firefox
- prepared the 82.0 update, and handed over to the security team for publication
- while testing, Chris reported that he was seeing GTK style-related assertions, and I confirmed this was a regression caused by the fix for upstream bug #1654323, so I added a simple distro-patch to silence the assertions
- a 82.0.1 release candidate was published today, Ubuntu builds for all supported releases are ongoing
- filed a bug to request a rustc/cargo update, which will be needed to build firefox 84 (currently trunk)
chromium
- removed an old workaround for
data-dircreation insnapcraft.yaml - prepared and uploaded a focal SRU for the apport hook looking for the snap profile folder in the wrong place
- updated stable to 86.0.4240.111
- updated beta to 87.0.4280.27
- updated dev to 88.0.4292.2
-
re-enabled LZO compression for the chromium snap now that snapd 2.47.1 is available in
{xenial,bionic,focal}-updates - confirmed a bug where personal certificates are not imported in the deb → snap transition
- looked into a regression of the startup time on cold boot of the chromium snap on Groovy, which turns out to be yet another issue with font caches
- updating the chromium snap to use the
gnome-3-28extension, which will enable the use of a private font cache, hopefully resolving the issue
- updating the chromium snap to use the
libreoffice
- investigated a frequent crash, but didn’t manage to reproduce it, unfortunately
snaps
-
investigated and fixed a bug where the mouse pointer theme and scaling were not honoured for cursor themes not included in
gtk-common-themes -
modernized the build for
gtk-common-themes
other
- voted in the Ubuntu Community Council election 2020