Activated: Add a mechanism to perform release updates
to check for release
do-release-upgrade -c # If returns 0, it means an update is available. Requires Internet connection. Even if there is no Internet, it will return 1, so should be OK
To check if there are packages to update.
IFS=';' read updates security_updates << (/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check 2>&1)
echo $updates
echo $security_updates