Ubuntu 20.04.3 delayed until August 26th

[Lukasz Zemczak]

... and the footnotes for the earlier e-mail:

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1937115
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-riscv/+bug/1934548

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:30, Lukasz Zemczak
<lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> While working towards the 20.04.3 milestone, we received reports of
> the currently available shim package causing daily builds of our
> installation media to fail to boot on some devices[1]. A fix for that
> is now in progress, but as we would like to make sure the new version
> of the package is well tested before candidate images are built.
> Subsequently, we decided more time is needed. In addition to that we
> are also investigating an unrelated issue with our RISC-V images[2],
> whose root cause is not yet fully understood. As we feel that rushing
> things through is not the right way to go, we decided to play it safe
> and delay the point-release date a week, to August 26th.
>
> That being said, we will be freezing the focal-updates pocket at the
> same date as originally planned (on August 12th), afterwards only
> releasing packages that are critical for the .3 milestone. Let’s all
> use the additional week for further testing.
>
> Remember that the progress of the 20.04.3 release can be tracked at
> any time via our release status tracking post on discourse:
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-3-lts-point-release-status-tracking/22948
>
> Thank you.
>
> On behalf of the release team,
>
> --
> Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
>  Foundations Team
>  lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com
>  www.canonical.com



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Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
 Foundations Team
 lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com
 www.canonical.com