Release 2012-07-06

Packages

  • Update media-gfx/graphicsmagick to make it compile again (broken by libpng update).

  • Install dev-java/log4j system-wide on machines with tomcat or java role.

Configuration

  • Prevent unnecessary restarts of Apache due to false positives in shared objects updates detection.

  • Relax too aggressive resolv.conf timeout to ensure reliable DNS resolution even under load spikes (RT 83555)

  • Enable nscd (name service caching) to improve resilience against DNS glitches (RT 83555).

  • Fix bug where old firewall rules could be activated after unclean machine shutdown (RT 83697).

Monitoring

  • Change Nagios configuration so that we can now users allow to login into Nagios but don’t mail them Nagios alerts (RT 83655).