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Joshua Powers
on 29 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 29 May 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.

cloud-init

  • Simplify error messages on invalid YAML blobs. Now include line and column numbers during parse failures in cloud-init and schema validation.
  • Enable OpenStack network configuration (LP: #1749717)
  • cloud-init logs now represent full package version instead of major.minor.
  • tests: modify integration tests to use daily PPA versus local sbuild
  • tests: rework integration test ssh connection retries to avoid blocking
  • tests: collect artifacts from integration test runs

curtin

  • Completed SRU to Ubuntu Bionic, Artful, and Xenial
  • tests: added vmtest to x86_64 test run

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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: 5

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 16

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 13

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