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7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected] During the last week ...


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7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...


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6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kern ...


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5 September 2017

MAAS Development Update – Aug 21st – Sept 1st

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)Hardware Testing Phase 2Added parameters form for script parameters validation.Accept and validate results from nodes.Added hardware testing 7zip CPU benchmarking builtin script.WIP – ability to send parameters to test script ...


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4 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the ability to release a snap on a particular “channel” indicating how stable or production-ready it is. The well-known channel names stable, candidate, beta and edge indicate a snap’s stabil ...


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30 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 31, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected] During the last week ...


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30 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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 We encourage flavor teams to ...


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30 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary: August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

August 22 through August 28 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Beta 1 – Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta – Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 – Oct 19 (~7 weeks away) We intend ...


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29 August 2017

Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which ...


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24 August 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary- August 24

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog August 18th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: CI failures fixed. We spent some time fixing a handful of CI failures that had crept in recently. We’re back to green now and looking good for a ...


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24 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected] During the last week ...


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24 August 2017

From docs to Schema

Cloud and server Article

This article was originally featured on Chad Smith’s blog Is there an echo in here? When looking through cloud-config modules it seemed there was a lot of boilerplate documentation and logic in each module to document and validate accepted configuration keys for the module. Houston, we have a problem Problem 1: Doc rot Cloud-init has ...