Release 2017_002 (2017-01-26)#

Impact#

  • [NixOS/Gentoo] Most services need to be restarted because several wide-spread libraries have been updated.

NixOS platform#

  • Update nginx to 1.10.2 for HTTP/2 support (#25455).

  • NodeJS 6 uses a recent OpenSSL library (#25440).

  • Security update for OpenSSL (#23921).

  • Update libidn (#23893).

  • Basic memcached role (#22271).

  • Basic graylog2 support for loghosts (#22495).

  • Very rudimentary dovecot support (experimental; #15370).

  • Provide NodeJS 4 package to support Meteor 0.14 applications.

  • Avoid unnecessary reboots due to minor kernel packaging changes.

Gentoo platform#

  • Security update for zlib (GLSA 201701-56; #25597).

  • Security update for libxml2 (GLSA 201701-37; #25520).

  • Enable kernel Network Block Device (NBD) client everywhere.

  • Improve robustness of restart code for rsyslogd, sshd, and others (#25566).