OTC Public Images Release Notes November 2021

Windows

Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current NVIDIA drivers (23th)

• NVIDIA V100 / T4 driver: 427.60 (fixes CVE‑2021‑1115, CVE‑2021‑1116, CVE‑2021‑1117) for details see https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5230

Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of November 2021 (10th)

• Windows Server 2012 R2

  • 2021-11 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5007247)
  • 2021-11 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5007255)

• Windows Server 2016

  • 2021-11 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB5007192)

• Windows Server 2019

  • 2021-11 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB5007206)
  • 2021-11 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB5007298)

• Driver and tools of all Windows Server types

• Cloudbase-Init: 0.9.12.dev86

• KVM UVP Vmtools: 2.5.0.156

• Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 25.0, January 2, 2020

• 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)

Linux

Discontinue Debian 9

OTC public image Standard_Debian_9 will be discontinued on 28th of February 2022.

what does that mean?

public images will be no longer listed in OTC public image list

• Standard_Debian_9_latest
• Standard_Debian_9_prev

OTC internal package repositories preconfigured in Standard_Debian_9_latest images will be available until 30th of Juli 2022.
https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/package-repositories

existing ECS installed with one of these images

• can be reinstalled
• can be used to create a new ECS

A new ECS can still be installed with a discontinued image by using its image id directly.
Using a discontinued image is without OTC support.

More information about official Debian support:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

It is recommended to migrate existing ECS to Debian 11.

Red Hat 6 and 7 infrastructure migration to RHUI v3

!! It’s recommended to switch existing ECS from RHUI v2 to RHUI v3 before 10.01.2022 - Link

openSUSE 42.3 will be discontinued

• Standard_openSUSE_42_JeOS and Standard_openSUSE_42_Docker will finally be discontinued
• The images will be disappear from the public images list but if you have the UUID of the image, you can still use those images
• Use the images will caution as the repos will also be removed in the future.

CentOS 8.5 released

Last version of CentOS 8 has been released.

CentOS 8 End Of Life

!! Please be informed about CentOS 8 EOL December 31, 2021 - Link

Migrations are possible to Alma Linux 8, Rocky Linux 8 or Oracle Linux 8. All of those images are already available within OTC.

• Standard_CentOS_8 will finally be discontinued in 31st January 2022
• OTC internal package repositories preconfigured in Standard_CentOS_8_latest images will be available until 30th of June 2022
• The image will be disappear from the public images list but if you have the UUID of the image, you can still use those images
• Use the image will caution as the repos will also be removed in the future.