A very quiet week with very few changes this week. Here’s a summary…

Network Configuration

Work continues on providing support for managing the network configuration on Ubuntu machines using the LCFG network component. Currently, there is support for simple DHCP and static addresses, as would normally be used for workstations, and also for bonding interfaces which is needed for servers. The network component code has now stabilised and this week there are just a few small modifications – the interface can now match on the kernel driver name and management of the /etc/hosts file is now fully compatible with the legacy version of the component.

The changes to the network schema are being kept to a minimum with the aim that wherever possible existing LCFG resource configurations from SL7 should “just work” with the new component. The various supported configurations will now be fully tested to ensure that the component can be safely enabled on existing hosts and also that it generates the correct configuration during installs. If all goes well this will be ready for active use within the next couple of weeks, in the meantime you can use it by enabling the LCFG_NETWORK_USE_NETPLAN option at the beginning of an LCFG profile.

In the near future we will be adding support for VLANs and bridging as part of the project to modernise the LCFG network component (#565).

PostgreSQL 12 and 13

The dice/options/postgresql-12.h and dice/options/postgresql-13.h headers have been slightly reorganised to fix some package dependency issues on small server systems. It looks like it wasn’t quite sufficient though, more changes will be coming next week.

TLS 1.0 and 1.1

TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 support has been disabled in the default Informatics apache web server configuration. Those protocols have been deprecated for a long time and TLSv1.2 has been the recommended version for IETF protocols since 2008. We do not expect this to affect many clients.

DICE software changes

Other than the usual weekly security updates there were no new packages added to DICE machines this week.

Weekly Changes – 16/11/2020 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0