Desktop Weekly Newsletter - 3rd November 2017

(Sorry it’s a little late)

A fairly short update this week, as we’ve been doing more tidying up in preparation for starting the 18.04 cycle. We had a mini-sprint in London to make sure our Trello board for the 18.04 cycle included everything we needed it to. You can view the board here:

And you can see there are already a lot of tasks on there!

Some brief desktop updates from the last week:

Snap Updates
We found and fixed a bug with desktop theme support in snaps on 17.10 and made some other improvements to the desktop helpers so that XDG directories appear correctly in the file picker, and we backported some Artful fixes to the GNOME 3.26 platform snap.

Updates

  • Chromium 62.0.3202.62 is published for all supported releases, and 62.0.3202.75 is ready for release very shortly. The Chromium snap stable channel is now also at 62.0.3202.75 and 63.0.3239.18 is available in the beta channel for testing.
  • LibreOffice 5.4.2 will be promoted to the stable channel soon.

In The News

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Now available for all supported series in -updates and -security.

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And it is now available in the stable channel.

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Trello board looks full of great ideas; a helpful message for the “gksu” problem would be terrific!

If possible, please do something about people having smartphones. Currently, Ubuntu completely ignores that fact as such.