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Joshua Powers
on 5 June 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 05 June 2018

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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

  • Add openSUSE support for development tooling to spin up a test container
  • Upload cloud-init to Cosmic logfiles represent full packaged version of cloud-init instead of just 18.2
  • pyflakes: fix unused variable references identified by pyflakes 2.0.0
  • Fix ssh-import-id without HOME (LP: #1570997)
  • util: add get_linux_distro function to replace platform.dist (Robert Schweikert) (LP: #1745235)

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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.

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 6

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 15

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