Ubuntu 25.04 was released yesterday featuring lots of noteworthy improvements that we have been working on for the past 6 months (actually much longer for some features).
Updated Ubuntu 25.04’s copy of osinfo-db for the Ubuntu 25.04 release and forwarded that update upstream. We’ll do an SRU for this update soon. osinfo-db powers the OS detection and download features in the GNOME Boxes app.
As part of my GNOME Release team responsibilities, I prepared the GNOME 48.1 release
Packaged GNOME 48.1 for Debian Unstable. It will migrate to Debian Testing in about 10 days and to Ubuntu 25.10 once Ubuntu 25.10 opens for development.
Our team has been updating several of our Snaps to core24. You may need to restart your computer after updating one of these snaps. The reboot issue was why we hadn’t switched these snaps to core24 last year.
Worked with Seb on vendoring glycin and loupe as part of the MIRs we are working on for Ubuntu 25.10.
Reported a 32-bit architecture build issue with rust-sudo-rs and cherry-picked the fix but it was hours too late for inclusion in Ubuntu 25.04.
Helped Matthias Klumpp get appstream-generator back into Trixie on the last Britney migration run before Debian entered Soft Freeze where packages are blocked from entering Testing if they are not already there. This required knowing that a binNMU was the correct fix in this situation once the fixed build dependency reached Unstable because binNMUs migrate to Testing almost immediately instead of waiting several days like regular uploads.
Miscellaneous other package updates and fixes
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