Monthly Archives: April 2017

Weekly roundup 2017 – week 17

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron A quick update on the ISO progress – the Classical ISOs are looking good, although there was a bug with the Mate Menu which has been fixed, but another rebuild will be needed to get the fix onto the … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 16

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron Not too much to report on the RC ISO testing this week, but that’s a good thing – the classical ISOs are nearly ready and the remaining trivial issues in the Live ISOs should be fixed in the next … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 15

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Infrastructure The sysadmins have done some amazing work to get the remaining servers upgraded to Mageia 5, and some of the major packages we use upgraded as well. The remaining large issue is with the encoding of the upgraded PostgreSQL database … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work, already pushing … Continue reading →

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Web services shut down preventively

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

Our sysadmins decided to preventively shut down most of our web services which were still running on end-of-life Mageia versions, as their potential vulnerability to remote attacks was publicised in third party communities. The migration of those services to Mageia 5 servers … Continue reading →

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