Wishes for +Xenial

[Ryein Goddard]

yeah thats true.  I'm on 14.04 using wily kernel right now :D

On 01/25/2016 09:20 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
> On 23 January 2016 at 22:56, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>   I'm wondering here about what package versions we'll have on Xenial
>> 16.04...
>>
>>   So, I'm creating a wish list!    :-P
>>
>>   Upgrades:
>>
>>   - Apt 1.2
>>   - Linux 4.4 (long term) - confirmed
>>   - OpenShot 2.0
>>   - Ansible 2.0
>>   - Docker 1.10.X - better integrated with Ubuntu and with rolling upgrades
>> during 16.04 life cycle (like Ubuntu Cloud archive)
>>   - QEmu 2.5 - Done - With 3D support (specially for Ubuntu Desktop on KVM)!
>>   - Mesa 11.1 - Done
>>   - Xen 4.6 - Done!
>>   - DPDK 2.2 or 2.3 (new 16.04) with Xen support (for ParaVirt DomUs) -
>> confirmed!
>>   - Virt-Manager 1.3 and SPICE support (Python 3 deps already in)
>>   - Libvirt 1.2.21 - Done!
>>   - Samba 4.3 - Done!
>>   - SSSD 1.13 - Done!
>>   - Wireshark 2 (QT based, no GTK)
>>   - nmap 7
>>   - InfluxDB 0.9.6 (or newer) - Done!
>>   - Prometheus Server 0.16 & Node Exporter (0.12)
>>   - MariaDB 10.1.10 plus better support for it (move it for Main Repo)
>>   - Vagrant 1.8 - Done - But fully integrated with both KVM/Libvirt and
>> VirtualBox
>>   - Enlightenment 0.20 & LibEFL 1.16 - https://www.enlightenment.org/download
>> with Wayland enabled   ;-)
>>   - Terminology 0.9.1
>>
>>   - blivet-gui: http://blog.vojtechtrefny.cz/blivet-gui instead of GParted ?
>>
>>
>>   And why not, new packages (specially more Go projects)? Like:
>>
>>   - Consul
>>   - Alertmanager (Prometheus)
>>   - PromDash (Prometheus)
>>   - Packer
>>
>> More:
>>
>>   - KVM VirtIO Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
>>   - Xen GPLPV Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
>>   - Better NodeJS Integration and NPM management
>>   - More Ruby Gem as Deb packages
>>
>>   - Bitcoin/Litecoin Electrum Wallet
>>   - Ethereum and IoT Devices?
>>   - Bitcoin/Litecoin/Etc integrated with Ubuntu App Store!?
>>
>> * systemd networkd - drop ifupdowd, please.
>>
>> LXD fully supported on OpenStack.
>>
>> ** OpenStack hybrid Compute Node that supports KVM and LXD side-by-side.
>>
>> Perfect IPv6 support! Especially for OpenStack...
>>
>>   Dreaming:
>>
>>   - All Microsoft Open Source projects, .NET (corefx, corectr, etc), Visual
>> Studio, everything... Kidding...
>>   - Apple Swift available
>>
>>
>>   Bug fixes for:
>>
>>   * Make Linux Kernel more modular (very important and an easy one):
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475078
>>
>>
>>   * ecryptfs-utils does not work with Ubuntu 14.04.3:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1328689
>>
>>   * ubuntu-desktop depends on iBus, which is totally broken:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1365752
>>
>>   * NM disables accept_ra for an IPv6 connection, where it should enable it:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1455967
>>
>> * Impossible to disable IPv6 auto, params "accept_ra & autoconf = 0" have no
>> effect on VLAN interfaces:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1345847
>>
>> * memcached unable to bind to an ipv6 address:
>>   https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=310
>>
>>
>>   - Samba related bugs:
>>
>> * Samba4 AD DC randomly dies (4.3 might be better, need to put it in prod
>> and see):
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1357471
>>
>> * Samba4, when with 2003 default level, dies when IPv6 is enabled:
>>   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10730
>>
>>   * Samba has a wrong "Dual-Stack" implementation (I think) - (I'll help to
>> prepare a reproducible procedure):
>>   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10729
>>
>>   * Samba4 get stuck after a server reboot, if IPv6 is enabled:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/1339434/
>>
>>
>>   - A elegant solution for this:
>>
>>   * Ubuntu does not honor “ignore-hosts” proxy settings for IPv6:
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/d-conf/+bug/1295003
>>
>>   This problem is interesting, I think that Ubuntu should provide a way to,
>> if the proxy is enabled, do a DNS Look up locally, before querying local
>> "ignore-hosts" table. This is specially useful, if for example, you have an
>> IPv6-Only Ubuntu Desktop, but NEED a Proxy only to browse IPv4 networks.
>> What I'm trying to do here is to put the Global IPv6 subnet (2000::/3) in my
>> "ignore-hosts", because I don't need a proxy to reach IPv6 hosts, but,
>> everything goes to the proxy (because the DNS look up occurs at the Proxy,
>> and this sucks sometimes). If someone can point me a different solution to
>> this problem, that would be great!
>>
>>   Sorry about crossposting...   =P
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Thiago
> One more Bug that needs to get fixed for Xenial:
>
> Xenial Server daily ISO boot in text mode interface isn't working -
> kind of loop:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/1537252
>
> It breaks Packer builds of Xenial...
>