Foundations Team Updates - 2026-07-16

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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Linux 7.0 RISC-V backport to 24.04

  • Kernel tested on the supported hardware.

openstack-hypervisor

  • Create a patch to enable building the snap on riscv64.

libvirt

  • Enable setting the vector register length (vlen). Patches sent upstream

prometheus-hardware-exporter

  • Check building on riscv64 works.

stubble

  • Adjust to work around incorrect compatible and model properties in the SpacemiT K3 device-trees exposed by EDK II.
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Boot:
Boot scripting language - syntax discussions, examples, requirements. Breaking down and analysing various Boot processes

PE:
dfx-mgr testing latest with fpgad

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Rust

  • Refactor devpack-for-rust tree picker to be cleaner and more flexible
  • Analyze permissions / user spoofing for devpack-for-rust
  • Lament Rust’s lack of a XDG-User-Dirs implementation that works on other users
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Java

  • Completed DRY refactoring of OpenJDK FIPS packages.
  • Proposed a Spring AI tutorial about Tool calling.

Zig

  • Ghostty’s -Dcpu=baseline fix accepted into resolute-proposed.
  • zig-defaults on stonking updated to zig0.16

Cloud-native tooling

  • Prototype of running application unit tests in a chiseled (java|rust|python|dotnet) container.
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Rust Toolchain :crab:

Rust Commercial Network

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Documentation

ubuntu-project-docs

PRs Submitted
PRs Reviewed
PRs Merged
Issues Created

ubuntu-for-developers-docs

PRs Submitted
PRs Merged
Reviews
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Toolchains

  • Rust 1.95 upload/sponsorship
  • Rust 1.97 update
  • Work on LP: #2160531 for Rust 1.97, adding rust-llvm and libstd-rust-dev-wasm32 binary packages to maintain parity with Debian

Miscellaneous

  • Written interview grading
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openjdk:

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Whoopsie, forgot to post last week:

Most of the week was out of office.