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Stéphane Graber
11 September 2017

LXD: Weekly status #14

Article Cloud and server

Introduction The highlight for this week is the release of LXC 2.1 which is the result of a year and a half of development making up 1528 commits by 96 contributors! We’ve also been working on LXD performance testing with lxd-benchmark getting expanded to record more data points and log in a format that we can generate

Stéphane Graber
11 September 2017


Will Cooke
8 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 8, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GNOME Shell 3.25.91 is now in Artful in preparation for the move to 3.26 before release. We’re adding notification badge support to the Dock extension. This branch has been proposed to the upstream project and is awaiting review. We’ve packaged the KStatusNotifier extension to provide support for indicators. This...

Will Cooke
8 September 2017


Robin Winslow
8 September 2017

Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process

User Experience Ubuntu

I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists seem as inclined to ask why the terminal exists, as how to optimise it. I’ve also had it suggested to me that the discipline of User Experience (UX) has little to...

Robin Winslow
8 September 2017


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 September 2017

Kubernetes for the Enterprise: 1, 2, 3, Go!

Article Cloud and server

Sign up for our new webinar to learn about the private Kubernetes implementation packages available from Canonical, including the recently release Kubernetes Explorer and Kubernetes Discoverer.

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 September 2017


Canonical
7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
7 September 2017


Sergio Schvezov
7 September 2017

Week 35 of 2017 in snapcraft

Article Desktop

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 27 August until 02 September of 2017. Highlights Added support for new ROS content-sharing use-cases that previously failed to build Revamped remote container mounting to not require an SSH...

Sergio Schvezov
7 September 2017


Tim Van Steenburgh
7 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary (9/7/2017)

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 1st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is available for testing. We’ve been fixing a few issuesand expect to release the Canal...

Tim Van Steenburgh
7 September 2017


Canonical
7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Article Internet of Things

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some

Canonical
7 September 2017


Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017

Webteam development summary

Development Ubuntu

Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework....

Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017


Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017

The snapd roadmap

Article Desktop

This article originally appeared at snapcraft forums released  snapd 2.27 (topic1) snapd 2.28  Improved configuration get output (topic)  Internal xdg-open implementation (topic3)  Refresh hook support (topic)  Lazy registrations on classic (topic3)  Service control on snap command (start/stop/etc) (topic3) Schedule...

Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017


Stéphane Graber
6 September 2017

LXC 2.1 has been released

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared at linuxcontainers.org The LXC team is proud to announce the release of LXC 2.1. This release contains a lot of new features introduced since the release of LXC 2.0. Note that this isn’t a LTS release and we’ll therefore only be supporting LXC 2.1 for a year. Production environments that...

Stéphane Graber
6 September 2017


Canonical
6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Article Cloud and server

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10...

Canonical
6 September 2017


Canonical
5 September 2017

MAAS Development Update – Aug 21st – Sept 1st

Article Cloud and server

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)Hardware Testing Phase 2Added parameters form for script parameters validation.Accept and validate results from nodes.Added hardware testing 7zip CPU benchmarking builtin script.WIP – ability to send...

Canonical
5 September 2017


David Britton
5 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 05 Sep 2017

Article Cloud and server

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

David Britton
5 September 2017