[Labs-announce] Labs-wide security updates tomorrow, 2016-06-07

[Andrew Bogott]

Update:  This is in progress now.  So far, the pauses that instances are 
experiencing have been quite brief (seconds rather than minutes.)

On 6/6/16 9:02 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
>     Moritz and I will be applying some security patches to the 
> virtualization hosts tomorrow, beginning at 14:00 UTC.  We're going to 
> try to apply this change via suspend/resume cycles rather than via 
> reboots -- that means that each VM should experience a minute or two 
> (or three) of hesitation but should not register any reboots.
>
>     If this goes badly and it turns out that actual reboots are needed 
> I will reschedule the maintenance for a later date with more notice.  
> For now, though, no action is required from any of you.
>
> -Andrew
>