I will be performing a kernel upgrade requiring reboot of all of our servers starting at 11PM.  If all goes well we should finish by 11:30PM with boots and midnight by checks to make sure all services properly started, NIS bindings and NFS mounts properly completed, etc.

     This will be to kernel 6.1.33.  Barring the release of some substantial performance gain, I plan to stick with 6.1.x long term kernel release until at least the next LTR release.  To date this has been the best performing long term release kernel we have experienced.

     This one will be compiled somewhat differently, a kernel upgrade failed on our newest server before I could put it online because the nvram mod did not load, so now I am compiling the /dev/nvram support into the kernel rather than separately as a module to avoid the potential for a future recurrence.

     This will affect both our paid services such as virtual private servers, web hosting, e-mail, and linux shell accounts, as well as our free services, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.

     Most services should be down for less than ten minutes save for yacy which takes about 40 minutes to rebuild an in memory database after reboot.