SpinupWP will let you know that non-security updates are waiting on the underlying server, but it won’t install them. We use “longview” at Linode to look at recent performance, and longview includes a list of waiting upgrades so you can see what is in store.
To install them we ssh to our sudo-capable account and issue the following commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgradeThe update makes sure all Linux packages needing an update are accounted for. The upgrade actually installed the updated packages.
We see “cryptsetup” warnings regularly, but have not been worrying about them.
If we are asked about keeping the php.ini changes, we choose to “keep the local version currently installed”.
We try to check for these updates weekly.