Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread kurt greaves
Regarding security releases, nothing currently exists to notify users when security related patches are released. At the moment I imagine announcements would only be made in NEWS.txt or on the user mailing list... but only if you're lucky. On 31 January 2018 at 19:18, Michael Shuler wrote: > I s

Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Shuler
I should also mention the dev@ mailing list - this is where the [VOTE] emails are sent and you'd get an advanced heads up on upcoming releases, along with the release emails that are sent to both user@ and dev@. The dev@ traffic is generally lower than user@, so pretty easy to spot votes & releases

Re: Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Shuler
I usually install cron-apt for Ubuntu & Debian, forward and read root's email to be notified of all system upgrades, including Cassandra. There are likely other utilities for other operating systems, or just a cron script that checks for system update & emails would work, too. Also, it's possible

Security Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Rob Oxspring
Hi, As a user of Cassandra I'd like to be able to get notified when there are security releases so that I can get my installation patched ASAP. For feature and patch releases I'm happy to come and look at the web page or trawl through some mail archives, but I'd like for security releases to co