New TurnKey Drupal6 version (2009.02-hardy)

Release focus: security, usability, bugfixes and updates

Changes:

  • added SSL support
  • clean urls supported out of the box (SEO)
  • added many popular drupal6 modules:
    • fckeditor: enables FCKeditor (a WYSIWYG editor) instead of plain text fields
    • captcha: adds image or text based CAPTCHAs to arbitrary forms
    • fivestar: simple five-star voting widget for nodes
    • pathauto: allow modules to automatically generate descriptive aliases for the content they manage (SEO)
    • xmlsitemap: Generates an XML site map which can be submitted automatically to search engines (SEO)
    • tagadelic: makes weighted tag clouds from your taxonomy terms
    • webform: enables the creation of forms and questionnaires
    • admin_menu: adds a dropdown administration menu to the top of the screen (administrators only)
    • google_analytics: adds Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all your site's pages
    • cck: Content Creation Kit - a powerful toolkit for creating custom content types
    • views: creates customized views of node lists
    • lightbox2: enables the use of lightbox2 which places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from layout constraints.
    • logintoboggan: improves Drupal's login system
    • token: provides a shared API for replacement of textual placeholders with actual data
  • mysql-related improvements
    • include PhpMyAdmin (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL)
    • set empty mysql root password in live/demo mode (for convenience)
    • support configuring mysql root password during installation
  • bind postfix MTA to localhost (security)
  • added webmin postfix module (convenience)
  • prevent drupal6 upgrades from recreating apache config symlink (bugfix)
  • symlink /etc/drupal6 -> /etc/drupal/6 (workaround for silly packaging)

Major component versions

kernel 2.6.24-23.48
drupal6 6.6-3
mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3
php5 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4
phpmyadmin 2.11.8.1-5

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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New TurnKey Core base appliance (2009.02-hardy)

Release focus: security, usability, bugfixes and updates

Changes:

  • Initial public release of the TurnKey Linux "core": It's the basic appliance on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are now built.
  • Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
  • Added many generically useful webmin modules:
    • Network
      • Firewall configuration (with example configuration)
      • Network configuration
    • System
      • Configure time, date and timezone
      • Configure users and groups
      • Manage software packages
      • Change passwords
      • System logs
    • Tools
      • Text editor
      • Shell commands
      • Simple file upload/download
      • File manager (needs support for Java in browser)
      • Custom commands
  • Changed webmin port from 10000 to 12321 (more distinct, easier to type)
  • Regenerate cryptographic keys during installation
    • SSH keys
    • Default SSL certificate (used by webmin, Apache, lighttpd)
  • Configured SSHD to permit an empty password in demo/live mode
  • Improved package management configuration
    • Enabled Ubuntu's Universe component by default (convenience)
    • Cron-apt configured to:
      • Correctly handle modified conffiles when auto-upgrading (won't hang)
      • Only auto-upgrade packages from the security components
      • Update the cache for all components
      • Share sources with other interfaces to apt (e.g., apt-get)
      • Log to syslog instead of mailing root
  • New versions of confconsole and di-live include many improvements and bugfixes (see their respective release notes for details)
  • Changed default console font to improve readability of console dialogs
  • Added a few generically useful packages (iptables, ntp, nano)
  • Updated /etc/network/interfaces to support multiple network interface cards
  • Replaced metalog with sysklogd/klogd
  • Optimized footprint (rebuilt from bare essentials)
  • Added the release package that holds this changelog

Note: Changes are relative to the lowest common denominator of pre-Core TurnKey Linux appliances.

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New TurnKey Joomla version (2008.12.14-hardy)

Release focus: Bugfixes and updates

Changes:

  • Updated to latest Joomla version - 1.5.8 (release notes)
  • Ability to configure the Joomla global configuration from within Joomla (LP#291041)
  • Joomla SEO configured and enabled by default
  • Joomla secret key is regenerated during installation
  • Regenerate ssh keys during installation
  • Allow the user to set the mysql root password during installation
  • Fixed manual partitioning support in the installer (#LP301251)
  • Configuration console now saves the default route when configuring a static ip so the settings are not lost between system restarts (#LP303498)
  • apt and cron-apt now share the same sources entries (#LP293685)
  • Includes iptables, webmin-firewall module and exemplary configuration (blueprint)

Default credentials (service, username, password)

console, webmin, ssh root <blank>
mysql root <blank>
joomla admin turnkey
joomla_db joomla_user j00mlap4ssw0rd

Major component versions

kernel 2.6.24-22.45
apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3
mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
php5 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3
joomla15 1.5.8-turnkey+0

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