Release 2016_007 (2016-02-25)

Impact

  • The glibc update causes restarts of nearly all system services.

Packages

  • Security update for glibc GLSA 201602-02 (#20193).

  • Update binutils to 2.24 (#20193).

  • Update gdal to 1.11.1 (#20193).

  • Uninstall deprecated package zsh-completion (#20193).

  • Disable superfluous patrol reads on RAID controllers to ensure consistent disk performance (#20276).

Configuration

  • Use a reliable locking mechanism to ensure that only a single Ceph host goes into maintenance at once (#17169).

Monitoring

  • Introduce collectd as the client for our improved metrics infrastructure, which provides more fine-grained resolution than Nagios (#20262).