Desktop Team Distro Squad Updates – Monday 18th September 2023

  • Lots of GNOME 45.0 packaging in preparation for the official GNOME 45.0 release on Wednesday and Ubuntu 23.10 Beta release on Thursday
  • Updated some Desktop details on the in-progress Ubuntu 23.10 release notes
  • Worked with Lubuntu on fixing fallout from the xdg-desktop-portal 1.17 update
  • Filed a bug for Ubuntu Unity 23.10 installation failure
     
  • Switched gnome-control-center (and gnome-initial-setup) to use Tecla as keyboard layout viewer after the Feature Freeze Exception was approved
  • Fixed missing headerbar in Settings > Ubuntu Desktop
  • Cherrypicked blueprint-compiler fix for big-endian building (s390x is the only Ubuntu architecture affected)
  • Sponsored Matthias’ initial upload of rust-libadwaita to Debian experimental where it was accepted today
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