Update Manager is not showing security updates properly. They are appearing as regular software updates.

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop, operating-systems

Research direction

Start in Update Manager 7.0.7 on Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon and reproduce the classification by opening the changelog for listed software updates. Trace how available updates are categorized and displayed; done means security updates appear at the top with a security icon in the type field.

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Description

BUG

Update manager is not displaying the available updates properly. Kernel updates seems to be indicated fine, but security updates are getting classified as software updates, so the only way to find the security updates is to click on each and every software update and view the changelog to see what type of update it is. For some reason Firefox updates and Thunderbolt updates (I think that is the name), they are the only ones that show up as actual security updates now.

To reproduce this, just go into the update manager and read the changelog of the software updates. For weeks I thought the only security updates were for Firefox and that other program. Now I see that dozens of security updates were just hidden in the regular software updates section.

The expected behaviour is for security updates to be shown at the top of the update manager list with an icon in the "type" field to show that it is in fact a security update.

The software version of the update manager is 7.0.7, and this is occurring on Linux Mint 22.1Cinnamon.

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