Launchpad news, May 2018
Here’s a brief changelog for this month.
Build farm
- Send
fast_cleanup: Trueto virtualised builds, since they can safely skip the final cleanup steps
Code
- Add spam controls to code review comments (#1680746)
- Only consider the most recent nine successful builds when estimating recipe build durations (#1770121)
- Make updated code import emails more informative
Infrastructure
- Upgrade to Twisted 17.9.0
- Get the test suite passing on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Allow admins to configure users such that unsigned email from them will be rejected, as a spam defence (#1714967)
Snappy
- Prune old snap files that have been uploaded to the store; this cleaned up about 5TB of librarian space
- Make the snap store client cope with a few more edge cases (#1766911)
- Allow branches in snap store channel names (#1754405)
Soyuz (package management)
- Add
DistroArchSeries.setChrootFromBuild, allowing setting a chroot from a file produced by a live filesystem build - Disambiguate URLs to source package files in the face of filename clashes in imported archives
- Optimise SourcePackagePublishingHistory:+listing-archive-extra (#1769979)
Miscellaneous
- Disable purchasing of new commercial subscriptions; existing customers have been contacted, and people with questions about this can contact Canonical support
- Various minor revisions to the terms of service from Canonical’s legal department, and a clearer data privacy policy
Tags: bug fixes, commercial, front-page
