In response to growing customer concerns about the number of spam messages they receive, the document General Information About Spam Handling has been created. Additionally, customers will be contacted individually to determine their spam handling capabilities and concerns and actions will be taken to mitigate those concerns.

There will be a few very short service interruptions tonight as servers are upgraded with new kernels.

Customer servers still running the old 3.1 version of Debian have been updated with the latest security fixes.

Customers still running this old version of Debian and subscribed to our maintenance service will soon be notified that maintenance by Orbis Lumen for this older version will be discontinued.

The script we use to upgrade Wordpress installations was released to you all a while ago. It is now being brought here to the Orb website so that it can be maintained easier.

It seems there are some people who find it useful. My thanks for the helpful feedback!

Security upgrades are being performed on servers today which may result in very brief service outages for various components throughout the early evening.

Core servers are being updated with a security to the kernel, requiring reboots. This may cause certain network services to be unavailable for a very brief period of time this afternoon, none lasting more than 5 minutes.

Our webmail system using Horde3 has been updated with a new version to correct some security issues.

Please contact us if you notice any strange behavior.

Servers are being updated tonight with kernel updates which will cause the temporary and highly intermittent loss of various system services until approximately 22:00 PST tonight.

These updates and subsequent system reboots are necessary to apply security fixes.

Security update announcements for customers running Ubuntu workstations will no longer be announced here. Instead, updates will automatically occur within workstations without notification.

Customer servers running Debian are being updated with a new kernel. Scheduling details for reboots will be communicated to organization contacts.