Release 18.03 (“Impala”, 2018/03/??)HighlightsIn addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights:
MariaDB 10.2, updated from 10.1, is now the default MySQL implementation. While upgrading a few changes
have been made to the infrastructure involved:
libmysql has been deprecated, please use mysql.connector-c
instead, a compatibility passthru has been added to the MySQL packages.
The mysql57 package has a new static output containing
the static libraries including libmysqld.aNew ServicesThe following new services were added since the last release:Backward IncompatibilitiesWhen upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
Dollar signs in options under are
passed verbatim to Postfix, which will interpret them as the beginning of
a parameter expression. This was already true for string-valued options
in the previous release, but not for list-valued options. If you need to
pass literal dollar signs through Postfix, double them.
The postage package (for web-based PostgreSQL
administration) has been renamed to pgmanage. The
corresponding module has also been renamed. To migrate please rename all
options to
.
The OpenSSH service no longer enables support for DSA keys by default,
which could cause a system lock out. Update your keys or, unfavorably,
re-enable DSA support manually.
DSA support was
deprecated in OpenSSH 7.0,
due to it being too weak. To re-enable support, add
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss to the end of your
.
After updating the keys to be stronger, anyone still on a pre-17.03
version is safe to jump to 17.03, as vetted
here.
Other Notable Changes
ZNC option now defaults to
true. That means that old configuration is not
overwritten by default when update to the znc options are made.
The option
has been added for wireless networks with WPA-Enterprise authentication.
There is also a new option to directly
configure wpa_supplicant and
to connect to hidden networks.
The option is now none by default.
An assertion failure is thrown if WM's and DM's default are none.
To explicitly run a plain X session without and DM or WM, the newly introduced option
must be set to true.
The option is now 127.0.0.1 by default.
Previously the default behaviour was to listen on all interfaces.
services.btrfs.autoScrub has been added, to
periodically check btrfs filesystems for data corruption.
If there's a correct copy available, it will automatically repair
corrupted blocks.