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Here’s what the Launchpad team did in October.

Code

• Ensure that enabled and restricted processors are left untouched when submitting Archive:+edit (#1501519)
• Describe merge proposal listings in the second person (#991945)
• Increase Git backend communication timeout to 30 seconds (from 5), as detecting merges can be quite slow on large repositories (#1502748)
• Link directly to the recipe/snap in the one-recipe/snap case, rather than redirecting from +recipes/+snaps views (#891918)
• Add GitRepository:+subscription traversal (#1503749)
• Send notification mail when a merge proposal is superseded (#716169)
• Add Branch:+dependent-merges and GitRef:+dependent-merges views (#496056)
• Parse extended header lines in git diffs correctly (#1510337)

Additionally, we’ve added webhook support for merge proposals, made a few more UI improvements, and enabled webhooks for beta testers.  Feedback welcome!

Snap packages

• Allow snap package owners to enable/disable unrestricted processors (matches the change made for PPAs last month)

Soyuz (package building)

• Launchpad now accepts uploads of binary packages from builders with file modification times up to 24 hours in the future (rather than 8) or as early as 1975 (rather than 1984), to match Debian
• Notifications are no longer generated for package copy jobs that in fact end up being no-ops

Also, as previously announced, we and our sysadmins have been putting a lot of work into extending ScalingStack to other architectures and making it more reliable, and as a result we can now offer general access to PPAs for the ppc64el architecture.

Tags: bug fixes, front-page

This entry was posted by Colin Watson on Monday, November 9th, 2015 at 7:04 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.