Hello everybody,
It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations. 
Courtesy ping: @mclemenceau, @juliank, @sespiros, @utkarsh, @samirkam, @ankushpathak, @vpa19771, @dviererbe, @mateus-morais, @pushkarnk, @levihackerman-102, @maxgmr, @ravi-sharma, @waveform, @xypron, @tobhe, @adrien, @mkukri, @r41k0u, @adrianoco, @andersson123, @hyask, @rkratky, @chrisccoulson, @mwhudson - please post your updates. Thanks!
Short week for me due to having Canada Day off.
rustc
rustc-1.82
backports for Noble and Jammy are complete and have been added to the archive!
rustc-1.85
autopkgtests all pass after being allocated enough builder resources through being added to big_packages
. I’m currently working through the upload sponsorship process- rustc-1.85
has been added to the new queue and hopefully progress continues smoothly going forward.
dh-cargo
- Work on implementing a new
dh-cargo
feature to expedite the package maintenance experience for Rust-based packages.
Go
Thanks to @utkarsh for help with 1.25 transition and explanation of Debian processes and freeze policy
LXD
- LXD on RISC-V currently only support containers. In a local build of the LXD snap VM support has been enabled. A pull request has been created.
U-Boot
- U-Boot support on Ubuntu 24.04 for the DeepComputing FML13V01 and the Pine64 Star64 has been SRUed by @waveform. Testing looks good.
Silicon vendor collaboration
- Work on enabling additional RISC-V hardware on Ubuntu has been started.
ubuntu-excuses
Added the ability to see missing architectures for ftbfs with the new --missing-builds flag
visual-excuses
Added proper handling of migrate-after and blocked-by dependencies
Distro
Some universe merges for fun
- debmirror 1:2.46ubuntu1 - Thanks Andreas Hasenack
- quassel 1:0.14.0-3ubuntu1 - Thanks @waveform
- dpkg-dev-el 37.19ubuntu1 - Thanks @seb128
Hiring
Hired a new team member for the Toolchains Squad to work on Rust with @maxgmr
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