text: March 21
  ##Development (18.04)##
  [](<a href="" title=""></a>)
  * On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository.
  Important upcoming dates:
  Final Beta - Apr 5 (~2 weeks away)
  Kernel Freeze - Apr 12 (~3 weeks away)
  Final Freeze - Apr 19 (~4 weeks away)
  Ubuntu 18.04 - Apr 26 (~5 weeks away)
  ##Stable (Released & Supported)##
  * The updated kernel packages for the current SRU cycle are now in
  -proposed ready for verification and tests.
  Ker: [
  Hey there,
  <a href="" title=""></a> was raised
  to my attention in a discussion about apport/e.u.c and I'm wondering if
  the change is right
  Hello,
  As many of you must have noticed, netplan is now the default network
  configuration tool on Ubuntu.
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  There have been a number of changes to netplan and many new features
  added this cycle.
  I.
  Hello everyone,
  Please congratulate Simon on his successful Ubuntu Qt5 Uploaders
  application! Being part of the team, tsimonq2 now has upload rights to
  Qt5 packages in the Ubuntu archives.
  Cheers!
  Hey folks,
  We had a coding day in Foundations last week and Balint and Julian added support for zstd compression to dpkg [1] and apt [2].
  [1] <a href="" title=""></a>
  [2] <a href="" title=""></a>
  Zstd is a compression algorithm developed by Facebook that offers far
  higher decompression speeds than xz or even gzip (at roughly constant
  speed and memory usage across all levels), while offering 19 compression
  levels ranging from roughly comparable to gzip in size (but much faster)
  to 19, which is roughly comparable to xz -6:
  In
  Hi
  distribution : artful (ubuntu 17.10)
  package libssl-dev [1.0.2g]
  the package libssl-dev claims to be 1.0.2g, but it seems to be older
  header-version 1.0.0, as it lacks the constant
  ./crypto/x509/x509_vfy.h:# define X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CALL
  65
  It seems libssl binary package is also 1.0.0
  ii libssl-dev:amd64 1.0.2g-1ubuntu13.3
  amd64 Secure Sockets Layer toolkit -
  development files
  ii libssl-doc 1.0.2g-1ubuntu13.3
  all Secure Sockets Layer toolkit -
  deve
  Hello all!
  I am happy to announce the release of git-ubuntu 0.7.1 to all channels
  today.
  This is a massive update to our code as well as a refocus on the
  import side of things.
  February 27
  ##Development (18.04)##
  [](<a href="" title=""></a>)
  On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository.
  16.04.4 Point Release - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
  Feature Freeze - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
  Beta 1 - Mar 8 (~2 weeks away)
  Final Beta - Apr 5 (~6 weeks away)
  Kernel Freeze - Apr 12 (~7 weeks away)
  Final Freeze - Apr 19 (~8 weeks away)
  Today, the Kernel Uploaders Team[1] had an ad-hoc meeting with the
  following members in attendence:
  Andy Whitcroft (apw) [chair]
  Leann Ogasawara (leann-ogasawara)
  Brad Figg (brad-figg)
  Stefan Bader (smb)
  Seth Forshee (sforshee)
  Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)
  Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)
  The meeting was called to review the upload application for Marcelo
  Henrique Cerri (mhcerri)[3]. Marcelo has been working in the kernel team
  for over 1.5 years.
  Hi All,
  Like every year, this year also myself and Till Kamppeter are organizing
  the Google Summer Of Code Projects for Linux Foundation. There are a couple
  of interesting project on this year's list with regards to Open Printing:
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  8-openprinting-projects
  Already there is a bunch of talented students who are interested in working
  on these projects. We require your help in mentoring these students.
  I noticed in the mailing list that you guys only talked about users who are installing Ubuntu for the first time, not upgrading from a previous version (unless I totally missed it, or misunderstood it):
  I'm packaging latest MAME 0.194 and it builds fine on my PPA.
  Unfortunately, link fails for i386 due to virtual machine memory issues:
  /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Memory exhausted
  You can find a full log for build here:
  <a href="" title="">...</a>
  and also here in case I got struck by the greatest idea and try a new build
  :)
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  Please note I've already put great care in tweaking linker options to
  reduce memory consumption, with no luck.
  Great ideas!
  I've been _manually_ re-enabling these popcon reports at every
  install(Ubuntu gives me a $free OS and the least I can do is help 'em out
  w/ some telemetry!) via:
  $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
  As a sys-admin, I do installs regularly and having so many apport notices
  user-facing has been an irritation(i.e. cups-browsed has crashed,
  gnome-shell has crashed, etc.). These are not show-stopping in the majority
  of cases and only confuse the end-user.
  Hi there,
  Just a small note about Popcon:
  It is absolutely useless until its problems are not fixed. For example:
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  Best regards,
  Boris
  Dear all,
  We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that
  matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more
  data about sort of setups our users have and which software they are
  running on it.
  We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but
  along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu”.
  This would be checked by default.
  The result of having that box checked would be:
  * Information from the installation would be sent over HTTPS to a service
  run by Canonical’s IS team.
  I'm not able to build a bionic container:
  autopkgtest-build-lxd images:ubuntu/bionic/amd64
  Creating autopkgtest-prepare-1ay
  Starting autopkgtest-prepare-1ay
  Container finished booting.
  Dear
  Hi everyone,
  I.
  January 09 through January 23
  The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and
  Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top priority.
  Currently, MoM generates merges with patches applied, meaning that the
  resulting merge is often useless because upstream files where changed by
  patches, but the patches not pushed in quilt (and other stuff). I
  usually worked around this by extracting the Debian version, and copying
  debian/ over from the tree MoM generated.
  An hour ago, cjwatson rolled out my change to make MoM create merges
  using trees where patches are not applied.
  firefox 57.x extention "Ubuntu Modifications" no longer compatible... please
  update or remove..
  I'm a member of Ubuntu Kylin. We want to provide users the ARM version desktop image in 18.04,
  but now we only have amd64 and i386 (<a href="" title=""></a>).
  Does anyone know how to archive this ?
  Thanks in advance!
  handsome_feng
  Let's congratulate Andreas on his today's successful Ubuntu Server
  Developer application! He has now been added to the ubuntu-server-dev
  team, gaining upload rights to Ubuntu server packages.
  Cheers,
  openssl has changed api/abi. Currently Ubuntu ships 1.0.2 LTS series
  openssl. Newer api/abi is available as a non-lts 1.1.0 series. Both
  1.0.2 and 1.1.0 series will go end of life upstream over the lifetime
  of bionic.
  TLS 1.3 is currently undergoing standardisation
  (<a href="" title=""></a>) But it seems like it is still
  being actively iterated on.
  The next openssl series is expected to be 1.1.1 and it should be
  binary compatible with 1.1.0 series.
  (please cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed)
  Hi,
  Context: <a href="" title=""></a>
  In Debian, occasionally a package needs different build-time
  dependencies per target environment, due to missing packages, behavior
  differences, or other reasons. Most of the time, developers don't run
  into such issues, but when they do, they're able to resolve them using
  arch-qualified build-depends.
  I'm getting this error a lot in some test runs (like
  <a href="" title="">...</a>
  ):
  autopkgtest [13:07:06]: ERROR: erroneous package: Test dependencies
  are unsatisfiable. A common reason is that your testbed is out of date
  with respect to the archive, and you need to use a current testbed or
  run apt-get update or use -U.
  blame: firejail
  badpkg: Test dependencies are unsatisfiable.
  many of you probably have been in a similar situation: you take your time
  to fix a bug in package foo, upload it, and then the migration is blocked
  because the dep8 tests of package bar failed. You go and check, and it's an
  error in something completely unrelated to what you changed in your upload,
  or a test infrastructure problem. You investigate the history of that test,
  see a few cases of the same exact error, and trigger a retry. Then it
  works, and you move on.
  Except that when your upload was sponsored, you can't click retry.
  November 21 through December 04
  #.
  I'm currently trying to backport offlineimap from zesty to trusty. This
  may be a bit ambitious given the python depends, but I'm taking it as a
  good learning experience. I've been working my way up the depends tree
  with `backportpackage` with great luck, at least up until I ran into
  python-setuptools. Looking at the [sbuild output][1], it seems that all
  the right depends (including several main python packages, including 2.7
  and 3) are pulled in.
  Hello
  I’m trying to raise awareness on issue 1717040:
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  zstd is a compression algorithm developed at Facebook.
  It’s available on most linux/bsd distributions, as referenced here:
  <a href="" title=""></a> incomp
  Hi developers,
  There have recently been some changes to autopkgtest.ubuntu.com that you
  should be aware of if you upload packages to Ubuntu.
  1) s390x tests are now run in full cloud VMs. Previously they were run
  inside LXC containers, so they did not provide all autopkgtest
  capabilities and some tests were skipped. You might see some
  additional tests being run due to this.
  2) arm64 is now a tested architecture. We ran a baseline run across
  all supported releases, and after this was completed (yesterday) we
  enabled the architecture in proposed-migration.
  November 07 through November 20
  #.
  After a successful vote at yesterday's Developer Membership Board
  meeting, we are pleased to announce that Olivier Tilloy (osomon) is
  now the newest Ubuntu Developer. Olivier was granted upload rights for
  chromium-browser.
  Congratulations and welcome!
  On behalf of the Developer Membership Board,
  Jeremy Bicha
  Today we have finished the voting process of Balint's application for
  ubuntu-core-dev membership. Congratulations and welcome to the team!
  Hi all,
  We are currently using Python 2.7.6 that is shipped with Ubuntu 14.04.
  My understanding is that Server Name Identification (SNI) is only supported in Python 2.7.9.
  Does anyone know if there are plans to include SNI support in the current Ubuntu 14.04 Python version?
  Thanks
  Lee
  October 24 through November 06
  #.
  Some.
  Any Ubuntu people at FOSdem?
  *Thursday, October 26, 2017*
  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
  * Artful Aardvark, 17.10, has released. Check out the release notes for
  more info.
  <a href="" title=""></a>
  * Subiquity has had several updates to make it prettier, easier to use and
  translatable.
  == Meeting information ==
  * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 31 Oct at 16:02 — 16:23 UTC
  * Full logs at [[]]
  == Meeting summary ==
  === Review ACTION points from the previous meeting ===
  The discussion about "Review ACTION points from the previous meeting" started at 16:03.
  * ''ACTION:'' dpb1 to follow up on LP: #1686437
  === Ubuntu Server Development ===
  The discussion about "Ubuntu Server Development" started at 16:06.
  * ''LINK:'' <a href="" title=""></a>
  A very active week of git-ubuntu development. We are well on our way
  (in our opinions) to enabling a global import of source packages (this
  will take a presumably very long time to complete!) and to reimport
  the existing repositories (as we are changing the import algorithm,
  details below).
  Oct.
  == Meeting information ==
  * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 24 Oct at 16:03 - 16:14 UTC
  * Full logs at:
  <a href="" title="">...</a>
  === Review ACTION points from previous meeting ===
  The discussion about "Review ACTION points from the previous meeting"
  started at 16:03.
  * dropping old action items.
  Hello!
  After a successful vote on today's DMB meeting, we are pleased to
  announce a new member of the SRU Developers team - Dan Streetman.
  Congratulations!
  Best regards,
  * Changes from 0.3 in the edge channel:
  - Drop python self-tests from the snap (saves about 10M compressed). I
  am still working on reducing it more, but to get a fully
  self-contained Python environment at the exact versions we need for
  python2 and 3 does just take up space.
  October 10 through October 16
  ##Development (Artful / 17.10)##
  [](<a href="" title=""></a>)
  Important upcoming date:
  Ubuntu 17.10 Release - Oct 19 (~2 days away)
  We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A
  4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed
  pocket of the Ubuntu archive.
  Kerne
  == Meeting information ==
  * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 17 Oct at 16:01 — 16:19 UTC
  * Full logs at [[]]
  === Review ACTION points from previous meeting ===
  The discussion about "Review ACTION points from previous meeting" started at 16:01.
  * ''ACTION:'' nacc to write a release notes entry on ipv6 netboot (carried over)
  * ''ACTION:'' nacc to write a server guide entry on ipv6 netboot (carried over)
  === Ubuntu Server Development ===
  The discussion about "U
  Hello Developers,
  After new design of the website I can not access any of the api doc for
  indicators and messaging menu. For example,
  <a href="" title="">...</a>
  now gives 404. :/
  Note, here "13.10" is just an number in link, nothing else.
  October 04 through October 09
  ##Development (Artful / 17.10)##
  [](<a href="" title=""></a>)
  Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~1 days away)
  Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~1 week away)
  ##Stable (Released & Supported)##
  * Released the following security kernel updates to fix embargoed
  CVE-2017-100025
  On 2 October 2017 at 21:58, Denis Mekhanikov < ... at gmail dot com> wrote:
  I believe that sub-domain is now decommissioned, maybe a redirect
  should be put in place to drop people to <a href="" title=""></a>. Where did you
  find that url?
  == Meeting information ==
  * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 10 Oct at 16:08 — 16:29 UTC
  * Full logs at
  [[]]
  === Review ACTION points from previous meeting ===
  The discussion about "Review ACTION points from previous meeting"
  started at 16:08.
  * ''ACTION:'' nacc to write a release notes entry on ipv6 netboot
  (carried over)
  * ''ACTION:'' nacc to write a server guide entry on ipv6 netboot
  (carried over)
  * ''ACTION:'' rbasak to add maintainership info to mys.
  Changes.
  September 25 through October 03
  ##Development (Artful / 17.10)##
  [](<a href="" title=""></a>)
  Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~1 day away)
  Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~1 week away)
  Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~2 week away)
  We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A
  4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed
  pocket of the Ubuntu archive. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel
  Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.
  ##S
  == Meeting information ==
  * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 03 Oct at 16:00 — 16:14 UTC
  * Full logs at [[
  <a href="" title="">...</a>
  ]]
  === Review ACTION points from the previous meeting ===
  The discussion about "Review ACTION points from the previous meeting"
  started at 16:00.
  === Artful Development ===
  The discussion about "Artful Development" started at 16:02.
  * ''LINK:'' <a href="" title=""></a>
  * '''Current Work''' (16:02)
  * ''LINK:'' <a href="" title=""></a>