"False Alarm" Update Notifications

I recently upgraded from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. Other than replacing the snap version of Firefox with the deb release, I needed to make no other changes. It's working well so far, but one thing has occurred that makes me scratch my head: I use Webmin for a quick all-in-one control center for my server. Webmin will throw a notification when updates are available and then process them when I choose to do so.

Under 22.04 LTS, this rarely threw false notifications about updates, but I'm seeing more now. By 'false alarm' I mean receiving a notice that updates are available but when I go to process them I receive a message that the component being updated is already the most recent version. This is not a problem per se, and I suspect the actual updates are being made to the repository information, but it's happening more frequently under 24.04 LTS. Just my observation....

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Hi Fred,

I might be mistaken but:

Do you have "unattended-upgrades" running ?

systemctl status unattended-upgrades.service

It installs security updates (only security updates) automatically without intervention from the operator.
It would be a logical explanation for what is happening.

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Why, yes it is! Thank you, Thom. This must be a new setting under 24.04. I will leave it running, as security updates should never be ignored.

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