Weekly newsletter 15th September 2017

[Nrbrtx]

Thank you for the newsletter!

> GNOME
What is about pkexec'ed and gksu/gksudo root apps on Wayland?
See bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713313 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 .

Please do not forget about APT and Synaptic bugs -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533554 , https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug
s/1522675 , https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612948 .

And Ctrl+Shift interference - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245473 .

And Firefox's orange textarea - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713347 .
If it is possible please package Firefox ESR - see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676164 and https://lists.ubuntu.com/
archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2017-September/017665.html.



With best regards,
Norbert.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Will Cooke <will.cooke at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here's this week's update:
>
> GNOME
> This week saw the release of GNOME 3.26, and we’re ready to ship it in
> 17.10.  This will bring new versions of the core applications and new
> features as described in the GNOME release notes.
> https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.26/
> If you’ve been running 17.10 for a while you will have already been using
> 3.25, the development branch of 3.26, and so you will have already be
> familiar with 3.26
>
> We’ve also been working on adding support for progress bars and urgent
> notifications to the Dash to Dock extension and we ported Dash to Dock
> settings to the new Control Center layout for 3.26
> We’ve been working with the GNOME community on documentation to help
> people transitioning from Unity to GNOME and we tracked down and fixed a
> GDM but which was selecting the wrong session at login.  Patches are
> upstream.
>
> Snap
> Our patches to add PolicyKit support have been cherry picked for snapd
> 2.28.  This will allow you to install Snaps without having to login to
> Ubuntu One.
> We have built new Snaps for gnome-characters and gnome-logs.
>
> Updates
> Chromium 61.0.3163.79 got promoted to stable channel and will be tested
> published soon.
> Chromium dev channel is updated to 62.0.3202.9.
>
> Cheers, Will
>
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