Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team from the last week.
If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse.
We also have our weekly meeting on IRC. We meet on Tuesday at 13:30 UTC in #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode. There will be an “Any Other Business” section at the end where you are welcome to raise topics. These topics might be discussed during the meeting, or afterwards depending on the time, depth of conversation, topic and so on.
cups-filters: Released 1.25.5 upstream with the latest bug fixes, especially a fix on cups-browsed which caused a fatal error when starting it after it has shut down uncleanly.
cups: Uploaded 2.2.12-2ubuntu1 with upstream fix for launch-on-demand not working with systemd (especially CUPS does not restart when changing configuration with cupsctl).
OpenPrinting: Monthly phone meeting and monthly OpenPrinting News, the news also contain links to the work products of the 5 GSoC students.
Linux Plumber’s Conference 2019 in Lisbon: The schedules are published! Attending the conference from Mon, Sep 9 to Wed, Sep 11, with OpenPrinting mini conference on Tue, Sep 10 in the morning. Going to Lisbon on Sun, Sep 8 and returning on Thu, Sep 12.
FYI, upstream Xorg has just disabled atomic modesetting by default. I’m not sure if eoan will get the change but I expect it will avoid flickering on some systems and kernel errors mentioning “atomic”, which we do see semi-regularly in bug reports. Those bugs usually get sent to the kernel but it sounds like the problem in some cases was Xorg using atomic incorrectly.
Worked with jibel on ubiquity to integrate ZSYS on custom page. We fought as much as we could with partman (trying to revert “custom” choices), but has to revert to have it in the ask page instead.