Blog posts tagged
“16.04”

5 posts

Lech Sandecki
11 November 2020

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Article Apps

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Contact us with your ESM questions What is ESM? Every Ubuntu Long Term Support...

Lech Sandecki
11 November 2020

Canonical
11 February 2020

Amazon EC2 Hibernation for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS now available

Article Cloud and server

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, bringing support for this feature on par with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Hibernation allows you to pause your Amazon EC2 Instances when not required and resume them at a later time. Applications will start up exactly from...

Canonical
11 February 2020

Canonical
5 July 2019

Ubuntu updates for TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities

Article Cloud and server

Issues have been identified in the way the Linux kernel’s TCP implementation processes Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) options and handles low Maximum Segment Size (MSS) values. These TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities could expose servers to a denial of service attack, so it is crucial to have systems patched. Updated...

Canonical
5 July 2019

Alex Murray
14 May 2019

Ubuntu updates to mitigate new Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities

Article Cloud and server

Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) describes a group of vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, and CVE-2019-11091) in various Intel microprocessors, which allow a malicious process to read various information from another process which is executing on the same CPU core. This occurs due to...

Alex Murray
14 May 2019

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

News Desktop

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to work side by side with our teammates and colleagues across Canonical.  Feature Freeze has now passed and we’re working on fixing

Will Cooke
16 March 2018