Installing security updates

Since I’ve mentioned updating packages several times, let’s have a formal conversation about it. Updated packages are made available for Ubuntu quite often, sometimes even daily. These updates mainly include the latest security updates but may also include new features. Since Ubuntu 22.04 is an LTS release, security updates are much more common than feature updates.

Installing the latest updates on your server is a very important practice, but, unfortunately, it’s not something that all administrators keep up with for various reasons.

When installed, security updates very rarely make many changes to your server, other than helping to keep it secure against the latest threats. However, it’s always possible that a security update that’s intended to fix a security issue ends up breaking something else. This is rare, but I’ve seen it happen. When it comes to production servers, it’s often difficult to...