Bootc Core Releases 
Jason Brooks announces
On the components release front this week, bootc v1.1.2 was released, including fixes for several notable bugs in the ostree-container stack: Release v1.1.2 · containers/bootc · GitHub
Bootc Meetings and Status Updates 
Jason Brooks announces
On Fedora Magazine, travier posted about what’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41, including a discussion of dnf5 and bootc in the Atomic Desktops images as the first steps towards embracing Bootable Containers: What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Fedora Magazine
Jason Brooks announces
At this week’s bootc initiative meeting, we continued our discussion of base image building: meeting-notes/2024-11-05.md · f9fe6549816280d98cdf1efb6806e7463ce0a605 · fedora / bootc / Issue Tracker · GitLab
Derived OS Releases 
HeliumOS (website)
An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
imbev says
This Month is HeliumOS is now out for October 2024: This Month in HeliumOS: October 2024 - HeliumOS
Projects, Experiments, and Demos 
Jason Brooks reports
On the podman desktop blog, Charlie Drage posted a tutorial demonstrating how to an deploy MicroShift, an edge-optimized version of OpenShift designed for single-node setups on resource-constrained configurations, using a bootc image: Creating a MicroShift bootable image with Podman Desktop | Podman Desktop
Jason Brooks reports
On the Red Hat Developer blog, Chris Kyrouac wrote about how to use bootc logically bound images to deploy a Kafka cluster: Use bootc logically bound images to deploy a Kafka cluster | Red Hat Developer
Events 
Jason Brooks reports
The UAPI group, a community for people with an interest in innovating how we build, deploy, run, and update modern security-focused Linux operating systems, will host a devroom at FOSDEM 2025, and is putting out a Call for Papers. The CfP deadline is Sunday, Dec 1, 2024: 2025 02 02 Fosdem Devroom | UAPI group generic documents and meeting minutes
Bootc in the News 
Jason Brooks announces
This week, as part of a discussion of Fedora 41, The Linux Unplugged podcast talked about bootc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317mN0phK5k&t=1941s
That’s all folks!
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