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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

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

The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, and community contributors. There are a limited number of non-sponsored slots remaining. If you’re local to New York or can arrang

On Wednesday 30th August, the upstream OpenStack community officially announced the release of OpenStack Pike. Pike represents the 2nd release of OpenStack this year after Ocata was released back in February and it shows that the innovation and progress in OpenStack shows no signs of slowing just yet. With recent big announcements from Go

Introduction Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran a two-day summit in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the summit was to meet with contributors to cloud-init from cloud providers and OS vendors to demo recent developments in cloud-init, resolve outstanding issues, and collect feedback on development and test pro

This originally appeared on Chris Glass’ blog Running a mirror for your favorite distribution is much easier than it sounds when leveraging the right tools (and the work of others, including yours truly). You might be interested to see what we (the Public Cloud team and Web Operations team at Canonical) developed over the years

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This article originally appeared in James Page’s blog Welcome to the sixth Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! Firstly apologies for the lack of update two weeks ago; your author’s attempt to schedule publication whilst he was on holiday failed miserably – so this edition is a bit of a wrap up of the last 3-4 weeks

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week

This newsletter is here 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 We encourage flavor teams to

August 22 through August 28 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Beta 1 – Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta – Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 – Oct 19 (~7 weeks away) We intend

This article originally appeared in Christian Brauner’s blog Even before LXD gained its new powerful storage API that allows LXD to administer multiple storage pools, one frequent request was to extend the range of available storage drivers (btrfs, dir, lvm, zfs) to include Ceph. Now we are happy to announce that we fulfilled this request

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

This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 20-26, 2017. Development in master many: simplify plugin loading PR: #1507 grammar: move into project_loader PR: #1500 project loader: refactor into package PR: #1504 ci: speedup the CLA check PR: #1503

This article originally appeared at the Linux Containers forum Introduction This week saw the release of LXD 2.17 and it’s now quickly rolling out to our users. We’re still very busy with preparation work for LXC 2.1 with a tentative release date of Monday next week. A lot of work has gone into our snap package, including