Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team from the last week.
If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of the Community Hub (this site).
We also have our weekly meeting on IRC. We meet on Tuesday at 13:30 UTC in #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode. There will be an “Any Other Business” section at the end where you are welcome to raise topics. These topics might be discussed during the meeting, or afterwards depending on the time, depth of conversation, topic and so on.
Lots of debugging for GDM issue causing not starting in fast boots (but slow drivers). Pushed a fix.
Filled systemd issue to discuss more about CanGraphical management
Systemd logind pull request not to advertize fb devices with a drm device as master-of-seat devices (i.e. enough to have a graphical sesssion) + various researches on drivers for this.
Discussion in how to proceed in getting this fixed upstream
SRU
Done missing SRU verifications for light-themes
Fixed nautilus SRU adding missing bug reference for a memory leak fix
gnome-session:
FIxed migration script not running in wayland sessions [mp]
Profiling and optimizing cursor movement again, because some people are blocking my top priority latency fix on it. Now we have three fixes, so I am rather glad I was pushed to keep investigating this…
Cosmic Cuttlefish release: Testing, community testing coordination (close to 1400 results reported by the community for this release. Thanks to all the testers), bug reporting and troubleshooting, …
Did a lot of iso testing on Wednesday and Thursday, validating test cases and opening bugs (which were not regressions from last LTS, but still nice to be tracked).
disabled NodeJS in 63.0 builds for bionic, xenial and trusty, because this requires version 8.11 which isn’t available there
foundations is working on rust and cargo updates for firefox 64
investigating bug #1798999 (apparmor profile silently enabled on upgrade, causing severe rendering issues)
chromium
updated stable to 70.0.3538.67, uploaded to cosmic-proposed just after final freeze, and built and tested in the stage PPA for bionic and xenial
updated snap and rebuilt against the gnome-3-26 backports PPA, amd64 snap verified to work and promoted to stable, other architectures fail to build
libreoffice
fixed autopkgtest failures with jdk 11 (bug #1796361): distro-patched in ubuntu-cosmic-6.1 branch, and a (slightly different, but functionally equivalent) fix was committed upstream
built 6.1.3 RC 1 snap and published in the candidate channel
started preparing 6.0.7 SRU for bionic (bug #1799230)
snaps
zyga reported that the colibri snap doesn’t run on fedora and that the issue appears to be in the desktop-launch script, I managed to reproduce the issue in a VM and I tried a few things, but without much success
other
added versions of libreoffice (6.1.2) and firefox (63.0) to the release notes