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Changes:
- 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).
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- 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.
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Changes:
- 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.
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