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.

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.

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.

The new SMTP server scans outgoing SMTP messages for spam. However, this has been causing problems for some users.

Outgoing SMTP messages will no longer be scanned for Spam if an authenticated Orbis Lumen account is used to relay the message.

Customers running Debian systems will be contacted individually to schedule downtime for system reboots after applying upgrade.

Customers may notice brief, intermittent outages of various services tonight, 24-October-2008, beginning at 23:00 PST as we upgrade servers to the newest Debian release.