Foundations Team Updates - 2026-10-01

[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, @gianpcarp
• Boot: @ruifm
  • @mkukri, @fhoerni, @artiepoole
• Runtimes: @samirkam
  • Rust: @richard-scott-mcnew, @maxgmr, @petrakat, @blkerby, @ruancomelli, @cad97
  • Java: @vpa19771, @pushkarnk, @rroessler
  • .NET: @mateus-morais, @rinconjr
  • Golang: @levihackerman-102, @sumit-tiwari
  • Python: @dviererbe, @vmpyr
  • GCC/LLVM: @karljs, @ryancarlson12, @ibhagat
• Architectures: @ravi-sharma
  • @xypron, @waveform, @r41k0u, @tobhe, @vhaudiquet

Please, post your updates. Thanks!

[ravi-sharma]

Still working on OpenSSL 4 transition - 99% done

• https://transitions.ubuntu.com/html/openssl4.html

Created openssl3 package for libnvidia-compute-* packages

Short week due to https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2026/schedule/

[nulltrek]

Ubuntu testing

• Working on a test harness wrapper prototype for better test portability

Documentation

• Expanding documentation for the Release Management team

[richard-scott-mcnew]

Rust Toolchain

• Ubuntu 27.04 planning
• GitHub repo standardization

[artiepoole]

Boot

• grub-2.16 packaged and uploaded to debian experimental
• grub-2.14 CVE backports started, trying to rush into 26.10 release.

Other

• keylime autopkgtests written. Ran once and failed, need to debug.

[varranvar]

System

• Uploaded a new rust-coreutils version to patch FTBFS errors
• Working on an auto-triage bot

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• Removed unwanted Rust toolchain versions from the archive
• Update Rust Toolchain Availability docs
• Working on SRUs for old Rust toolchain bug fixes
• Mentoring teammates on Rust 1.98 update

Miscellaneous

• Peer Buddy
• Written interview grading

[ryancarlson12]

Toolchains

• Documenting and investigating bugs with LLVM (17-22) autopkgtests in resolute and stonking

Misc

• Read up on superdistro docs
• Use my training budget

[ruancomelli]

Rust Toolchain Work

• Finished the last Rust backports for this cycle

Maintenance Work

• My Merge Proposal to pypy3 adding support for OpenSSL 4 has been merged - currently stuck in Proposed due to a bug in rust-coreutils

Other

• Currently testing and fixing a snap for the Zed editor

[amrelsh]

• Fixed the failing smoke tests for desktop/server images (started working for the first time since 3 months)
• Fully integrated the amd64v3 smoke and GUI tests in our CI
• Coordinated with the Ubuntu Core team and provided a mechanism that they can use to publish test results on Test Observer in their CI
• Manual tested stonking amd64-preinstalled to get them accepted for the beta release
• Currently working on integrating Subiquity tests into our CI
• Opened an MP and a bug to change the architecture data inside of amd64v3 stonking iso .disk/info from amd64 to amd64v3 which caused a static validation test to fail
• Opened a support ticket on the Cert team as the Testflinger tests with Raspi are broken

[gianpcarp]

apt sha3 integration.

[vpa19771]

openjdk:

• preparing EA versions for October security release

kotlin/gradle/intellij platform:

• trying to produce a minimal build for Gradle 9

[skia]

• Coordinated and baby-sitted the building of Stonking images.
• SRU’d seeded-in-ubuntu back to Noble.
• Studied transportation for the coming sprint.

[rkratky]

Documentation

• 27.04 planning
• 26.10 release notes

GitHub:

canonical/documentation-style-guide

• PR: Add Resolute and Stonking

canonical/sphinx-stack

• Issue: check-removed-urls flags HTML assets under _static as removed pages

canonical/ubuntu-for-developers-docs

PRs submitted

• Update Sphinx Stack to 2.0

PRs reviewed

• Update Rust toolchain availability for 26.10 → merged, too
• Adding spread tests for the tutorials
• Add a tutorial on Spring AI observability
• docs: Add Java Workshop SDKs Tutorial
• Add a 2-part tutorial on MCP with Spring AI
• Add a Spring AI tutorial on adding chat memory

ubuntu/ubuntu-hw-support

• PR: Update Sphinx Stack from 1.6 to 2.0

ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs

PRs submitted

• Update CODEOWNERS: SRU
• Update Sphinx Stack to 2.0
• Disable Matrix sends in the queue report

PRs reviewed

• Update ubuntu-sru team → merged, too
• Add structural descriptions to contributing docs
• Update ubuntu-sru team
• Tweak wording in intro of lifecycle document → merged, too
• Clarify bug tag usage

ubuntu/ubuntu-release-notes

PRs submitted

• Fix formatting, false-positive URL
• Update Starter Pack to Sphinx Stack 2.0
• Fix broken links flagged by linkcheck

PRs reviewed

• 26.10: add release notes for some server packages
• Reorder the 26.10 release notes along the same structure used for 26.04

canonical/ubuntu-engineering-docs (internal)

PRs submitted

• Rework story-point sizing guidance into how-to and explanation
• Fix linkcheck failures: ignore internal resources, fix dead links and image targets
• Fix spellcheck failures and switch spellcheck to US English
• Clarify root vs master key terminology in key sharding explanation
• Fix build warnings: missing IDs