Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

[Erick Brunzell]

Oopsy - below I said the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 HWE stacks would 
reach HWE EOL in August 2017. That should have said August 2016!!!!!! 
Sorry for the goof up.

Lance

On 08/03/2015 09:29 AM, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> On 08/03/2015 07:34 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote:
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure how should I proceed if I'm on 14.04.2 and want 
>> to upgrade to .3. Will the update be available via the update 
>> manager, or is it recommended to rather do a quick re-install of /?
>
> No need to reinstall, that would rather defeat the purpose of an LTS 
> wouldn't it? Trusty automatically moves from 14.04 to 14.04.1 to 
> 14.04.2 to 14.04.3, etc, etc .........
>
> Trusty will however remain on the kernel series and matching X-stack 
> version that were provided with the specific installation media until 
> the HWE stacks provided with 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 reach EOL 
> some time in August 2017 at which point the update-manager will begin 
> to warn that the user is approaching HWE EOL and it will offer the 
> upgrade to the 14.04.5 HWE stack.
>
> If a user installed using either the 14.04 or 14.04.1 media they'll 
> remain on the OE HWE (3.13 series kernel) and not have to deal with 
> HWE EOL at all. One reason we didn't go out of our way recommending 
> that most users install using 14.04.1 media is that until 14.04.2 
> ubiquity had a very nasty bug that frequently resulted in data loss 
> during reinstallations.
>
> Lance
>
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