<h1>Windows</h1> <h3>Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current NVIDIA dirver of July 2021 (21th)</h3> <p><a href="https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5211">https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5211</a> NVIDIA published Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Drivers - July 2021 and new display drivers. Please redeploy your GPU servers to get the latest display drivers:</p> <ul> <li>NVIDIA V100 / T4 driver: 427.48 (fixes CVE‑2021‑1089, CVE‑2021‑1090, CVE‑2021‑1092, CVE‑2021‑1093, CVE‑2021‑1094, CVE‑2021‑1095, CVE‑2021‑1096)</li> </ul> <h3>Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of July 2021 (14th)</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Windows Server 2012 R2</p> <ul> <li>2021-07 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5004958)</li> <li>2021-07 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based systems (KB5004233)</li> <li>2021-07 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5004285)</li> <li>2021-07 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5004298) </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Windows Server 2016</p> <ul> <li>2021-07 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB5004238) </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Windows Server 2019</p> <ul> <li>2021-07 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB5004244) </li> <li>2021-07 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB5004228)</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Driver and tools of all Windows Server types</p> <ul> <li>Cloudbase-Init: 0.9.12.dev86</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 V100 / T4 driver: 427.33 (fixes CVE‑2021‑1075, CVE‑2021‑1076, CVE‑2021‑1078, CVE‑2021‑1081)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h1>Linux</h1> <h3>New image release - Rocky Linux 8.4 Preview release</h3> <ul> <li>Rocky 8.4 is available as Rocky_8_Preview_latest.</li> <li>Default username is "linux".</li> <li>Currently ECS flavors supported.</li> <li><a href="https://rockylinux.org/">Official Rocky page</a></li> </ul> <h3>CentOS 8.4 released</h3> <h3>CentOS Stream 8.5 released</h3> <h3>openSUSE 15.3 update released</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Note that there are 2 new update repos added for openSUSE 15.3 as per openSUSE 15.3 official release notes. These repos are re-using binaries from SUSE Linux Enterprise.</p> </li> <li> <p>Official release notes from SUSE could be found <a href="https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.3/">here</a>.</p> </li> <li> <p>As before, we lock the cloud-init package to avoid any possible boot issues. The lock could be removed if needed.</p> </li> <li> <p>Some packages that are installed from our own OBS builds are not upgraded when 'zypper up' is run because we set a higher precedence for our OBS based repos.</p> <pre><code># zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... The following item is locked and will not be changed by any action: Installed: cloud-init The following 12 package updates will NOT be installed: dd_rescue dd_rescue-crypt dd_rescue-lzo jq libjq1 libs3-4 pwgen python3-decorator python3-os-service-types python3-oslo.serialization python3-pbr python3-zipp Nothing to do.</code></pre> </li> <li> <p>Below we can see that for instance a higher (1.99.8-1.2) version of dd_rescue-lzo is available but zypper is not upgrading it because OTC-Cloud_OTC_Tools_Extra_openSUSE_Leap_15.3 has precedence.</p> <pre><code># zypper search -s dd_rescue-lzo Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+---------------+---------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------------- i+ | dd_rescue-lzo | package | 1.99_0.3.0-lp153.84.1 | x86_64 | OTC-Cloud_OTC_Tools_Extra_openSUSE_Leap_15.3 v | dd_rescue-lzo | package | 1.99.8-1.2 | x86_64 | OTC-openSUSE_Leap_15.3_standard</code></pre> </li> </ul>