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Here’s a brief changelog of what we’ve been up to since our last general update.

Bugs

• Add basic GitLab bug linking (#1603679)
• Expect the upstream bug ID in the “number” field of GitHub issue objects, not the “id” field (#1824728)
• Include metadata-only bug changes in Person:+commentedbugs

Build farm

• Filter ASCII NUL characters out of build logtails (#1831500)
• Encode non-bytes subprocess arguments on Python 2 to avoid crashing on non-ASCII file names under LC_CTYPE=C (#1832072)

Code

• Don’t preload recipe data when deleting recipes associated with branches or repositories, and add some more job indexes (#1793266, #1828062)
• Fix crash if checkRefPermissions finds that the repository is nonexistent
• Add a rescan button to branch merge proposals for failed branch or repository scans
• Land parts of the work required for Git HTTPS push tokens, though this is not yet complete (#1824399)
• Refactor code import authorisation to be clearer and safer
• Set line-height on <pre> elements in Bazaar file views
• Work in progress to redeploy Launchpad’s Git backend on more scalable infrastructure

Infrastructure

• Upgrade to PostgreSQL 10
• Fix make-lp-user, broken by the fix for #1576142
• Use our own GPG key retrieval implementation when verifying signatures rather than relying on auto-key-retrieve
• Give urlfetch a default timeout, fixing a regression in process-mail (#1820552)
• Make test suite pass on Ubuntu 18.04
• Retry webhook deliveries that respond with 4xx for an hour rather than a day
• Merge up to a current version of Storm
• Upgrade to Celery 4.1.1
• Move development sites from .dev to .test
• Upgrade to Twisted 19.2.1
• Upgrade to requests 2.22.0
• Use defusedxml to parse untrusted XML
• Improve caching of several delegated authorization checks (#1834625)

Registry

• Fix redaction in pillar listings of projects for which the user only has LimitedView (#1650430)
• Tighten up the permitted pattern for newly-chosen usernames

Snappy

• Landed parts of the work required to support private snap builds, though this is not yet complete (#1639975)
• Generalise snap channel handling slightly, allowing channel selection for core16 and core18
• Add build-aux/snap/snapcraft.yaml to the list of possible snapcraft.yaml paths (#1805219)
• Add build-request-id and build-request-timestamp to SNAPCRAFT_IMAGE_INFO
• Allow selecting source snap channels when requesting manual snap builds (#1791265)
• Push build start timestamps to the store, and use release intents so that builds are more reliably released to channels in the proper sequence (#1684529)
• Try to manually resolve symlinks in remote Git repositories when fetching snapcraft.yaml (#1797366)
• Consistently commit transactions in SnapStoreUploadJob (#1833424)
• Use build request jobs for all snap build requests in the web UI
• Honour “base: bare” and “build-base” when requesting snap builds (#1819196)

Soyuz (package management)

• Add command-not-found metadata in the archive to the Release file
• Check the .deb format using dpkg-deb rather than ar
• Add s390x Secure Initial Program Load signing support (#1829749)
• Add u-boot Flat Image Tree signing support (#1831942)
• Use timeout(1) to limit debdiff rather than using alarm(3) ourselves
• Allow configuring the binary file retention period of a LiveFS (#1832477)
• Import source packages from Debian bullseye

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This entry was posted by Colin Watson on Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 at 6:16 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.