Hi all, A quick run down from this week:
= GNOME = We reintroduced the GNOME based Ubuntu session as the default in 16.10 alongside the Wayland session. The original GNOME session is not installed on the desktop by default anymore, but is still available in the archive along with a Unity 7 session. We’ve been doing work on the upgrade story as well this week, to make sure that people migrating from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell is smooth and easy. = LivePatch = Work is continuing on the LivePatch integration with the desktop. This week we’ve been working on Update Manager to get it to show the current LivePatch status and which fixes are available and/or applied. We prototyped an API to get information about the CVEs via the LivePatch daemon. = Snaps = We’ve been at a Snappy sprint in London this week with the Snappy team and representatives of Ubuntu MATE, GNOME Software, KDE, Elementary, Fedora and AppStream. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23snapsprint It’s been a busy week and we’ve got plans for lots of improvements for desktop Snap users. A full write up will come next week, but in GNOME Software we’re adding support for classic snaps, displaying a more human-readable Snap name, getting correct licensing information from the store. We’ve done work to improve the desktop launcher helpers to make use of the new GNOME platform snap. If you’re building Gtk apps on 3.24 you can use the platform snap to significantly reduce the size of your Snap. (The Snap is called “gnome-3-24”) https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers/commits/master = Updates = Orca is updated to version 3.24. Chromium stable is 59.0.3071.109, beta is 60.0.3112.32 then 60.0.3112.40, dev is 61.0.3135.4. Cheers, Will
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