The 2.3 series release notes contain important changes in this release series.
Bug Fixes
- Repository maintenance was not run on the high availability replica. This could lead to high load while repositories were repacked when first promoting the replica.
- Accessing the raw URL for a file named 'policies' would fail with a 404 error.
- Downloading the diagnostics via the Management Console could time out on instances with many release or Git LFS assets.
Security Fixes
- HIGH OpenSSH packages have been updated to address multiple vulnerabilities.
- MED libxml2 and related packages have been updated to address multiple vulnerabilities.
- MED rsync has been updated to address a recently identified vulnerability.
- LOW Passwords and two-factor authentication one-time passwords could be written to the exceptions log.
- Packages have been updated to the latest security versions.
Known Issues
- We incorrectly redirect to the dashboard if you accessed GitHub Enterprise using an alias while in private mode. This might happen if you set a fully qualified domain name but the subdomain resolves correctly.
- Email can't be sent over TLS when SSL is disabled.
- Deleting a user doesn't delete their gists, which can cause problems with replication.
- Images uploaded to issues save with an absolute URL, so they can be broken if the hostname changes.
- On a freshly set up GitHub Enterprise without any users, an attacker could create the first admin user.
- The management console settings interface doesn't clearly show if you have previously uploaded certificate files or a private key.
- Management console sessions can expire too quickly for Safari users.
- Gist repositories are not garbage collected by the maintenance scheduler.
- Custom firewall rules aren't maintained during an upgrade.
- Repositories that are in an incomplete state, which is a rare problem, can cause the migration to the new repository disk layout to fail.
- Enqueued background jobs are sometimes not purged when a repository is deleted.
- When a fork is detached from its repository network by an administrator or by changing visibility, its filesystem path won't be updated on a high availability replica until at least one commit has been pushed.
- Viewing raw files in repositories owned by a user or organization named "github" fails with a 400 error. (updated 2015-12-15)
HIGH (CVE-2015-7547) 2.3 is vulnerable to glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow. To manually patch your appliance, apply the hotfix by connecting to your appliance via SSH and running these commands: (updated 2016-02-17)
$ curl -O https://github-enterprise.s3.amazonaws.com/patches/github-enterprise-libc-precise.hpkg
$ md5sum github-enterprise-libc-precise.hpkg # c068256696f2775579e2cd8223f82306
$ chmod +x github-enterprise-libc-precise.hpkg
$ ./github-enterprise-libc-precise.hpkg
Thanks!
The GitHub Team