Bootc Core Releases 
bootc had a 1.1.6 release, headlined by updates to bootc container lint and system-reinstall-bootc: Release 1.1.6 · bootc-dev/bootc · GitHub
Bootc Meetings and Status Updates 
At this week’s bootc initiative meeting, we discussed the local package layering story with bootc and dnf5: meeting-notes/2025-03-04.md · main · fedora / bootc / Issue Tracker · GitLab
Community Videos 
For important background on the that local package layering story, check out Evan Goode’s brief presentation from the February Containerization Guild Gathering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8bNaeHuy8&t=7534s
In addition to Evan’s talk, the Guild Gathering featured 11 other presentations, including a discussion of unified storage between podman and bootc from Colin Walters (https://youtu.be/GT8bNaeHuy8?t=3789) and a whirlwind tour through the world of Universal Blue from Jorge Castro (https://youtu.be/GT8bNaeHuy8?t=6495). All 12 talks appear as chapters in the linked video.
A fun video with Colin Walters and Dan Walsh, filmed at a recent Kubecon, was posted last week, where the pair explained the basics of bootable containers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p1pCoHFkP0
Filmed at the same event, Ju Lim talked about how Red Hat’s OpenShift relies on image mode RHEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIuEXZfcY0
Projects, Experiments, and Demos 
Elsewhere in the bootc-adjacent universe, content management project Katello shipped a 4.16.0 RC2 release, which adds support for image-mode (ostree-based) hosts: Katello 4.16.0 RC2 is now ready for testing! - Release Announcements - TheForeman
On the Red Hat Developer blog, Josh Swanson Alexander Lougovski and Leonardo Bras Soares Passos teamed up to explain how they put together a bootable container image featuring a pre-tuned realtime kernel image: How pre-tuned real-time bootable containers work | Red Hat Developer
That’s all folks!
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