Release 2018_008 (2018-03-28)

Impact

  • [NixOS] ElasticSearch instances will be restarted.

  • [Gentoo] PostgreSQL 9.3 instances will be restarted.

NixOS platform

  • Fix cluster detection for elasticsearch2 and elasticsearch5 roles (#100251).

  • Provide Python 3.5 and 3.6 for manual installation via nix-env (#100534, #100644, #100759).

  • Fix monitoring of ElasticSearch 5 (#100170).

  • ElasticSearch startup: improve behaviour when /srv/elasticsearch contains old files (#100722).

  • Fix occasional build error in firewall configuration (#100755).

  • Adjust our swap check: instead of relying on relative usage and “almost empy”, we now consider more than 1G of usage to be “too much” (#100605).

  • Tune HAProxy timeout settings for Graylog (#100770).

  • Don’t reboot VMs due to high load (#100612).

Gentoo platform

  • memcached: Fix firewall to block 11211/udp access to avoid amplification attacks (#100565).

  • Fix apache2 config file update (#100383).

  • Security update for PostgreSQL: 9.3.3 -> 9.3.14 (GLSA 201701-33; #25481).