Release 2023_022 (2023-09-18)

Impact

  • [NixOS 23.05] Machines will reboot after the update to activate the changed kernel.

NixOS 23.05 platform

  • slurm: make maintenance and munge key setup more resilient. We have experienced slurm downtime requiring manual intervention and later a false alarm once after a system update (PL-131740).

  • Pull upstream NixOS changes, security fixes and package updates (PL-131738)

    • element-web: 1.11.38 -> 1.11.40

    • grafana: 9.5.7 -> 9.5.8

    • haproxy: 2.7.8 -> 2.7.10 (CVE-2023-40225)

    • linux: 6.1.45 -> 6.1.51

    • matrix-synapse: 1.90.0 -> 1.91.0

    • postfix: 3.8.0 -> 3.8.2

    • qemu: 8.0.3 -> 8.0.4

  • Update jupyterhub: 1.5.0 -> 4.0.1 (PL-131716).

  • motd shows now more detailed information about current running version and links to platform ChangeLog (DIR-776).

  • Production channel URL for this release: https://hydra.flyingcircus.io/build/296862/download/1/nixexprs.tar.xz

NixOS 21.05 platform

  • Over the last year, we still released new versions of our 21.05 platform because it’s used internally for our physical machines. Starting with this release, VMs on this version won’t get updates anymore, except for very urgent security fixes.

Detailed Changes