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...

January 2018

• Security Alert Meltdown and Spectre: https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/Blog-Review/SpecExLeak/

Updated images provided on 2018-01-26. Major changes over previous versions:

• Ubuntu-14, Ubuntu-16

  • Security fix for Spectre Variant-1 (CVE-2017-5753)

    new version Ubuntu-14 with k...

December 2017

Updated images provided on 2017-12-15. Major changes over previous versions:

• Linux images

  • All upstream updates, as usual
  • Use bms-network-setup.py for creating ifcfg-* from network_data.json on Bare Metal.
  • Make local_port_range an even number
  • Boot time optimizations (especially SUSE12...

November 2017

Updated images provided on 2017-11-20-21. Major changes over previous versions:

• RHEL/CentOS/OEL 6+7:
  • Switch to SHA512 passwd hashing: all new user passwords are now generated with SHA512 and no more with MD5 algorithm.
• RHEL/CentOS/OEL 6 and EulerOS:
  • add bash skeletons to root's home
...