Release 2017_010 (2017-05-29)#

Impact#

  • [Gentoo] All machines need to be rebooted due to a kernel update.

Gentoo platform#

  • Update Linux kernel to 4.9.25 to improve VM stability (#26786).

  • Upgrade to a recent portage version to enable EAPI=6 ebuilds (#25202).

  • Mass package update to fix several security vulnerabilities with an emphasis on the Python ecosystem. See list below for details (#25714).

  • Fix bug in sshguard firewall setup (#14542).

  • Remove vm_io check as it does not bring any useful insight (#26788).

  • Fix bug in VM image charging code (#26700).

  • Improve debug logging in fc.qemu to nail down spurious migration errors (#26862).

Updated program versions#

  • apachetop: 0.12.6 -> 0.12.6

  • apr: 1.5.0 -> 1.5.2

  • asciidoc: 8.6.5 -> 8.6.9

  • audit: 2.1.3 -> 2.6.4

  • automake: 1.14.1 -> 1.15

  • automake-wrapper: 9 -> 10

  • bash: 4.2_p52 -> 4.3_p48

  • binutils: 2.25.1 -> 2.26.1

  • cffi: 0.8.1 -> 1.9.1

  • chardet: 2.2.1 -> 2.3.0

  • cmake: 2.8.12.2 -> 3.7.2

  • colorama: 0.3.1 -> 0.3.3

  • cryptography: 0.20.1 -> 1.7.1

  • curl: 7.51.0 -> 7.53.0

  • dbus: 1.8.16 -> 1.10.12

  • dnspython: 1.9.4 -> 1.12.0-r301

  • docutils: 0.10 -> 0.12

  • dstat: 0.7.2 -> 0.7.3

  • eix: 0.29.3 -> 0.32.4

  • elfix: 0.8.4 -> 0.9.2

  • eselect-java: 0.1.0 -> 0.3.0

  • eselect-python: 20111108 -> 20160516

  • eudev: 1.5.3 -> 3.1.5

  • flex: 2.5.39 -> 2.6.1

  • gcc: 4.9.3 -> 4.9.4

  • gd: 2.2.2 -> 2.2.4

  • gdbm: 1.8.3 -> 1.11

  • gentoolkit: 0.3.0.8 -> 0.3.2

  • gentoolkit-dev: 0.2.8.3 -> 0.3.0

  • ghostscript-gpl: 9.14 -> 9.20

  • glibc: 2.22 -> 2.23

  • gnutls: 3.3.15 -> 3.3.26

  • go: 1.4.2 -> 1.7.5

  • graphite2: 1.2.1 -> 1.3.8

  • graphviz: 2.26.3 -> 2.38.0

  • hiera: 1.3.2 -> 1.3.4

  • html5lib: 0.90 -> 0.9999999

  • icedtea-bin: 7.2.6.6 -> 7.2.6.8

  • imagemagick: 6.9.0.3 -> 6.9.7.4

  • ipaddress: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.17

  • kmod: 17 -> 23

  • libarchive: 3.1.2 -> 3.2.2

  • libcap-ng: 0.7.3 -> 0.7.8

  • libgsf: 1.14.30 -> 1.14.41

  • libmemcached: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.18

  • libnl: 3.2.23 -> 3.2.28

  • libpng: 1.6.21 -> 1.6.27

  • libtasn1: 4.5 -> 4.10

  • libtool: 2.4.2 -> 2.4.6

  • libudev: 208 -> 215

  • libxcb: 1.10 -> 1.12

  • libXft: 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2

  • lockfile: 0.9.1 -> 0.11.0

  • lvm2: 2.02.103 -> 2.02.116

  • mailman: 2.1.15 -> 2.1.23

  • make: 3.82 -> 4.2.1

  • markupsafe: 0.21 -> 0.23

  • mercurial: 3.6.3 -> 3.8.4

  • netifrc: 0.2.2 -> 0.5.1

  • nspr: 4.12 -> 4.13.1

  • nss: 3.22.2 -> 3.28.1

  • numpy: 1.8.0 -> 1.10.4

  • openjpeg: 2.0.0 -> 2.1.1_p20160922

  • openldap: 2.4.38 -> 2.4.44

  • openrc: 0.12.4 -> 0.23.2

  • openssl: 1.0.2j -> 1.0.2k

  • openvpn: 2.3.6 -> 2.3.12

  • pciutils: 3.2.0 -> 3.4.1

  • pillow: 2.4.0 -> 3.4.2

  • pip: 1.4.1 -> 7.1.2

  • pkgconfig: 0.28 -> 0.28

  • ply: 3.4 -> 3.9

  • portage: 2.2.8 -> 2.3.3

  • portage-utils: 0.53 -> 0.62

  • procps: 3.3.9 -> 3.3.12

  • push: 1.6 -> 2.0

  • py: 1.4.13 -> 1.4.30

  • pyasn1: 0.1.7 -> 0.1.8

  • pyasn1-modules: 0.0.5 -> 0.0.8

  • pycparser: 2.10 -> 2.14

  • pygments: 1.6 -> 2.1.1

  • pyopenssl: 0.13.1 -> 16.2.0

  • pypax: 0.8.4 -> 0.9.2

  • pytest: 2.3.5 -> 3.0.3

  • python: 3.4.1 -> 3.6.0

  • python-exec: 2.0.1 -> 2.4.4

  • python-ldap: 2.4.10 -> 2.4.19

  • python-updater: 0.11 -> 0.14

  • pytz: 2013d -> 2016.3

  • pyxattr: 0.5.2 -> 0.5.5

  • readline: 6.2_p1 -> 6.3_p8

  • requests: 2.3.0 -> 2.11.1

  • rb-inotify: 0.9.0 -> 0.9.5

  • ruby-ffi: 1.4.0 -> 1.9.6

  • sass: 3.2.9 -> 3.4.15

  • setuptools: 2.2 -> 30.4.0

  • shared-mime-info: 1.2 -> 1.4

  • simplejson: 3.3.0 -> 3.10.0

  • six: 1.6.1 -> 1.10.0

  • socat: 1.7.2.3 -> 1.7.3.1

  • spidermonkey: 1.8.2.15 -> 1.8.5

  • sqlite: 3.8.10.2 -> 3.16.2

  • tcpdump: 4.7.4 -> 4.9.0

  • tiff: 4.0.3 -> 4.0.7

  • timezone-data: 2013d -> 2016h

  • udev: 208 -> 217

  • udev-init-scripts: 26 -> 32

  • urllib3: 1.8.2 -> 1.16

  • vim-core: 7.3.762 -> 8.0.0386

  • virtualenv: 1.11.4 -> 15.1.0

  • webapp-config: 1.52 -> 1.54

  • werkzeug: 0.9.4 -> 0.11.11

  • xcb-proto: 1.10 -> 1.12

  • yard: 0.8.7.2 -> 0.8.7.3

  • yasm: 1.2.0 -> 1.3.0

  • zziplib: 0.13.60 -> 0.13.62