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Release 2020_025 (2020-08-17)

Impact

  • Multiple service restarts are expected due to changed deep link dependencies caused by security updates.

NixOS 19.03 platform

  • Add logging syslog and journal to centralized loghosts for improved platform-wide analysis and security (#126523).

  • Improve map file configuration mechanism for Postfix to more flexibly support different requirements to provide dynamic map data from configs and applications. (#126884)

  • Prebuild wkhtmltopdf on Hydra to avoid expensive local compilation (#127964).

  • Improve robustness of fc-userscan, the garbage collection scanner. It doesn't stop on unreadable files now. Also fix setuid-root invocation: GC roots and cache files are opened with dropped privileges (#124165).

  • Security updates for

  • Python 2.7 (patch against CVE-2019-20907),
  • Ruby (2.5.7 -> 2.5.8, 2.6.5 -> 2.6.6),
  • libarchive (3.3.3 -> 3.4.2),
  • pcre2 (10.32 -> 10.34),
  • screen (4.6.2 -> 4.8.0).

  • Fix Python package overrides in our overlay.

  • Fix mailstub usage in Vagrant. (#127577)

  • Disable automatic version checks for Graylog to avoid superfluous alerts.

NixOS 15.09 platform

  • Add logging syslog and journal to centralized loghosts for improved platform-wide analysis and security (#126523).

Gentoo platform

  • Make firewalls more specific to limit NRPE outside access to cross location checks from known addresses. (#124651)
  • Add logging syslog and journal to centralized loghosts for improved platform-wide analysis and security (#126523).

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