firefox
- updated impish release notes to mention the deb to snap transition
- opened and closed the
stable/ubuntu-21.10channel (per policy)- then re-opened again and published builds with the profile import code to ensure this reaches beta testers
- tested seed change, dist-upgrader change and launcher update
- prepared 92.0.1 update, and uncovered a regression while testing the snap update, which turned out to be affecting all builds of firefox, not just snaps
- filed a handful of bugs for issues I came across while testing the snap, or issues that were reported on discourse:
- bug 1732718 − Crash when changing the cursor theme while the firefox snap is running
- bug 1732720 − Crash reporter fails to submit report (“Failed to open curl lib from binary”)
- bug 1732755 − Firefox snap cannot access host’s hunspell dictionaries for spellchecking
- confirmed a report that some U2F keys aren’t recognized by the firefox snap and submitted a snapd interface update
thunderbird
- prepared 91.1.1 update
- removed block-proposed tag to get 91 in impish for wider field testing
chromium
- updated beta then stable to 94.0.4606.54
- updated dev to 95.0.4638.17
Ubuntu Desktop Installer
- Expose the subiquity API to set the variant (‘server’/‘desktop’), and use it
- Expose and use the ubiquity
/sourceendpoint - filed a bug for broken keyboard navigation in list views
- reviewed and merged a number of pull requests
other
- investigated and proposed a fix for a regression in ubiquity where hyperlinks wouldn’t open in the firefox snap, then uploaded ubiquity 21.10.6 to impish