Landscape 24.04 LTS Release Notes

yanisa-hs · May 1, 2024, 1:54pm

Landscape 24.04 LTS Release Notes

Note: Landscape 24.04 LTS runs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat or 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish.

Note: Database schema changes are required to upgrade to Landscape Server 24.04 LTS.

Highlights

New web portal: Use Landscape’s new, early-access web portal built with Canonical’s Vanilla Framework.
Web-based repository management: Manage and mirror your repositories locally with Landscape’s new web-based repository management. For more information, see how to manage and mirror repositories from the web portal and an explanation on repository mirroring.
REST API for self-hosted users: Use the new REST API that supports JSON Web Tokens for authentication. For more information, see how to make a REST API request and the available REST API endpoints.
Snap management: Manage snaps directly from the Landscape web portal.
Landscape Client - new features for Ubuntu Core users: The Landscape Client snap now includes additional features for Ubuntu Core users, such as remote script execution for snaps, user management on Core, and more. For more information, see the Landscape client snap how-to guides.

Additional updates

WSL: Update apache2 config template for Landscape Quickstart installations to use SSL/TLS on gRPC calls
Quickstart installation configures PostgreSQL max_connections and max_prepared_transactions

Bug fixes

#2055348: Potential arbitrary execution in expandvars
#2057976: Ubuntu Pro info is not sent on registration
#2043035: Landscape UI lag
#2059194: OIDC login not working, not producing any errors
#2062561: There are no APT sources configured in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d.
In the legacy API, add access_group parameter to EditUpgradeProfile
Fixed the database object crossing thread boundaries in gRPC activities
Fix with bpickle to guard against negative string/bytestring lengths
Fixed errors on Ubuntu Pro tab for Windows machines
Fixed startup errors when Pro Licenses are the only Licenses
Memory-usage improvements for landscape-appserver service
Extra prevention against invitation hijacking
Language improvements around allowlists and blocklists
WSL instances are deleted when hosts stop reporting them
Distribution information is provided for pending Windows machines

alslinet · May 7, 2024, 10:59am

Is there instructions on how to upgrade from 23 anywhere?

daniel_souvignier · May 10, 2024, 9:20am

I just installed the new landscape version on a fresh 24.04 Ubuntu Server, however, it’s still showing the old web interface. What has to be done to enable the new interface?

daniel_souvignier · May 10, 2024, 11:25am

Ok got it. Thanks to the quickstart package not working, I installed it via the manual install, which documentation isn’t updated yet for the new version. To get to the new interface, find the apache template in /opt/canonical/landscape/standalone/templates/apache_default.tmpl, copy that to /etc/apache2/sites-available/landscape.conf and edit to your needs. Then go to (landscape-url)/new_dashboard and you get the new ui.

yanisa-hs · May 15, 2024, 3:03pm

Hey @daniel_souvignier! I’m glad you figured out a way to access the new portal! You can also access the new web portal from the old portal by clicking Repositories in the header (top of the page). This text may change in the future, though - it says Repositories for now because that was a major new feature in the portal (web-based repository management).

daniel_souvignier · May 15, 2024, 3:31pm

Yes, figured that out already. Thing is, when I tried that after first manual install, it got back at me with a 404. That was because the instructions in the documentation at https://ubuntu.com/landscape/docs/manual-installation are not updated yet with the correct configuration in the RewriteCond Statements. That’s when I searched for the config template in the installation files. So please update your documentation as soon as possible.

teddy-skarin-krim · May 16, 2024, 8:37am

Hi!

Is there a upgrade guide from earlier version? or are they in the works?
@yanisa-hs will support for Ansible be implemented in the future?

yanisa-hs · May 16, 2024, 1:30pm

@teddy-skarin-krim @alslinet We don’t have an upgrade guide just yet, although one is planned.

And I’m not aware of plans to support Ansible, but Landscape does have its own remote script execution feature, see how to manage scripts.

yanisa-hs · May 16, 2024, 1:31pm

@daniel_souvignier Got it - I’ll check in with the team on that. Thank you for your feedback and providing all the details!