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The past few weeks have been very busy in the snapd world, and involved not only coding by itself but also face-to-face meet ups to discuss and detail what is to come. If you’re interested in what has been going on and what is to come, please read on. 2.26 went stable! It has been

Our team and Microsoft recently released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application! If you toyed with the “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” version before and would like to try the latest and greatest, read on! Saving your data If your “bash on ubuntu on windows” environment has some data you’d like to keep, make sure you

Development (Artful / 17.10) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017. The Artful kernel in the archive has been rebased to 4.11.12. The Artful staging repository has been rebased to 4.12.4.

This newsletter is here 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 Brian Murray announced a change

This is a guest post by Thomi Richards. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com One of the nicest features of snap packages is that it allows publishers to control which dependencies are shipped with their application: It’s endlessly frustrating to find that your users are experiencing bro

The potential for IoT is huge but many businesses are still grappling with how it can benefit their organisation and how exactly to get started. Canonical recently surveyed over 360 IoT professionals to examine their current and future challenges plus opportunities that exist for organisations looking to become IoT ready. This infographic

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: Developing

Here’s the latest in the world of Desktop: GNOME We’ve been looking at ways to port the feature of allowing the sound to go above 100%. This is needed because some computers (e.g. Thinkpad X220) have a fairly low volume at 100% and so adding some software amplification is a useful addition. While this does

This blog was originally posted by Tim Van Steenburgh July 21st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here’s a look at what we did. Fixes and Improvements Check out the full list on GitHub. Here are some notables: Made load balancer port configurable Changed default –service-cluste

Hello MAASters! The MAAS development summaries are back!The past three weeks the team has been made good progress on three main areas, the development of 2.3, maintenance for 2.2, and out new and improved python library (libmaas).MAAS 2.3 (current development release)The first official MAAS 2.3 release has been prepared. It is currently u

This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com. Highlights The upstream stable releases, 4.4.77 and 4.4.78, have been ap

In this latest update we’ve moved all steps to be completed prior to any of those longer blocking tasks and made deployments more resilient.

In an earlier blog post I mentioned ss, another tool that comes with the iproute2 package and allows you to query statistics about sockets. The same thing that can be done with netstat, with the added benefit that it is typically a little bit faster, and shorter to type. Just ss by default will display much the same thing as netstat,

GNOME We’re working on adding captive portal detection to Artful. We think it would be good if there were an option in the privacy settings to enable or disable this. We’ve done some initial work as preparation – some patches have been submitted to Network Manager’s upstream to enable an option to be created. They are currently awaiting r

Back in 2014, I published some information and tooling on using git for Ubuntudevelopment,even though most Ubuntu development wasn’t done with git at the time.Three years on, this work has expanded significantly. Most of the server teamis using git for daily work when touching Ubuntu packaging. We have expandedour tooling. With the signif

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 cloud-init