Year: 2021
The final release for 2021 is a fairly small one and most sites will notice little change beyond the usual collection of security updates. Here are the details…
As usual we will not be making regular releases over the Christmas vacation. We expect the final LCFG release for 2021 to go out on Wednesday 15th December. The first release of 2022 should go out on Wednesday 12th January.
This release constitutes 2 weeks of changes rather than the usual 1 so appears somewhat larger than normal. Having said that, there are no individual changes which we expect to have a particularly big impact. Here are all the details…
The main changes for this week are kernel and openafs updates for both platforms. Here are the full details…
There are no major changes this week just a few useful new features added to the systemd and auditd components. Here are the full details…
It appears that the recent 0.7.0 update for the dehydrated package on both SL7 and Ubuntu causes connection problems for some services.
A fairly quiet week with most changes only affecting optional components. Users of Let’s Encrypt via the x509 component should familiarise themselves with the changes. Here are the full details…
There is quite a range of mostly small changes this week, along with one particularly notable improvement to how the grub configuration is managed on Ubuntu. Here are the full details…
For some time now in Informatics we have occasionally seen problems with Ubuntu desktop machines not successfully rebooting. It hasn’t been a widespread problem, affecting something like just 1% of machines whenever package updates require a reboot, so diagnosis has been difficult. We think we may finally have a proper solution …
Due to being short-staffed last week, the changes this week are for two weeks rather than the usual one. Even so, this is a fairly small set of changes with little impact for sites other than Informatics. Here are the details…
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