[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2003) on armhfp aarch64 i386 ppc64 ppc64le and power9

I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 
(2003) for across our alternative architectures. Effectively 
immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is 
tagged as 2003, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8.

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 trimmed 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

Altarch kernel: After RedHat's decision to deprecate power9 and aarch64 
releases during the 7.7 cycle, and our decision to keep building them 
with the others (using the kernel from RHEL8), we decided to keep down 
this road. As 7.x and 8.x releases are not in sync, released kernel is 
4.18.0-147.8.1, but expect to be updated to the one from 8.2 once it is 
released.

Armhfp kernel was rebased (again) to 5.4.x, allowing us to support many 
more boards.
Last release, we did a last minute addition of armhfp images for 
RaspberryPi4, using kernel from the raspberrypi foundation, this time we 
didn't want to do any less, so se added aarch64 images too.


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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 ppc64
c8b87f660026dc49d3d7f9b4dfc23b1dde0f2dc5c183a01f7746d5fdb2d709fc 
CentOS-7-ppc64-Everything-2003.iso
57d8ee56d411cdb42c907083e8e7c4586105f8037fca9770333a26da9df510d3 
CentOS-7-ppc64-Minimal-2003.iso
4249c89bb489960d524204cd1a31004634cb9e6c0a20716b311b744feaec2ed8 
CentOS-7-ppc64-NetInstall-2003.iso

sha256sum for ppc64le
3da1588e9e4dcb970f1ac4f20bb306321db07784f9f23baeaf1fdf977f917da7 
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Everything-2003.iso
bf5a768ad31336c86574715106f073275e405e27397d7b1e1d67cdb194a17b68 
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-2003.iso
38250738077f0950f978fa55bf98c90b6d2a29b02130f6d3d76386b8c9172c55 
CentOS-7-ppc64le-NetInstall-2003.iso

sha256sum for power9:
6faccb60bc850929efcc4c6d007e03209b84e5fb311a561744db42a2640c9e01 
CentOS-7-power9-Everything-2003.iso
7658edee57ba87eacc94578283f6b02887b9b9d1f81db251d9e424c987c3ae50 
CentOS-7-power9-Minimal-2003.iso
777b83d236e36f5e8773b8bb0fe69095c7b50180e4c8c5035f9d68730c63db60 
CentOS-7-power9-NetInstall-2003.iso

sha256sum for i386:
b853bcdb9593252cde06a2702e53a9f2bd923ece882f083ab62af450f0db4901 
CentOS-7-i386-Everything-2003.iso
02f19e6d5fe5ea21c527e59fdd3d5a42d511ead2edcf234a826f96588ecd46a4 
CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-2003.iso
cb68c800cfd481986be600019702c95dc387706f45b43ecc7090e07142ae4667 
CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-2003.iso

shasum256 for aarch64 / ArmServer:
386e85a0d49d457252fcdbfa23d2082fc3f132f8405622831b07fd27a6071c7e 
CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything-2003.iso
36f48ca26a284442f6abba221cc1279fca103289ade411ee298d38cbf66967bc 
CentOS-7-aarch64-Minimal-2003.iso
f8fc89855d3f4910a8b7ee45788a463110a1ba4b314d7ff75a30ba732849c305 
CentOS-7-aarch64-NetInstall-2003.iso
197a8189bc28d835ea5f50cf2cda6dbece46e89277d79975d7e60bfd983ca1b6 
images/CentOS-Userland-7-aarch64-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2003-sda.raw.xz
df436e40e97a263fcd3d2de73efc47d93c48c284a8038e9f3bae6b5ba680a172 
images/CentOS-Userland-7-aarch64-generic-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz

sha256sums for armhfp:

c94fa6bee903871cba87116542e65ab2da04202b91fbee859d893180b817c448 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-GNOME-2003-sda.raw.xz
60679d59c79128397301ce822ea44ece0632c18412c0e5959e60b855a97bd434 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-KDE-2003-sda.raw.xz
facb8960fedac882867b81b030cf703c282ec0babbba2280d54ac0f9ac77b63d 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz
db4493e235f5ef40af073dba23b6fd229485ac8b21c7b77e8cbc5f1918f71f8a 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-GNOME-2003-sda.raw.xz
a8258c9043069a83e5421ef50e2bc948233040d7f781a669b7e9baad8b2f7c66 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-KDE-2003-sda.raw.xz
0b7f22c95215521b4ce666a020c7c4158305ebaebfa15233cf41799e1e8908da 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz
78c1bf52d65694947f1a8f64c1399604a42e200a13cec00554283d83c0b595fe 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2003-sda.raw.xz
1afc44c39675555968a55a880f22c64480b29f2e4f796c3e2a113157faed118e 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RootFS-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz


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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