Bootc Core Releases 
Last week, the bootc project dropped a v1.1.5 release, centered on the inclusion of a new optional binary, system-reinstall-bootc, that’s meant to streamline the UX for reinstalling a system from a bootc container. Release v1.1.5 · containers/bootc · GitHub
Bootc Meetings and Status Updates 
At this week’s bootc initiative meeting, we went deep on a container build issue, and resolved to extend future matrix-based meetings from 30 to 60 minutes: Meetbot Logs
Elsewhere in bootc initiative updates, I posted an issue to kick off discussion of where the bootc initiative work should continue once the initiative has run its course this May: Future of bootc initiative work in Fedora (#62) · Issues · fedora / bootc / Issue Tracker · GitLab
Derived OS Releases 
Our friends at Universal Blue posted an update on Bazzite: Bazzite February Update - Bazzite - Universal Blue
Community Videos 
Elsewhere in the Universal Blue universe, Jorge Castro posted a video about an alpha release of Bluefin spin for for AI and ML Professionals: https://youtu.be/2qxcTPNRZcc
At CentOS Connect in Brussels recently, Carol Chen and Cedric Clyburn delivered a talk entitled: “Bootable Containers in Action: Hands on with Deploying AI Workloads” Check out the video at https://youtu.be/KDOySCVhphI
At Fosdem later that week, Eric Curtin and Pierre-Yves Chibon presented on Transforming Linux OS Management with Bootc. See the video at FOSDEM 2025 - Bootable Containers and Image Mode: Transforming Linux OS Management with Bootc
Also at Fosdem, Timothée Ravier and Alison Karlitskaya gave a talk on composefs and fs-verity, and how they can help guarantee that every byte of every file is verified on load: FOSDEM 2025 - "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered", with UKIs and composefs
The Fedora Podcast featured an interview with Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller, and the conversation turned to bootc and image mode Fedora: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cWDXvt-Fo&t=686s
That’s all folks!
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