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                            <h1 style="margin: 0;padding: 0;display: block;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: -1px;text-align: left;color: #606060 !important;">Ubuntu Trusty update 2017/Q4 and new LTS/Latest process</h1>

<h3 id="Schedule" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px;outline: 0px;font-size: 1.2em;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;vertical-align: baseline;color: #607A84;line-height: 1.1em;display: block;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -.5px;text-align: left;">Schedule</h3>

<p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">We're happy to announce that we will be updating our Trusty Build Images on <strong>December 11th, 2017</strong>. With this update, we will also introduce a new set of `group:` attributes for selecting build images, and the existing ones will be deprecated.</p>

<h3 id="TheGroupKey" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px;outline: 0px;font-size: 1.2em;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;vertical-align: baseline;color: #607A84;line-height: 1.1em;display: block;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -.5px;text-align: left;">The <code>group:</code> key</h3>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">We'll be providing the option of both a stable, long-term support image where only security updates will be made. This is the <code>group: travis_lts</code> option, and is enabled by default.</p>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">We'll also be offering another image which will be frequently, regularly updated images with the name <code>group: travis_latest</code>.</p>

<h3 id="History" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px;outline: 0px;font-size: 1.2em;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;vertical-align: baseline;color: #607A84;line-height: 1.1em;display: block;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -.5px;text-align: left;">History</h3>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Since the start of Travis CI, we’ve tried to provide images that could accommodate the vast majority of our users with periodic updates provided as needed. These images host a number of pre-installed software packages that are commonly requested and used. We update these as needed and requested, but there’s always been a balance to strike - do we push for cutting edge features, or do we keep to the stable and well known to work? There are plenty of benefits to both directions. Before, we’ve tried to strike a balance in a natural fashion but this led to some inconsistency in timelines for updates of images.</p>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">With this new setup, we can instead offer the best of both worlds. You can read our blog post about it here: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-12-01-new-update-schedule-for-linux-build-images.</p>

<h3 id="Testing" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px;outline: 0px;font-size: 1.2em;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;vertical-align: baseline;color: #607A84;line-height: 1.1em;display: block;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -.5px;text-align: left;">Testing</h3>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">We are encouraging you to proactively try these new images in advance to reduce the number of surprises on Monday. This is already possible if you are using our sudo-enabled infrastructure (i.e. with <code>sudo: required</code>). Simply add <code>group: edge</code> to your .travis.yml file and you're all set. Unfortunately, this is not possible right now if you are using our container-based infrastructure (i.e. with <code>sudo: false</code>).</p>

<h3 id="Support" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px;outline: 0px;font-size: 1.2em;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;vertical-align: baseline;color: #607A84;line-height: 1.1em;display: block;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -.5px;text-align: left;">Support</h3>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">If anything comes up, we'd be glad to hear from you and you can learn how to report your issues here: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/8870.</p>

<p style="margin: 1em 0;padding: 0;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">We're excited to see what this will bring for our users and the community. As always, please feel free to reach out to us over at support@travis-ci.com if you need our help. All the best and happy building!</p>

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