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We received a private report from a security researcher describing a vulnerability affecting Launchpad. The vulnerability involved the unsafe processing of tar files at build upload and custom upload. We investigated promptly and deployed a fix shortly after the report. The …
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As part of our ongoing commitment to security and transparency, we are pleased to announce an improved approach to snap manifest generation for private projects. This update specifically addresses the long-standing technical block that suppressed the creation of manifest.yaml …
More than 5 years ago, i386 was dropped as an architecture in Ubuntu. Despite this, i386 has remained selected by default as an architecture to build when creating new PPAs, snap recipes, or OCI recipes. Today, we have disabled building for i386 by default. From now on, only …
The Launchpad project is almost 21 years old! Many people have contributed to the project over this lifetime, and we are thankful for all of them. We understand the value of a strong community and we are taking steps to reinvigorate Launchpad’s once-thriving community. …