Jeremy Davis has announced the first release candidate for TurnKey Linux 15.0, the upcoming new version of the virtual appliance designed for highly specialized servers.
The new version has been upgraded from Debian 8/Jessie to 9/Stretch, with the following changes:
Use of new union filesystem (running live and in TKLDev) OverlayFS - new default in Stretch; v14.x and earlier used auFS
Updates for Confconsole; Let's Encrypt module (we also hope to backport these to the Jessie package)
Webmin - Update to latest v1.881; new modern default theme: 'Authentic'. Authentic theme uses a few more resources, but looks very sexy!
Webshell - now using Debian's package (rather than our own fork)
SystemD now default init system on all builds (SysvInit was still used on some v14.x builds)
Security - Reproducible TurnKey packages; thanks to Chris Lamb for his efforts there
Security hardening - courtesy of long time TurnKey contributor; John Carver, we have some nice hardening tweaks, including security improvements to: postfix, ssh & kernel sysctl variables/options (plus easy way to disable kernel hardening)
Inclusion of fail2ban - only an MVP implementation protecting SSH, but it's a start!
For detailed update instructions and download addresses, please check: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v15.0rc1-core-and-tkldev
TurnKey Linux is a Debian-based virtual application library that integrates some of the best open source software into a ready-to-use solution. Each virtual application is optimized for ease of use and can be deployed in minutes on bare metal, virtual machines and the cloud.
Every virtual application is available as a CD image or as a virtual machine image, and this growing list of applications includes Bugzilla, Django, Drupal, File Server, Joomla, LAMP, Magento, Mantis, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, Moodle, MovableType, MySQL, Openbravo, phpBB, PostgreSQL, ProjectPier, Rails, Revision Control, StatusNet, Apache Tomcat, Torrent Server, Trac, TWiki, vtiger, WordPress, Zimra and others.
