The changes made were enabling HTTPS for the main Ubuntu Archive
(archive.ubuntu.com, us.archive.ubuntu.com, {gb,uk}.archive.ubuntu.com),
Ubuntu Ports (ports.ubuntu.com, {gb,uk}.ports.ubuntu.com), and Security
updates (security.ubuntu.com). These are operated by Canonical.

We still have some community operated mirrors which we have chosen as
ccTLD mirrors (e.g. au.archive.ubuntu.com) and these may not yet be
available over HTTPS.

The default is still HTTP and switching the default to HTTPS is
something to be decided by the various Ubuntu teams. I don't think that
this is what was originally reported.

As many have stated in the past, in particular Robie's in #5 and
Dimitri's in LP:1186793[1], the default of HTTP shouldn't be considered
insecure. I'm not going to comment further on this though as it's not
going to stop :)

FWIW, we're (Canonical IS) using older Juju charms to manage and
provision the main Ubuntu mirrors operated by Canonical. You can see the
changes and file bugs for improvements there[2].

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1186793/comments/8
[2]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-mirror-charm

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