Foundations Team Updates - 2026-09-03

[rkratky]

Hello everybody,

It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations

Courtesy ping:

• Foundations: @mclemenceau
  • @mwhudson, @rkratky
• Release: @utkarsh, @skia, @oreiche, @amrelsh, @nulltrek
• Package manager, crypto, and system: @juliank
  • @bamf0, @varranvar, @zgrigoryan
• Boot: @mkukri, @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!

[petrakat]

• Continue fixing up devpack-for-rust – this week I am focusing on getting it to run more cross-platform
• Finishing up some stuff from my +1 maintenance shift

[richard-scott-mcnew]

Rust Toolchain

• Rust Commercial Network meeting notes
• Rust on Ubuntu 2026-09 Newsletter published
• Ubuntu 27.04 Planning

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• Assistance with Rust backport automation
• General toolchains bug cleanup
• Started work on CVE-2026-5223 and CVE-2026-5222
• rust-defaults transition
• llvm-defaults transition

Miscellaneous

• “Hello, Rust!” Rust crate packaging tutorial documentation for Ubuntu

[vhaudiquet]

RISC-V

• OpenSBI upstream effort is ongoing for the SpacemiT K3, participated in testing and fixup patches on the mailing list
• Updated U-Boot-SpacemiT package to support the OpenSBI upstreaming effort
• EDK2 changes for the SpacemiT K3 have been merged, merged, and updated after review
• Documentation: working on experimental RISC-V desktop images instructions, in a PR

[ryancarlson12]

Toolchains

• Learning about backporting LLVM
• Poking around the docs and past issues

Misc

• Improving automation for team synchronization between Launchpad and GitHub

[amrelsh]

Testing

• Currently working on enabling automated Raspi HW testing on our Jenkins instance
• Added this patch to ubuntu-cdimage where failed builds still get published to stale images on Test Observer cluttering Mission Control

Docs

• Opened this PR to help improve the MIR reporter template clarity as part of the doc week

[skia]

• Finished the Error Tracker migration. This piece of infrastructure is now fully modern
• Finished the new seeded-in-ubuntu indexer: Add 'seeded-in-ubuntu-indexer' by Hyask · Pull Request #80 · canonical/ubuntu-static-reports-operator · GitHub
• Sent up for review the corresponding updates for seeded-in-ubuntu: Merge into main : skia/seeded-in-ubuntu-index : lp:~skia/ubuntu-dev-tools : Git : Code : Ubuntu Developer Tools
• Upgraded our few remaining amd64 Jenkins agents from Jammy to Noble

[mwhudson]

• Worked on documenting seeds for the project docs Seed docs by mwhudson · Pull Request #781 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub
• Discussions around ubuntu-drivers extensions

[vpa19771]

Late to the party:

openjdk:

• investigating Bug #2095441 “S390x build of openjdk crashes with the segmentati...” : Bugs : openjdk-21 package : Ubuntu - something in Macro expansion phase / expand allocation is corrupting the frame - stack offset goes above monitor offset. Still debugging.

distro:

• patch pilot shift / a number of sponsorships
• preparing FFe template page for Ubuntu documentation

[rkratky]

Documentation

• Mostly “Docs Week”-related stuff: PR reviews, lots of Mattermost, and keeping an eye on Jira.

• Model comparison tool for quick biggest-bang-for-buck selection: model-compare — best value-for-money LLMs.

• Work on integrating model-compare to in-house agent-provisioning tool.

• Charming ReadTheDocs for documentation self-hosting PoC (bit of a nightmare, but possible, apparently – though with too many constraints).