Chrome OS Bug Started Mistakenly Sending 'Final Update' Notifications

'Like it or not, Chromebooks do have something of an expiration date
when you purchase them, namely that one day they'll stop receiving
updates. Thankfully, that date is typically over five years after the
Chromebook's original release. For some, however, Chrome OS has been
wrongly indicating this week that their Chromebook has received its
"final update" many years too early.

Just like the Chrome browser on desktop and Android, Chrome OS has
four different update "channels" -- Stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary.
Each one of these after Stable trades a level of stability for more
rapid updates, with Canary receiving highly unstable updates almost
every day. People who are bold enough to put their Chromebook on Dev
or Canary have been facing an interesting new issue for the past few
days. Upon restarting their device, Chrome OS immediately displays a
notification warning that "this is the last automatic software and
security update for this Chromebook." Of course, if you're seeing this
message this week, there's a decent chance that this is not actually
the case.

Instead, these final update warnings are caused by a bug in the most
recent versions of Chrome OS. '

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/09/09/0113215

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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