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Chad Smith
on 26 November 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 26 November 2019

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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 mailing list or visit the Ubuntu Server discourse hub for more discussion.

Spotlight: Cloud-Init upstream has moved to to GitHub!

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init

For new contributors, please see the HACKING documentation.

For existing contributors who’ve already signed the Canonical Contributors License Agreement, we can verify the link between your Launchpad account and your GitHub account by creating a branch with both your Launchpad and GitHub usernames into both Launchpad and GitHub cloud-init repositories.

The cloud-init Launchpad project will keep an up-to-date mirror of the official GitHub repository.

Bugs and issues will still be maintained in Launchpad

cloud-init

  • tools: migrate-lp-user-to-github removes repo_dir if created (#35)
  • Correct jumbled documentation for cc_set_hostname module (#64) [do3meli] (LP: #1853543)
  • FreeBSD: fix for get_linux_distro() and lru_cache (#59) [Igor Galić] (LP: #1815030)
  • lp-to-git-users: adding do3meli [Dominic Schlegel]
  • ec2: Add support for AWS IMDS v2 (session-oriented) (#55)
  • tests: Fix cloudsigma tests when no dmidecode data is present. (#57)
  • net: IPv6, accept_ra, slaac, stateless (#51) [Harald] (LP: #1806014, #1808647)
  • docs: Update the configdrive datasource links (#44) [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1852461)
  • lp-to-git-users: adding PengpengSun [Pengpeng Sun]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding trstringer [Thomas Stringer]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding hjensas [Harald Jensås]
  • distro: correctly set usr_lib_exec path for FreeBSD distro (#40) [Igor Galić] (LP: #1852491)
  • azure: support secondary ipv6 addresses (#33)
  • Fix metadata check when local-hostname is null (#32) [Mark Goddard] (LP: #1852100)
  • Merge pull request #38 from blackboxsw/cleanup/run-ci-on-pull-request
  • switch default FreeBSD salt minion pkg from py27 to py36 [Dominic Schlegel]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding igalic [Igor Galić]
  • travis: only run CI on pull requests
  • add data-server dns entry as new metadata server detection [Joshua Hügli]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding chrisglass [Chris Glass]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding larsks [Lars Kellogg-Stedman]
  • Merge pull request #31 from raharper/fix/pycodestyle-tip
  • pycodestyle: remove unused local variable
  • reporting: Using a uuid to enforce uniqueness on the KVP keys. [momousta]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding paride [Paride Legovini]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding powersj [Joshua Powers]
  • lp-to-git-users: adding blackboxsw
  • lp-to-git-users: adding raharper
  • docs: touchups in rtd intro and README.md
  • doc: update launchpad git refs to github
  • tools: migrate script needs to write tools/.lp-to-git-user
  • github: drop pull-request template to prepare for migration
  • tools: add migrate-lp-user-to-github script to link LP to github
  • github: new basic project readme
  • Release 19.3 (LP: #1851428)
  • azure: support matching dhcp route-metrics for dual-stack ipv4 ipv6 (LP: #1850308)
  • configdrive: fix subplatform config-drive for /config-drive source [David Kindred] (LP: #1849731)
  • DataSourceSmartOS: reconfigure network on each boot [Mike Gerdts] (LP: #1765801)
  • Add config for ssh-key import and consuming user-data [Pavel Zakharov]
  • net: fix subnet_is_ipv6() for stateless|stateful [Harald Jensås] (LP: #1848690)
  • OVF: disable custom script execution by default [Xiaofeng Wang]
  • cc_puppet: Implement csr_attributes.yaml support [Matthias Baur]
  • cloud-init.service: on centos/fedora/redhat wait on NetworkManager.service (LP: #1843334)
  • azure: Do not lock user on instance id change [Sam Eiderman] (LP: #1849677)

curtin

  • block-discover: don’t skip partitions on virtual devices (LP: #1853018)
  • block-discover: handle partial probe data (LP: #1852351)
  • Fix parsing of squashfs: uri prefix for installation sources [Daniel Fox] (LP: #1851271)
  • Release 19.3 (LP: #1851390)
  • Update HACKING.rst with Josh Powers contact info.

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Bug Work and Triage

Ubuntu Server Packages

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Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases

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Total: 11

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 49

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 68

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