Excerpts from Martinx - ジェームズ's message of 2016-01-25 09:20:02 -0800:
> On 23 January 2016 at 22:56, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmarti...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> >  I'm wondering here about what package versions we'll have on Xenial
> > 16.04...
> >
> >  So, I'm creating a wish list!    :-P
> >
> >  Upgrades:
> >
> >  - Apt 1.2
> >  - Linux 4.4 (long term) - confirmed
> >  - OpenShot 2.0
> >  - Ansible 2.0
> >  - Docker 1.10.X - better integrated with Ubuntu and with rolling upgrades
> > during 16.04 life cycle (like Ubuntu Cloud archive)
> >  - QEmu 2.5 - Done - With 3D support (specially for Ubuntu Desktop on KVM)!
> >  - Mesa 11.1 - Done
> >  - Xen 4.6 - Done!
> >  - DPDK 2.2 or 2.3 (new 16.04) with Xen support (for ParaVirt DomUs) -
> > confirmed!
> >  - Virt-Manager 1.3 and SPICE support (Python 3 deps already in)
> >  - Libvirt 1.2.21 - Done!
> >  - Samba 4.3 - Done!
> >  - SSSD 1.13 - Done!
> >  - Wireshark 2 (QT based, no GTK)
> >  - nmap 7
> >  - InfluxDB 0.9.6 (or newer) - Done!
> >  - Prometheus Server 0.16 & Node Exporter (0.12)
> >  - MariaDB 10.1.10 plus better support for it (move it for Main Repo)
> >  - Vagrant 1.8 - Done - But fully integrated with both KVM/Libvirt and
> > VirtualBox
> >  - Enlightenment 0.20 & LibEFL 1.16 - https://www.enlightenment.org/download
> > with Wayland enabled   ;-)
> >  - Terminology 0.9.1
> >
> >  - blivet-gui: http://blog.vojtechtrefny.cz/blivet-gui instead of GParted ?
> >
> >
> >  And why not, new packages (specially more Go projects)? Like:
> >
> >  - Consul
> >  - Alertmanager (Prometheus)
> >  - PromDash (Prometheus)
> >  - Packer
> >
> > More:
> >
> >  - KVM VirtIO Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
> >  - Xen GPLPV Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
> >  - Better NodeJS Integration and NPM management
> >  - More Ruby Gem as Deb packages
> >
> >  - Bitcoin/Litecoin Electrum Wallet
> >  - Ethereum and IoT Devices?
> >  - Bitcoin/Litecoin/Etc integrated with Ubuntu App Store!?
> >
> > * systemd networkd - drop ifupdowd, please.
> >
> > LXD fully supported on OpenStack.
> >
> > ** OpenStack hybrid Compute Node that supports KVM and LXD side-by-side.
> >
> > Perfect IPv6 support! Especially for OpenStack...
> >
> >  Dreaming:
> >
> >  - All Microsoft Open Source projects, .NET (corefx, corectr, etc), Visual
> > Studio, everything... Kidding...
> >  - Apple Swift available
> >
> >
> >  Bug fixes for:
> >
> >  * Make Linux Kernel more modular (very important and an easy one):
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475078
> >
> >
> >  * ecryptfs-utils does not work with Ubuntu 14.04.3:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1328689
> >
> >  * ubuntu-desktop depends on iBus, which is totally broken:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1365752
> >
> >  * NM disables accept_ra for an IPv6 connection, where it should enable it:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1455967
> >
> > * Impossible to disable IPv6 auto, params "accept_ra & autoconf = 0" have no
> > effect on VLAN interfaces:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1345847
> >
> > * memcached unable to bind to an ipv6 address:
> >  https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=310
> >
> >
> >  - Samba related bugs:
> >
> > * Samba4 AD DC randomly dies (4.3 might be better, need to put it in prod
> > and see):
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1357471
> >
> > * Samba4, when with 2003 default level, dies when IPv6 is enabled:
> >  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10730
> >
> >  * Samba has a wrong "Dual-Stack" implementation (I think) - (I'll help to
> > prepare a reproducible procedure):
> >  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10729
> >
> >  * Samba4 get stuck after a server reboot, if IPv6 is enabled:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/1339434/
> >
> >
> >  - A elegant solution for this:
> >
> >  * Ubuntu does not honor “ignore-hosts” proxy settings for IPv6:
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/d-conf/+bug/1295003
> >
> >  This problem is interesting, I think that Ubuntu should provide a way to,
> > if the proxy is enabled, do a DNS Look up locally, before querying local
> > "ignore-hosts" table. This is specially useful, if for example, you have an
> > IPv6-Only Ubuntu Desktop, but NEED a Proxy only to browse IPv4 networks.
> > What I'm trying to do here is to put the Global IPv6 subnet (2000::/3) in my
> > "ignore-hosts", because I don't need a proxy to reach IPv6 hosts, but,
> > everything goes to the proxy (because the DNS look up occurs at the Proxy,
> > and this sucks sometimes). If someone can point me a different solution to
> > this problem, that would be great!
> >
> >  Sorry about crossposting...   =P
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Thiago
> 
> One more Bug that needs to get fixed for Xenial:
> 
> Xenial Server daily ISO boot in text mode interface isn't working -
> kind of loop:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/1537252
> 

Is it too soon to ask, again, that server stop booting in graphics modes
by default? I can't tell you how many times I've cursed whoever decided
that my HP ILO's should stop working just because I forgot to add the
magical incantations to my cmdline to turn off graphics mode.

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