--- title: "Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: August 8, 2017\n | Ubuntu" description: 'This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team.  There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights Brian Murray explains how one can […]' url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-foundations-development-summary-august-8-2017?format=md keywords: index, follow --- 1. [Blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 8 August 2017 # Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: August 8, 2017 --- Share the article This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team.  There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. ## Highlights * Brian Murray explains how one can test an unsupported release upgrade path, like from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, to test part of the LTS to LTS upgrade path. * Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote a how-to blog entry on signing kernel modules and other things for use with UEFI Secure Boot systems. * [Cloud images for Xenial](http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release/) and newer have been released with updated packages, including the kernel, which has fixes to address [CVE-2017-7533](https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-7533.html). * Matthias Klose, Dimitri Ledkov, Balint Reczey and Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre are on their way to [DebConf](https://debconf17.debconf.org/). If you’re heading there also, say hello! ## The State of the Archive * The ongoing libevent transition is at 88% of completion * The GCC 7 transition has begun in artful-proposed; GCC 7 will be the default in 17.10, please help ensure your packages in the archive are up to date and ready to build with this new toolchain. * The transition to Perl 5.26 is in progress in artful-proposed, with some delays due to issues with the autopkgtest infrastructure and a sync of a reupload from Debian.  This is expected to reach artful early next week. * The python3 transition continues, with python3.5 being dropped from the list of supported versions in artful-proposed.  Packages uploaded today will build without python3.5 support, and python3.5 will be dropped from artful before release. ## Upcoming Ubuntu Dates * [16.04.3 point release came out on August 3, 2017!](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2017-August/000224.html) * [17.10 Feature Freeze – August 24, 2017](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule) ## Weekly Meeting IRC Log: [http://ubottu.com/](http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-08-03-15.06.moin.txt) [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Newsletter signup Get the latest Ubuntu news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Cut bloat, not features](https://ubuntu.com/blog/cut-bloat-not-features) Accelerating software delivery with minimal OCI images For Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), delivering containerized applications to enterprise clients often means... [Lily Rivers-Klee](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/lilyriversklee) 11 September 2026 [### Ubuntu now certified on Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-8275](https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-now-certified-on-qualcomm-dragonwing-iq-8275) Sep 8, 2026 – Canonical and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announce the general availability of certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images for the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-8275 Evaluation... [Canonical](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/canonical) 8 September 2026 [### Grace on the currents: Stonking Stingray](https://ubuntu.com/blog/grace-on-the-currents-stonking-stingray) When the codename for Ubuntu 26.10 was announced, I suspect there was a measurable surge in users searching for the definition of “stonking” across search engines and the... [Aaron Prisk](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/aaronprisk) 8 September 2026 [### How we create a Canonical Academy exam](https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-create-a-canonical-academy-exam) Open source provides the world with access to cutting-edge software, and the learning that comes with it. But how do you validate someone’s skills in an open ecosystem?... [Ishani Ghoshal](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/ishanighoshal) 2 September 2026