Tag Archives: Release

Call for Testing: Hardy Firefox Users (or willing to install Hardy in a VM)

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

Background Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. Rather than backporting security fixes to these now, we are moving to a support model where we will be introducing major new upstream versions in stable releases. The reason for this is the support periods from Mozilla are gradually becoming shorter, and it will […]

New Firefox Support Model and Coming Changes in Stable Updates

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

The desktop team has been working since the Karmic UDS on the following blueprint: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-new-firefox-support-model The upshot of the blueprint is that there will be some changes to users’ desktops if they are currently Hardy, Jaunty or Karmic users. In Lucid, we put in a lot of effort to ensure these updates will be easier […]

Maverick Alpha 1 Freeze Ahead

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

The Meerkat wants to stick its head out to the world the first time! We haven’t really started landing new features from ourselves yet, but the first milestone is important for testing the new kernel on a variety of hardware, as well as the result of the autosyncs from Debian and first wave of merges […]

Ubuntu Server Team – June 1st, 2010 – Meeting Minutes

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-02

Server Team 20100601 meeting minutes Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with the irc logs here. Action points from the last meeting sommer to try to move server doc spec to Ubuntu specs: DONE ttx to document (or delegate documentation of ) package stack names: DONE Alpha1 milestone The […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #195

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-31

Welcome to The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #195 for the week of May 23rd -May 29th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Track the Desktop Team and UNE in Maverick Ubuntu Server update for Maverick Meerkat Ubuntu Foundations and Maverick Meerkat 10.10 Maverick Community Team Plans Welcome: New Ubuntu […]