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Sergio Schvezov
7 September 2017

Week 35 of 2017 in snapcraft

Desktop Article

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 27 August until 02 September of 2017. Highlights Added support for new ROS content-sharing use-cases that previously failed to build Revamped remote container mounting to not require an SSH connection Added a c ...


Tim Van Steenburgh
7 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary (9/7/2017)

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 1st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is available for testing. We’ve been fixing a few issuesand expect to release the Canal bundle to the stable ...


Canonical
7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...


Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017

Webteam development summary

Ubuntu Development

Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework. Vanilla Framework put ...


Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017

The snapd roadmap

Desktop Article

This article originally appeared at snapcraft forums released  snapd 2.27 (topic1) snapd 2.28  Improved configuration get output (topic)  Internal xdg-open implementation (topic3)  Refresh hook support (topic)  Lazy registrations on classic (topic3)  Service control on snap command (start/stop/etc) (topic3) Schedule beta Sep 4th candidate ...


Stéphane Graber
6 September 2017

LXC 2.1 has been released

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared at linuxcontainers.org The LXC team is proud to announce the release of LXC 2.1. This release contains a lot of new features introduced since the release of LXC 2.0. Note that this isn’t a LTS release and we’ll therefore only be supporting LXC 2.1 for a year. Production environments that require ...


Canonical
6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kern ...


Canonical
5 September 2017

MAAS Development Update – Aug 21st – Sept 1st

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)Hardware Testing Phase 2Added parameters form for script parameters validation.Accept and validate results from nodes.Added hardware testing 7zip CPU benchmarking builtin script.WIP – ability to send parameters to test script ...


David Britton
5 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 05 Sep 2017

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Stéphane Graber
4 September 2017

LXD Weekly Status #13: Snap data migration, Open Source Summit & more

Cloud and server Article

Weekly status for the week of the 28th to the 3rd of September 2017. Introduction The main focus for this past week has been the preparation for LXC 2.1. We’ve now issued a call for testing and expect it to release tomorrow (Tuesday). On the LXD side of things, we’ve been working through bug reports quite a ...


Canonical
4 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the ability to release a snap on a particular “channel” indicating how stable or production-ready it is. The well-known channel names stable, candidate, beta and edge indicate a snap’s stabil ...