CentOS announce - May 2018 - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1804) on x86_64 aarch64 i386 ppc64 ppc64le

I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7
(1804) for across all architectures. Effectively immediately, this
is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1804, derived
from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5

As always, read through the Release Notes at :
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7 - these notes
contain important information about the release and details about some
of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes
are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from
the users.

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Updates, Sources, and DebugInfos

Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all
architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates,
including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7
machine by just running 'yum update'.

As with all CentOS Linux 7 components, this release was built from
sources hosted at git.centos.org. In addition, SRPMs that are a
byproduct of the build (and also considered critical in the code and
buildsys process) are being published to match every binary RPM we
release. Sources will be available from vault.centos.org in their own
dedicated directories to match the corresponding binary RPMs. Since
there is far less traffic to the CentOS source RPMs compared with the
binary RPMs, we are not putting this content on the main mirror
network. If users wish to mirror this content they can do so using the
reposync command available in the yum-utils package. All CentOS source
RPMs are signed with the same key used to sign their binary
counterparts. Developers and end users looking at inspecting and
contributing patches to the CentOS Linux distro will find the code
hosted at git.centos.org far simpler to work against. Details on how
to best consume those are documented along with a quick start at :
http://wiki.centos.org/Sources

Debuginfo packages are also being signed and pushed. Yum configs
shipped in the new release file will have all the context required for
debuginfo to be available on every CentOS Linux install.

This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS
Linux 7, and therefore we highly encourage all users to upgrade their
machines. Information on different upgrade strategies and how to
handle stale content is included in the Release Notes.

Note that older content, obsoleted by newer versions of the same
applications are trim'd off from repos like Extras/ and Plus/ However
this time we have also extended this to the sIG content hosted at
mirror.centos.org, and some older End of Life content has been dropped.
Everything we ever release, is always available on the vault service for
people still looking for and have a real need for it.

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Download

In order to conserve donor bandwidth, and to make it possible to get
the mirror content sync'd out as soon as possible, we recommend using
torrents to get your initial installer images:

Details on the images are available on the mirrors at
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/0_README.txt - that file
clearly highlights the difference in the images, and when one might be
more suitable than the others.

sha256sum x86_64:

506e4e06abf778c3435b4e5745df13e79ebfc86565d7ea1e128067ef6b5a6345
CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1804.iso
b346daae2a93caed88e822e722e7284c648f9919d475ff98489b424350f99a45
CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1804.iso
040ddfb27d30e48efad8709c9df946202cec169077c843fd2cbe8d802187ff8e
CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1804.iso
714acc0aefb32b7d51b515e25546835e55a90da9fb00417fbee2d03a62801efd
CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso
99723c8b87dcec21df8aed23de1eb810346d42cfd2a3fafafe70a68296053417
CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1804.iso
937bf0a7b0932817f84f7230f15ed88911bbbd85c0c958680792b7f8d8f9c1a9
CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1804.iso

Information for the torrent files and sums are available at
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64

Altarch images can be downloaded at :
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/

Sha256sum for ppc64:
33f4f242ccc58f34767ab71f692ee9069a7ec4aedd05d8350953cb75847a2c22
CentOS-7-ppc64-Everything-1804.iso
1d2cf9dd8d4f29f9f0f08a58743c9a13201ed1c9daf495f2544acefa671326bb
CentOS-7-ppc64-Minimal-1804.iso
2328edda16b1996d3898f408781b7e3948cb5c00fa4ef90aec79174ffd38ff56
CentOS-7-ppc64-NetInstall-1804.iso

Sha256sum for ppc64le
72c454bdd9c24046e35e366dec75fb2f421a46fc89309cbfbadc1c322ce200cd
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Everything-1804.iso
3a4132119a9ab203e02bb05acfa55be1c17a06f1336ba69814f86da395d2b6f4
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-1804.iso
55340e670ccfaf08152f4f6da7ebe3cc7573b1f9bafe8fc42dcb3ca47ff445b8
CentOS-7-ppc64le-NetInstall-1804.iso

sha256sum for i386:
5d5a27fa6fdf38fc7e297a61df7749d7529c4e20974f44d8609b8e0ef0593fb7
CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1804.iso
ea3aeafb0c5554ed6aad84d8cddeda2144442de88f85351303f72fae897f5e15
CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1804.iso
c364f9d8e1cd1d7bfe2b1054f7697ef4946590d4bc21e081eb39ab67dffa647d
CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1804.iso

Shasum256 for aarch64 / ArmServer:

8db40f3844a5077553733ab445fe1cdc72734aa5dc8e977fccc7a91e3c6750bb
CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything-1804.iso
c376ac10f3ca4fad28100eb7cb12673b47d6013a32fff721791c2b85b95f88a3
CentOS-7-aarch64-Minimal-1804.iso
9ee5249242321642f8fd17f7b393cc2fd882d3a650b7e3d6cf056f97741d0cef
CentOS-7-aarch64-NetInstall-1804.iso

Details for Armhfp are posted in its own announce email, following shortly.

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Additional Images

The container, Vagrant, Cloud and Atomic Host images are being prepared
and will be released in the next few days. Look for an announcement
posted to the centos-announce list for more information on availability
for these in the coming days.

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Getting Help

The CentOS ecosystem is sustained by community driven help and
guidance. The best place to start for new users is at
http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp

We are also on social media, you can find the project:
on Twitter at  : http://twitter.com/CentOSProject
on Facebook at : https://www.facebook.com/groups/centosproject/
on LinkedIn at : https://www.linkedin.com/groups/22405

And you will find the core team and a majority of the contributors on
irc, on freenode.net in #centos ; talking about the finer points of
distribution engineering and platform enablement.

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Contributors

This release was made possible due to the hard work of many people,
foremost on that list are the Red Hat Engineers for producing a great
distribution and the CentOS QA team, without them CentOS Linux would
look very different. Many of the team went further and beyond
expectations to bring this release to you, and I would like to thank
everyone for their help.

We are also looking for people to get involved with the QA process in
CentOS, if you would like to join this please introduce yourself on
the centos-devel list
(http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel ).

Finally, please join me in thanking the donors who all make this
possible for us.

Enjoy the fresh new release!

-- 
Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc





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On May 10, 2018, at 1:33 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
wrote:
> 
> I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7
> (1804) for across all architectures.
I?ve checked about a dozen of the mirrors, and see no *.torrent files yet.  Any
idea how long they?ll take to appear?  I ask because we?re building a system
today, so if it?s going to be more than a few hours, I?ll grab the ISO file
directly, but otherwise, I?d prefer to spread the load.
> As always, read through the Release Notes at :
> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7
The ?RHEL? link here still points to the 7.4 release notes:

   https://wiki.centos.org/Download