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Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 45, 2025
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you with both an infographic and a text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in-depth details, look below the infographic.
Week: 03rd – 07th November 2025
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Red Hat ☛ Automate VM golden image builds for OpenShift with Packer
In any virtualized environment, maintaining consistency across virtual machines (VMs) is a major challenge. Golden images (pre-configured VM templates) are the industry-standard solution. They ensure every new VM comes with the correct OS settings, security patches, and monitoring tools baked in. But how do you create and manage these images without tedious manual work?
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Red Hat ☛ Post-training methods for language models
Post-training represents one of the most active areas in large language model (LLM) development today. While pre-training establishes a model’s general understanding of language and world knowledge, post-training transforms that general foundation into something useful, safe, and domain-specific. This overview explores the current landscape of post-training methods, from supervised fine-tuning and continual learning to parameter-efficient and reinforcement learning approaches. It concludes with a look at how to get started using these methods through the open source Training Hub library.
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Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 📝 Redis version 8.4
RPMs of Redis version 8.4-rc1 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).
⚠️ Warning: this is a pre-release version not ready for production usage.
1. Installation
Packages are available in the redis:remi-8.4 module stream.
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Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.28RC1 and 8.4.15RC1
Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.
RPMs of PHP version 8.4.15RC1 are available
RPMs of PHP version 8.3.28RC1 are available