What's new in TurnKey LXC Live CD 15.1
May 22, 2019
- Enhancements:
- now compatible with confconsole (still requires upcoming confconsole update to be complete)
- updated documentation [ John Carver aka Dude4Linux ]
New in TurnKey LXC Live CD 15.0 (Oct 30, 2018)
- Update lxc to newest debian/stretch (2.0.7)
- Added several enhancements:
- configure containers to use apt-cacher-ng by default
- make dns resolution more robust by not relying on upstream dhcp
- apply sysvinit updates only for legacy v14.x apps
- revised iptables rules for better security
- version resolver downloads latest version by default Stefan Davis
- cleans unused packages from apt cache
- purges config files from removed packages
- removes ntp server config; containers get time from host
- adds system hardening for legacy appliances
- indicate patching stunnel only when actually patching
- keep legacy /etc/network/interfaces
- add hostname to dhcp interfaces so dnsmasq works properly
- make it easier to override system hardening
- allow cli to override version_resolver
- updated inithooks.conf examples and docs
- removed support for squeeze (now obsolete)
New in TurnKey LXC Live CD 14.2 (Jul 30, 2018)
- Updates for TurnKey GNU/Linux 14.2:
- latest upstream version of LXC
- defaults to version 14.2 containers
- always checks for new upstream versions and updates cache
- download signature first and update only when it has changed
- flag obsolete versions, 13.0 and 14.0, which have been removed from the TurnKey mirrors
- issue local, unicast MAC addresses instead of global addresses
- patch containers for stunnel timeout
- Security:
- verify gpg signatures using sha512sum
- handle old .sig and new .hash signatures
New in TurnKey LXC Live CD 14.0 (Jan 23, 2016)
- Latest upstream version of LXC
- Security: verify gpg signatures of downloaded images
- Ansible integration: allows Ansible appliance to manage LXC containers
- Improved lxc admin tools:
- Let lxc-create handle network configuration (-f option)
- Added lxc-destroy wrapper to cleanup after container is removed
- added -x|--aptproxy option to lxc-turnkey, updated docs
- TurnKey v14.0 support:
- Use Proxmox images for v14.x containers
- Use Openvz images for v13.0 containers
- Added support for default lvm volume group 'turnkey'
- Updated nginx-proxy to support v14.0 certs and lvm backing store
- Note: Please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.
New in TurnKey LXC Live CD 13.0 (Dec 27, 2013)
- LXC related:
- Generic TurnKey LXC template for downloading and creating a container of any TurnKey appliance, supporting preseeding, customization of network link and apt proxy.
- Custom nginx-proxy script for exposing containers web services.
- Changed webshell port to 22320 to support nginx-proxy.
- Changed webmin port to 22321 to support nginx-proxy.
- Custom iptable-nat script for exposing containers ports.
- Preconfigured network bridge interface.
- Preconfigured network NAT bridge interface.
- Preconfigured dnsmasq on NAT interface pricing DHCP and DNS.
- Preconfigured apt-cacher-ng binding to NAT interface.
- Preconfigured to support IP forwarding.
- Inithook to setup and enable control groups.
- Includes TurnKey web control panel.
- Includes example inithooks configuration for preseeding.