Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread kurt greaves
Regarding security releases, nothing currently exists to notify users when security related patches are released. At the moment I imagine announcements would only be made in NEWS.txt or on the user mailing list... but only if you're lucky. On 31 January 2018 at 19:18, Michael Shuler wrote: > I s

Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Shuler
I should also mention the dev@ mailing list - this is where the [VOTE] emails are sent and you'd get an advanced heads up on upcoming releases, along with the release emails that are sent to both user@ and dev@. The dev@ traffic is generally lower than user@, so pretty easy to spot votes & releases

Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Shuler
I usually install cron-apt for Ubuntu & Debian, forward and read root's email to be notified of all system upgrades, including Cassandra. There are likely other utilities for other operating systems, or just a cron script that checks for system update & emails would work, too. Also, it's possible