Ubuntu Server development summary – 24 July 2018
Joshua Powers
on 24 July 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.
cloud-init
- Upload new release to Ubuntu Cosmic. Contains:
- docs: note in rtd about avoiding /tmp when writing files
- ubuntu,centos,debian: get_linux_distro to align with platform.dist
- Fix boothook docs on environment variable name (INSTANCE_I -> INSTANCE_ID) (Marc Tamsky)
- update_metadata: a datasource can support network re-config every boot
- tests: drop salt-minion integration test
- Retry on failed import of gpg receive keys.
- tools: Fix run-container when neither source or binary package requested.
- docs: Fix a small spelling error (Oz N Tiram)
- tox: use simplestreams from git repository rather than bzr.
- Begin SRU to other supported Ubuntu releases
- Docs: add notes about not writting to /tmp due to systemd races
- Fix get_linux_distro on debian, ubuntu and centos to mimic platform.dist
- Disabled Artful testing
curtin
- SRU run of vmtests with version in proposed
- tests: skip by date decorator to run skipped tests, but ignore result
- tests: disabled Artful testing
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
Bug Work and Triage
- 289 in the backlog
- 249 bugs reviewed since the last report
- Notes on daily bug triage
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: 9
cloud-init, xenial, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smith
cloud-init, artful, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smith
cloud-init, bionic, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, chad.smith
dovecot, xenial, 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.8, cyphermox
keepalived, bionic, 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu0.18.04.1, corey.bryant
libapache2-mod-perl2, xenial, 2.0.9-4ubuntu1.1, ahasenack
postgresql-common, xenial, 173ubuntu0.2, juliank
qemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31, paelzer
smartmontools, trusty, 6.2+svn3841-1.2ubuntu0.1, ahasenack
Uploads Released to the Supported Releases
Total: 15
apache2, artful, 2.4.27-2ubuntu4.2, ahasenack
apache2, xenial, 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.9, ahasenack
dns-root-data, artful, 2018013001~17.10.1, mdeslaur
dns-root-data, xenial, 2018013001~16.04.1, mdeslaur
dnsmasq, xenial, 2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.5, mdeslaur
docker.io, xenial, 17.03.2-0ubuntu2~16.04.1, mwhudson
ebtables, xenial, 2.0.10.4-3.4ubuntu2.16.04.2, rbalint
ebtables, artful, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.17.10.3, rbalint
ebtables, bionic, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.3, rbalint
ipmitool, bionic, 1.8.18-5ubuntu0.1, dannf
nbd, bionic, 1:3.16.2-1ubuntu0.1, cascardo
php7.2, bionic, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, mdeslaur
php7.2, bionic, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, mdeslaur
python-cryptography, bionic, 2.1.4-1ubuntu1.2, leosilvab
screen, bionic, 4.6.2-1ubuntu1, brian-murray
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 26
autofs, 5.1.2-4ubuntu1, ahasenack
clamav, 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1, mdeslaur
clamav, 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu3, ahasenack
cloud-init, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
cloud-initramfs-tools, 0.42ubuntu1, smoser
cloud-initramfs-tools, 0.41ubuntu1, smoser
exim4, 4.91-5ubuntu1, ahasenack
facter, 3.11.0-1build1, doko
ipmitool, 1.8.18-5ubuntu1, dannf
keepalived, 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu1, corey.bryant
ldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu6, vorlon
libseccomp, 2.3.3-3ubuntu1, tyhicks
php7.2, 7.2.7-0ubuntu2, mdeslaur
php7.2, 7.2.7-0ubuntu1, mdeslaur
pkg-php-tools, 1.36, pkg-php-pear
puppet, 5.5.2-2, pkg-puppet-devel
python-cryptography, 2.2.2-1ubuntu1, leosilvab
python-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu2, costamagnagianfranco
python-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
qemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu3, paelzer
qemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu2, paelzer
qemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu1, paelzer
samba, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu3, ahasenack
sssd, 1.16.1-1ubuntu4, ahasenack
tomcat8, 8.5.32-1ubuntu2, stefanor
tomcat8, 8.5.32-1ubuntu1, stefanor
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