Ubuntu Server development summary – 29 May 2018

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

• Simplify error messages on invalid YAML blobs. Now include line and column numbers during parse failures in cloud-init and schema validation.
• Enable OpenStack network configuration (LP: #1749717)
• cloud-init logs now represent full package version instead of major.minor.
• tests: modify integration tests to use daily PPA versus local sbuild
• tests: rework integration test ssh connection retries to avoid blocking
• tests: collect artifacts from integration test runs

curtin

• Completed SRU to Ubuntu Bionic, Artful, and Xenial
• tests: added vmtest to x86_64 test run

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

• Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
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Bug Work and Triage

• 288 in the backlog
• 178 bugs reviewed since the last report
• 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

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Total: 5

• chrony, bionic, 3.2-4ubuntu4.1, paelzer
• haproxy, trusty, 1.4.24-2ubuntu0.5, james-page
• openldap, xenial, 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.3, ahasenack
• sssd, xenial, 1.13.4-1ubuntu1.11, vtapia
• tomcat8, bionic, 8.5.30-1ubuntu1.1, tjaalton

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 16

• curtin, bionic, 18.1-17-gae48e86f-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, raharper
• curtin, xenial, 18.1-17-gae48e86f-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, raharper
• curtin, artful, 18.1-17-gae48e86f-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, raharper
• ebtables, trusty, 2.0.10.4-3ubuntu1.14.04.2, ddstreet
• ebtables, xenial, 2.0.10.4-3.4ubuntu2.16.04.1, ddstreet
• ebtables, artful, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.17.10.1, ddstreet
• ebtables, bionic, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.1, ddstreet
• spice, bionic, 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1, leosilvab
• spice, artful, 0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1, leosilvab
• spice, trusty, 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6, leosilvab
• spice-protocol, xenial, 0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1, leosilvab
• ssh-import-id, bionic, 5.7-0ubuntu1.1, mwhudson
• vlan, trusty, 1.9-3ubuntu10.6, ddstreet
• vlan, xenial, 1.9-3.2ubuntu1.16.04.5, ddstreet
• vlan, artful, 1.9-3.2ubuntu5.17.10.1, ddstreet
• vlan, bionic, 1.9-3.2ubuntu6, ddstreet

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 13

• apache2, 2.4.33-3ubuntu2, ahasenack
• byobu, 5.126-0ubuntu1, kirkland
• chrony, 3.3-2ubuntu1, paelzer
• cloud-init, 18.2-59-gcd1de5f4-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
• dovecot, 1:2.2.35-2ubuntu1, paelzer
• drbd-utils, 8.9.10-2ubuntu1, ddstreet
• etckeeper, 1.18.7-1ubuntu1, xnox
• libvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu11, mdeslaur
• maas, 2.4.0-6981-g011e51b7a-0ubuntu1, andreserl
• nbd, 1:3.17-2ubuntu1, cascardo
• pollinate, 4.32-0ubuntu1, smoser
• qemu, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu10, mdeslaur
• spice, 0.14.0-1ubuntu3, leosilvab