Weekly newsletter 30th June 2017

[Will Cooke]

Hi all,

A quick run down from this week:

= GNOME =
We reintroduced the GNOME based Ubuntu session as the default in 16.10
alongside the Wayland session.  The original GNOME session is not installed
on the desktop by default anymore, but is still available in the archive
along with a Unity 7 session.  We’ve been doing work on the upgrade story
as well this week, to make sure that people migrating from Unity 7 to GNOME
Shell is smooth and easy.

= LivePatch =
Work is continuing on the LivePatch integration with the desktop.  This
week we’ve been working on Update Manager to get it to show the current
LivePatch status and which fixes are available and/or applied. We
prototyped an API to get information about the CVEs via the LivePatch
daemon.

= Snaps =
We’ve been at a Snappy sprint in London this week with the Snappy team and
representatives of Ubuntu MATE, GNOME Software, KDE, Elementary, Fedora and
AppStream.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23snapsprint

It’s been a busy week and we’ve got plans for lots of improvements for
desktop Snap users.  A full write up will come next week, but in GNOME
Software we’re adding support for classic snaps, displaying a more
human-readable Snap name, getting correct licensing information from the
store.

We’ve done work to improve the desktop launcher helpers to make use of the
new GNOME platform snap.  If you’re building Gtk apps on 3.24 you can use
the platform snap to significantly reduce the size of your Snap.  (The Snap
is called “gnome-3-24”)

https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers/commits/master


= Updates =
Orca is updated to version 3.24.
Chromium stable is 59.0.3071.109, beta is 60.0.3112.32 then 60.0.3112.40,
dev is 61.0.3135.4.

Cheers, Will
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