11th Apr 2018 by Kurt Garloff

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April 2018

<p>Updated images provided on 2018-04-13. Major changes over previous versions:</p> <p>Linux</p> <ul> <li> <p>All: Include all updates from the Linxu distributors</p> </li> <li> <p>SLES 11 and SLES 12:</p> <ul> <li>Updated bms-network-setup to handle scenarios, where network devices are ordered differently than assumed in network_config.j...</li></ul></li></ul>

15th Mar 2018 by Kurt Garloff

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March 2018

<p>Updated images provided on 2018-03-15. Major changes over previous versions:</p> <p>Linux</p> <ul> <li> <p>New image Standard_Fedora_27_latest</p> </li> <li> <p>Debian-9</p> <ul> <li>add packages kbd and console-data (to enable 'sudo loadkeys [de,us]')</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Redhat and Oracle images with retpoline kernel</p> </li> <li> <p>Oracle7 BMS image avail...</p></li></ul>

15th Feb 2018 by Kurt Garloff

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February 2018

<p>All Linux images received significant work on the bootup speed:</p> <ul> <li>The platform got a better performing Metadata Service (MDS)</li> <li>The network start scripts were tuned (wait times, waiting for mds, ...)</li> <li>cloud-init > 0.7.6 received a patch removing unnecessary retries on 404</li> <li>The generation of an o...</li></ul>

26th Jan 2018 by Kurt Garloff

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January 2018

<ul> <li>Security Alert Meltdown and Spectre: <a href="https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/Blog-Review/SpecExLeak/">https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/Blog-Review/SpecExLeak/</a></li> </ul> <p>Updated images provided on 2018-01-26. Major changes over previous versions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Ubuntu-14, Ubuntu-16</p> <ul> <li> <p>Security fix for Spectre Variant-1 (CVE-2017-5753)</p> <blockquote> <p><code>new version Ubuntu-14 with k...</code></p></blockquote></li></ul></li></ul>

15th Dec 2017 by Kurt Garloff

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December 2017

<p>Updated images provided on 2017-12-15. Major changes over previous versions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Linux images</p> <ul> <li>All upstream updates, as usual</li> <li>Use bms-network-setup.py for creating ifcfg-* from network_data.json on Bare Metal.</li> <li>Make local_port_range an even number</li> <li>Boot time optimizations (especially SUSE12...</li></ul></li></ul>