Foundations Team Updates - 2026-09-10

[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!

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• rust-defaults migration
  • rust-bitfields test failure fix
• llvm-defaults transition
  • pyside6 LLVM 22 FTBFS fix
  • apache-arrow FTBFS fix via xsimd merge
• Assistance with Rust backport automation

Miscellaneous

• rust-cargo-c OpenSSL 4 FTBFS fix
• 360 reviews
• “Packaging a Rust binary crate” docs

[richard-scott-mcnew]

Rust Toolchain

• Ubuntu 27.04 Planning

[ryancarlson12]

Toolchains onboarding

• Working on foundations learning (Last week was very conceptual and documentation focused. This next week I am focusing more on actionable items like bugs and packaging practice)
• Exploring the LLVM issues page and Launchpad LLVM bugs

[rinconjr]

.NET

• Package and release of September .NET security updates.
• .NET backports updates
• Working on packaging .NET 11 RC1!

[vpa19771]

openjdk:

• preparing EA releases

tomcat:

• chisel slices were merged

devpack-for-spring:

• refactoring’s reviews

distro:

• FFe template https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs/pull/787

[rroessler]

Devpack for Spring

• Submitted and merged a variety of code-review refactorings:
  • fix: minor refactor of CI and configs by rroessler · Pull Request #284 · canonical/devpack-for-spring-cli · GitHub
  • fix: refactor devpack shell runner by rroessler · Pull Request #285 · canonical/devpack-for-spring-cli · GitHub
  • fix: refactor support and util by rroessler · Pull Request #286 · canonical/devpack-for-spring-cli · GitHub
  • fix: remove unused UserConfig and SpringCliUserConfig implementations by rroessler · Pull Request #288 · canonical/devpack-for-spring-cli · GitHub
  • fix: migrate gradle init to use centralizing repositories declaration by rroessler · Pull Request #289 · canonical/devpack-for-spring-cli · GitHub

CMake Snap

• Published CMake Snap 4.2.8 Release
• Published CMake Snap 4.3.5 Release

Distro Work

• Submitted MP: #510803 for meshlab FTBFS
• Submitted MP: #510893 for monitoring-plugins FTBFS

[gianpcarp]

Onboarding

• General onboarding tasks, registering GPG/SSH keys with Launchpad, team intros
• Learning PPAs: reading through the Launchpad docs and writing notes on how apt archives and PPAs are laid out
• Set up a local build environment: sbuild in unshare mode with apt-cacher-ng
• Next: local autopkgtest runs, then creating a PPA and uploading with dput

[skia]

• Coordinated Noble .5 release through the week.
• SRU’d python-jenkins to fix a crash on Noble.
• Started to configure the new torrent.ubuntu.com environment.