... and the footnotes for the earlier e-mail: [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1937115 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-riscv/+bug/1934548
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:30, Lukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > While working towards the 20.04.3 milestone, we received reports of > the currently available shim package causing daily builds of our > installation media to fail to boot on some devices[1]. A fix for that > is now in progress, but as we would like to make sure the new version > of the package is well tested before candidate images are built. > Subsequently, we decided more time is needed. In addition to that we > are also investigating an unrelated issue with our RISC-V images[2], > whose root cause is not yet fully understood. As we feel that rushing > things through is not the right way to go, we decided to play it safe > and delay the point-release date a week, to August 26th. > > That being said, we will be freezing the focal-updates pocket at the > same date as originally planned (on August 12th), afterwards only > releasing packages that are critical for the .3 milestone. Let’s all > use the additional week for further testing. > > Remember that the progress of the 20.04.3 release can be tracked at > any time via our release status tracking post on discourse: > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-3-lts-point-release-status-tracking/22948 > > Thank you. > > On behalf of the release team, > > -- > Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak > Foundations Team > lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com > www.canonical.com -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
