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Canonical
30 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017

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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

Canonical
30 August 2017


Canonical
29 August 2017

Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades

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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

Canonical
29 August 2017


Sergio Schvezov
29 August 2017

Week 34 of 2017 in snapcraft

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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...

Sergio Schvezov
29 August 2017


Will Cooke
25 August 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 25, 2017

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GNOME Shell Didier has written a series of blog posts detailing how we’ve set up the Ubuntu GNOME Shell session in Artful to co-exist with the default GNOME Shell experience and still give us the flexibility we need to shape the experience as we would like. You can start at day one here.  We worked

Will Cooke
25 August 2017


Canonical
24 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017

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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...

Canonical
24 August 2017


Sergio Schvezov
23 August 2017

I me mine: An UbuConLA 2017 Summit Summary

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These are my notes about UbuconLA, a bit of social activities and thoughts on the talks related to the snappy ecosystem.Arriving I left late on thursday for a planned night arrival into Lima, Leo was going to be arriving around 2 hours earlier than me

Sergio Schvezov
23 August 2017


Sergio Schvezov
22 August 2017

Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft

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Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 14 until August 20 of 2017. Development in master Last week, error handling in snapcraft took the spotlight, this is the list of what happened in master: docs: fix typo in plugin help (PR: #1496) errors: use function for exit code (PR:

Sergio Schvezov
22 August 2017


Robie Basak
21 August 2017

Git Ubuntu: More on the imported repositories

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This is the third post in our series on our git workflow tooling in Ubuntu. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly experimental. Nish introduced our imported repositories using the git ubuntu...

Robie Basak
21 August 2017


Canonical
17 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 17, 2017

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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...

Canonical
17 August 2017


Sergio Schvezov
15 August 2017

Week 32 In Snapcraft

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Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 7 until August 13 of 2017. Development in master The theme of code landing into master this week was mostly about robotics, from polishing and refactoring to ease the development of ROS 2 support (ament plugin) as well as supporting new...

Sergio Schvezov
15 August 2017


Will Cooke
11 August 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 11, 2017

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GUADEC The GNOME conference happened last week with good representation from Ubuntu. The spirit was good and the discussions constructive. Decisions were made, details can be read on https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/03/ubuntu–guadec-2017-and-plans-for-gnome-shell-migration/ GNOME Shell We’re preparing to make the changes...

Will Cooke
11 August 2017


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
11 August 2017

How to sign things for Secure Boot

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Secure Boot signing The whole concept of Secure Boot requires that there exists a trust chain, from the very first thing loaded by the hardware (the firmware code), all the way through to the last things loaded by the operating system as part of the kernel: the modules. In other words, not just the firmware

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
11 August 2017


Canonical
10 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 10, 2017

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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...

Canonical
10 August 2017


Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Fresh Snaps from July 2017

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If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE, JSON configuration, blockchain wallet and Openstack… Ready for an active summer? If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package

Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017