How to use "Fast and Safe Updates"

[Dandaman46]

The release blog for Suni mentioned Fast and Safe Updates Is this referring to the streamlining of the apt-get or apt packages, or is there a new update to be used? I looked through the release notes and other sources and couldn't find anything.

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-23-05-suni/
Fast and Safe Updates: Our streamlined system allows for fast and safe updates, ensuring that users can easily stay up to date with the latest improvements and security patches.

[Igor]

On 11/3/2023 at 3:22 AM, Dandaman46 said:

The release blog for Suni mentioned Fast and Safe Updates Is this referring to the streamlining of the apt-get or apt packages, or is there a new update to be used? I looked through the release notes and other sources and couldn't find anything.

We refactored updating procedures, repository management, download infrastructure. This mainly impacted to the beta repository, but we (can) also copy certain packages from external / 3rd party repositories. To keep specific package more recent than distribution defaults. This is pushed to both, stable and beta repository, after executed automated test install on affected distributions.
https://github.com/armbian/os/wiki/Import-3rd-party-packages

 

tl;dr; apt update and apt upgrade remains in action, but we talked about updating packages directly from a storage we are using for caching (ORAS, currently hosted at GitHub). For now this is just an idea as GH is not the best hosting place speed / capacity wise.

 

On 11/3/2023 at 3:22 AM, Dandaman46 said:

Our streamlined system allows for fast and safe updates

This text was perhaps improved too much as it only creates confusion. Applogize.

[Dandaman46]

Thanks for the clarification!