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 …
The Launchpad team will be hosting its fourth public documentation office hour this Friday, March 20th, from 1330 UTC. In this office hour, we will start by discussing a launchpadlib tutorial we are working on. Whether you are an expert or novice on the topic, we welcome your …
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Did you know that Launchpad has a bi-weekly documentation office hour that’s open to everyone? Join us this Friday (6th March) for our third session from 1330 – 1430 UTC. These office hours will be a good opportunity to: Discuss the documentation practices of the Launchpad …
Being on support for Launchpad has a huge sense of responsibility. For a whole week, you are the first point of contact for users experiencing issues related to Launchpad or the services attached to it. For the person on support, even roadmap work takes a backseat. All Launchpad …
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As announced in Sunsetting Launchpad mailing lists, we have now shut down the Launchpad mailing lists hosting service. For backup and archival, we have provided an archive of the public mailing lists at https://archive.lists.launchpad.net. All valid public lists.launchpad.net …
We have extended our webhooks capabilities to be able to trigger webhooks on successful and unsuccessful package uploads to Personal Package Archives (PPAs). When a new source package is uploaded to one of your PPAs, the system can now send an instant webhook notification to an …
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Launchpad Builders do not have direct access to the Internet. To reach external resources, they must acquire an authentication token that allows access to a restricted set of URLs via a proxy. This can either be a custom authenticated builder proxy or the fetch service. The fetch …
Launchpad now supports the FIDO2 hardware-backed SSH key types ed25519-sk and ecdsa-sk. These keys use a hardware device, such as a YubiKey or Nitrokey, to perform cryptographic operations and keep your private keys safely off your computer. They can be used anywhere Launchpad …
As announced earlier this year in our previous blog post: Sunsetting Launchpad’s mailing lists, Launchpad will retire its mailing list feature at the end of October 2025. We would like to provide an update on the next steps in this process. Our current plan is to stop …
What are code imports? Launchpad’s code import service allows users to automatically mirror code from external version control systems into Launchpad. Historically, this has supported imports from CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and Git. As part of this, Launchpad currently also …