Desktop Team Updates - Monday 2nd August 2021

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 .

Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Updates - Monday 26th July 2021

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WSL OOBE

  • the reconfiguration mode completed;
  • original ubuntu-wsl-integration integration planning starting;
  • initial PR created for subiquity.
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ADsys:

WSL:

  • Finished the build script for daily & on demand builds.
  • Documentation reading/conferences watching

Misc:

  • Reviewed libnet-snmp-perl MIR
  • Attending internal documentation session
  • Candidate tech assessment reviews
  • livecd-rootfs (multi-layer) + subiquity reviews
  • Client debugging work
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Ubuntu Desktop Installer

WSL OOBE Wizard

Flutter

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I was on holidays for most of the past two weeks :palm_tree:

firefox24 firefox

  • prepared 90.0.2 update, now published to all supported Ubuntu releases
  • preparing 91.0 RC, scheduled for release next week
  • snap built from source: ship and use encrypted API keys for Google Location Services, Google Safe Browsing, and Mozilla Location Services

chromium22 chromium

  • updating stable to 92.0.4515.131
  • updating beta to 93.0.4577.18

snapcraft24 snaps

flutter24 Ubuntu Desktop Installer

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  • Started working on porting appstream.ubuntu.com’s deployment charm to modern tech (operator framework) for redeploying on a new cloud
  • Plumbed through insensitivity for update-manager when showing ESM updates (see last week)

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GNOME

  • Lots of fixes, tests and improvements to the orientation manager improvements branch [MR]
  • Addressed various review comments of monitors configuration manager cleanup branch [MR]
  • Proposed the privacy screen MRs:
  • Various fprintd / libfprint reviews.
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This week was mostly about the July 30 Indaba. Thanks so much to @3v1n0 and Britt for being amazing guests :slight_smile:

Other things I did:

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