Release 2016_034 (2016-11-17)#
Impact#
The kernel update will trigger a reboot on all machines.
Many servers supporting crypto will be restarted due to the libgcrypt update. This affects at least Apache, nginx, PostgreSQL, and SSH.
NixOS platform#
Update Linux to 4.4.27 (dirty cow) (#24271).
Optimize reboot management in scheduled maintenance machinery (#23965, #24189).
Deactivate CPU „steal accounting“ since it is broken (#23769).
Set „out of service“ flag in the directory while a VM performs maintenance (#24029).
Gentoo platform#
Update Linux to 4.4.27 (dirty cow) (#24271).
Security update of Qemu from 2.5 to 2.7 (#23965).
Security update of MySQL from 5.5.43 to 5.5.53 (#24156).
Security update of subversion and serf (#24157, #24158).
Security update of libgcrypt from 1.6.3 to 1.7.3 (#24159).
Security update of bind (#24155).
Update XFS filesystem utilites for improved recovery capabilities (#24288)
Optimize reboot management in scheduled maintenance machinery (#23965).
Reduce parallelism in mass VM starts/stops for improved VM host stability (#24288).
Improve backy server performance (#24295).
Fix XFS filesystem issue leading to VM hangs (#24309).
Fix Ceph instrumentation bug on VM hosts (#24416).