<p>Updated images provided on 2017-12-15. Major changes over previous versions:</p>
<ul>
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<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 SUSE12/42)</li>
<li>Avoid cloud-init-wait-mds stalling on DNS requests</li>
</ul>
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<p>CentOS-7</p>
<ul>
<li>kmod-20-15.el7_4.6 is broken (does break override statements), resulting in Inifiniband drivers no longer loading. Fix by downgrading to el7_4.4 until RH fixes this.</li>
<li>Note that detaching virtio (KVM ethX) network interfaces on Inifiniband flavors results in a kernel crash.</li>
<li>Lower cloud-init retries on OpenStack Network DatSource, as it stupidly does it for non-existing (404) user_data and network_data.json, resulting in slow boot times.</li>
</ul>
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<p>SUSE</p>
<ul>
<li>Avoid waiting for interfaces as we can not distinguish between mandatory and optional interface in SLES12/openSUSE42 (wicked) any more; only wait short time and rely on cloud-init-wait-mds</li>
<li>SLES12_SPx_SAPHANA images with SAP data provider (contributed by Huawei)</li>
<li>SLES12: Add Modules and Add-On repositories, mostly disabled by default</li>
</ul>
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<p>OTC Windows Self-Managed - Release 2017-12-13-0</p>
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<p>added MS Patches of December 2017</p>
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<p>Windows Server 2008 R2</p>
<ul>
<li>Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB4049068)</li>
<li>Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - December 2017 (KB890830)</li>
<li>Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB4051956)</li>
<li>Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4052978)</li>
<li>2017-12 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4054518)</li>
<li>2017-12 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4054521)</li>
</ul>
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<p>Windows Server 2012 R2</p>
<ul>
<li>Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB4049068)</li>
<li>Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 x64 Edition - December 2017 (KB890830)</li>
<li>Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB4051956)</li>
<li>Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB4052978)</li>
<li>2017-12 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4054519)</li>
<li>2017-12 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4054522)</li>
</ul>
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<p>Windows Server 2016</p>
<ul>
<li>Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 x64 Edition - December 2017 (KB890830)</li>
<li>2017-12 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB4053579)</li>
<li>XEN GPL driver: 3.0.144.590</li>
<li>KVM UVP Vmtools: 2.5.0.102</li>
<li>Intel SRIOV (High Performance ) driver : Version 22.0, January 27, 2017</li>
<li>NVIDIA vGPU driver: 369.71</li>
<li>NVIDIA pGPU driver: 385.54</li>
<li>Cloudbase-Init: 9.12</li>
</ul>
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<p>Default password length is changed to 16 characters</p>
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<p>In pGPU image NVIDIA driver mode is set to WDDM per default. Can be changed to TCC by running :</p>
<ul>
<li>"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvidia-smi.exe" -dm 1</li>
</ul>
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</ul>