1200.25

Features

• Intended for use with October 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.
• To ensure a consistent runtime on our users, we now manage the version of Powershell for 2012R2. We upgraded the Powershell version to v5.1 in this release

Bug Fix

• Intermittent "Access denied" errors during compilation phase of PAS-W deployments. We have added a fix to potentially resolve them.

1803.2

Features

• Ephemeral Disk Support rolls out with this stemcell. This will help you to configure your ephemeral disk that would be used with your applications. This also allows you to reduce your root disk to a minimum of 40 GB. More information here
• Intended to use with September 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.

Bug Fix

• In our previous stemcell, we made an optional argument os_version mandatory during the Invoke-Sysprep step. We have now fixed that, and detect the OS inherently.

1709.13

Features

• Ephemeral Disk Support rolls out with this stemcell. This will help you to configure your ephemeral disk that would be used with your applications. This also allows you to reduce your root disk to a minimum of 40 GB. More information here
• Intended to use with September 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.

Bug Fix

• In our previous stemcell, we made an optional argument os_version mandatory during the Invoke-Sysprep step. We have now fixed that, and detect the OS inherently.

1200.24

Features

• Intended to use with September 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.

Bug Fix

• In our previous stemcell, we made an optional argument os_version mandatory during the Invoke-Sysprep step. We have now fixed that, and detect the OS inherently.

1803.1

Features

• This is the first 1803 stemcell that we are publishing!
• Intended to use with August 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.
• Includes an important Microsoft Security Update that provides protections against a new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). More details here
• Compatible with the latest stable OpenSSH version - OpenSSH_for_Windows_v7.7.2.0p1

1200.23

Features

• Intended to use with August 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.
• Includes an important Microsoft Security Update that provides protections against a new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). More details here
• Compatible with the latest stable OpenSSH version - OpenSSH_for_Windows_v7.7.2.0p1

Security Updates

• Disabled use TLS 1.0 by SSL/TLS Server, Client
• Disabled RC4, DCOM
• Disabled triple-DES cipher to mitigate against Sweet32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS.

1709.12

Features

• Intended to use with August 2018 Microsoft Security Updates.
• Includes an important Microsoft Security Update that provides protections against a new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). More details here
• Compatible with the latest stable OpenSSH version - OpenSSH_for_Windows_v7.7.2.0p1-Beta

1200.22

Features

• Intended to use with July 2018 Microsoft Security Updates
• Intended to use with Security and Quality Rollup updates for .NET Framework

1709.11

Features

• Intended to use with July 2018 Microsoft Security Updates
• 1709 for AWS will be published on bosh.io for the first time with 1709.11

Bug Fix

• There were a few 2012R2 L-1 CIS Policies that were applied to 1709 as well. We have removed them, and would add the right corresponding 1709 L-1 CIS Policies in the future stemcell versions.

1709.10

Bug Fix

• Fixed an Azure Marketplace publishing issue, allowing us to publish the Azure stemcell along with all the other IaaSes.
• Intended to use with June 2018 Microsoft security updates.