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Will Cooke
15 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 15, 2017

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A fairly short update this week as we’re in bug fixing mode ahead of final beta in a couple of weeks. GNOME This week saw the release of GNOME 3.26, and we’re ready to ship it in 17.10. This will bring new versions of the core applications and new features as described in the GNOME

Will Cooke
15 September 2017

Canonical
14 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 2017

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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
14 September 2017

Will Cooke
13 September 2017

Congratulations to GNOME on the release of 3.26

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   From everyone at Ubuntu, our hearty congratulations and thanks for the 3.26 release. As you’re no doubt aware by now the next release of Ubuntu, the Artful Aardvark, is only a few short weeks away and will bring the latest GNOME desktop environment with it. We’d planned to ship 3.26 from the beginning of

Will Cooke
13 September 2017

Sergio Schvezov
13 September 2017

Week 36 of 2017 in snapcraft

Article Desktop

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 03 September until 09 September of 2017. Highlights snapcraft 2.34 has been tagged, currently available in Ubuntu Artful Aardvark, 16.04 LTS and 17.04 in proposed and the snapcraft beta channel. Catkin plugin support for pip dependencies is...

Sergio Schvezov
13 September 2017

luciadecastro
12 September 2017

Wavebox snap: A central hub for Gmail, Outlook, Trello, Slack and more

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Wavebox is an app that brings together most of the tools you’ll need on an everyday basis, like Gmail, Outlook, Office 365, Slack and more, and is now available as a snap! We had a chat with Thomas Beverley, Co-founder & Software Engineer at Wavebox, to understand how was their experience with snapping their application.

luciadecastro
12 September 2017

David Callé
11 September 2017

Fresh Snaps from August 2017

Article Desktop

September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging clients? Check. PDF and Video files editing? Check. Hacking your router to host apps and Minepocket server management? Well, September also has weekends – check!...

David Callé
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

Canonical
7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

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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

Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017

The snapd roadmap

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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

Canonical
6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

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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
30 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 31, 2017

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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
30 August 2017

Canonical
30 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017

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This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights We encourage flavor teams to

Canonical
30 August 2017

Canonical
29 August 2017

Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades

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This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which

Canonical
29 August 2017

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