Industrial action next week means that we will not be issuing a stable release next week (16th February 2022). At this stage, we are not certain if we will issue one the following week. We will decide nearer the time depending on what staff we have available and whether there are important changes (e.g. high […]

For this month, our regular monthly meeting has moved from it’s usual slot to the afternoon of Thursday 10th. Anyone who is using LCFG (or is thinking of doing so) is very welcome to attend. For more information, see the agenda on the LCFG wiki, please add any items you wish to discuss. The meeting […]

Not many changes this week, the most significant is a stable kernel update which is important for sites using OpenAFS. Here are the full details…

A fairly quiet week, mostly it’s just a range of small changes which are needed to support a PXE server running on the Ubuntu platform. Here are the full details…

The main changes for this week are a couple of important security updates, one for openssl on SL7 and one for the kernel on Ubuntu. Here are the full details…

An updated version of the latest stable release – 2022011701b – has just been pushed out. The only difference is that the INF_TEST kernel for Ubuntu is now the latest version – 5.4.0-96.109 – which resolves a high priority security issue.

A range of changes this week but nothing with a particularly big impact. The most noteworthy changes are the end of support for SL7.8 and, for DICE servers, the new DHCP domain-name support. Here are the full details…

This is a reminder that we will not be providing any further support for SL7.8. Please note that this means we will not be updating the security updates package lists for that platform. To continue receiving important updates for SL7 systems they should be updated to SL7.9 or migrated to Ubuntu Focal.

This is the first release of 2022, happy new year! Although it has been almost a month since the previous release, due to the Christmas vacation, there are very few significant changes. Here are the full details…

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…