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.
---------- 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.
---------- 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.
---------- 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.
-------- 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.
---------- 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.
---------- 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!