Release focus: security, bugfix and updates

Changes:

  • Upgraded to Ruby on Rails 2.3.2
  • Upgraded Rails Gems
    • Actionmailer
    • Actionpack
    • Activerecord
    • Activeresource
    • Rake
    • Fastthread
  • Bugfix: Apache not proxying requests to the mongrel cluster (LP#348899)
  • Improved Rails passwords and secrets generation mechanism (security)
    • Database password is now randomly generated, and regenerated during installation
    • Regenerate more secure secret key during installation

Major component versions

kernel 2.6.24-23.48
mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.5
ruby 4.1
build-essential 11.3ubuntu1
rubygems 1.3.1
rails 2.3.2
rake 0.8.4
mongrel 1.1.5
mongrel_cluster 1.0.5

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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