New TurnKey Core version (16.1)

Changes:

  • Upgraded base distribution to Debian 10.8/Buster.
  • Configuration console (confconsole):
    • Improvements to networking robustness and error reporting - allow setting up of previously unconfigured or even to some extent misconfigured networking - closes #1457. Stefan Davis & Jeremy Davis ]
    • Catch socket.gaierror in Mail Relaying - closes #1472. Stefan Davis ]
    • Fixed Confconsole stacktrace - closes #1478. Stefan Davis ]
    • Support copy/paste in Confconsole - closes #1545.
    • Option to change default auto secupdates issue resolution - closes #1536.
    • Include confconsole plugin to allow configuration of confconsole autostart - closes #1561.
    • Fix Let's Encrypt staging server URL in config - closes #1497.
    • (Apps with MySQL/MariaDB only) Confconsole perf and info schema install option - closes #1429.
  • Firstboot Initialization (inithooks):
    • Add option to turnkey-init to launch full confconsole when finished.
    • Improve customization re password complexity and blacklisted chars.
    • Improve help text and remove buggy code causing issues in LXC containers - closes #1451.
    • Only launch Confconsole at end of run on non-headless builds.
    • Provide systemd service file for turnkey-init-fence.
  • Web management console (webmin):
    • Updated Webmin to v1.970.
    • Improved service to make more robust (particularly within LXC) - closes #1480.
    • Set iptables-legacy as default so webmin-firewall works as expected - closes #1488.
    • (Apps with MySQL/MariaDB/webmin-mysql only) Default MySQL user 'adminer' (when 'webmin-mysql' module installed) - closes #1529.
  • Hub Domains client (hubdns):
    • Fixed server DNS mapping not updated on IP change - closes #1508.
  • Misc bugfixes & feature implementations:
    • Add alert for RUN_FIRSTBOOT in MOTD - closes #1129.
    • Fix MOTD/turnkey-sysinfo if no network interfaces discovered - closes #1461.
    • Make root:root & 755 ownership/permissions of /usr/local default - closes #1440.
    • Improve 'stunnel4@.service' systemd service template to resolve issues - closes #1513.
    • Provide (optional) 'eth1' interface configured as "hotplug" - closes #1492.
    • (LAMP/LAPP based apps) Only install composer on apps that explicitly use it, or where it makes sense (e.g. LAMP & LAPP will include it) - closes #1563.
    • (Apps with Composer only) Provide turnkey-composer wrapper script so it's easy to not run composer as root - closes #1539.
    • (Apps with Composer only) Automatically clear Composer cache and shallow clone composer installed deps - closes #1541.
    • (Apps with PHP only) Remove deprecated opcache.fast_shutdown option from config - closes #1538.
    • (Apps with Adminer only) Give grant privileges to adminer MySQL/MariaDB user- closes #1496.

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New TurnKey Core version (16.0)

Changes:

  • Upgraded base distribution to Debian 10.3/Buster.
  • TurnKey Backup and Migration (tklbam):
    • Fix paths with spaces not working in overrides - closes #1403. [ Stefan Davis ]
    • Package and dependencies rebuilt against Debian 10.3/Buster. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Configuration console (confconsole):
    • Migrate code to python3, use default Debian dialog & python3-dialog packages (no longer packaging our own forks).
    • LE plugin: Completely refactor add-water.
    • Networking: Add warning when changing ip inside an ssh session. [ Stefan Davis ]
    • No longer run as separate service (launched at first boot by inithooks).
    • LE plugin: Improve Dehydrated cron job - closes #912.
    • LE plugin: Backup domains.txt if it exists so can be manually restored if desired. Part of #1365.
    • LE plugin: Ensure that ACME v2 API endpoint is used everywhere. Part of #1365.
    • DH params plugin: New plugin for v16.0; update/improve Diffie-Hellman parameters bit size. Closes #575. Part of #1432.
    • Mail relay plugin: Allow unauthenticated SMTP relay. Closes #844.
    • Mail relay plugin: Refactoring, improved error handling. Closes #1434. [ Jeremy Davis ]
    • All plugins updated to python3 and update python-dialog/dialog usage.
    • Hostname plugin: Do some validation and bugfix implementation. Closes #845. [ Stefan Davis & Jeremy Davis ]
  • Firstboot Initialization (inithooks):
    • Migrate code to python3. [ Stefan Davis ]
    • Migrate TLS/SSL inithooks from common/overlay into inithooks package.
    • Leverage (refactored/extended) turnkey-make-ssl-cert script to also generate Diffie-Hellman parameters. Part of #1432.
    • Option to launch full Confconsole on completetion (defaults to minimal).
    • Fix error message when password complexity = 4 in dialog_wrapper (previous message was misleading).
    • Add support for blacklisted characters when setting password via dialog_wrapper. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Web management console (webmin):
    • Upgraded webmin to v1.941
    • Developed improved systemd webmin.service file.
    • Individual Webmin stunnel config - easier to disable/enable Webmin & Webshell independantly. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Web shell (shellinabox):
    • Individual Webshell stunnel config - easier to disable/enable Webmin & Webshell independantly. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Installer (di-live):
    • Migrate code to python3.
    • Update Debian Installer source components (from Debian d-i source). Closes #412.
    • Leverage Debian Live Tools for running live and installing (no longer requires casper and busybox-initramfs).
    • Other major refactoring. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Live environment:
    • Leverage Debian default live environment (casper and alternate busybox package no longer required; built on default Debian packages; live-tools & live-boot). Closes #942. [ Jeremy Davis ]
  • Miscellaneous:
    • ssh-server: Relax SSH config slightly to reduce issues with fail2ban - closes #1398.
    • hubtools: Fix hub-list-backups - closes #1173.
    • turnkey-make-ssl-cert: support (re)generation of Diffie-Hellman parameters. Part of #1432.

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New TurnKey Core version (15.0)

Changes:

  • Upgraded base distribution to Debian 9.4/Stretch.
  • TurnKey Backup and Migration (tklbam):
    • package and dependencies are now reproducible (security) [ Chris Lamb ]
    • backup update fix - new dependency for Stretch; gnupg (closes #962) [ Ken Robinson ]
    • restore update fix - ensure patches are applied to tklbam-squid source code (TurnKey squid fork) (closes #970) [ Ken Robinson (troubleshooting) & Chris Lamb (fix) ]
  • Installer (di-live):
    • package is now reproducible (security) [ Chris Lamb ]
    • fix di-live failing to install from live system (closes #1041) [ Stefan Davis ]
  • Live environment (casper):
    • package is now reproducible (security) [ Chris Lamb ]
    • update to support overlayFS (default layering filesystem in stretch) [ Stefan Davis ]
  • Configuration console (confconsole):
    • general: - package is now reproducible (security) [ Chris Lamb ]
    • Networking: - fix for static IP not sticking (since upgrade to stretch base) (closes #952)
    • Let's Encrypt plugin: - install 'dehydrated' (ACME client) from Debian main repo (previously installed from jessie-backports) - significant refatoring of plugin - support for multiple domains (closes #843) - fix for updated ACME ToS; including dynamically discovered latest ToS; inc dialog display of url for current ToS (closes #976) - update dialog and readme for Debian Stretch (closes #1061) [ Stefan Davis ]
  • Firstboot Initialization (inithooks):
    • Updates for headless builds especially LXC/Proxmox & Xen: - include specific inithooks-lxc.service file - initialization SystemD service that works reliably inside an LXC container (and doesn't effect other builds) (closes #1071) - include specific inithooks-xen.service file - initialization SystemD service that works reliably with the Xen console (and doesn't effect other builds) - force non-interactive dpkg-reconfigure of openssh-server (closes #1085) - updated initfence index page to note that webshell not avaialble (closes #1087) - fix edge case bug where turnkey-sudoadmin would incorrectly adjust services.txt (closes #1124)
  • Web management console (webmin):
    • upgraded webmin to v1.881
    • package is reproducible (no changes required) (security)
    • resolve stretch related install problem (closes #920) [ Ken Robinson ]
    • new default theme, uses upstream default; 'Authentic' (closes #781)
    • TurnKey theme customizations; TurnKey logos, default to show TKLBAM module on login
    • remove webmin-file (java based filemanager) module (closes #965)
    • remove webmin-texteditor module (upstream)
    • include webmin-fail2ban module
    • add convience symlinks to useful Webmin logs (in /var/log/webmin)
    • reconfigure webmin-raid & webmin-lvm modules during build (workaround for #1091)
  • TurnKey AMQ (tklamq) - only applies to Hub builds:
    • python-carrot deprecated, move to dependency on python-kombu
  • Web shell (shellinabox):
    • install v2.20 direct from Debian main repo (no longer maintaining our own fork) (closes #918)
    • version from Debian displays ncurses dialog properly (closes #317)
    • white on black default webshell (aka shellinabox) theme (closes #1060)
  • Security hardening: [ John Carver ]
    • default config mods for: - postfix - ssh - kernel sysctl variables - inc easy option to override (via /etc/sysctl.conf)
  • Optimized builds (buildtasks):
    • VM builds (OVA & VMDK): - include open-vm-tools-dkms & linux-headers-amd64 in base builds (closes #1001) [ Stefan Davis ]
  • Miscellaneous:
    • update to support overlayFS (default layering filesystem in stretch)
    • default to SystemD init system for all builds
    • use traditional network interface names, e.g. 'eth0' (disable stretch default of "Predictable Network Interface Names")
    • 'dpkg-vendor --query Vendor' now returns 'TurnKey` (closes #196)
    • include fail2ban in all appliances (closes #630 & #991) - MVP uses default Debian conf, protects SSH only
    • use http://deb.debian.org as Debian url in sources.list - as recommended by Debian (closes #927)
    • upstream fix for MOTD not being updated dynamically (closes #1024) [ Stefan Davis ]

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