Foundations Team Updates - 2026-06-11

[rkratky]

Hello everybody,

It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations

Courtesy ping:

• Foundations: @mclemenceau
  • @mwhudson, @rkratky
• Release: @utkarsh, @skia, @oreiche
• System: @juliank, @bamf0, @mkukri, @chrisccoulson, @varranvar, @fhoerni
• Toolchains: @samirkam
  • Rust: @richard-scott-mcnew, @maxgmr, @petrakat, @karljs, @blkerby, @ruancomelli, @cad97
  • Java: @vpa19771, @pushkarnk, @rroessler
  • .NET: @dviererbe, @mateus-morais
  • Golang: @levihackerman-102
• Architectures: @ravi-sharma
  • @xypron, @waveform, @r41k0u, @tobhe, @vhaudiquet

Please, post your updates. Thanks!

[bamf0]

Distro

• Created pipeline for remodeling on TPM FDE systems using the snap store (LP: #2154293)
• Addressed issues from 0.9.0-2 rust-coreutils merge (LP: #2153168)
• Worked on prototype for agentic triaging of Ubuntu Release Upgrader bugs
• Worked on APT repository signing changes

[mateus-morais]

.NET

• Built .NET June security updates for 8, 9, and 10.
• Building .NET 11 Preview 5, but running into an issue crossbuilding it to ppc64el. Investigating.

[petrakat]

Rust

• Updating rustc-1.94 to Stonking. Our first Stonking port!
• Prepare for big test rebuild of the archive under cargo-auditable

[ravi-sharma]

I am working on OpenSSL 4 transition. I have a few active MPs awaiting review and sponsorship https://code.launchpad.net/~ravi-sharma/+activereviews

[varranvar]

System

• Merged gnupg2 (LP: #2154019)
• Investigating bzip2-rs for main inclusion

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• LLVM backports to Noble
• Documentation of LLVM Debian/Ubuntu patches
• Rust 1.94 upgrade assistance
• LLVM 22 fixes SRU to Resolute

[richard-scott-mcnew]

Rust / LLVM Toolchains

• Project planning and design
• +1 Maintenance

Manager

• Meetings and 1:1s

[pushkarnk]

Java

• DRY refactoring of all the OpenJDK FIPS packages for Ubuntu Pro, to extract the launcher into a separate package.
• Tomcat reviews.

Zig

• Work on making zig0.16 ready for a review

Cloud-native dev tooling

• Development of an experimental Zig-based CLI tool to develop within rock-based containers.

[skia]

Error Tracker

• Prepared the cut-over to new infra by setting up a phased-updater instance running in parallel of the production one, to compare the outputs. So far, no big differences spotted, but a much longer timespan is needed.

cdimage

• Worked to enable the build of some riscv64 desktop images: https://code.launchpad.net/~skia/ubuntu-cdimage/+git/ubuntu-cdimage/+merge/506169

Distro work

• Patch pilot shift (report)

[amrelsh]

Release Testing

• Created an initial draft for Ubuntu’s testing documentation & inventory: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylOljCigGbCF9RAV_TY2NCcm2f9KYTQEfcA3-VyRiHE/edit?tab=t.0 which would then go on docs.u.c

• Ongoing work on surfacing the results of all of our automated tests to Test Observer

[waveform]

Couple of weeks here as I managed to forget last week!

Stonking

• Update pi-gadget to include stonking definitions to unblock image creation
• LP: #2154724 sponsored fix for @bamf0

Resolute

• LP: #2151216 filed bug in u-r-u to fix piboot-try upgrade issues
  • Uploaded fix to stonking and resolute (several times … working around various things)
  • And performed verification of SRU
• LP: #2149885 uploaded SRU for SpaceMIT K3 support
• LP: #2152142 unmarked duplicate and provided some suggestions on upgrade
• LP: #2154822 filed issue about armhf upgrade failure (from AskUbuntu question)
• LP: #2152101 did verification on SRU
• LP: #2156570 requested more detail
• Replied to some posts on discourse querying the A/B boot setup

General

• Patch pilot on Monday (last week)