June 2018

Updated Linux images provided on 2018-06-05. Changes:

• CentOS-7
  • Security fix for Spectre Variant-4 (CVE-2018-3639)

new version Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2

see: https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/Blog-Review/SpecExLeak/Spectre_3a_4.html

Updated Linux images provided on 2018-06-01....

May 2018

Updated Linux images provided on 2018-05-16. Changes:

• All SUSE images and EulerOS-2:
• Updated the injected OTC Build Service Key as it has been extended in validity.

April 2018

Updated images provided on 2018-04-13. Major changes over previous versions:

Linux

• All: Include all updates from the Linxu distributors

• SLES 11 and SLES 12:

  • Updated bms-network-setup to handle scenarios, where network devices are ordered differently than assumed in network_config.j...

March 2018

Updated images provided on 2018-03-15. Major changes over previous versions:

Linux

• New image Standard_Fedora_27_latest

• Debian-9

  • add packages kbd and console-data (to enable 'sudo loadkeys [de,us]')

• Redhat and Oracle images with retpoline kernel

• Oracle7 BMS image avail...

February 2018

All Linux images received significant work on the bootup speed:

• The platform got a better performing Metadata Service (MDS)
• The network start scripts were tuned (wait times, waiting for mds, ...)
• cloud-init > 0.7.6 received a patch removing unnecessary retries on 404
• The generation of an o...