Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 February 2018
David Britton
on 6 February 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
Hello Ubuntu Server!
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cloud-init
- Fix SSH key validation in ssh_util (Tatiana Kholkina)
- Queued SRU for Ubuntu Xenial and Artful
curtin
- SRU to Ubuntu Xenial and Artful
- Enable reading zfsroot filesystem type in curtin
- Restrict modprobe of zfs modules to Xenial and later series
- Avoid tracebacks by creating configured error_tarfile directory path if it doesn’t already exist LP: #336876
- Improve review-mps tooling to support reviewing and landing branches from both curtin and cloud-init
- Fix vmtest when invalid source version used
Bug Work and Triage
- 283 in the backlog, 96 bugs reviewed
- Notes on daily bug triage
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
Ubuntu Server Packages
Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.
Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases
Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.
Total: 7
cloud-utils, xenial, 0.27-0ubuntu25, smoser
sosreport, trusty, 3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.2, slashd
sosreport, xenial, 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2, slashd
sosreport, artful, 3.5-1~ubuntu17.10.2, slashd
walinuxagent, trusty, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~14.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, xenial, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, artful, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, sil2100
Uploads released to the Supported Releases
Total: 17
clamav, artful, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.17.10.1, mdeslaur
clamav, xenial, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, mdeslaur
clamav, trusty, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, mdeslaur
curtin, xenial, 17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, raharper
curtin, artful, 17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, raharper
dovecot, artful, 1:2.2.27-3ubuntu1.2, leosilvab
dovecot, xenial, 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.6, leosilvab
dovecot, trusty, 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.3, leosilvab
ruby2.3, artful, 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.3, leosilvab
ruby2.3, xenial, 2.3.1-2~16.04.6, leosilvab
spamassassin, artful, 3.4.1-7ubuntu1, paelzer
squid3, artful, 3.5.23-5ubuntu1.1, mdeslaur
squid3, xenial, 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5, mdeslaur
squid3, trusty, 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.11, mdeslaur
w3m, artful, 0.5.3-34ubuntu0.1, leosilvab
w3m, xenial, 0.5.3-26ubuntu0.2, leosilvab
w3m, trusty, 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2, leosilvab
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 73
apache2, 2.4.29-1ubuntu3, xnox
asterisk, 1:13.18.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3, xnox
awstats, 7.6+dfsg-2, packages
bacula, 9.0.6-1build1, xnox
bind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu3, xnox
bind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu2, ahasenack
bind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu1, ahasenack
clamav, 0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu2, xnox
cloud-init, 17.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
crmsh, 3.0.1-3, debian-ha-maintainers
cyrus-sasl2, 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3ubuntu2, xnox
dovecot, 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu2, xnox
fetchmail, 6.3.26-3build1, xnox
freeradius, 3.0.16+dfsg-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
golang-golang-x-net-dev, 1:0.0+git20170629.c81e7f2+dfsg-2, pkg-go-maintainers
golang-golang-x-sync, 0.0~git20170317.0.5a06fca-2, packages
haproxy, 1.7.9-1ubuntu2, xnox
ipmitool, 1.8.18-5build1, xnox
ipxe, 1.0.0+git-20180124.fbe8c52d-0ubuntu2, paelzer
ipxe, 1.0.0+git-20180124.fbe8c52d-0ubuntu1, paelzer
ipxe-qemu-256k-compat, 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu2, paelzer
ipxe-qemu-256k-compat, 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu1, paelzer
keepalived, 1:1.3.9-1build1, xnox
krb5, 1.16-2build1, xnox
ldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu4, xnox
ldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu3, xnox
libcgroup, 0.41-8ubuntu2, xnox
libesmtp, 1.0.6-4.3build1, xnox
libp11, 0.4.7-3, pkg-opensc-maint
libp11, 0.4.7-2ubuntu1, xnox
libpam-mount, 2.16-3build2, xnox
librabbitmq, 0.8.0-1build1, xnox
libsodium, 1.0.16-2, gcs
libvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, paelzer
lxd, 2.21-0ubuntu3, stgraber
multipath-tools, 0.7.4-2ubuntu3, juliank
multipath-tools, 0.7.4-2ubuntu2, juliank
mysql-5.7, 5.7.21-1ubuntu1, lars-tangvald
nagios-nrpe, 3.2.0-4ubuntu3, xnox
nghttp2, 1.29.0-1build1, xnox
nginx, 1.13.6-2ubuntu2, xnox
nis, 3.17.1-1build1, costamagnagianfranco
nmap, 7.60-1ubuntu3, xnox
nss, 2:3.35-2ubuntu2, paelzer
nss, 2:3.35-2ubuntu1, paelzer
ntp, 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5ubuntu6, xnox
open-isns, 0.97-2build1, xnox
open-vm-tools, 2:10.2.0-2build1, xnox
openhpi, 3.6.1-3.1build1, xnox
pam-p11, 0.1.6-2.1build2, xnox
pam-p11, 0.1.6-2.1build1, xnox
php-defaults, 60ubuntu1, nacc
php7.2, 7.2.1-1ubuntu2, nacc
php7.2, 7.2.1-1ubuntu1, nacc
pollinate, 4.30-0ubuntu1, kirkland
postfix, 3.2.5-1build1, xnox
puppet, 4.10.4-2ubuntu2, nacc
python-cryptography, 2.1.4-1build2, xnox
qemu, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1, paelzer
rrdtool, 1.7.0-0ubuntu4, doko
ruby-augeas, 1:0.5.0-3build5, doko
ruby-json, 2.1.0+dfsg-1build1, doko
ruby-shadow, 2.4.1-1build5, doko
ruby2.3, 2.3.6-2build1, doko
siege, 4.0.4-1build1, xnox
socat, 1.7.3.2-2build1, xnox
spamassassin, 3.4.1-8build1, xnox
sqlparse, 0.2.2-1ubuntu1, vorlon
squid3, 3.5.23-5ubuntu2, mdeslaur
unbound, 1.6.7-1build1, xnox
vsftpd, 3.0.3-9build1, xnox
w3m, 0.5.3-36build1, xnox
walinuxagent, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1, sil2100
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