Foundations Team Updates - 2026-02-05

Project Discussion Foundations
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Hello everybody,

It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations :sparkles:

Courtesy ping:

Please, post your updates. Thanks!

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TPM/FDE

  • Performed QA testing on current image and filed bug report (LP: #2139611)

Resolute

  • Made MIR for the new package sudo-common (LP: #2139408)
  • Packaged rust-coreutils 0.6.0. This version should iron out a significant number of bugs (LP: #2139697)
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Rust / LLVM Toolchains

  • Gather info and plan future product work

Manager

  • Mid-Cycle Product Roadmap meetings
  • Meetings and 1:1s
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Toolchain

  • Rust toolchain MP reviews
  • Added fully-fledged Miri to rustc-1.93
  • Figuring out autopkgtest timeouts on various Rust toolchains

Other

  • Team instruction on autopkgtests/LXD testing
  • Still working on fixing cryptsetup autopkgtests
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Java 25:

Distro:

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Distro work

Noble .4

  • Driving the checklist and making sure things are ready.

Release Process

  • Experimented further with Test Observer to see how to use it in the release process.
  • Experimented with mwhudson’s branch to build ISOs from livefs builds directly.

Error Tracker

  • Baby-sitting the retracers among the numerous recent PS6 outages.
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Documentation