Foundations Team Updates - 2026-07-02

[rkratky]

Hello everybody,

It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations

Courtesy ping:

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

Please, post your updates. Thanks!

[rkratky]

Documentation

ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs

PRs submitted

• Update dput to dput-ng references
• Streamline build-packages-in-a-ppa page
• Streamline upload-packages-to-a-ppa page
• Convert governance map to Mermaid diagram
• Fix Launchpad filebug links in new-packages page
• Add staleness note to bug-responses page
• Center and theme archive Mermaid diagram
• Add note that cross-building requires schroot
• Add LP outage handling to lpteams script
• Promote Building to top-level section in contributors index
• fix: update Launchpad bug report form link (fixes #671)
• fix: remove stale 26.04 from future releases, add 26.10 (fixes #669, …
• docs: add flavor expectations section to release cycle (fixes #664)
• docs: link to release team Jira checklist templates (fixes #662)
• docs: cross-link SRU explanation to reference requirements (fixes #661)
• docs: slim DEP-3 page to point at Debian spec (fixes #652)
• docs: update security update propagation for deb822 APT sources (fixes #648)
• fix: correct NVIDIA page heading levels and capitalization (fixes #642)
• Add missing redirects

PRs reviewed

• rewrite llvm packaging, fix links
• Document sbuild unshare backend for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (noble-backports) → merged, too
• debian/: add note differentiating from DEBIAN/ → merged, too
• Document enabling cargo-auditable without dh-cargo → merged, too
• Update Rust patching docs to use modern git-ubuntu workflow → merged, too
• fix: update ubuntu-helpers clone URL → merged, too
• fix: update autopkgtest tutorial → merged, too
• Backporting Rust docs: Add instructions on rolling back RVA23 support → merged, too
• Update Rust backporting docs with expanded examples and corrections → merged, too
• Issue 316: fixing bugs → merged, too

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• Uploaded LLVM 21 Noble backport to Staging PPA
• Managing rustc-1.94 migration
• rustc-1.95 update (including OpenSSL 4.0 fix)
• rustc-1.96 update

Miscellaneous

• Updated Rust patching docs
• Finished +1 Maintenance shift

[amrelsh]

Testing:

• Finished the CLI tool that would be used to push all test results to Test Observer
• Adjusted the cdimage URLs for the testing jobs in Jenkins
• Finished V1 of the release management testing doc

Packaging work

• Currently working on FastDDS bug

[petrakat]

Rust

• continue porting rustc-1.94 to resolute
• work further on cargo-auditable; big archive test builds

[artiepoole]

Boot

Learning a lot about statically analysing programming languages…
Catching up/preparing by studying security models and current boot problems/solutions

Other (PE work)

Drafting blog, and related xilinx packaging work and FPGAd development
Other handover tasks including mentoring

[mateus-morais]

.NET

• Released .NET 11 Preview 5 to the Previews PPA
• Released .NET 11 Preview 5 content snaps to the snap store (runtime snap pending manual review step).
• Working on enabling .NET 11 on Workshop.

[varranvar]

Systems

• Working on packaging prototypes of bzip2-rs and zlib-rs

[xypron]

Image cookbook

• Describe our requirements for SMBIOS tables and device-trees.

Stubble

• Implement matching the /model property. Unfortunately a vendor firmware uses the same /compatible value in the the device-tree for all boards, only the /model property is differs.

Cinder-Volume snap

• Enable building on RISC-V. Merge request created.

Shim

• Test secure boot with shim on RISC-V. There is still one patch pending for inclusion in upstream.

[vpa19771]

openjdk:

• Raised https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8387580, and LP: 2158577 that block openjdk migration. Other reason - a very long queue of S390x autopkgtests.
• Robert merged package maintenance guide for openjdk

devpack-for-spring:

• new version 1.4.1 released to the edge channel. It includes menu refactoring and bugfixes. Spring Boot 4.1 and Spring AI 2.0 are available as content snaps.

distro:

• Robert merged Fixing Bugs PR Issue 316: fixing bugs by vpa1977 · Pull Request #449 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub , so now I can grab the next doc task.
• Review of zig0.16

[bamf0]

rust-coreutils

• Validated Zellic’s audit report fixes against version 0.8.0 on Resolute
• Reverted cp back to GNU (LP: # 2158691)
• Made PR for cp fix upstream (#13258)

APT

• Refined repository signing prototype

Distro

• Worked on ML-assisted large scale bug de-deduplication prototype

[skia]

Distro

• Patch pilot shift: Patch Pilot Hand-off 26.10 - #15 by skia
• Investifixed the stonking build failures: Bug #2158962 “Failing to build images: chroot/sbin/start-stop-da...” : Bugs : livecd-rootfs package : Ubuntu
• Got pinged for sponsoring and provided feedback on cloud-hypervisor’s upcoming package. It should be ready to upload on Monday.

Infra

• Investigated and planned how to migrate changeslogs.ubuntu.com to new infra
• Investigated and planned how to migrate torrent.ubuntu.com to new infra

Documentation

• Improved some release team documentation: docs: release-team: clarify Flavor expectations by Hyask · Pull Request #691 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub

[ruancomelli]

Sorry for the late post

I was doing +1 Maintenance work - you can read all about it here: +1 Maintenance Report from 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-03.