Skip to main content

Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates from Canonical and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

  1. Blog
  2. Article

Joshua Powers
on 16 October 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 Oct 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: Call for testing certbot snap (Let’s Encrypt)

Configuring SSL certificates for webservers just got easier. Certbot is a Let’s Encrypt command-line client automating setup of SSL/TLS certificates. Robie Basak from the Ubuntu Server team published a snap package of certbot making it even easier to install certbot dependencies. The certbot snap call for testing shows just how easy it is. Happy hosting!

Spotlight: Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) release on Oct 18th

Ubuntu’s release cycle comes to a close this week and is final this Thursday. As Cosmic Cuttlefish is an interim release will supported until July 2019. See the detailed features of the Cosmic release.

cloud-init

  • Correct spelling in an error message (udevadm). [Katie McLaughlin]
  • tests: meta_data key changed to meta-data in ec2 instance-data.json (LP: #1797231)
  • tests: fix kvm integration test to assert flexible config-disk path (LP: #1797199)
  • tools: Add cloud-id command line utility
  • instance-data: Add standard keys platform and subplatform. Refactor ec2.
  • net: ignore nics that have "zero" mac address. (LP: #1796917)
  • tests: fix apt_configure_primary to be more flexible
  • Ubuntu: update sources.list to comment out deb-src entries. (LP: #74747)
  • release 18.4 (LP: #1795741)

curtin

  • vmtests: disable snapd/seeding to avoid boot hang
  • jenkins-runner: fix when using –filter only
  • distro: fix system_upgrade command using string instead of function (LP: #1796968)
  • Capture stdout when using lxc file push
  • vmtest: boot ephemeral with ‘ro’ on the kernel command line.
  • vmtest: Fix typo in skip-by-date.

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

Bug Work and 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: 3

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 24

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 26

Related posts


Freyja Cooper
24 April 2025

The hitchhiker’s guide to infrastructure modernization

Cloud and server Article

One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot of things, he got this one wrong – at least when it comes to infrastructure. As our Infra Masters 2025 event demonstrated, infrastructure ...


Canonical
23 April 2025

Canonical and Ampere announce AmpereOne® SoC certification and other partnership milestones

AI Article

Ampere and Canonical are pleased to celebrate new milestones in their ongoing partnership including the completion of Canonical’s System-on-Chip (SoC) certification on AmpereOne®, and the extension of the partnership into the AI Platform Alliance, a strategic group of full stack ecosystem partners that provide enterprise-grade curated sol ...


Canonical
17 April 2025

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Canonical announcements Article

The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download.   Ubuntu 25.04 deli ...