Major network changes will occur throughout the day on Tuesday 16 February 2010 which will result in service outages of indeterminate time.

These changes are major upgrades that will improve network performance considerably.

Debian has released a minor version update the 5.0 series. Clients will be contacted to establish upgrade scheduling.

Users of prior major release versions of Debian will need to upgrade to the current version, as Orbis Lumen's support for prior major releases will be dropping off.

Customer system running Debian will be upgraded with a new kernel release, along with a few other security updates.

These updates will require a reboot, and scheduling will be made for customers with specific scheduling needs.

Customer systems will be upgraded with a minor version Debian Linux release. Scheduling for this upgrade will be ongoing throughout the week.

Customers will be contacted to schedule another kernel update to their systems, which will require a reboot.

Customer will be contacted to schedule a time for system reboots to facilitate the recent linux kernel image update within Debian.

Customer servers have been updated with a security fix for the Apache web server, and TIFF libraries.

Debian has released a new minor version of their distribution.

Customers will be contacted to schedule updates for their systems.

Tonight there will be a brief service interruption as servers are rebooted with the latest minor release of Debian.

The reboots are required since the release contains a kernel update.

These outages will occur between 01:00 and 01:30 PST 03 Jul.

A new Linux kernel containing security updates will be installed on customer systems over the next few days, which will require a system reboot.

The changes are minor and low risk so specific reboot time scheduling with customers will not be done unless requested. Reboots into the new kernel will occur at off-peak hours.