Home Assistant OS 18.4 RC1 fixes Raspberry Pi USB storage and Realtek VLAN faults

Home Assistant OS 18.4 RC1 targets Raspberry Pi SSD failures and Realtek VLAN timeouts, and adds signed release-image manifests. It remains a pre-release.

Home Assistant OS 18.4 RC1 targets Raspberry Pi SSD failures and Realtek VLAN timeouts, and adds signed release-image manifests. It remains a pre-release.
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