CentOS announce - Dec 2018 - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1810) on armhfp

I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7
(1810) for armhfp compatible machines.

This is the current release for CentOS Linux
7 and is tagged as 1810, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

== Download
You can download new images for armhfp boards on
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/

Images and sha256sums :

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-GNOME-1810-sda.raw.xz
23fcc2576c0ecd25b2365a3e37a20400bc37d97f8e50845ba3cbeb7ca08dfc25

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-KDE-1810-sda.raw.xz
7d134e047bb49462928ce259e69ad862a18ad2256f55600a5bee51a45a6adeab

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1810-sda.raw.xz
ce365ba3256952e6af05e076f9233a5b733528add513271910ca5d011652f83a

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-GNOME-1810-sda.raw.xz
5df590e98f10d58ce373216d687e67007aa7b5a03ee75f451f0742d6b5542ff3

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-KDE-1810-sda.raw.xz
74d1cc452cfeb2b2278361afbcc536bac0cd7bd668e6e3bc17b78f502851b0b6

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-1810-sda.raw.xz
fd7ee31a2a0b868703f0715e9819911f68b160e3ae014317b706c63d716200f6

CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RootFS-Minimal-1810-sda.raw.xz
2fa531b51e253769cc864b237a600472a3c1ad1da2f7a1673c6a78ce94436662


== What's new (specific to armhfp)
As before, CentOS 7 userland for armhfp is still built from the CentOS 7
distribution, with some modified, added (or removed) packages.

Here are some highlights for the 7.6.1810 release :
- Even with the release of kernel 4.19.x, we decided to keep kernel 4.14.x
for this release, mainly because it is too new.
- uboot images were updated to version 2018.09 to support more boards
- we have added the "RootFS" image, that some people asked for in the 
lists.

I think the most important part of 7.6.1810 is that thanks to the work done
in previous releases, the process to build this version was done 
completely on
par with the other arches, without the need for too many special cases, and
that avoids a lot of problems.


More informations/details on the dedicated wiki page :
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp

== Getting help
If you are searching for help, or would like to help the CentOS
altarch/armhfp ecosystem, feel free to subscribe to the CentOS arm-dev
list (https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev) or chat with us
in #centos-arm on irc.freenode.net

Pablo Greco