[Changelog and upgrades - when and why to upgrade - HardKernel HC2]

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[Changelog and upgrades - when and why to upgrade - HardKernel HC2]

Hi,

 

I am running Armbian on four HardKernel HC2's and everything is working perfectly.  The four SBC's are running a Moosefs cluster running Ubuntu 18.04 and Armbian 5.85, and this leads to my questions:

 

1. I am trying to decide whether to upgrade as apt is proposing moving to 5.89  The change log does not currently list 5.89 and shows 5.87 as the newest. Am I missing something?
2. When I look at previous change logs it is difficult to decipher which fixes impact the HC2/HC1/XU4.  Is there an easy way to tell?
3. How do you decide when to upgrade?
4. Is it even worth upgrading when running more mature boards like this one? My boards run inside a private network behind a firewall, and my #1 priority is stability and reliability.

 

Thank you.

[odroid xu4 - getting 2 ips on the same interface while in static mode]

I had a similar problem with a board recently, and it drove me nuts.  In the end, I found that the DHCPD daemon was running, and it was pulling an IP even though the board had a fixed IP.  Might be a worth a look for you.