SYSTEM INFORMATION OS type and version Rocky Linux 9.4 Webmin version 2.201 Blue box says this: Information! Operating system Rocky Linux has been upgraded to version 9.5. Release notes Button: [Update Detected Operating System] What exactly does this mean? What will clicking th…

[image] shoulders: Perhaps the update was pushed because of a really bad security flaw and a link to the release notes would allow me to see this etc Agreed, as that was one of my original intentions. [image] shoulders: You could put the release notes next to OS name and version and stil…

Hang on, isn’t the question here just about how we handle Webmin’s detection of a new OS version? That’s separate from how updates to new versions get installed.

Yes, Webmin detection of the OS, right. And, if this happens automatically in the future, as Joe suggested, we could then allow sending an email notification with that information and a link to the OS release notes.

I really don’t think we need a feature to send an email in that case. Maybe we could show release notes when the OS version is actually updated via a package update, but that would happen separately.

Email!? We don’t have to annoy users. We don’t have to keep trying to figure out a new way to annoy them.

Aren’t point releases just bug fixes? Outside chance something weird happens. I’ve never seen this behavior for Debian. I’m on another forum where point releases are important only because a problem someone is complaining about may have been taken care of so we need to know that everyone is at t…

User will see a reboot request I’m pretty sure as its normally a kernel update. So maybe a note why the reboot is needed, I can’t remember if that already happening.

Kernel update is orthogonal to the OS minor version change. A new release probably does include a new kernel, but you could have a dozen kernel updates in between OS releases. And, kernel is pretty much the only thing that requires a reboot (when convenient), AFAIK. But, it’s not up to us when that…

[image] Joe: We don’t have to annoy users. We don’t. But some users just enjoy being annoyed, so Jamie added a nice feature for that in Webmin – check out “Webmin ⇾ Webmin Actions Log / Email notification.”

[image] Jamie: Maybe we could show release notes when the OS version is actually updated via a package update, but that would happen separately. Jamie, this is exactly the problem and why I was skeptical about the change in the first place. Now, the key questions are—where should we place it,…

OS version message about Rocky 9.5 on Dashboard

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Jamie February 21, 2025, 4:30am 51

Sounds good, I’ll work on this!