Upgrade server software packages

[smattingly]

The following will require work on the production server, which must be planned and scheduled outside business hours:

• verify unattended upgrades are working
• nginx (see https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.dewv.net)
• npm
• node
• sails: want to remove the "global" (server wide) install; app should use the version bundled with it
• Ubuntu 20.04?

[smattingly]

@makarenkojDe Need a status update, please.

[makarenkojDe]

https://nodejs.org/en/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm
Here are the links for the latest versions of Node and Npm

[makarenkojDe]

We are currently on 1.14.0 for Nginx and there are a lot of new versions out and by the looks of it the most stable version from what I saw and it recommends is 1.18.0 or the mainline version at 1.19.7
http://nginx.org/en/download.html

[makarenkojDe]

From the release notes, I would recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 20.0.4 if you have the right system requirements to do so. You can find the latest upgrade for that here https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
All the new network configuration upgrades they have done as well with the Linux kernel look very useful from what I have read in the release notes.

[smattingly]

@makarenkojDe I'd like to prioritize these, starting with node/npm/sails first. Changes to the production server have to be done outside of business hours, so we will need to plan and schedule that.

[smattingly]

@makarenkojDe Please try to find the command we would run in the Ubuntu bash terminal to install node 14.16.0 LTS. (I think that will update npm at the same time.) Most things install with apt install ... but node seems to be a bit different.