CentOS announce - Dec 2018 - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1810) on aarch64 i386 ppc64le and power9

I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7
(1810) for across our alternative architectures. Effectively 
immediately, this
is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1810, derived
from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

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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Special notes

You'll see that ppc64 is missing from the download list, don't read too 
much
into it. We had a few last minute problems with it and didn't want to 
delay the
release because of it, ppc64 will be available in the next few days.

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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 in a file called
0_README.txt next to the isos. That file clearly highlights the 
difference in the
images, and when one might be more suitable than the others.

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

sha256sum for ppc64le
15747554800b65b7ef7dcbf16e6045161be536ab830c2bf93b9cd0da315b3545
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Everything-1810.iso
255681f7d3a0d9fd4855f209f590e99b1a50ca88dfc6910625e2bab0e822cd88
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-1810.iso
38102036355c81b968abb98ecf324134118f3b4f4128be0c1cd674f4b7691fe3
CentOS-7-ppc64le-NetInstall-1810.iso

sha256sum for power9:
296b54740355c31d0002ccedd40dd7b4926117eaa5d2da1c3d2145694ac92a50
CentOS-7-power9-Everything-1810.iso
64ac193009e7a6f44c94e5df6a6d5bbac4aa55770960ace88f5814a81a22adab
CentOS-7-power9-Minimal-1810.iso
aeae31c2ef82a846320103bfe4ef5dcee2816ce04a2e5b4012d87243dbd77fb3
CentOS-7-power9-NetInstall-1810.iso

sha256sum for i386:
275cbb40c85bd81357c06cf868b3d40c215fbd111292d9878a1bac1bb3bd8140
CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1810.iso
a85ed6b6bd1ac3fa96d1960d91b98942c1827a74e25ac741c59990b7d8a83dd4
CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1810.iso
fefd1e3ab188954ace9c39b42a67b0d6bc485a3e1acff4b2021bb3644399e5fa
CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1810.iso

shasum256 for aarch64 / ArmServer:
ad0a58bf7c2be9c27827560d3f04e11b83be65320fb9e52d9c4f71ee60a67a25
CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything-1810.iso
864596b2fb971c8d8c0f3618981cca4725f6c2347f6eb2f130e0aefa3413c0ef
CentOS-7-aarch64-Minimal-1810.iso
4042811a88180c31f868859ee35c35b4a4ec103a7e27f34b4ee05dadc60b72bc
CentOS-7-aarch64-NetInstall-1810.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!

-- 
Pablo Greco