As we enter the final stretch of Plucky Puffin release cycle, the release team is working toward planned release date this Thursday, April 17th. We will use this thread as a live document to capture progress, blocking issues and next steps. While this document provides a high level status update, more granular details on the work being done can be accessed below with the Checklist
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Status - On Track
Tuesday April 15th
What happened last night ?
The plan was for @utkarsh to build our images but we had to wait for qt6base to migrate as it is used on multiple flavors. Thanks for @mwhudson who helped pushing them trough the finish line, we were able to start building after midnight. Unfortunately we faced some infrastructure challenges, in particular with our amd64 images.
Other Updates
- we’ll keep watching zsync status and since it is seeded in only two images, if we can respin on time we will.
- There was a request to sync distro-info-data given the new release name was available, but since this isn’t a bug fix, we will stick to our usual process and take care of it on opening and SRU To older releases. @paelzer to friendly reject.
- Alsa (LP: #2106394, LP: #2100732, LP: #2106464) - adding some changes too late and because it is seeded in Desktop, this would cause too many image respin. We will not be accept it in the release, keep it unapproved and deal with it as SRU
- 2024-qt - Dropped from the milestone and updated the bug with an explanation
- Kernel RISC-V build restarted again as it was broken
- LP team acknowledged the issue and prepped special builders that do not recycle at the end to have a chance to debug what is going on
- Still the builds are so delayed we no more expect them to make it
Today’s Plan
- Send out request for testing for non-amd64 architectures
- cleanup and troubleshoot cdimage amd64 images and respin amd64 images
- Prepare release announcement and review content with flavor leads
EOD Report
- issues with LaunchPad have been causing delays with amd64 builds and publishing in general
- Those have been resolved
- By now all images have been pushed except desktop amd64
- Images will have to be respun due to an issue with curtin requiring subiquity and desktop provision snap to be rebuilt
- Kernel riscv builds still haunted and had an unplanned restart
- Therefore despite the respin we do not expect that to be there
- Regular updates of the Kernel will catch that over time
- Discussed which images we’d respin
- Only those with an installer, which means not preinstalled risc, preinstalled rpi, any cloud-images
- The fix for Zsync has built and migrate right now, related images seeding it will be respun once published
- We re-evaluated -unapproved and communicated how we’ll handle the cases there, some rejects some kept to become SRUs
Monday April 14th
Release Tasks today will include:
- Produce Full set of images
- Clear the NBS List
- Bug reviews
EOD Report
- @utkarsh requested Release Note Updates from relevant teams with missing content
- Builds of the newest kernel on RISC-V are delayed but a fallback plan has been agreed on
- We discussed topic of delegation Feature Freeze for flavors, @utkarsh to post a proposal soon
- Established final source freeze
- Disabled daily builds
- Clear various queues for plucky (NBS, …)
- Working with web team to make sure everything is ready for release day
- Got a Release Name for 25.10 : Questing Quokka
- Waiting on basefiles to migrate so we can build new images so that people can start testing
- reviewed milestone bug list
- Reverting zsync from 0.6.2-7 upload into to 0.6.2-7ubuntu1
- Preliminary ISO testing and Infrastructure check
- Now everything revolves around getting new images, Utkarsh Gupta to start building images before EOD
- We also discussed WSL image options and decided to release interim images without support as it still allows use to exercise the process and testing.
Bugs to watch
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-25.04
Release checklist
Release team is hard at work closing all the items on the release checklist below:
https://warthogs.atlassian.net/browse/RTMP-2334
ISO Tracker
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/467/builds
Staying in touch
Feel free to contact us on https://matrix.to/#/#release:ubuntu.com or comment on this thread if you think something need the release team’s attention.
