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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 Drupal6 appliance (2008.10.28-hardy)
Release focus: initial release
Notes
- drupal6 includes a built-in update status module.
- when enabled could produce confusing/annoying version notifications.
- this is due to drupal6 being installed and updated via the apt package manager, instead of manually from the upstream tarball.
- it is recommended to subscribe to drupal security announcements (email and rss are provided).
- this release includes all updates included in the 2008.10.17-hardy-x86 releases, such as the new configuration console, and web management interface.
Default credentials (service, username, password)
console, webmin, ssh | root | <blank> |
mysql | root | mysqlp4ssw0rd |
drupal_db | drupal | <random> |
Major component versions
kernel | 2.6.24-21.42 |
apache2 | 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3 |
mysql-server | 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1 |
php5 | 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 |
drupal6 | 6.6-1 |