This week sees an update to the INF kernel series ahead of the start of semester. Here are the details of all notable changes…

Kernel

The stable INF kernels have been updated on Ubuntu Jammy to 5.15.0-152 and on Ubuntu Noble to 6.8.0-78

ntpd

The work continues to simplify the schema for the LCFG ntp component, it also now has more resource validation to prevent bad data being specified.

For Ubuntu Noble there is a new Perl-based component which manages the daemon using Systemd, this is currently being tested and is not yet ready for full deployment.

auditd

Some minor errors with resource validation have been fixed in the schemas for the LCFG auditd component.

pgluser database management tool

The pgluser database automated management tool for PostgreSQL has been updated to support Python 3.12 on Noble. Support for Python 2 has been removed.

R-Project and CRAN Mirrors

Following recent enhancements to the aptly component the R Project packages and Cran2Ubuntu packages mirrors are now published into one multi-distro repository with a component for each.

LCFG Server Web

Muqi Zhang has completed his internship and the new release of the LCFG Status API and WebApp packages have been released, built and configured in the LCFG and ED layer lcfg-server-web.h header files. This year’s work improved performance, squashed bugs and added the compiler log view. It is only supported on Noble.

Changes to headers and package lists

Members of the Informatics Computing team can browse all the changes to the headers and package lists.

Weekly Changes – 25/08/2025 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0