Will be attempting an upgrade to kernel 6.1.22 tonight starting at 11pm.  Expect to be finished at least with the reboots by 11:30pm and should have all NIS and NFS dependencies restored by midnight if not sooner.  Interruptions of individual services should not exceed about ten minutes with the exception of the Yacy search engine, https://yacy.eskimo.com/, this because Yacy rebuilds it’s database after each reboot and this process takes in excess of half an hour.

     This will affect all Eskimo North services including virtual private servers, shell servers, e-mail, web hosting, and our free services including https://friendica.eskimo.com, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.

     The 6.1.22 kernel has some minor fixes relative to the 6.1.20 kernel we are presently running so I do not expect any significant operational changes.