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Ubuntu: Weekly Newsletter, Automated Upgrades, and More
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Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 907
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 907 for the week of August 24 – 30, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.
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University of Toronto ☛ Some thoughts on Ubuntu automatic ('unattended') package upgrades
The default behavior of a stock Ubuntu LTS server install is that it enables 'unattended upgrades', by installing the package unattended-upgrades (which creates /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades, which controls this). Historically, we haven't believed in unattended automatic package upgrades and eventually built a complex semi-automated upgrades system (which has various special features). In theory this has various potential advantages; in practice it mostly results in package upgrades being applied after some delay that depends on when they come out relative to working days.
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Ubuntu ☛ What Linux support specialists do
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