Ubuntu Server development summary – 03 July 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.

Spotlight: cloud-init 18.3 Released

Recently, the cloud-init project released version 18.3! From the announcement, some highlights include:

• OpenStack Datasource now runs at local time frame paving the way for network configuration in the next release.
• Fix utf-8 content in user-data (LP: #1768600)
• Many SmartOS improvements
• Numerous bug fixes, test improvements, and tool changes.

Version 18.3 is already available in Ubuntu Cosmic. Other Ubuntu releases will have 18.3 shortly as the SRU process is completed.

cloud-init

• update_metadata: a datasource can support network re-config every boot
• Retry on failed import of gpg receive keys.
• Explicitly prevent sudo access for user module (Jacob Bednarz) (LP: #1771468)
• docs: Fix a small spelling error (Oz N Tiram)
• docs: represent sudo:false in docs for user_groups config module
• tools: Fix run-container when neither source or binary package requested.
• tox: use simplestreams from git repository rather than bzr.
• tests: drop salt-minion integration test (LP: #1778737)
• Enabled automatic merge of approved merge requests

curtin

• Added Ubuntu Cosmic vmtests
• Enabled automatic merge of approved merge requests

simplestreams

• Migrated project from bzr to git
• Updated CI with new location

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

• Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
• Email the ubuntu-server mailing list

Bug Work and Triage

• 289 in the backlog
• 301 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

Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.

Total: 9

• cloud-init, xenial, 18.3-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smith
• cloud-init, artful, 18.3-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smith
• cloud-init, bionic, 18.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, chad.smith
• ebtables, xenial, 2.0.10.4-3.4ubuntu2.16.04.2, rbalint
• ebtables, artful, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.17.10.3, rbalint
• ebtables, bionic, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.3, rbalint
• ebtables, artful, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.17.10.2, rbalint
• ebtables, bionic, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.2, rbalint
• nbd, bionic, 1:3.16.2-1ubuntu0.1, cascardo

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 14

• apache2, bionic, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.2, ahasenack
• dovecot, bionic, 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu4.1, paelzer
• libvirt, bionic, 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.3, paelzer
• lxc, bionic, 3.0.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, stgraber
• lxcfs, bionic, 3.0.1-0ubuntu2~18.04.1, stgraber
• lxd, bionic, 3.0.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, stgraber
• openipmi, xenial, 2.0.18-0ubuntu11.2, manjo
• openipmi, artful, 2.0.22-1.1ubuntu1.1, manjo
• openipmi, bionic, 2.0.22-1.1ubuntu2.1, manjo
• pollinate, trusty, 4.33-0ubuntu1~14.04.1, chad.smith
• pollinate, xenial, 4.33-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smith
• pollinate, artful, 4.33-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smith
• qemu, bionic, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4, paelzer
• quota, bionic, 4.04-2ubuntu0.1, paelzer

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 31

• apache2, 2.4.33-3ubuntu3, ahasenack
• bind9, 1:9.11.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1, ahasenack
• cheetah, 3.1.0-2build1, doko
• cloud-init, 18.3-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
• ebtables, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu5, ddstreet
• ethtool, 1:4.16-1, debian-kernel
• keepalived, 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu1, corey.bryant
• ldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu5, doko
• libvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu13, cyphermox
• libvirt-python, 4.0.0-1build1, doko
• libyaml, 0.2.1-1, andersk
• libyaml, 0.2.1-1~build1, costamagnagianfranco
• markupsafe, 1.0-1build2, doko
• memcached, 1.5.6-1, gui-iroqwa
• mod-wsgi, 4.5.17-1build1, doko
• nghttp2, 1.32.0-1, tomasz-s
• pylibmc, 1.5.2-1build2, doko
• python-bcrypt, 3.1.4-2build1, doko
• python-cffi, 1.11.5-1build1, doko
• python-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu2, costamagnagianfranco
• python-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
• python-django, 1:1.11.13-2ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
• python-django, 1:1.11.13-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
• python-gevent, 1.2.2-2build1, doko
• python-happybase, 1.1.0-0ubuntu1, corey.bryant
• python-sysv-ipc, 0.6.8-2build5, doko
• python-tornado, 5.0.2-1build1, doko
• rrdtool, 1.7.0-1build2, doko
• samba, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu3, ahasenack
• subunit, 1.3.0-1, openstack-devel
• urwid, 2.0.1-2build1, doko