Automatic periodic upgrades as part of the base layer

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 07/03/16 13:29, Merlijn Sebrechts wrote:
> What is your experience with upgrades. Do they have a tendency to break
> things? Should this be enabled by default, added in as a configurable
> switch or not added at all?

In 16.04, if unattended-upgrades is installed you will by default get
security updates automatically and can opt in to additional updates.
Common practice is just to turn them on, with some percentage of
machines also enabling the "proposed" pocket (where stuff goes before it
gets to the updates pocket). Machines with "proposed" act as canaries
for incoming updates. Security tends to land hard and fast because,
well, security, but then it gets a lot more QA and the changes are
generally tiny.

Mark