diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 868b3ab..2d8394c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 zoomdata-formula
 ================
 
+2.6.23 (2018-11-19) **The end of Active Support for the Zoomdata release 2.6**
+
+- The Zoomdata 2.6 Long Term Support release has stopped receiving bugfixes.
+  The last version of the Zoomdata Core service binaries is ``2.6.23``.
+- The default variables were updated to reflect latest 2.6 release state
+- Allowed downloading JDBC drivers for datasource connectors (EDC services)
+  from URLs in package metadata file
+- Fixed the Zoomdata packages, services and versions detection
+- Cleaned up configuration file templates
+
 3.6.0 (2018-10-24)
 
 - Added new ``zoomdata.setup`` SLS that allows setting up initial passwords,
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 40c341b..fef250d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.6.0
+2.6.23
diff --git a/pillar.example b/pillar.example
index 665db66..e458139 100644
--- a/pillar.example
+++ b/pillar.example
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # vim: ft=yaml ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 et
 
-### Zoomdata 3.6 provisioning configuration example.
+### The Zoomdata provisioning configuration example file
+### ====================================================
 ###
 ### This is Salt Pillar file written in SaltStack's (SLS) format:
-### YAML rendered with Jinja2 template engine.
-
+### a tree-like data structure in YAML rendered with Jinja2 templating engine.
+### https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/pillar.html
+### https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/yaml/
+### https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/jinja/
+###
+### It has default values for latest Generally Available Zoomdata release.
+### The settings for the last Long Term Supported release are coded within the
+### formula in the ``zoomdata/defaults.yaml`` file, which applies out of the
+### box unless redefined in the Pillar file.
 
 zoomdata:
   ## Package installation settings
diff --git a/zoomdata/defaults.yaml b/zoomdata/defaults.yaml
index 16916b1..01a4eb9 100644
--- a/zoomdata/defaults.yaml
+++ b/zoomdata/defaults.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+# Default variables for the Zoomdata LTS 2.6 release deployment
+
 zoomdata:
   # Constants
   prefix: '/opt/zoomdata'
@@ -10,12 +12,11 @@ zoomdata:
   # Defaults which could be overridden in Pillar
   base_url: 'http://repo.zoomdata.com'
   gpgkey: 'https://repo.zoomdata.com/ZOOMDATA-GPG-KEY.pub'
-  release: 2.5
+  release: '2.6'
   repositories:
     - tools
   components:
     - stable
-    #- licensed
     #- unstable
 
   bootstrap: False
@@ -26,24 +27,24 @@ zoomdata:
   packages:
     - zoomdata
     - zoomdata-consul
+    - zoomdata-query-engine
     - zoomdata-scheduler
-    - zoomdata-spark-proxy
     - zoomdata-xvfb
 
   edc:
     #version: 'latest'
     packages:
       - zoomdata-edc-apache-solr
-      - zoomdata-edc-aurora
       - zoomdata-edc-cloudera-search
-      - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-1.7
-      - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-2.0
+      - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-5.0
+      - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-6.0
       - zoomdata-edc-impala
       - zoomdata-edc-memsql
+      - zoomdata-edc-mongo
       - zoomdata-edc-mssql
       - zoomdata-edc-mysql
       - zoomdata-edc-oracle
-      - zoomdata-edc-phoenix-4.5
+      - zoomdata-edc-phoenix-4.7-queryserver
       - zoomdata-edc-postgresql
       - zoomdata-edc-redshift
       - zoomdata-edc-rts
@@ -56,7 +57,9 @@ zoomdata:
 
   microservices:
     #version: 'latest'
-    packages: []
+    packages:
+      - zoomdata-stream-writer
+      - zoomdata-upload-service
 
   tools:
     packages:
@@ -80,6 +83,15 @@ zoomdata:
         spring.datasource.url: 'jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/zoomdata'
         spring.datasource.username: zoomdata
         spring.datasource.password: 'PleaseChangeMe'
+        keyset.destination.params.jdbc_url: 'jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/zoomdata-keyset'
+        keyset.destination.params.user_name: 'zoomdata'
+        keyset.destination.params.password: 'PleaseChangeMe'
+        keyset.destination.schema: 'public'
+        upload.destination.params.jdbc_url: 'jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/zoomdata-upload'
+        upload.destination.params.user_name: 'zoomdata'
+        upload.destination.params.password: 'PleaseChangeMe'
+        upload.destination.schema: 'public'
+        upload.batch-size: 1000
         screenshot.daemon.enabled: False
         screenshot.daemon.schedule.rate: '168h'
         screenshots.dashboards.enabled: False
@@ -109,23 +121,25 @@ zoomdata:
   services:
     - zoomdata-consul
     - zoomdata-edc-apache-solr
-    - zoomdata-edc-aurora
     - zoomdata-edc-cloudera-search
-    - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-1.7
-    - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-2.0
+    - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-5.0
+    - zoomdata-edc-elasticsearch-6.0
     - zoomdata-edc-impala
-    - zoomdata-edc-memsql
-    - zoomdata-edc-mssql
-    - zoomdata-edc-mysql
-    - zoomdata-edc-oracle
-    - zoomdata-edc-phoenix-4.5
+    #- zoomdata-edc-memsql
+    - zoomdata-edc-mongo
+    #- zoomdata-edc-mssql
+    #- zoomdata-edc-mysql
+    #- zoomdata-edc-oracle
+    - zoomdata-edc-phoenix-4.7-queryserver
     - zoomdata-edc-postgresql
-    - zoomdata-edc-redshift
+    #- zoomdata-edc-redshift
     - zoomdata-edc-rts
     - zoomdata-edc-sparksql
     - zoomdata-edc-tez
+    - zoomdata-query-engine
     - zoomdata-scheduler
-    - zoomdata-spark-proxy
+    - zoomdata-stream-writer
+    - zoomdata-upload-service
     - zoomdata
     #- zoomdata-xvfb