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LTS security policy for Thunderbird

I have a question regarding security updates in LTS editions, in concrete Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. What is the policy for offering security updates? Recently there was released version 52.9.0 fixing some ...
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Error output libdns162

When I typed in following: apt-cache policy libdns162 I receive this output: libdns162: Installed: 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.8 Candidate: 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.10 I get following after ...
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I am still vulnerable to spectre and meltdown [duplicate]

I found this script on GitHub that checks whether you susceptible to spectre and meltdown. Due to this script I am still susceptible. But I read that Ubuntu 16.04 got all patches on 9-th January. I ...
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Xenial: Strange code & repo during update

Hy! First off, the tl;dr explanation of the issue: Canonical's IP 91.189.88.162 (one of the six IPs security.ubuntu.com resolves to) is returning a HTTP 302 redirect to "http://179.184.158.89:80/...
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How do I see what updates are a available in the terminal

I have a server running Ubuntu 16, how do I find out what are the security updates and apply them? How to choose the ones I want? How do I know if they will not interfere with running app? ...
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