Recent Launchpad blog posts

• Launchpad news, February 2019 – 07 Mar 2019
  Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Build farm Allow dispatching builds with base images selected based on the pocket and/or using LXD images instead of chroot tarballs where appropriate (#1811677) Code Store bzr-svn‘s cache in the import data store Allow project owners to use the Bazaar branch rescan view Canonicalise expected rule ordering in […]
• Launchpad news, July 2018 – January 2019 – 21 Feb 2019
  Here’s a brief changelog of what we’ve been up to since our last general update. Bugs Parse a few more possible Savane URL formats (#197250) Compare Bugzilla versions properly when checking whether they support the Bugzilla API (part of #1802798) Build farm Configure snap proxy settings for Subversion (#1668358) Support passing IMAGE_TARGETS, REPO_SNAPSHOT_STAMP, and COHORT_KEY […]
• Launchpad news, June 2018 – 06 Jul 2018
  Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Bugs Handle Bugzilla.time() changes in Bugzilla 5.1.1 (#1774838) Cope with the comment author field being renamed to creator in recent Bugzilla versions (#1774838) Build farm Set the hostname and FQDN of LXD containers to match the host system, though with an IP address pointing to the container (#1747015) […]
• Launchpad news, May 2018 – 02 Jun 2018
  Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Build farm Send fast_cleanup: True to virtualised builds, since they can safely skip the final cleanup steps Code Add spam controls to code review comments (#1680746) Only consider the most recent nine successful builds when estimating recipe build durations (#1770121) Make updated code import emails more informative Infrastructure […]
• Launchpad news, June 2017 – April 2018 – 01 May 2018
  Once again it’s been a while since we posted a general update, so here’s a changelog-style summary of what we’ve been up to.  As usual, this changelog preserves a reasonable amount of technical detail, but I’ve omitted changes that were purely internal refactoring with no externally-visible effects. Answers Hide questions on inactive projects from the […]
• Launchpad news, May 2017 – 31 May 2017
  Here’s a brief changelog for this month. Bugs Export searchTasks for the top-level bugs collection on the webservice, and implement a global bugs feed to go with it (#434244) Code Fix git-to-git code imports on xenial Backport upstream serf commit to fix svn-to-bzr code imports on xenial (#1690613) Fix crash when unlinking a bug from […]
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