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How does it handle it when services or the OS need a restart after an upgrade?
It'll try to restart the affected services after updating, but doesn't always auto restart everything; sometimes it'll leave services running if you'd otherwise need to deal with dependencies and such. In that case, it'll touch a reboot-required file that'll inform you a reboot is necessary next time you log in.
Scheduling a weekly/daily reboot should take care of that, as well as applying kernel updates.
Services are automatically restarted. There is no automatic reboot by default, but that can be enabled if you really want to. Otherwise it'll keep track of whether a reboot is necessary or not.