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=== Quick News ===

* [2011-10-29] the RoundCube webmail was upgraded, bringing improvements among which: IMAP ACL support (see previous news on the subject) and a better address book * [2011-11-07] PostreSQL was upgraded to 9.1, which should bring new features[1] and performance enhancement; currently the 'standard_conforming_strings' setting was restored to the old behavior, mais check your apps, as it will soon switch back to its new and legitimate behavior * [2011-11-12] our antispam system (DSPAM) was upgraded, with a few fixes and much better international(-ization) support in the web interface: pages are now fully multilingual (UTF-8) compliant and mail subjects (and mail content in the quarantine page) in various foreign langages are now properly displayed (recoded); beware only mails coming into the system after this software upgrade are concerned by this improvement, but it should not be long before it is buried past * [since 2011-10-10] due to sponsoring problems, Jinta is unavailable and will probably not return; this has little impact, but we now lack a secondary IRC server * [2011-11-29] our new IRC web interface, irconweb-ng.duckcorp.org, replaced irconweb.duckcorp.org completely, as it is working nicely and the old system had a few boring bugs (like not always seeing disconnections); thus irconweb-ng has been renamed into irconweb, and the old system removed

[1] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1

=== Nuke ===

It's really high time we restart our machines to recent kernels, but as it is quite sensitive, it was postponed many times. Here is the blessed schedule: * [2011-12-04] Toushirou, affects web (everything but mail-related websites), FTP, VCS, MySQL, IPv6 tunnels, NSTX, shell (but Thorfinn is available), DNS (backup only), mail (relay only) * [2011-12-11] Thorfinn, affects shell (you can switch to Toushirou in the meanwhile), IRC proxy and bots, Jabber (but Orfeo should handle) * [2011-12-18] Orfeo, affects mail, webdesk, DNS (but Toushirou should handle), IRC (including IRC2IM gateway), Jabber (but Thorfinn should handle), PostgreSQL, LDAP (but other nodes should handle in read-only mode)

Beware a lengthy disk check is likely to happen, which is necessary from time to time, and we may need to reboot more than once for technical reasons, so please be patient.

The exact maintenance time will be advertised on IRC, as well as when the system is safe to use again.

See you soon if we survive !