Linux Kernel Upgrade March 7/8

Omega8.cc has announced the following emergency maintenance:

Start Date: Saturday, Mar 7, 21:00 2015 (JST)
End Date: Sunday, Mar 8, 23:00 2015 (JST)

Locations: Tokyo, London, Amsterdam, Ashburn, Chicago, San Jose

During this maintenance window, Omega8.cc engineers will be performing emergency reboot on all machines requiring custom Linux kernel security upgrade. Expected downtime depends on the possible hardware reconfiguration on some machines and may take 3 to 10 minutes on an average.

While the vulnerability doesn’t affect our systems directly, we always take all released security issues seriously and upgrade all even theoretically affected systems anyway, as soon as possible.

We thank you for your continued support while we work to make these urgent improvements.