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Launchpad now supports bug tracking for Personal Package Archives (PPAs). You can report and track issues against a PPA, individual source packages within it, and specific Ubuntu releases. This brings bug reports closer to the packages they concern, giving users a place to report …
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We would like to share an update regarding our plans for the Blueprints and Translations features in Launchpad. Retiring Launchpad Blueprints Launchpad Blueprints are lightweight feature specifications attached to projects and distributions. As the usage of Blueprints has …
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Launchpad Merge Proposals, a VS Code extension for reviewing Launchpad merge proposals, is now available on the Visual Studio Marketplace as a preview release. The extension brings the review into the editor. It finds the merge proposals for the branch you have checked out, …
Maintainers can now merge changes (merge proposals) directly from the Launchpad UI. The new Request merge button is available to anyone with permission to push to the target branch. Launchpad enables it if the merge proposal has: An active status and an up-to-date diff No …
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PPA maintainers now have more control over where their build dependencies come from. With PPA dependency pinning, you can assign priorities to the PPAs your builds depend on, helping ensure that your packages build against the software you intend to use. Whether you are testing a …
Launchpad builds charm recipes and uploads them to Charmhub on your behalf. Up until now, the uploads were authorized via Candid. Charmhub is retiring Candid and moving to Ubuntu One SSO, which is the same sign-on service that Launchpad already uses for snap recipes. We have …
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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 …
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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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 …