Release 2020_040 (2020-12-14)#

Impact#

  • [NixOS 20.09] VMs will be rebooted to activate a new kernel.

NixOS 20.09 platform#

  • Letsencrypt SSL certificates: automatic certificate renewal now only runs once a day and is retried if it fails (#PL-129535).

  • Nginx: make sure that temporary directories have correct permissions and clean up leftover files after 10 days (#PL-129529).

  • Merge upstream NixOS changes, including a new kernel version.

Documentation#

  • Kubernetes: general update, explain haproxy load-balancing.

Detailed changes#