Latested 16.04 update

[bob brazie]

Hi, where can I find information on what the latest update to the version I am using.

I am using 16.04 and today there were updates to the kernel. I was wondering why and what is new/changed in the kernel and any other updates that were included.

Thanks in advance. Bob.

[howefield]

Not sure if this is what you mean..

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xenial-changes/

[bob brazie]

No not really. There have been several updates in just this month and I am wondering what was changed and why.
In the download list there is a section you can click to see an explanation for each new update.
This is the information I am looking for.

[Bashing-om]

bob brazie; Hello;

System tells all, if one just knows what to ask and where .

Take a look in the system logs.
A place to start is :


cat /var/log/apt/history.log
cat /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log




who what when where AND why

[bob brazie]

Thanks, the commands give me a list of the upgrades but not an explanation of what and why it was changed.

[howefield]

Using the mutt package as an example, how about


apt-get changelog mutt | more

you get a reverse chronologically ordered changelog with output as follows ..


apt-get changelog mutt | more
Get:1 http://changelogs.ubuntu.com mutt 1.7.2-1 Changelog [106 kB]
mutt (1.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

* New upstream Mutt release.
* New upstream NeoMutt release, 2017-01-13.
* debian/patches:
+ all patches refreshed.
+ upstream/gpgme-set-sender.patch removed because it is already upstream.

-- Antonio Radici <antonio@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:47:49 +0000

mutt (1.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium

* debian/patches:
+ add upstream/gpgme-set-sender.patch otherwise the package
does not build due to conflicting declarations.

-- Antonio Radici <antonio@debian.org> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:41:44 +0000

mutt (1.7.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

* New upstream NeoMutt release, 2016-11-26.
+ All patches refreshed.
+ upstream/549204-clear-N-on-readonly-imap-folders.patch pulled from the
repo because it could cause bad interactions with the pager (I will
revisit the decision in the next release).
* debian/rules:
+ explicitely added --with-tokyocabinet otherwise the package does not
build.

-- Antonio Radici <antonio@debian.org> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:28:54 +0000

snipped the rest for brevity

Pressing Q quits from the output if you don't want to go all the way back.

Example for the kernel on this machine..


apt-get changelog linux-image-4.10.0-13-generic | more
Get:1 http://changelogs.ubuntu.com linux 4.10.0-13.15 Changelog [661 kB]
linux (4.10.0-13.15) zesty; urgency=low

[ Tim Gardner ]

* Release Tracking Bug
- LP: #1671614

* ehci-platform needed in usb-modules udeb (LP: #1671589)
- d-i: add ehci-platform to usb-modules

* irqchip/gic-v3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints
(LP: #1671598)
- irqchip/gic-v3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints

* iommu: Fix static checker warning in iommu_insert_device_resv_regions
(LP: #1671599)
- iommu: Fix static checker warning in iommu_insert_device_resv_regions

* QDF2400: Fix panic introduced by erratum 1003 (LP: #1671602)
- arm64: Avoid clobbering mm in erratum workaround on QDF2400

* QDF2400 PCI ports require ACS quirk (LP: #1671601)
- PCI: Add ACS quirk for Qualcomm QDF2400 and QDF2432

* tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit (LP: #1671600)
- tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit

* CVE-2017-2636
- tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf

* Sync virtualbox to 5.1.16-dfsg-1 in zesty (LP: #1671470)
- ubuntu: vbox -- Update to 5.1.16-dfsg-1

-- Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:16:24 -0700

linux (4.10.0-12.14) zesty; urgency=low

[ Tim Gardner ]