I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7
(1908) for across our alternative architectures. Effectively
immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is
tagged as 1908, derived
from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7.
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
Altarch kernel, with RedHat's decision to deprecate power9 and aarch64
releases, we had to decide on how to continue, and the consensus was to
keep building those arches along with the others, while updating kernel
to the one used in RHEL8. Tests have been great and we're expecting to
continue with this path.
Armhfp kernel was rebased to 4.19.x, allowing us to support many more
boards, this was done in conjunction with the uboot rebase to 2019.07
A last minute addition in the armhfp arch was the inclusion of the
tech-preview images for RaspberryPi4, using kernel 4.19.x from the
raspberrypi foundation.
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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
23c1b456089d0523c67779557dc4f6728abf0e0259abdca1211f54261922b0ea
CentOS-7-ppc64-Everything-1908.iso
be52b57437bf664750b35d758115db3ef983385a04227efd6b6b174ecf11
CentOS-7-ppc64-Minimal-1908.iso
455c4d2539af5e9f8138c3cdf2fc7c51394a26e11a90b32134956a1068c97640
CentOS-7-ppc64-NetInstall-1908.iso
sha256sum for ppc64le
0418cffa40d9259a2aee4ab3535231076e460defe67e71f2feff2c48d6cac2f9
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Everything-1908.iso
c4ca20878b3af1e16bf0d83a63ea930cb9ec28212f7079191cfce4d05ee2
CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-1908.iso
43114f8689847a722370be8e65615806865eaaf1f0dd7b9c209e5c123b1c667d
CentOS-7-ppc64le-NetInstall-1908.iso
sha256sum for power9:
f64302ea062fd81cd9de202ec22ac0bea466616d7e24b6e55f57047edb7f67b1
CentOS-7-power9-Everything-1908.iso
20364062f12c04ab4e5e7f57c5e735de11c030b85ad001bc91ce5cf91e3bdcd8
CentOS-7-power9-Minimal-1908.iso
6072ecf3a43dd49c678b393ebb2903c755d23942a429f148a7a5dae7a74c2a0d
CentOS-7-power9-NetInstall-1908.iso
sha256sum for i386:
