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Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 May 2018

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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.

cloud-init

  • Completed release of 18.2 to Ubuntu Bionic, Artful, and Xenial
  • Implement bash completion script for cloud-init command line
  • Improved Softlayer datasource documentation
  • net: Depend on iproute2’s ip instead of net-tools ifconfig or route
  • Accept-ra unset by default (LP: #1732002)
  • Command collect-logs will only include most recent boot’s journal (LP: #1766335)
  • FreeBSD: Invoke growfs on ufs filesystems such that it does not prompt. (LP: #1404745)
  • Azure: poll_imds fixes to only report ‘ready’ state once during pre-provisioning from Joshua Chan (LP: #1765214)
  • DataSourceSmartOS: fix hang when metadata service is down from Mike Gerdts (LP: #1667735)
  • DataSourceSmartOS: change default fs on ephemeral disk from ext3 to ext4 from Mike Gerdts (LP: #1763511)
  • pycodestyle: Fix invalid escape sequences in string literals

curtin

  • Upload 18.1 to Ubuntu Bionic
  • add checks and relax byid requirement for zfsroot
  • vmtest: bionic images no longer use the vlan package
  • vmtest: fix lvmiscsi dname checks
  • Installing over lvm install as done by d-i fails (LP: #1764602)
  • clear-holders: fix lvm name use when shutting down (LP: #1764602)
  • install: prevent unmount: disabled from swallowing installation failures (LP: #1764210)
  • pycodestyle: Fix invalid escape sequences in string literals

git-ubuntu

  • Completed first 100% phasing of main imports.
  • Looking at a handful of failures (LP: #1754898)

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Bug Work and 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: 6

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 20

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 23

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