[ubuntu-cloud] Refreshed UEC Images of 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

[Eric Hammond]

Thanks, Scott (as always).

I've released updated public EBS boot AMIs for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy based
on the same downloadable images you built and used in these
instance-store AMIs.

More info on my tech blog:

  http://alestic.com/2011/06/ec2-hardy-ebs

--
Eric Hammond

On 06/21/2011 07:46 PM, Scott Moser wrote:
> A new release of the Ubuntu Cloud Images for stable Ubuntu release
> 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is available at [1].  Images are available for
> download or immediate use on EC2 via published AMI ids.
> 
> There are several updates since the 20100827 release [2].
> 
> The largest change is in the kernel.  Previously we had used a kernel
> build that came from a PPA for our EC2 kernels.  Now, we are able to use
> the 'linux-xen' (linux-image-2.6.24-29-xen) build from the Ubuntu 8.04
> archive.  This change improves our ability to maintain the EC2 images for
> 8.04 with very low possibility for regression.
> 
> You should use the new AMI ids to you have kernel security updates.
> 
> The following is a complete list of changes in the included packages.
> Individual changelogs can be found on http://changelogs.ubuntu.com :
>  * libkrb53 updated
>    (1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2ubuntu1.5 => 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2ubuntu1.8)
>  * dhcp3-common dhcp3-client updated
>    (3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9.1 => 3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9.2)
>  * bzip2 libbz2-1.0 updated (1.0.4-2ubuntu4 => 1.0.4-2ubuntu4.1)
>  * libdns36 liblwres30 libbind9-30 libisc35 libisccfg30 libisccc30
>    bind9-host dnsutils updated
>    (1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.5 => 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.7)
>  * landscape-client updated (1.5.4-0ubuntu0.8.04 => 1.5.5.1-0ubuntu0.8.04.0)
>  * libc6 libc6-xen updated (2.7-10ubuntu6 => 2.7-10ubuntu8)
>  * libssl0.9.8 openssl updated (0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.9 => 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.13)
>  * openssh-server openssh-client updated
>    (1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.2 => 1:4.7p1-8ubuntu3)
>  * libdbus-1-3 dbus updated (1.1.20-1ubuntu3.3 => 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.4)
>  * libldap-2.4-2 updated (2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.4 => 2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.5)
>  * perl perl-modules perl-base updated
>    (5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4 => 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.5)
>  * tzdata updated
>    (2010l~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04 => 2011g~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04)
>  * fuse-utils libfuse2 updated (2.7.2-1ubuntu2.1 => 2.7.2-1ubuntu2.3)
>  * dpkg updated (1.14.16.6ubuntu4.1 => 1.14.16.6ubuntu4.2)
>  * apparmor apparmor-utils updated
>    (2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2 => 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.3)
>  * wget updated (1.10.2-3ubuntu1.1 => 1.10.2-3ubuntu1.2)
>  * mount util-linux-locales util-linux bsdutils updated
>    (2.13.1-5ubuntu3 => 2.13.1-5ubuntu3.1)
>  * libpam-runtime libpam-modules libpam0g updated
>    (0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.1 => 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.4)
>  * libdbus-glib-1-2 updated (0.74-2 => 0.74-2ubuntu0.1)
>  * libwww-perl updated (5.808-1 => 5.808-1ubuntu0.1)
> 
> The following are kernel related packages that have been added to resolve
> dependencies in the new kernel:
>  * binutils-static
>  * linux-image-2.6.24-29-xen
>  * linux-image-xen
>  * linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-29-xen
>  * linux-restricted-modules-common
>  * linux-restricted-modules-xen
>  * linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-29-xen
>  * linux-xen
>  * nvidia-kernel-common
>