Ubuntu Pro Client version 33.2 released

Project Discussion Ubuntu Pro
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Whether you’re an enterprise customer deploying systems at scale or want security patching for your personal Ubuntu LTS at home, the Ubuntu Pro Client (pro) is the command-line tool that will help you manage your Ubuntu Pro services.

The Ubuntu Pro Client comes pre-installed on every Ubuntu system. You can run pro --help in your terminal window to see a list of available commands or pro status to see a list of available Ubuntu Pro services.

Useful links

Last week we released version 33.2 of pro to:

  • 16.04 Xenial Xerus

  • 18.04 Bionic Beaver

  • 20.04 Focal Fossa

  • 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

  • 24.04 Noble Numbat

You can install the latest version by running sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-pro-client.

Version 33.2 is a maintenance release with some user-facing improvements.

Auto-selecting raspi variant for realtime-kernel

Previously, it was far too easy to run a command like pro enable realtime-kernel on a Raspberry Pi, which would default to installing the generic variant of the kernel even though the generic variant does not work on Raspberry Pis.

Now, pro will automatically detect if it is running on a Raspberry Pi and auto-select the raspi variant of the realtime kernel when you run pro enable realtime-kernel.

Smarter pro enable fips

Previously, pro enable fips would upgrade a hard-coded list of packages to their fips variants. This occasionally lead to errors if the list was not up to date or if it tried to upgrade packages in the wrong order.

Now, pro will automatically detect which packages need to be upgraded to their fips variants, and uses apt to always correctly upgrade them in the correct order.

Other improvements not listed here also made it into 33.2. The full changelog can be seen on Launchpad.

Please report any bugs or feature requests via GitHub issue.

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