<h1>Windows</h1>
<h3>Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of January 2021 (13th)</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Windows Server 2012 R2</p>
<ul>
<li>2021-01 Security Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4535680)</li>
<li>2021-01 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4598275)</li>
<li>2021-01 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4598285)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Windows Server 2016</p>
<ul>
<li>2021-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB4598243)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Windows Server 2019</p>
<ul>
<li>2019-01 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB4480056)</li>
<li>2021-01 Servicing Stack Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB4598480)</li>
<li>2021-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB4598230)</li>
<li>2021-01 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB4598499)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Driver and tools of all Windows Server types</p>
<ul>
<li>Cloudbase-Init: 0.9.12.dev86</li>
<li>XEN GPL driver: 5.0.136.10</li>
<li>KVM UVP Vmtools: 2.5.0.156</li>
<li>Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 25.0, January 2, 2020</li>
<li>NVIDIA vGPU driver: 370.41 (fixes CVE 2019 5698)</li>
<li>NVIDIA pGPU driver: 443.66 (solves CVE‑2020‑5980, CVE‑2020‑5979, CVE‑2020‑5981, CVE‑2020‑5982 )</li>
<li>NVIDIA V100 / T4 driver: 427.11 (fixes CVE‑2021‑1058, CVE‑2021‑1060 )</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Linux</h1>
<h3>New Image Availability: Oracle Linux 8</h3>
<ul>
<li>Oracle Linux 8.3 is available as Enterprise_OracleLinux_8_latest.</li>
<li>Default username is "linux".</li>
<li>Currently ECS flavors supported.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fedora-28: OTC internal package repositories are not available anymore.</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>affected repositories on smt.otc-service.com </p>
<ul>
<li>fedora28 </li>
<li>fedora28_updates </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h3>Discontinue Centos 6</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>OTC public image Standard_CentOS_6 will be discontinued 31st March 2021</p>
<p>what does that mean then? </p>
<p>public images will be no longer listed in OTC public image list</p>
<ul>
<li>Standard_CentOS_6_latest </li>
<li>Standard_CentOS_6_prev </li>
</ul>
<p>OTC internal package repositories preconfigured in Standard_CentOS_6_latest images will be available until 30th of June 2021<br />
https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/package-repositories </p>
<p>existing ECS installed with one of these images can be reinstalled<br />
existing ECS installed with one of these images can be used to create a new ECS</p>
<p>new ECS can be installed by using image id from existing ECS installed with one of these images<br />
continue using these images is without OTC support </p>
<p>It is recommended to migrate existing ECS to CentOS-7. </p>
</blockquote>
<h3>OEL-6 (Oracle Enterprise Linux 6): Premier Support End - Mar 2012</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>OTC image Enterprise_OracleLinux_6_latest [_prev] will be discontinued after that.<br />
Exact dates are not set by now. </p>
<p>It is recommended to migrate existing ECS to OEL-7 (Oracle Enterprise Linux 7) soon. </p>
</blockquote>
<h3>openSUSE 15.2 update released</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>New cloud-init-20.2 and openstack tools version 5.3.1</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SLES12 SP2 SAP retired</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>SLES12 SP2 SAP will not be built anymore and will disappear from the list of public images soon</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>CentOS 8.3 released</h3>
<h3>CentOS Stream 8.4 released</h3>