Engine Yard Release Notes- April 2016

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes for April 19th, 2016

Minor: Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 stack upgrade

Action: You apply the following changes the next time you click the Upgrade button for your Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 environment.

Note: For clarity, since we now have 2 Gentoo stacks, we refer to this stack as the Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 stack. You can access it by using the Stack select field in the Environment UI:

It's best practice to upgrade your Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 (stable-v2) stack regularly for the latest security and product updates. This week's updates:

• Removed extraneous "OKAY" status alerts from the dashboard.
• Added additional disk space to /tmp/eph2 from Ephemeral disk space on some instance types

For more information on Engine Yard Gentoo 2009, see the Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 docs.

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Minor: Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 stack upgrade

Action: You apply the following changes the next time you click the Upgrade button for your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 environment.

Note: For clarity, since we now have 2 Gentoo stacks, we refer to this stack as the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 stack. You can access it by using the Stack select field in the Environment UI:

It's best practice to upgrade your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 (stable-v4) stack regularly for the latest security and product updates.

• Provided updated 2.x versions of Ruby that support OpenSSL 1.0.1 if OpenSSL 1.0.1 is available on the system.
• Updated security for SSH (remove weaker ciphers)
• Removed extraneous "OKAY" status alerts from the dashboard.
• Added additional disk space to /tmp/eph2 from Ephemeral disk space on some instance types
• Updated MOTD

For more information on Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11, see the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 docs.

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