Hi all, Here's an update from this week:
= GNOME = We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and it’s related packages via unity-session. The migration is working well so far, but we still have some more work to do in order to make sure everything “just works”. = LivePatch = We’re now working on the update-manager UI to add the list of kernel CVEs which are handled by the LivePatch service and a brief description of each. = Snaps = We’ve done more work on getting desktop themes working better with Snaps. We’re documenting the problems we’ve encountered and are creating some sample Snaps help with making the improvements we need. = QA = We completed our review of the desktop test plan this week and have set our priorities for this cycle. This will cover installation, upgrades, some core application smoke tests, suspend/resume, Network Manager and translations. We will be publishing a blog on how you can get involved next week. = Updates = A new version of PulseAudio is in Xenial proposed (version 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3). This brings fixes for Bluetooth A2DP audio devices. We’d appreciate testing and feedback. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3 Updated chromium beta to 60.0.3112.32, dev to 61.0.3128.3. = Video Acceleration = We’ve got hardware accelerated video decoding working in a Proof-Of-Concept using a GStreamer and VA-API pipeline. The result is 3% CPU usage to play an h264 4K 60FPS video on Haswell. 4K h265 HEVC is also playable but requires a Skylake or later processor. This wiki page has been updated with information about how to try it yourself: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntelQuickSyncVideo Cheers, Will
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