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PSA: Upcoming downtime due to OS upgrades on the infrastructure (postboned)

Written by: Vormrodo | Published on: June 12th 2026, 23:30 o'clock (edited on June 13th, 17:30 o'clock Europe/Berlin) | Distribution: System-wide | Language(s): German, English

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EN:
NOTE: Because of a misunderstanding, the upgrades did not happen on June 13th due to Canonical Ltd. (Ubuntu) not providing the possibility at the time. This process is being postboned into September 2026. The exact date and time will be announced right before.

To all interested people and users of the projects,
in September 2026, there will be important upgrades of the operating systems of our infrastructure, due to which all of the projects and websites of the Vormrodian Projects, excluding associated partner projects, will be subject to downtimes. The duration of this process could take up to 2 hours in case of difficulties.

These upgrades are necessary, for each server, on which our infrastructure is hosted, runs on the operating system Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, while there is a new LTS version (26.04) since April of this year. Despite LTS variants of operating systems being supported for longer times by the distributors, the softwares in the case of Ubuntu are being updated less often than before in the package repositories of the now older version 24.04 LTS.
In the past, this already led to problems on the project Conexizan, as important components for the amplification of the project's security were unnoticeably outdated. In that case, the server was still running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which we immediately upgraded to 24.04 LTS in February of this year.

Ubuntu is an operating system by the company Canonical Ltd., which we mainly used in the past. While we now use non-profit oriented operating systems for desktops, there's no plan to give up Ubuntu as a server system for our organization.

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