Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, egmde, mir-test-tools & mir-kiosk

[alan_g]

Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, egmde, mir-test-tools & mir-kiosk (Mir 2.7)

snap	release
ubuntu-frame	58-mir2.7.0
egmde	155-mir2.7.0-snap190
mir-test-tools	2.7.0-snap103
mir-kiosk	2.7.0-snap128

These snaps have been updated to the latest release of Mir (2.7). This should not affect existing usage.

Mir Release 2.7.0

We are pleased to announce Mir 2.7 Idle timeout In many embedded scenarios it is useful to dim or switch off the display after a period of inactivity. Mir now has a configuration option for this. Onscreen keyboard and Qt applications Qt only supports the older zwp_text_input_manager_v2 protocol, we’ve added support for this to Mir. MirOil This release introduces MirOil, a support API to assist the migration of Lomiri (nee Unity8) to the current version of Mir. Read more about this library on …

To test, just switch to the candidate channel:

 snap refresh --candidate ubuntu-frame

And use as normal. Please let us know any results here.

If no problems are identified we aim to promote to stable in a week.

[alan_g]

ubuntu-frame, egmde, mir-test-tools & mir-kiosk based on Mir 2.7 are now available on the stable channel