Announcing support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat on all Cloud 66 products (including registered servers). From this point onward, newly added servers will have Ubuntu 24.04 installed. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version via a selection dropdown when scaling up via the UI, or through your manifest!
Ubuntu 24.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and will receive ongoing app updates and critical security fixes until June 2029. Ubuntu 24.04 brings a whole lot of feature changes, for more information on these please see the official release notes.
What version do I have running now?
You can now view your servers' operating system versions via your application's information page. It will show you all the operating systems you have on your application's servers (as there may be more than one). Each server information page now includes information about the operating system running on that server.
From this point onward, newly added servers will have Ubuntu 24.04 installed unless otherwise specified.
How to upgrade?
For existing applications, due to differences at an operating system level, it isn't possible to perform an in-place upgrade of the operating system. Instead, you should use a manifest file to specify your target operating system (remember to commit and deploy it), then scale up new servers which will be based on the target operating system you have in your manifest.
Servers on Ubuntu 20.04 (and below)
Users with servers that are still on Ubuntu 20.04 (or below) should be thinking about migrating to Ubuntu 24.04. This is because Ubuntu 20.04 will reach End-Of-Life (EOL) for standard patch support in April 2025. Although Cloud 66 will endeavor to keep those running, upstream dependency changes could make that impossible at any point beyond that date.