How will I know I can upgrade my server?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:02:34 -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote:
>Em 31/07/2018 05:38, Chris Green escreveu:
>> It's hardly onerous is it?  Just do `sudo do-release-upgrade` every
>> so often during the last week or so of July.  
>
>It's not like I'm complaining, but since there are so many companies
>who upgrade Ubuntu LTS on their servers, I guessed there could be a
>tool or way to be notified of when it is available.

Hi,

we had this already.

1. It is announced, see
   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2018-July/000234.html .
   It also would be possible to monitor
   https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
   using something like
   https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/urlwatch .

2. If it's a problem to wait a few days, it's always possible to run
     sudo do-release-upgrade -d
   immediately.

However, there might be a tool that does it already, if not consider to
request a tool. I doubt that there are really many companies
interested in upgrading from one to another LTS as early as possible. I
suspect way more companies tend to stand with a LTS until it's closer
to it's EOL, which for 16.04 is April 2021, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases . More likely a company will upgrade
2019, 2020 or 2021, so if it still should take a few days after it was
announced, it doesn't matter at all.

Regards,
Ralf