https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10358
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/
so it seems it seems a new testing time is coming 
in the meanwhile, something to add to http://docs.nethserver.org/projects/nethserver-devel/en/latest/development_process.html#minor-release-from-upstream ???
@quality_team @dev_team
Also it seems CentOS will have an official ARM 64 release! /cc @mark_nl
I hope not 
This release looks like a lot as a maintenance release, I don’t expect many different 
c7.1810 showed ip in the buildlogs.centos.org repositories.
Fingers crossed SCL php71 will be availible for aarch64 too. Last time I looked, last week, at least empty repositories where there. Now the sclo buildlogs-repos, including x86_64 are gone, lets hope it is a good sign. 
Hope and pray is good, but as a precaution I locked updates on my unsubscibed instances. 
The step from 7.4 to 7.5 was a chaos.
Will this be a problem?
The smbd service no longer queries user and group information from Active Directory domain controllers and NT4 primary domain controllers directly. Installations with the security parameter set to ads or domain now require that the winbindd service is running.
As usual we’ll start the upgrade tests when CentOS pushes new RPMs to the CR repository!
Yes this is likely to be an issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558560#c8
We must care of it!
The version lock should be enabled automatically when a new minor version from upstream is available
KDE deprecated in redhat 7.6 :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
openldap-servers too 
This means that for the next release (redhat8) they won’t be part of the distro
thanks a lot for the useful information. is there someone who have already used it? interested for my site https://suppsforlife.to/category/injectable-steroids. any help is appreciated. what are your first impressions? big chances? worth it? thanks
Centos 7 version 7.6.1810 CR repo for x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, armhfp, and i386 should be availabe…
https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1810
and also rhel 8 beta is out 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html-single/8.0_beta_release_notes/
The upgrade to 7.6 seems a good moment to evaluate if some packages in the nethserver-base repository are deprecated / obsolete. Because of the port / rebuild for arm i tried to draw a dependency tree and could not find a need for this packages:
| PACKAGE | OBSOLETE? |
|---|---|
| coova-chilli-1.3.1.5-1.2.g68c347e.ns7.x86_64.rpm | |
| daq-2.0.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm | obsolete? snort > suricata |
| ecap-clamav-2.0.0-1.ns7.x86_64.rpm | obsolete ? |
| http-parser-2.7.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm | obsolete > in centos base repo nodejs |
| libwbxml-0.11.2-4.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm |
|
| snort-2.9.8.0-1.ns7.x86_64.rpm | obsolete > suricata |
| snortalog-0.0.1-1.ns7.noarch.rpm | obsolete > suricata |
| sssd-libwbclient-1.15.2-50.el7_4.2.ns7.x86_64.rpm | nethserver-samba > in centos repo,obsolete? |
| pulledpork-0.7.2-1.ns7.noarch.rpm | nethserver-suricata / IPS > in epel, obsolete? |
| ntopng-pcap-3.1.170812-3152.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm | nethserver-bandwidthd |
| perl-Crypt-Cracklib-1.7-1.ns7.x86_64.rpm | obsolete |
Really nice catch, it’s time to do some repository cleanups! /cc @giacomo
Those are really old dependencies and not needed anymore…
I’m working on fixing some bugs on ns6 atm, but I hope to find some time to test the 7.6 packages (expecially samba) next week.
[root@prometheus ~]# rpm -q --whatrequires libwbxml
nethserver-sogo-1.7.7-1.ns7.noarch
sogo-activesync-4.0.4-1.ns7.x86_64
does it is not a problem for sogo-activesync ?
I switched your post to wiki mode, so others can add/fix/change it too!
I did a quick check, these are my findings.
To be removed:
These packages can’t be removed:
Edit
If you’re upgrading from 7.5 to 7.6 using CR repository, please have a look to this issue: https://github.com/NethServer/dev/issues/5646
i’m doing some install/upgrade base tests with CR… i see 21 issue open, do you think any of these should be checked urgently before going ahead with 7.6.1810 tests?
I think this is the nastiest: https://github.com/NethServer/dev/issues/5647 (/cc @flatspin).
But still I can’t figure out a workaround for it.
Since 7.5 should be considered in feature freeze state, we will soonshould be able to merge all PR and test everything.
(see my edit)