New TurnKey Tomcat version (11.1)

Changes:

  • Tomcat:
    • Upgraded to tomcat6 from tomcat5.5
    • Transitioned to OpenJDK (moving away from Sun Java).
    • Installed, configured and bugfixes authbind (bind to 80/443).
    • Set Tomcat admin password on firstboot (convenience, security).
    • Added URIEncoding="UTF-8" to SSL connection.
    • Added offline documentation.
  • MySQL:
    • Added MySQL as per common request.
    • Set MySQL root password on firstboot (convenience, security).
    • Force MySQL to use Unicode/UTF8.
  • Set postfix MTA myhostname to localhost (bugfix).
  • Updated TKL web control panel (admin not ported to tomcat6).

Major component versions

tomcat6 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.5
openjdk-6-jdk 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
openjdk-6-jre 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
ant 1.7.1-4ubuntu1.1

Note: Please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.

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New TurnKey Tomcat version (2009.10-2)

Changes:

  • 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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New TurnKey Tomcat version (2009.10)

Changes:

  • Initial public release of TurnKey Tomcat.
  • SSL support out of the box.
  • Includes Turnkey web control panel (convenience).
  • Includes postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email from web applications (e.g., password recovery). Also added webmin-postfix module for convenience.
  • Tomcat and Java configurations:
    • Configured Tomcat admin/manager roles and admin user.
    • Configured Tomcat HTTP connector to bind to port 80 (default: 8180).
    • Configured SSL port to bind to port 443 (default: 8443).
    • Disabled AJP connector on port 8009 (security).
    • Tomcat and Java environment variables configuration system wide.
  • Enabled multiverse Ubuntu repository and pinned sun-java6 so it can be updated (security).
  • Regenerates all secrets during installation / firstboot (security).

Major component versions

tomcat5.5 5.5.25-5ubuntu1.2
sun-java6-jdk 6-16-0ubuntu1.8.04
sun-java6-jre 6-16-0ubuntu1.8.04
ant 1.7.0-3

Note: Please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.

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