Foundations Team Updates - 2026-06-25

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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Hello!

Stonking / Resolute

  • LP: #2149891 (cloud-init nocloud deprecated user-data format): Rebased Stonking MP on top of master, prepared backported MP for Resolute

RISC-V

  • Prepared LP: #2157784, SRU bug for backporting RISC-V desktop image building from Stonking to Resolute
  • Investigating RISC-V .NET support for GitHub Action Runner (with the help of @mateus-morais, thanks!)

Docs

  • Added a link to FTBFS report in the relevant doc page (PR #656)
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.NET

  • Investigating the buildability of .NET 10 on RISC-V.
  • Continued investigating .NET 11 preview 5 failing to build on ppc64el.

Misc

  • Preparing for dotnet upload rights DMB meeting.
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LXD

  • LXD contains a documentation copy for the LXD-UI. Build it on riscv64 too.

Just

  • Provide the Just snap on riscv64. The snap is not in the edge channel.

Opentelemetry-collector snap

  • Test build of the snap for riscv64. PR created to add the architecture to the snap.
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Miscellaneous

  • +1 Maintenance
  • Update Rust toolchain documentation
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Java

Zig

  • Tried and confirmed that the ziglang/zig master branch now builds natively on ppc64el. So we should be able to add the arch for the zig0.17 update.

Misc

  • Adoptium WG meeting
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Rust

  • Finish rustc-1.94 port to Stonking :tada:
  • Enable cargo-auditable for rust-coreutils
  • Enable cargo-auditable for fish (requires a hack at the moment, fix involves making a PR to dh-strip)
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Rust / LLVM Toolchains

Manager

  • Meetings, 1:1s, and planning
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Documentation

  • Docs URL migration troubleshooting
  • On call for docs build failures
  • Materials for the Marketing team

Public PR reviews:

canonical/docs.ubuntu.com

canonical/ubuntu-core-docs

ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs

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Hello!

Rust

Writing Chisel slice definitions for the Rust 1.93 toolchain:

Documentation

Adding instructions for setting up sbuild with the unshare backend on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble).

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What have I been doing lately? A bunch of different things, as usual, including:

  • Proposed an implementation of “partial variants” in Launchpad
  • A good discussion on the ultimate design of imagecraft
  • Working on verification of the sbuild fix that means that amd64v3 builds do not show the package contents in the build log (and a launchpad-buildd change to match)
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devpack-for-spring:

  • migrated to Spring Shell 4.0, will follow up with menu restructuring and –dry-run switch for setup command

openjdk:

  • prepared jtreg 8.3 update, openjdk-27 fails to build on s390x, will investigate.

distro:

  • sponsored zig0.16 upload
  • sponsored tomcat sru (tomcat-native, tomcat9-11) uploads.
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Apache Tomcat

Java

  • Working on prototype Java Workshop SDK
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Stonking

  • Worked on rust-sequoia-sq{v} merges for MIR (Merge: #502068)/(Merge: #502743)
  • Refined and created demo for extended APT repo signature support
  • Backported cp fix to rust-coreutils 0.8
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Launchpad

  • QA tested this change on qastaging.
  • I rebased util-linux again while doing this, since it’s hitting another FTBFS… :cry:

cdimage

  • Preparation, review, and roll-out of some changes with Utkarsh.

Ubuntu infra

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Stonking

Resolute

  • Worked on LP: #2155094
    • Split into LP: #2157789 against kernel
    • But this changed into a bug against dracut when we figured out this was a repeat of the issues with initramfs-tools with zstd being invoked with maximum settings (level 15 compression with multi-threading)
    • Added task for ubuntu-raspi-settings to implement a workaround
  • Filed bug with ubuntu-raspi-settings to disable tmp.mount on small-mem machines, LP: #2157975

General