Release 4.0.0 (2022-10-06)

New features

• Add apt update server
• Add backup for blob storage
• Add backup for VM disks
• Add DNS server capabilities to DC2
• Enable automated VM updates
• Relicence to BSD 3-Clause
• Simplify deployment configuration
• Simplify NPS setup
• Simplify Powershell modules
• Switch to using DSC when configuring domain controllers
• Unify deployment of repository mirrors/proxies

Bug fixes

• Fix AAD domain verification
• Fix database logic so that either 0,1 or 2 databases can be deployed in an SRE
• Fix DNS recursion on domain controllers
• Fix htmlproofer issues by version pinning
• Fix network/firewall rules that were stopping the installation of gitlab-ce
• Fix NSG rules that were blocking LDAP connections from webapps
• Fix SHM teardown failure
• Fix Tier-3 allowlist scripts
• Fix updating of Guacamole dashboard when reading users from LDAP
• Improve tear down scripts
• Make RDS cipher suite setting more robust
• Make template deployments more robust
• Modify SHM requirements script to optionally install missing modules
• Restrict repository updates to this SRE
• Set Az.Storage minimum version
• Update NVIDIA repository key
• Update QGIS repository key
• Update SRD package versions
• Update to SSIS 16.0 in lockdown script

Security fixes

• Add ClamAV to all Linux VMs
• Drop support for Atom text editor
• Drop support for sbt
• Switch storage to GRS

Documentation updates

• Add administrator documentation for backups
• Add backup test to security checklist
• Add citation file
• Add disclaimer text to main repository README
• Add instructions to remove Conditional Access policies when reusing an AzureAD
• Add user backup instructions
• Fix various typographical errors in the documentation
• Make deployment instructions more visible
• Make documentation less prescriptive
• Update GitHub issue templates
• Update password writeback instructions
• Update SHM deployment instructions
• Update user guide