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Stormlord
Asked: 2018-05-23 10:45:28 +0800 CST

amd64-microcode installation during the latest 16.04 updates

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Does anybody know why the amd64-microcode package gets installed automatically on systems that use Intel processors during the latest 16.04 updates on May 22, 2018?

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    It's a new dependency of linux-image-generic. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/1738259.

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