Ubuntu Foundations Team - Weekly Newsletter, 2017-08-24

[Steve Langasek]

  *Thursday, August 24, 2017*

This newsletter is 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 file their merge proposals for Ubiquity 
  slideshow updates as soon as possible for inclusion in 17.10.

* Apport has been modified in 17.10 to gather information about python 
  versions on the system to help troubleshoot errors caused when users 
  install unofficial python versions. The report keys are PythonDetails and 
  Python3Details e.g. “/usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.2, python3-minimal, 
  3.6.1-0ubuntu3”.

* OpenJDK 7 version 7u151-2.6.11-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 has been released for 
  Ubuntu 14.04

* netplan 0.26 has been release to artful


    The State of the Archive

* The team worked hard to get the Qt5.9 transition in order, with removals 
  of packages not ported to the new version.  This landed as the last major 
  transition before Feature Freeze.  Thanks to all who helped get this done 
  in time!

* We have now entered Feature Freeze, and package uploads should be done in 
  accordance with the feature freeze guidelines. 
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2017-August/001221.html

* The resolvconf and ifupdown packages have been dropped from the base 
  debootstrap set in artful; new installs of 17.10 will now exclusively use 
  systemd-resolved instead of resolvconf, and NetworkManager/systemd-networkd 
  instead of ifupdown.  For background on these changes, see 
  http://blog.cyphermox.net/2017/06/netplan-by-default-in-1710.html


    Upcoming Ubuntu Dates

* 17.10 opt-in Beta 1 - August 31, 2017


    Weekly Meeting

* IRC Logs:
  http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-08-17-15.02.moin.txt
  http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-08-24-15.02.moin.txt
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