Chad Smith
on 8 January 2019
Hello Ubuntu Server
The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list or visit the Ubuntu Server discourse hub for more discussion.
Spotlight: cloud-init 18.5 and curtin 18.2 Released
As 2018 drew to a close, we qualified and released curtin 18.2 and cloud-init 18.5. Both upstream releases are currently available in all Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) images. For a list of features released, see curtin and cloud-init milestone release notes on Launchpad.
cloud-init
- doc: clean up some datasource documentation.
- ds-identify: fix wrong variable name in ovf_vmware_transport_guestinfo.
- Scaleway: Support ssh keys provided inside an instance tag. [Porte Loïc]
- OVF: simplify expected return values of transport functions.
- Vmware: Add support for the com.vmware.guestInfo OVF transport. (LP: #1807466)
- HACKING.rst: change contact info to Josh Powers
- Update to pylint 2.2.2.
- Release 18.5 (LP: #1808380)
- tests: add Disco release [Joshua Powers]
- net: render ‘metric’ values in per-subnet routes (LP: #1805871)
- write_files: add support for appending to files. [James Baxter]
- config: On ubuntu select cloud archive mirrors for armel, armhf, arm64. (LP: #1805854)
curtin
- vmtests: network mtu fix-by bump to post 19.04 release
- vmtest: Fix bug preventing explicit disabling of system_upgrade.
- Release 18.2
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
- Find us on the Ubuntu Community Hub – server channel
Bug Work and Triage
- 268 bugs in the backlog
- Notes on daily bug triage
Ubuntu Server Packages
Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.
Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases
Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.
Total: 3
rdma-core, bionic, 17.1-1ubuntu0.1, paelzer
strongswan, bionic, 5.6.2-1ubuntu2.4, paelzer
strongswan, cosmic, 5.6.3-1ubuntu4.1, paelzer
Uploads Released to the Supported Releases
Total: 22
chrony, xenial, 2.1.1-1ubuntu0.1, ebarretto
chrony, trusty, 1.29-1ubuntu0.1, ebarretto
exim4, bionic, 4.90.1-1ubuntu1.1, ahasenack
libvirt, cosmic, 4.6.0-2ubuntu3.2, paelzer
libvirt, bionic, 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.6, paelzer
lxc, cosmic, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.10.1, stgraber
lxc, bionic, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, stgraber
lxcfs, cosmic, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.10.1, stgraber
lxcfs, bionic, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, stgraber
lxd, bionic, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, stgraber
postfix, bionic, 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2, ahasenack
psmisc, bionic, 23.1-1ubuntu0.1, paelzer
psmisc, cosmic, 23.1-1ubuntu1.1, paelzer
qemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.34, paelzer
qemu, bionic, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.9, paelzer
qemu, cosmic, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu8.2, paelzer
rdma-core, cosmic, 19.0-1ubuntu0.1, paelzer
tmux, bionic, 2.6-3ubuntu0.1, kstenerud
walinuxagent, trusty, 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~14.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, xenial, 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, bionic, 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, cosmic, 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.10.1, sil2100
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 44
at, 3.1.23-1ubuntu1, kstenerud
bind9, 1:9.11.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1, ahasenack
cloud-init, 18.5-1-g5b065316-0ubuntu1, raharper
cloud-utils, 0.31-0ubuntu1, smoser
cloud-utils, 0.30-0ubuntu10, smoser
curtin, 18.2-0ubuntu1, raharper
dnsmasq, 2.80-1ubuntu1, juliank
elinks, 0.12~pre6-14, packages
facter, 3.11.0-1.1build1, raof
golang-github-mattn-go-runewidth, 0.0.4-1, team+pkg-go
groovy, 2.4.16-1ubuntu1, logan
groovy, 2.4.16-1, pkg-java-maintainers
grub-legacy-ec2, 1:1ubuntu1, smoser
ipxe, 1.0.0+git-20180124.fbe8c52d-0ubuntu5, andreserl
kerberos-configs, 2.6build1, jbicha
krb5, 1.16.2-1, hartmans
librabbitmq, 0.9.0-0.2~build1, costamagnagianfranco
libvirt, 4.6.0-2ubuntu5, paelzer
maas, 2.5.0-7442-gdf68e30a5-0ubuntu1, andreserl
net-snmp, 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu5, jbicha
nmap, 7.70+dfsg1-6~build1, costamagnagianfranco
nmap, 7.70+dfsg1-5ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
ocfs2-tools, 1.8.5-7, debian-ha-maintainers
oops, 0.0.14-0ubuntu1, logan
open-vm-tools, 2:10.3.5-1, bzed
pep8, 1.7.1-3, None
php-defaults, 69ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
python-boto, 2.44.0-1.1ubuntu1, xnox
python-django, 1:1.11.18-1ubuntu2, costamagnagianfranco
python-django, 1:1.11.18-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
python-django, 1:1.11.17-2ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
python-django, 1:1.11.17-2, None
python-django, 1:1.11.17-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
python-django, 1:1.11.17-1, None
rabbitmq-server, 3.7.8-4ubuntu2, james-page
ruby-childprocess, 0.9.0-1, pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers
ruby2.5, 2.5.3-3ubuntu1, paelzer
samba, 2:4.9.2+dfsg-2ubuntu2, ahasenack
simplestreams, 0.1.0-22-g409fdc15-0ubuntu1, smoser
slof, 20180702+dfsg-1, pkg-qemu-devel
strongswan, 5.7.1-1ubuntu2, paelzer
strongswan, 5.7.1-1ubuntu1, paelzer
sysstat, 12.0.1-1build1, jbicha
websockify, 0.8.0+dfsg1-10ubuntu2, james-page