This week sees the release of the 2nd update to Ubuntu Noble so we have a few related changes. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

Network Component An updated to the network component code fixes the validation of optional interfaces. ED Layer Local Disk Partition The ed/options/ed-site.h header no longer defines _NO_DEFAULT_LOCALPART if LCFG_DISK_LOCAL_SIZE is defined. This allows individual profiles or calling sites to have the local partition on the primary disk be created by the LCFG layer. New Package […]

Work on the Noble server platform is now almost complete. This week sees a few other useful new features, in particular, there is now a way to reduce the number of daily emails from running apt. Here are the details of the notable changes…

A quieter week with the Ubuntu Noble platform now stabilising nicely. There’s an important fix to the installer for sites which use DHCP for all their systems. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

Lots of small changes this week, many related to the work on the new Ubuntu Noble platform. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

Another busy week mostly focussed on the Ubuntu Noble platform, it’s all coming together nicely and we now encourage everyone to begin testing. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

We’re pleased to announce a major new version of the apteryx package manager (0.8.2) is now available for our Ubuntu and Debian platforms. This has a couple of big new features that will make it much more robust and reliable. There are also a few minor bug fixes and other tweaks thrown in for good […]

This is the first release of 2025 and is rather larger than normal due to a lot of ongoing work to support the new Ubuntu Noble platform. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

A very quiet week, most sites will not notice any changes other than the usual security updates. Here are the few notable details…

It has now been nearly 6 months since the end of support for SL7. The platform is no longer changing and we have a dwindling number of SL7 systems so we intend to drop the weekly testing of this platform. Early in the new year we expect to add weekly testing of the Ubuntu Noble […]