Release 2011-10-29

Packages

  • Security update for libxml2: GLSA 201110-26 (#9785).

Release 2011-10-26

Configuration

  • Improved Nagios notification options to separate infrastructure and service notifications (#8161).

  • Speed up Nagios startup to minimize monitoring “holes” (#9665).

Packages

  • Security update for ClamAV: GLSA 201110-16 (#9798).

  • Security update for PostgreSQL: GLSA 201110-20 (#9714). PostgreSQL restart required.

Release 2011-10-13

Configuration

  • Turn syslog-ng to back to listening on 514/udp after the developers misguidedly changed it to 610/udp.

  • Ensure that dstat is installed on all physical machines.

  • Fix php warning about unconfigured timezone in Nagios UI by setting timezone explicitly to Europe/Berlin.

  • Enable HIGHMEM64 for virtual machines to allow more than 3.5GiB of memory. (#9531)

  • Add puppet class for installing dev-lang/erlang.

  • Improve GLSA notification mechanism (#8302)

Packages

  • Security fixes for phpmyadmin 3.4.4: Gentoo #383107

  • Security fixes for apache 2.2.20: CVE-2011-3348

  • Security fixes for dhcp: CVE-2011-{2748,2749}

  • Upgrade to ghostscript 9.04 (RT 79159)

Release 2011-09-19

Configuration

  • add fontconfig flag to gd on physical machines (in addition to virtual machines)

Packages

  • Security fixes for tiff 3.9.4: CVE-2009-5022,CVE-2010-{2595,3087},CVE-2011-{0192,1167}

  • Security fixes for librsvg 2.34.0: CVE-2011-3146

  • Security fixes for openssl 1.0.0e: CVE-2011-{3207,3210}

Release 2011-09-13

Configuration

  • Bring wvWare tools back which disappeared accidentally during the last update (RT 78747).

  • Remove superfluous old php configuration directories.

  • Bugfix for memcached Nagios check.

  • Restrict memcached to listen on SRV IPv4 only.

  • Increased number of allowed postgresql IDLE processes in Nagios check.

Packages

  • Security fixes for apache 2.2.20, apache-tools 2.2.20: CVE-2011-3192 (#9539).

  • Security fix for php 5.3.8: CVE-2011-2202 (#9548).

  • Security fix for libpng 1.4.8: CVE-2011-2501 (#9558).

  • Security fix for nagios 3.2.3: CVE-2011-2179 (#9522).

  • Security fix for phpmyadmin 3.4.3.2: CVE-2011-3181 (#9521).

  • Security fix for subversion 1.6.16: CVE-2011-1752 (#9523).

  • Security fix for ca-certificates 20090709: Gentoo #381169 (#9542).

Release 2011-09-07

Mainly a bugfix release for the major update.

Configuration

  • Resolve VM host race condition which impedes correct VM startup during booting.

  • Resolve VM host init script bug which causes all iSCSI connections to die under certain conditions.

Documentation

  • Expand examples in the userinit section.

Release 2011-08-29

Packages

A great deal of updated packages is available with the new release. Some highlights in no particular order (#8984):

  • PostgreSQL 9.0.4 with changed configuration layout (see below).

  • Python 2.5.4, 2.6.6, 2.7.1, and 3.1.3

  • nginx 1.0.4

  • ClamAV 0.97.1

  • Emacs 23.4

  • Poppler 0.16.7

  • OpenSSL 1.0.0d

  • NumPy 1.6.0

  • setuptools 0.6.14

  • virtualenv 1.6.1

  • OpenSSH 5.8

  • libjpeg-turbo 1.1.1

  • Gentoo baselayout 2.0.3

  • util-linux 2.19.1

  • autoconf 2.68

  • automake 1.11.1

  • GCC 4.4.5

  • Linux kernel version 2.6.38

  • Update all packages not mentioned here to current Gentoo upstream versions.

Configuration

  • PostgreSQL 9.0 configuration files (postgresql.conf etc.) reside now all in /etc/postgresql-9.0 instead of /srv/postgresql/9.0/data/.

  • Small VMs get more swap. This should avoid memory pressure from more or less inactive system services.

  • Multi-Core VMs are available on request (#9101).

  • RAM upgrades during automatically scheduled maintenance windows.

  • Switch to OpenRC (#9087).

  • Fix bug where a missing use flag prevented the installation of graphviz (RT 78548).

Documentation

Another great deal of documentation updates, especially in the tutorials section.

Release 2011-08-05

Configuration

  • Automatic system maintenance scheduling. System activities that require downtime (kernel upgrades etc.) are automatically scheduled into the next available maintenance slot and e-mail notifications are sent out. System users may use list-maintenance to view upcoming maintenance activities (#8668, #9359).

  • Set default system Python version to 2.7. Scripts using a specific Python version (#!/usr/bin/pythonX.Y) are not affected (#9043).

  • Increase the initial TCP congestion window to 10 segments (RT 78202).

Monitoring

  • Fix bug with false positives in the sysstat log freshness check (#9269).

  • Relax swap rate checks to avoid false positives. The checks should only cause alerts when a machine is constantly swapping.

Documentation

  • Completely reworked Getting started section.

  • Added tutorial ssh-keygen (#6938).

Release 2011-07-21

Configuration

  • Support user-generated postgresql.conf Snippets in /etc/postgresql-version (#9164)

  • Service users may register user-specific init scripts to start and stop applications during system boot/shutdown. This feature is documented in userinit (RT 77751).

Documentation

  • Revamped documentation, adding introductory material and better section overviews.

Release 2011-06-30

Configuration

  • Increase file size limits for ClamAV (RT 77694).

  • Further PostgreSQL performance tuning.

  • Integration of customers-specific storage servers for high-volume customers (#9219).

Monitoring

  • Add sysstat memory check to provide continuous graphs of memory usage.

Documentation

Release 2011-06-21

Configuration

  • Introduce facility to pin machines to fixed releases (#6820).

  • Mount filesystems with relatime option by default.

  • Tune PostgreSQL shared_buffers and wal_buffers parameter defaults (RT 77605).

  • Tune kernel I/O scheduler settings.

Monitoring

  • Plot memory usage graph for all machines (sysstat_memory check).

Release 2011-06-09

Configuration

  • Add xlhtml, rtf2xml and xls2csv to document processing role. (#8783)

  • Add warning to auto-generated SSH authorized_keys files that they should not be edited manually. (#8867)

  • Reduce default greylisting time on mail gateways so that delivery of greylisted mails usually succeeds with the first queue re-run on upstream MTAs.

  • Refine backup exclude lists to omit file that are easy to recreate in order to speed up backup and restore.

Monitoring

  • Relax swap activity checks to avoid false alerts when there is substantial swapping activity but no thrashing.

  • Improve reliability of sysstat checks.

Documentation

Release 2011-05-26

Configuration

  • Refine user access control to selectively grant rights to service users.

  • Refine/debug global administrative control to selectively revoke super-admin rights of gocept’s administrators (see Access control) (#8365)

Hardware

  • New monitoring server to reduce monitoring latency.

  • Enhanced backup server performance.

Release 2011-05-18

Configuration

  • Improved functionality and performance of the gocept.directory (CMDB) server.

  • Fix bugs in Postfix/Mailman management code.

Release 2011-04-20

Hardware

Add new storage and application servers for improved performance and reliability.

Configuration

  • Improve network routing to unnecessary roundtrips in some cases.

  • Add Python 2.7 to the list of system Python installations (#8906)

Documentation

  • Rework emergency docs in Support.

  • Add check list for service setups in service-deployment-checklist (#8765).

Release 2011-04-06

Configuration

  • Introduce separate roles for PostgreSQL 8.2, 8.4, 9.0. At most one of these roles may be active on a node at a time.

  • Improve monitoring for data links. We have seen failed auto-negotiation, which results in links running at 100 Mb/s and are now able to detect and fix these cases fast.

  • Add support for TIFF graphics files to various utilities like convert etc.

Documentation

  • Describe support process.

Release 2011-02-22

Package updates

General snapshot update, upgrading most of the installed system packages. New versions of highlighted packages are:

  • python 2.6.6 and 3.1.2

  • nginx 0.8.53 with IPv6 support

  • haproxy 1.4.8

  • postgresql 8.2.20 and 8.4.7

and many more.

Configuration

  • Restart network services automatically after updates of the package or it’s libraries (#8304).

  • Allow different PostgreSQL versions (8.2, 8.4, or 9.0) (#7191).

Release 2011-01-28

Configuration

  • Fix permission bug which rendered crontab unusable for some users (#8392).

  • Add ClamAV role to install the ClamAV virus scanner.

Documentation

  • Add hint on how to use our mail server in mail.gocept.net.

  • Document screen-multiuser (#8366).

Release 2011-01-17

Configuration

  • Separate logging of system management changes (configuration, packages, users) to /var/log/sysconfig.log from other syslog output (#8475).

  • Introduce restricted mode machines which get system management changes only on explicit request (#8368).

  • Send Nagios alert mails with Precendence: junk to circumvent auto responders.

  • Introduce option for multi-page vhost list in web statistics overview (#8416)

Documentation

  • nginx-ssl describes how to set up chained SSL certificates correctly.