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If you are running Ubuntu and using the Firefox browser, you may have seen a notification indicating that an update is available for 'firefox'. Here's what this means and how to address it.

Upgraded a server, and along the way the Postfix version was also upgraded. Suddenly there is a warning in the logfile: 'warning: btree:/var/lib/postfix/smtp_scache is unavailable. unsupported dictionary type: btree'. Turns out that is easy to fix.

Obsidian snap version was upgraded on my Ubuntu system - and stopped working. The whole promise of having a snap or containerized version of an app is to avoid dependency problems. That's a broken promise.

On Wednesday, February 21st, Adjust hosted the second Aerospike Meetup in their Berlin office. About 50 visitors showed up, which demonstrates a huge interest in the Aerospike database technology.

From time to time our laptops receive firmware updates, by using the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (short: fwupd). This worked fine for a long time, until it didn't. One day I was facing an error message.

Someone at FOSDEM 2023 asked the question: 'What happens when PostgreSQL rolls over the version number to 95? Will this cause problems like back then in Windows?'

If you use GitHub Actions to run Workflows and tests, you might have spotted a deprecation warning recently.

If you use GitHub Actions to run Workflows and tests, you might have spotted a deprecation warning recently.

In September 2021, a patch for the upcoming PostgreSQL version 15 was committed which introduces a visible change for users: the 'CREATE' privilege for the 'public' schema is no longer set by default.

Together with Lætitia Avrot and Nikolay Samokhvalov I was invited to participate in a Community Panel about PostgreSQL Upgradability at Postgres Vision 2022. During this panel each of us provided examples for how easy or complicated *PostgreSQL* upgrades still are.