Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 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

• 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)

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

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

Bug Work and Triage

• 275 in the backlog
• 374 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: 6

• cloud-init, artful, 18.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~17.10.2, chad.smith
• cloud-init, xenial, 18.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~16.04.2, chad.smith
• haproxy, bionic, 1.8.7-1, haproxy-j
• simplestreams, xenial, 0.1.0~bzr426-0ubuntu1.3, smoser
• tomcat8, bionic, 8.5.30-1, pkg-java-maintainers
• vlan, bionic, 1.9-3.2ubuntu6, ddstreet

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 20

• apache2, bionic, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.1, mdeslaur
• apache2, artful, 2.4.27-2ubuntu4.1, mdeslaur
• apache2, xenial, 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.8, mdeslaur
• apache2, trusty, 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.20, mdeslaur
• apache2, trusty, 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.19, inaddy
• apache2, xenial, 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.7, inaddy
• apache2, artful, 2.4.27-2ubuntu4, inaddy
• cloud-init, artful, 18.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smith
• cloud-init, xenial, 18.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smith
• cloud-utils, artful, 0.30-0ubuntu2.1, smoser
• cloud-utils, xenial, 0.27-0ubuntu25.1, smoser
• juju-core, xenial, 2.3.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, veebers
• libvirt, artful, 3.6.0-1ubuntu6.6, paelzer
• libvirt, xenial, 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.22, paelzer
• mysql-5.5, trusty, 5.5.60-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, mdeslaur
• mysql-5.7, bionic, 5.7.22-0ubuntu18.04.1, mdeslaur
• mysql-5.7, artful, 5.7.22-0ubuntu0.17.10.1, mdeslaur
• mysql-5.7, xenial, 5.7.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, mdeslaur
• qemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.26, paelzer
• strongswan, trusty, 5.1.2-0ubuntu2.8, lathiat

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 23

• apache2, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.1, mdeslaur
• clamav, 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu2, doko
• cloud-init, 18.2-27-g6ef92c98-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, smoser
• freeradius, 3.0.16+dfsg-3ubuntu1, vorlon
• gdisk, 1.0.3-1build1, doko
• gfs2-utils, 3.1.9-2ubuntu2, doko
• htop, 2.1.0-3build1, doko
• iptraf-ng, 1:1.1.4-6build1, doko
• irqbalance, 1.3.0-0.1build1, doko
• libstatgrab, 0.91-1build2, doko
• minicom, 2.7.1-1build1, doko
• mysql-5.7, 5.7.22-0ubuntu18.04.1, mdeslaur
• openipmi, 2.0.22-1.1ubuntu3, doko
• openldap, 2.4.46+dfsg-2ubuntu1, costamagnagianfranco
• pacemaker, 1.1.18-0ubuntu2, doko
• psmisc, 23.1-1build1, doko
• python-pyelftools, 0.24-4.1, tomasz-s
• qemu, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu8, doko
• screen, 4.6.2-1build1, doko
• tmux, 2.6-3build1, doko
• tomcat8, 8.5.30-1ubuntu2, tjaalton
• w3m, 0.5.3-36build2, doko
• xen, 4.9.2-0ubuntu2, doko