From jbicha at ubuntu.com Fri Feb 22 14:44:39 2019 From: jbicha at ubuntu.com (Jeremy Bicha) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:44:39 -0500 Subject: Ubuntu 16.04.6 RC images for testing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:30 AM Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the light of the recently discovered and fixed apt vulnerability, > we have decided to re-build all our supported isos that could be > potentially affected. We did not plan for another xenial point-release > but oh well, what can you do. Security is important. > > We prepared the first set of xenial 16.04.6 images just now ready for > testing, visible on the new milestone's isotracker [1]. The release > date has been set for February 28th. > > A very important thing related to all that: since this is a completely > out-of-process point-release, flavors are not required to participate > at all. I have prepared images for all the xenial flavors but we will > be releasing only those that are marked as ready at the time of > release. > So if you're a flavor maintainer and you intend to participate in this > very-last-minute point-release, please grab the relevant iso and test > - that would be more than welcome! Otherwise, please be sure to give > the regular Ubuntu isos a spin and report any issues you might > encounter. > > Thanks! > > [1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/400/builds > > Cheers, > > -- > Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak > Foundations Team > lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com > www.canonical.com Ubuntu GNOME will not be doing a 16.04.6 release since we discourage new installs of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 because it will be unsupported after April and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has many improvements for GNOME fans. So I marked the Ubuntu GNOME builds as disabled in the ISO tracker to not waste the valuable time of our ISO testers. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha