Hi everyone,

As noted by Peter (see note to wikitech-l below), he has performed a major upgrade of the operating system on one of our image scaler machines, as a test for upgrading all of them (upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) to Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)). The image scalers are responsible for generating scaled-down versions of images for inclusions in wiki articles, as well as converting SVG images into PNG. The great thing about this upgrade is that 12.04 comes with much newer versions of imagemagick and librsvg, which both have many bugfixes from their previous versions. The risky part is that the new versions *might* introduce new bugs serious enough that things might temporarily get worse.

So, please keep an eye on these functions over the coming days, and report any problems you suspect are caused by this upgrade.

Thanks! Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Youngmeister py@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:10 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Imagescaler disto/packages To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello all,

I just enabled srv190 as an imagescaler running ubuntu 12.04 precise with new versions of imagemagick and librsvg.

This is a test for upgrading all of our imagescalers to newer versions of... many things. Upgrading these boxes and these packages is often problematic, so please let me know if you notice any issues with the new setup.

Thanks!

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