Release 2018_010 (2018-04-12)#

Impact#

  • [NixOS] A large number of services will be restarted due to the security updates listed below.

NixOS platform#

  • Security update for libvorbis: 1.3.5 (#28022).

  • Security update for libsndfile: 1.0.28 (#28606).

  • Security update for OpenEXR: 2.2.1 (#27184).

  • Security update for libtasn: 4.13 (#28885).

  • Security update for ghostscript: 9.22 (#29164).

  • Kibana configuration: Allow URL in /etc/local/kibana/elasticSearchUrl to be trailed by a newline (101014).

  • Automatically tune PostgreSQL random_page_cost dependent on underlying disk type (HDD/SSD), #100204

  • Update Telegraf to 1.5.3 (#101042).

  • Automatically collect metrics for ElasticSearch (#101042).

Gentoo platform#

  • Update CA roots collection. This may lead to SSL connection errors under rare circumstances (#100897).

  • Firewall: filter unprotected ports on frontend networks to prevent amplification attacks (#100994).