Ubuntu Foundations Team - Weekly Newsletter, 2017-06-22

[Steve Langasek]

  *Thursday June 15, 2017*

    Introduction

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

* Python 3.6 transition update -
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-June/039826.html

* Netplan by default in Artful -
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2017-June/001215.html

* Work is underway to resolve an issue,
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1692127, where the
  duplicate signature for apport-package reports is too short and missing
  important information.  This has been fixed in Artful, and SRUs are in
  progress for affected stable releases.  Additionally, a bug bot is fixing
  duplicate signatures of all new bug reports with a short duplicate
  signature.

* The shim-signed package has been updated to improve the experience for
  users of dkms modules on upgrade:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim-signed/1.30 There is also work
  in progress to support easy self-signing of custom kernels and DKMS
  modules.

* Release images published for cloud-images across all supported releases to
  address CVE-2017-1000364 "Stack Clash"

 
    The State of the Archive

* Python3-defaults has migrated to artful with support for python 3.6; see
  above for more information about the status of this transition

* With the Debian unstable floodgates open now following the Debian stretch
  release, a ghc transition is in progress; with luck this will complete
  over the weekend

* KDEPIM 16.12 packages are unblocked in artful-proposed, expected to land
  in artful soon


    Upcoming Ubuntu Dates

* 16.10 EoL in July 2017
* 16.04.3 point release is scheduled for August 3, 2017
 

    Weekly Meeting

IRC Log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-06-22-15.02.moin.txt
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