A new release of the Ubuntu Cloud Images for stable Ubuntu release 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is available at [1]. These new images superseded the existing images [2]. Images are available for download or immediate use on EC2 via publish AMI ids. Users who wish to update their existing installations can do so with:
   'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo reboot'.

The following packages have been updated. Please see the full changelogs
for a complete listing of changes:
 * apport: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.28 => 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30 
 * ca-certificates: 20201027ubuntu0.16.04.1 => 20210119~16.04.1 
 * tzdata: 2020f-0ubuntu0.16.04 => 2021a-0ubuntu0.16.04 


The following is a complete changelog for this image.
new: {}
removed: {}
changed: ['apport', 'ca-certificates', 'python3-apport', 'python3-problem-report', 'tzdata']
new snaps: {}
removed snaps: {}
changed snaps: []
==== apport: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.28 => 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30 ====
====     apport python3-apport python3-problem-report
  * SECURITY UPDATE: multiple security issues (LP: #1912326)
    - CVE-2021-25682: error parsing /proc/pid/status
    - CVE-2021-25683: error parsing /proc/pid/stat
    - CVE-2021-25684: stuck reading fifo
    - data/apport: make sure existing report is a regular file.
    - apport/fileutils.py: move some logic here to skip over manipulated
      process names and filenames.
    - test/test_fileutils.py: added some parsing tests.
==== ca-certificates: 20201027ubuntu0.16.04.1 => 20210119~16.04.1 ====
====     ca-certificates
  * Update ca-certificates database to 20210119 (LP: #1914064):
    - mozilla/{certdata.txt,nssckbi.h}: Update Mozilla certificate
      authority bundle to version 2.46.
    - backport certain changes from the Ubuntu 20.10 20210119 package
==== tzdata: 2020f-0ubuntu0.16.04 => 2021a-0ubuntu0.16.04 ====
====     tzdata
  * New upstream version (LP: #1913482), affecting the following future timestamp:
    - South Sudan changes from +03 to +02 on 2021-02-01 at 00:00.

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[1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release-20210203/
[2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release-20210128/