turnkey-core-11.2 (1) turnkey; urgency=low
* Installed security updates.
* Added HubDNS package and firstboot configuration.
-- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:47:08 +0000
turnkey-core-11.1 (1) turnkey; urgency=low
* Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.
* No more chimeras (mixing of packages from Debian/ubuntu).
* Installer (di-live):
- Added LVM support, with guided partitioning supported in di-live,
and webmin module for convenience.
- Guided partitioning of root volume will default to 90% of volume
group to support LVM snapshots out of the box.
- Moved appliance secret regeneration, configuration, setting of
passwords to inithooks to run on firstboot.
- Installation media will be ejected and a message displayed to
remove media after successful installation.
- Warning messages will be logged instead of inline (caused a bad
user experience).
- Upgraded di-live to latest version compatible with Lucid.
* Initialization Hooks (inithooks):
- Setting of passwords and configuration is now done on firstboot.
- Application specific configuration (passwords, email, domain) is
now supported putting an end to default settings.
- This supports all build targets such as VM builds, and most run
in live-mode (convenience, consistent user-experience).
- Includes auto-apt-archive to configure the closest APT package
archive, determined via the TurnKey Hub GeoIP service.
- All relevant inithooks can be preseeded, refer to:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/inithooks
* Configuration Console (confconsole):
- /etc/confconsole/usage.txt has been replaced with services.txt
- The usage screen is now updated dynamically for simpler management
and customization.
* Updated bootsplash menu:
- Install to hard disk - default, moved to first option.
- Live system -> Try without installing (Live CD demo mode).
- Removed Boot from first hard disk.
* Display system info in motd, as well non-persistent mode warning (motd).
* NTP configured with recommended pool servers and to cope with large time
drifts.
* Setting of LANG in /etc/default/locale.
* Packages:
- Includes TKLBAM (TurnKey Backup and Migration) + new Webmin module.
- Includes etckeeper initialized on firstboot (using git-core).
- Includes logrotate for automatic log rotation.
- Configured APT to not install recommends by default.
- Upgraded webmin to 1.520 and default theme.
- Upgraded shellinabox to 2.10, set default theme to white-on-black.
- Customized bashrc and bashrc.d scripts.
- Includes bash-completion (very useful addition for cli).
- Includes iproute (ipv6 provisoning).
- Includes acpid (support hypervisor reboot/power down signals).
- Replaces host with bind9-host (deprecated).
- Replaces sysklogd and klogd with rsyslog (inline with Ubuntu).
- Grub2 (grub-pc) pre-configuration (verbose, timeout, console).
-- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:01:05 +0200
turnkey-core-2009.10 (2) hardy; urgency=low
* Installed all security updates (see manifest for package versions).
* Install security updates on firstboot (except when running live).
* Trick webmin into not checking for upgrades (managed by apt).
* Included latest version of inithooks and updated scripts.
* Included wget as per common request.
-- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:02:11 +0200
turnkey-core-2009.10 (1) hardy; urgency=low
* Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS.
* Added shell-in-a-box to provide web shell access (listening on port
12320 - uses SSL).
* Added inithooks to execute firstboot/everyboot scripts, for example
regenerating cryptographic keys on live boot:
- SSH keys.
- Default SSL certificate (used by Webmin, Apache, Lighttpd).
* Upgraded Webmin to 1.490 and default theme.
- Disabled Webmin scheduled updates (managed by APT)
* New versions of confconsole and di-live include many improvements and
bugfixes (see their respective release notes for details).
* Implemented APT pinning downgrade workaround (LP#315175).
* Added a few generically useful packages (unzip: LP#356099, ethtool).
* Added IPv6 configuration to /etc/hosts.
-- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:39:41 +0200
turnkey-core-2009.02 (1) hardy; urgency=low
* initial public release of the TurnKey Linux "core": it's the basic
appliance on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are now built.
* upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
* added many generically useful webmin modules:
- network
- firewall configuration (with example configuration)
- network configuration
- system
- configure time, date and timezone
- configure users and groups
- manage software packages
- change passwords
- system logs
- tools
- text editor
- shell commands
- simple file upload/download
- file manager (needs support for Java in browser)
- custom commands
* changed webmin port from 10000 to 12321 (more distinct, easier to type)
* regenerate cryptographic keys during installation
- SSH keys
- default SSL certificate (used by webmin, Apache, lighttpd)
* configured sshd to permit an empty password in demo/live mode
* improved package management configuration
- enabled Ubuntu's Universe component by default (convenience)
- cron-apt configured to:
- correctly handle modified conffiles when auto-upgrading (won't hang)
- only auto-upgrade packages from the security components
- update the cache for all components
- share sources with other interfaces to apt (e.g., apt-get)
- log to syslog instead of mailing root
* new versions of confconsole and di-live include many improvements and
bugfixes (see their respective release notes for details)
* changed default console font to improve readability of console dialogs
* added a few generically useful packages (iptables, ntp, nano)
* updated /etc/network/interfaces to support multiple network interface cards
* replaced metalog with sysklogd/klogd
* optimized footprint (rebuilt from bare essentials)
* added the release package that holds this changelog
-- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org> Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:31:46 +0200