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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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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 …
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 …
The new feature bug templates in Launchpad aims to streamline the bug reporting process, making it more efficient for both users and project maintainers. In the past, Launchpad provided only a basic description field for filling bug reports. This often led to incomplete or vague …
Users can now add their Matrix accounts to their profile in Launchpad, as requested by Canonical’s Community team. We also took the chance to slightly rework the frontend and how we display social accounts in the user profiles. Instead of having different sections in the …
Access tokens can be used to access repositories on behalf of someone. They have scope limitations, optional expiry dates, and can be revoked at any time. They are a stricter and safer alternative to using real user authentication when needing to automate pushing and/or pulling …
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 …
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 …
Launchpad has had Git-to-Bazaar code imports since 2009, along with imports from a few other systems. These form part of Launchpad’s original mission to keep track of free software, regardless of where it’s hosted. They’re also very useful for automatically …