Due to popular demand, ImageMagick has been upgraded from 6.2 to the latest release, 6.4. Incompatible API differences exist between the two versions. Old libraries from 6.2 remain on the server to avoid breaking applications, such as rmagick, built around
Jan 1: [Image/Echelon] Kernel upgrade (ext4 prep work), [ALL] service upgrades
Image and Echelon will be taken offline at 1:00 AM EST (-0500 GMT) on January 1st, 2009 for a kernel upgrade to 2.6.28. Downtime duration is expected to last less than 5 minutes. The latest kernel, 2.6.28, introduces the ext3
Mandatory per-process resource limits
New resource limits have been introduced for processes invoked from the shell to prevent runaway processes. Limits are not comprehensive and thus not targeted at restricting usage, but rather avoiding runaway processes from capitalizing a system. These values are tentative