There will be a new Ubuntu 16.04 update due to an APT vulnerability

Ubuntu 16.04.2

This afternoon we have published an article reporting on a APT problem which will force Lubuntu developers to release version 16.04.6 of their operating system. Shortly after we learned that the problem is not only present in the LXDE version of the operating system developed by Canonical, but rather it is also in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and all its official flavors. A) Yes reported last Friday Lucasz Zemczak in a letter addressed to users.

Zemczak says it is a release that was not planned, but that they cannot do otherwise because security is very important. The vulnerability has already been fixed and they have decided to rebuild all the ISOs that could be affected. The new ISOs are already available to be tested since last Friday, February 22. This version is Ubuntu 16.04.6 RC and will be available from February 28, the day that it will lose the Release Candidate label for becoming an official version.

Ubuntu 16.04 also includes the APT vulnerability

On your note. Zemczak says that no need for flavors to participate in the testing of the next version, but we have already learned that the Lubuntu developers are going to test the next release of their operating system. They are going to do it mostly because Lubuntu still supports the i386 architecture and they want to make sure everything works perfectly before releasing the next version. If it is not tested, they advise, they might not release Lubuntu 16.04.6 for 32bit computers.

Ubuntu 16.04 was released in April 2016 and is an LTS version, which means that will supported until April 2021. Precisely, Xenial Xerus was the first version that included compatibility with Snap packages, so we could say that fixing one thing broke another. In any case, the problem will be completely solved next Thursday.


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  1.   Fernando Robert Fernandez said

    I wait for it, but for now everything works as well as from the day I installed it more than 2 years ago, and counting ...