Ubuntu Server development summary – 04 September 2018

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.

Spotlight: Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Feature Freeze Reminder

We are nearing release for Cosmic (18.10) on October 18th. In preparation for the release, we recently entered Feature Freeze on August 23rd. Now is the time that we focus on bug fixes for our packages because most of the significant features targetting Cosmic are ‘frozen’. Thank you for helping us build a better Ubuntu! We look forward to another great release.

Please read the Cosmic release schedule for more details about release-related dates.

cloud-init

• Add unit tests for config/cc_ssh.py [Francis Ginther]
• Fix the built-in cloudinit/tests/helpers:skipIf
• read-version: enhance error message [Joshua Powers]
• hyperv_reporting_handler: simplify threaded publisher
• VMWare: Fix a network config bug in vm with static IPv4 and no gateway. [Pengpeng Sun] (LP: #1766538)

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

• Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
• Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
• Find us on the Ubuntu Community Hub – server channel

Bug Work and Triage

• 268 in the backlog
• No change in backlog since 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

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Total: 2

• maas, bionic, 2.4.2-7034-g2f5deb8b8-0ubuntu1, andreserl
• unbound, bionic, 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.2, paelzer

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 5

• apache2, bionic, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.3, ahasenack
• chrony, bionic, 3.2-4ubuntu4.2, paelzer
• libvirt, bionic, 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.4, paelzer
• samba, trusty, 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.17, ahasenack
• samba, xenial, 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.16, ahasenack

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 8

• cloud-init, 18.3-35-g3f6d0972-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
• libapache2-reload-perl, 0.13-2, pkg-perl-maintainers-lists-alioth
• nbd, 1:3.18-1, wouter-debian
• openvpn, 2.4.6-1ubuntu2, paelzer
• python-cffi, 1.11.5-2, None
• qemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu5, paelzer
• spice-protocol, 0.12.14-1, guoliang-6
• websocket-client, 0.48.0-1, None