The automatic promotion for Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and 12.10 stable release Cloud Images has been enabled for automatic promotion. As a result, the next dailies will be considered candidates for promotion as update releases. However, we will not be promoting new images to Windows Azure quite yet.
Thanks, Ben On 01/24/2013 01:40 PM, Ben Howard wrote: > Traditionally, updates for the stable release and long term stable release > Cloud Images have been on an ad-hoc basis; reasons for releasing new images > were generally restricted to security, critical bugs, and stale images. This > ad-hoc update cycle meant that updated images were only released every three > months or so, and for older releases, as often as six months. > > While quality has always been a concern and top priority, during this cycle, > Canonical has worked to vastly improve the QA infrastructure to support our > Cloud Images. For example, when a new kernel is released, the daily build for > that image is now put through the complete QA process. This change in process > has allowed us to identify and automatically evaluate whether or not an image > is a good candidate for update release. > > As such, we are pleased to announce in the next few weeks, we will be turning > on automated updates for Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, 11.10, 12.04 LTS, and 12.10 > Cloud Images. This means that approximately every three to four weeks, a new, > freshened image will be released. The release cadence will follow the kernel > SRU process. > > The first updated image to be released under this process was 10.04 LTS[1]. > > There are a variety of ways to find the released Cloud Images. The two > easiest ways are to go the AMI Finder[2] or use > http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/<SUITE>. For example, > http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/release would bring you to the > last AMI's for Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS. > > Due to this change, we will discontinuing the email notifications of updated > images to the various email lists for updated images.At UDS-R in > Copenhagen[3], we discussed email notifications and the decision was reached > to discontinue them. Replacing email notification is the RSS feed[4] and > release notes (example from 10.04 LTS)[5]. As Cloud Image suites are migrated > to automated releases, we will follow up on this announcement. > > Finally, for 12.04 LTS and later, this change will introduce lock-step update > releases with Windows Azure. As Windows Azure moves towards GA, we have been > working to have the same releases for the Ubuntu Server Cloud Images on both > EC2 and Windows Azure. > > As always, your feedback is most appreciated. Please feel free to follow on > either this post or to email concerns direct to me. > > [1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/release-20130124/ > [2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/ > [3] http://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-cloudtesting > [4] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/rss/ > [5] > http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/release-20130124/unpacked/release_notes.txt > -- > > > Ben Howard > [email protected] > Canonical > GPG ID 0x5406A866 > > -- Ben Howard [email protected] Canonical GPG ID 0x5406A866
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