[1] On June 30, 2024 Scientific Linux 7 will reach End of Life. No security updates for SL7 will be published after June 30, 2024. After June 30: The installation trees will be moved into the 'obsolete' direct

Reminder: Nov 2020 SL6 End of Life

2020-11-30 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, Following the upstream release cycle: Today November 30, 2020 Scientific Linux 6 reached on End of Life. After this date no additional updates will be published for Scientific Linux 6. Specifically, no security updates for SL6 will be published after November 30, 2020. After November 30

Reminder: Nov 2020 SL6 End of Life

2020-11-16 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, Following the upstream release cycle: Scientific Linux 6 will reach End of Life November 30, 2020. After this date no additional updates will be published for Scientific Linux 6. Specifically, no security updates for SL6 will be published after November 30, 2020. After November 30 2020:

Reminder: Nov 2020 SL6 End of Life

2020-10-30 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, Following the upstream release cycle: Scientific Linux 6 will reach End of Life November 30, 2020. After this date no additional updates will be published for Scientific Linux 6. Specifically, no security updates for SL6 will be published after November 30, 2020. After November 30 2020:

SL 7.9 x86_64 is now available

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Scientific Linux 7.9 x86_64 is now available. SL 7x users should run 'yum clean all' at this time. Please also review TUV's 7.9 Release Notes for major upstream changes. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/ ---

Updating Scientific Linux 7 Secure Boot key

2020-08-21 Thread Patrick Riehecky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Attention all Scientific Linux users of Secure Boot: A new SECURE BOOT key for Scientific Linux 7 will be used starting August 26 2020. The existing key expires on the same day. The new key is published at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scien

Reminder: Nov 2020 SL6 End of Life

2020-08-13 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, Following the upstream release cycle: Scientific Linux 6 will reach End of Life November 30, 2020. After this date no additional updates will be published for Scientific Linux 6. Specifically, no security updates for SL6 will be published after November 30, 2020. After November 30 2020:

Distribution Servers Downtime - 5 hours on May 20, 2020

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hello, The Scientific Linux distribution servers will be unavailable for about 5 hours at May 20 2020 03:00 CDT (Chicago). Downloads, yum operations, and mirror syncs will fail against the following hosts: * rsync.scientificlinux.org * ftp.scientificlinux.org * ft

SL7.8 Live Media and Install DVD reissue

2020-04-27 Thread Patrick Riehecky
The SL 7.8 Live Media is now available. It includes all updates from April 21 2020. The LiveCD has grown in size to exceed traditional CD media. However, it is much smaller than the LiveDVDs. The SL 7.8 Install Media was rebuilt to correct an error with the Dual- Layer DVD image. It is now the

SL 7.8 x86_64 is now available

2020-04-20 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Scientific Linux 7.8 x86_64 is now available. SL 7x users should run 'yum clean all' at this time. Please also review TUV's 7.8 Release Notes for major upstream changes. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/ ---

Welcome Thomas and Patrick to CentOS Project Governing Board

2020-04-07 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Hi, The CentOS Governing Board of Directors is pleased to appoint two new Directors to be added to the Governing Board, effective 8th April 2020: Thomas Oulevey [1] and Patrick Riehecky [2]. The community will instantly recognise both from their long standing and well established support for