Since they were introduced in 2007, Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives (PPAs) have always been hosted on ppa.launchpad.net. This has generally worked well, but one significant snag became clear later on: it was difficult to add HTTPS support for PPAs due to the way that …
It took a while, but now Launchpad finally allows users to edit their comments on questions, bug reports and merge proposal pages. The first request for this feature dates back from 2007. Since then, Launchpad increased a lot in terms of new features, and the other priorities …
After a few weeks of development and testing, we are proud to finally announce that Git protocol v2 is available at Launchpad! But what are the improvements in the protocol itself, and how can you benefit from that? The git v2 protocol was released a while ago, in May 2018, with …
On 2020-08-13, we deployed an update that caused users whose full names contain non-ASCII characters (which is of course very common) to be unable to log into Launchpad. We heard about this serious regression from users on 2020-08-17, and rolled out a fix on 2020-08-18. …
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The From: addresses used by Launchpad’s bug notifications have changed, to improve the chances of our messages being delivered over modern internet email. Launchpad sends a lot of email, most of which is the result of Launchpad users performing some kind of action. For …
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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 …
Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Build farm Allow dispatching builds with base images selected based on the pocket and/or using LXD images instead of chroot tarballs where appropriate (#1811677) Code Store bzr-svn’s cache in the import data store Allow project …
Here’s a brief changelog of what we’ve been up to since our last general update. Bugs Parse a few more possible Savane URL formats (#197250) Compare Bugzilla versions properly when checking whether they support the Bugzilla API (part of #1802798) Build farm Configure …
We’ve had Git hosting support in Launchpad for a few years now. One thing that some users asked for, particularly larger users such as the Ubuntu kernel team, was the ability to set up per-branch push permissions for their repositories. Today we rolled out the last piece of …
Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Bugs Handle Bugzilla.time() changes in Bugzilla 5.1.1 (#1774838) Cope with the comment author field being renamed to creator in recent Bugzilla versions (#1774838) Build farm Set the hostname and FQDN of LXD containers to match the …