Hi,
I've updated our Xen Shell to support installation of the new Debian
stable release, version 9 (stretch) and Debian testing (buster).
This requires you to be running version v1.48bitfolk45. You can see
the version of the running Xen Shell by typing "help". If you're
running an older version then type "exit" until you are logged out
then log in again.
That is for clean (re)installs using the "install" command. More
info here:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer
Debian does of course also support in-place upgrade.
If instead you would like a new VPS account free for two weeks to
migrate your services into then we can do that:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS
Cheers,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
Unfortunately during the work for the next Xen release, developers
have found a bunch of serious security issues which affect versions
and configurations we have deployed.
These were pre-disclosed today, with full public disclosure coming
on Tuesday 20 June as normal.
So, we're going to have to patch everything and reboot before then.
This will very likely be taking place over three nights starting in
the early hours of Saturday 17 June, but we will be sending out an
individual email to every customer confirming when they will be
affected.
For those unaware of what this entails, it means that at some point
within an hour-long maintenance window we will shut your VPS down
cleanly as the machine it's on is shut down, and then boot it again
once the machine has booted up. It typically takes 5-10 minutes.
You can opt for your VPS to be suspended to and restored from SSD if
you don't like losing program state:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Suspend_and_restore
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
