Important: This document contains information for the group of server updates (or dist) occurring August 22, 2011 to October 7, 2011 in all datacenters. Until that time, all of the information included in this document is subject to change.
The following updates affect popular or important services and programs:
The following updates will be made to the FreeBSD VPS/MPS v2 platform.
The following services will be restarted by Verio as part of the update:
The following VPS/MPS v2 updates do not require action by customers to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Some services may be rebooted as part of the update.
The FreeBSD kernel will be updated to version 6.4. This kernel change is an update to the physical server. The userspace will not be updated. A physical reboot of each server is required. It’s anticipated this will be Verio’s final kernel update for the VPSv2 product.