Foundations Team Updates - 2025-07-10

Questing

  • Sponsored rpicam-apps merge of 1.7.0-1 for @r41k0u (LP: #2109901)
  • Sponsored flash-kernel db addition for @xypron (LP: #2116161)
    • Will prepare SRUs for this shortly
  • Filed flash-kernel bug trailing the new A/B boot mechanism for the Raspberry Pi (LP: #2116266)
    • And posted a call for testing on discourse
    • And wrote a customarily lengthy blog post all about it
    • Got a few comments on the latter which I’ve responded to and am now testing to make sure my answers actually work!
  • Prepped changes to the pi-gadget for the A/B boot mechanism
  • Prepped changes to the Pi’s platform seed to incorporate new flash-kernel binary package for A/B booting
  • Filed ubuntu-raspi-settings bug to remove mkswap.service (LP: #2116275)
    • Created a patch for this, but I’m going to try and get a fix for LP: #2063887 in there too before uploading

Plucky

  • Investigating gnome-remote-desktop regression (LP: #2115956)

Noble

General

  • Interviews
  • Pi meetings
  • Ubuntu uploader meeting
  • Reviews of a couple of internal docs