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108 posts from 2017
Fresh Snaps from August 2017
By David Callé, 11 September 2017
September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 8, 2017
By Will Cooke, 8 September 2017
GNOME GNOME Shell 3.25.91 is now in Artful in preparation for the move to 3.26 before release. We’re adding notification badge support to the Dock extension....
Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017
By Canonical, 7 September 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
Week 35 of 2017 in snapcraft
By Sergio Schvezov, 7 September 2017
This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 27 August until 02 September...
The snapd roadmap
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 6 September 2017
This article originally appeared at snapcraft forums released snapd 2.27 (topic1) snapd 2.28 Improved configuration get output (topic) Internal xdg-open...
Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017
By Canonical, 6 September 2017
Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel...
Security Team Weekly Summary: August 31, 2017
By Canonical, 30 August 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017
By Canonical, 30 August 2017
This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the...
Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades
By Canonical, 29 August 2017
This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from...
Week 34 of 2017 in snapcraft
By Sergio Schvezov, 29 August 2017
This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 20-26, 2017....
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 25, 2017
By Will Cooke, 25 August 2017
GNOME Shell Didier has written a series of blog posts detailing how we’ve set up the Ubuntu GNOME Shell session in Artful to co-exist with the default GNOME...
Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017
By Canonical, 24 August 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...