gpg: Signature made Tue Aug 7 19:00:57 2018 UTC
gpg: using DSA key 2099B64CBF15490B
gpg: Good signature from "Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Andrew James Smith <andy@strugglers.net>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (UKUUG) <andy.smith@ukuug.org>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (BitFolk Ltd.) <andy@bitfolk.com>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Linux User Groups UK) <andy@lug.org.uk>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Cernio Technology Cooperative) <andy.smith@cernio.com>" [unknown]
Hello,
This is slightly embarrassing but you will hopefully be pleased to
know that BitFolk is not actually affected by the security issue
that prompted the scheduling of the maintenance described below.
Therefore it won't be going ahead.
Apologies for the confusion. I misread the advisory. I can't give
any more details as to what I misread as it's currently under
embargo but when the full advisory is posted next Tuesday it will be
clear.
Cheers,
Andy
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:03:45PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid there's another round of security updates needed as a
> flaw has been discovered in some (Xen-specific) parts of the Linux
> kernel.
>
> It's not the hypervisor this time but it still needs a kernel
> upgrade on our side so the effect is basically the same, so there
> will be another reboot of all servers, likely in the early hours (UK
> time) of 11–13 August.
>
> Customers will soon receive an individual email confirming the
> hour-long maintenance window specific to their server(s). The actual
> work is expected to take 10–30 minutes within that window.
>
> As before we should be able to do a suspend/restore if you have
> enabled that at:
>
> <https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/>
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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