16.04.5

This is a brief summary of bugs fixed between Ubuntu 16.04.4 and 16.04.5. This summary covers only changes to packages in main and restricted, which account for all packages in the officially-supported CD images; there are further changes to various packages in universe and multiverse. Some of these fixes were by Ubuntu developers directly, while others were by upstream developers and backported to Ubuntu. For full details, see the individual package changelogs.

In addition to the bugs listed below, this update includes all security updates from the Ubuntu Security Notice list affecting Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS that were released up to and including July 30, 2018. The last update included was USN-3725-1 (MySQL vulnerabilities).

Installation bug fixes

Updated CD images are provided with this release, including fixes for some installation bugs. (Many installation problems are hardware-specific; for those, see "Hardware support bugs" below.)

livecd-rootfs

1757223

ubuntu-cpc: When performing a minimized build, don't generate artifacts that won't boot with the linux-kvm kernel .

curtin

1759664

New upstream snapshot.

livecd-rootfs

1759519

ubuntu-cpc: When performing a minimized build make sure the /etc/cloud/build.info file says "minimal"

livecd-rootfs

1759003

Set the default locale to C.UTF-8 in minimized cloud images.

grub2

1437353

debian/patches/efinet_handle_buggy_get_status.patch: correctly handle the output of get_status() for EFI net devices on buggy firmware.

grub2-signed

1437353

Rebuild against grub2 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.18.

curtin

1772044

New upstream snapshot.

livecd-rootfs

1771177

Backport snap preseeding functions from bionic.

console-setup

1721626

Drop dependency from console-setup to initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool; this was a versioned dependency used for upgrades, now long obsolete.

livecd-rootfs

1778777

Update unminimize script text and install ubuntu-standard when unminimizing a minimal image

livecd-rootfs

1779406

Fix the install command for pollinate which is added back to minimal images

livecd-rootfs

1779406

Add back pollinate for minimal after it is removed due to a dependency on vim-common.

partman-auto

1716999

Bump minimum and maximum sizes for /boot partitions on default, x86, and EFI platforms to a minimum of 512Mb and maximum of 768Mb.

live-build

1778811

ubuntu-initramfs-handling.patch: Use initramfs-tools to work with initrds, instead of trying to naively repack and unpack them blindly (LP: #1778811)

debian-installer

1779815

Rebuild against new systemd for SCSI sync (LP: #1779815)

debian-installer

1781036

Fix permissions on the netboot.tar kernel (LP: #1781036)

ubiquity

1716999

Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup 1.108ubuntu15.4, debian-installer-utils 1.113ubuntu1.16.04.1, hw- detect 1.117ubuntu2.3, partman-auto 134ubuntu1.3, partman- partitioning 110ubuntu4.2, preseed 1.71ubuntu1.2. (LP: #1716999)

debian-installer

1784454

Rebuild against new systemd for the 4.4 kernel regression fix (LP: #1784454)

Upgrade bug fixes

These changes fix upgrade issues, smoothing the way for future upgrades to later releases of Ubuntu.

update-notifier

1522675

Fix APT sandboxing for data downloads failing

ubuntu-release-upgrader

1174007

Properly drop permissions when opening a browser.

update-manager

1624644 1675079

Offer removal of unused autoremovable kernel packages

update-manager

1624644 1675079

Support package removals in install backends and really remove packages

update-manager

1758963

Place .keep files in empty directories to keep them when converting the repo to git

update-notifier

1641671

package-data-downloader: Only print processing messages if we should download stuff, or if an expected exception occured

Desktop fixes

These changes mainly affect desktop installations of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and other Ubuntu-based systems.

compiz

1750619

Region: define static const functions returning infinite and empty regions

unity

1748330

Unity use track_obj to safely connect to UScreen and Settings signals

unity

1748330

Unity use track_obj to safely connect to UScreen and Settings signals

unity

1290056

CairoBaseWindow: don't try to compute the blur of an invalid texture

ubuntu-themes

1725921

Remove an old workaround which would force combobox menu text

firefox

1758107

Fix LP: #1758107 - Cannot customize toolbars in Unity

ibus

1761585

debian/patches/ubuntu-conditional-chmod.patch: backport an upstream commit to make a call to chmod conditional, to avoid apparmor denials for confined apps (e.g. snaps) that use libibus

pulseaudio

1750947

Cherrypick fixes for checking profile availabilities

gnome-software

1661590

Correctly launch snaps with multiple apps

gnome-software

1754655

Fix snaps not being shown correctly after install from command line

gnome-software

1665126

Show snaps in categories

gnome-software

1750030

Report fwupd version in user agent

gnome-software

1750288

Support channels

gnome-software

1768779

Make snap channel selection list scrollable

gnome-software

1762427

Correctly handle snap install/remove failures

gnome-software

1763736

Fix snaps without icons not showing

gnome-software

1597314

Add basic system for connecting/disconnecting snap interfaces

gnome-software

1769556

Alphabetically sort channel branch names

gnome-software

1767445

Fix incorrect default install version being shown

xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu-hwe-16.04

1772632

Backport for hwe-16.04 stack.

xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-16.04

1772632

Backport for hwe-16.04 stack.

xorg-server-hwe-16.04

1772632

Backport to xenial

mesa

1772632 1753954

Sync new upstream release from bionic.

libdrm

1772632 1753954

Backport to xenial.

xserver-xorg-video-ati-hwe-16.04

1772632

Backport for hwe-16.04 stack.

hicolor-icon-theme

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

tex-common

1780996

Convert trigger to noawait (LP: #1780996)

These changes mainly affect installations of Ubuntu on server systems and clouds.

net-snmp

1720109

d/snmpd.init: also match start-stop-daemon against pidfile to avoid killing extra snmpd processes for example in container

corosync

1740892

Properly restart corosync and pacemaker together

pacemaker

1740892

Properly restart corosync and pacemaker together

cloud-init

1752711

cherry-pick 40e7738: GCE: fix reading of user-data that is not base64 encoded.

cloud-init

1747059

New upstream snapshot.

isc-dhcp

1718568

dhclient-script.linux: handle empty case also when waiting for ipv6 link local DAD.

horizon

1582725

Hide unused consistency groups tab

horizon

1755027

d/openstack-dashboard.postinst: Ensure permissions are not world-readable for /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py .

horizon

1613900

d/p/let-nova-to-pick-availability-zone.patch: In the Angular Launch Instance, if there is more than one availability zone default to the option for the Nova scheduler to pick. This is regression from the legacy Launch Instance feature .

neutron

1752838

d/neutron-openvswitch-agent.neutron-ovs-cleanup.service.in: Adding dependency on openvswitch-switch.service because neutron-ovs-cleanup will fail if it is run earlier than it .

neutron

1758411

d/neutron-openvswitch-agent.service.in, d/neutron-openvswitch-agent.neutron-ovs-cleanup.service.in: Revert changes made for due to regression .

openjdk-8

8173853

S8173853: IllegalArgumentException in java.awt.image.ReplicateScaleFilter.

avahi

1661869

Remove all overly restrictive default rlimit restrictions in avahi-daemon.conf which can cause avahi to fail to start due to too many running process or crash out of memory.

libvirt

1688508

d/p/ubuntu/lp1688508-fix-variable-scope-in-in-check_guests_shutdown.patch: backport further upstream fixes that were identified on verification. Together with the former change this fixes

libvirt

1753604

d/p/ubuntu/lp1753604-nwfilter-fix-lock-order-deadlock.patch: fix intermittent deadlock in NWFilter handling

libvirt

1688508

d/p/ubuntu/lp1688508-tools-avoid-text-spilling-into-variables.patch: avoid hanging on shutdown

qemu

1723914

debian/patches/ubuntu/lp-1723914-ppc64-set-msr-register.patch: properly set MSR register for ppc64 targets

qemu

1723904

debian/patches/ubuntu/lp-1723904-sprs-backport.patch: Fix handling of Power8 special purpose registers

cloud-init

1759406

New upstream snapshot.

cloud-init

1759406

New upstream release.

snapd

1756173

New upstream release

snapd

1745217

New upstream release

snapd

1735344

New upstream release

apache2

1752683

Avoid crashes, hangs and loops by fixing mod_ldap locking:

neutron

1584647

d/p/Wait-for-ovsdb_monitor-to-be-active-before-use-it.patch: backport fix to ensure ovsdb mon blocks on start until it is ready

neutron

1752838

d/neutron-openvswitch-agent.service.in, d/neutron-openvswitch-agent.neutron-ovs-cleanup.service.in: Ensure neutron-ovs-cleanup runs after openvswitch-switch and neutron-openvswitch-agent runs after neutron-ovs-cleanup .

avahi

1760128

debian/patches/no-systemd-also.patch: Don't use 'Also=' in dnsconfd systemd unit.

juju-core

1766415

New upstream release.

ifupdown

1447715

Wait properly for Link-Local Address to go through DAD.

landscape-client

1754073

d/p/detect-cloudstack-kvm-1754073.patch: Detect CloudStack kvm hypervisor

libvirt

1764668

Fix clean shut down of guests on system shutdown

cloud-utils

1762748

debian/patches/lp-1762748-growpart-grow-past-2TB-disks.patch: growpart: fix bug that stopped GPT disks from being grown past 2TB.

qemu

1705743

d/p/ubuntu/lp-1705743-fix-vnc-crash.patch: fix crash when using long or invalid vnc connection setups

cloud-init

1767166

cherry-pick 6ef92c98: IBMCloud: recognize provisioning environment during debug

cloud-init

1766401

cherry-pick 11172924: IBMCloud: Disable config-drive and nocloud only if IBMCloud

libvirt

1758037

Fix nwfilters that set CTRL_IP_LEARNING set to dhcp failing with "An error occurred, but the cause is unknown" due to a buffer being too small for pcap with TPACKET_V3 enabled

vlan

1701023

Revert change for lp1573272; instead fix by redesigning when vlan interfaces are created; after raw-device ifup, not during raw-device udev processing.

ifupdown

1701023

We are not even reading the contents of the per-interface state files when running ifquery, so there is no need to lock them. Not locking will allow ifquery to be called recursively from ifup and ifdown.

ebtables

1772456

Fix check of fcntl errno value, to allow lockfile contention to work.

snapd

1767833

New upstream release

openldap

1688575

d/p/ITS-8648-check-result-of-ldap_int_initialize-in-ldap.patch, d/p/ITS-8648-init-SASL-library-in-global-init.patch: Import upstream patches to fix memory corruption caused by calling sasl_client_init() multiple times and possibly concurrently. (ITS#8648)

python-oslo.versionedobjects

1763179

d/p/fixing-UUID-coerce-function-for-unicode-non-uuid-for.patch: Cherry-pick upstream patches to enable use of unicode user ID in Python2.7 .

pollinate

1761240

New upstream release :

heat

1761629

Fixing heat error with unicode

openipmi

1716517

d/openipmi.init: Fixed openipmi init file for other archs.

apache2

1766186

debian/patches/includeoptional-ignore-non-existent.patch: silently ignore a not existent file path with IncludeOptional . Closes

ebtables

1774120

Never return failure during ebtables.init stop(), it can cause errors during package upgrade

snapd

1773118

New upstream release

snapd

1779403

New upstream release, LP: #1779403

qemu

1587065

d/p/ubuntu/lp-1587065-qga-ignore-EBUSY-when-freezing-a-filesystem.patch: Fix qemu-guest-agent failing to freeze filesystems that were mounted multiple times like bind mounts. (LP: #1587065).

dovecot

1780996

debian/*.triggers: change triggers to -noawait variety: there is no need for awaited triggers for the restarting of dovecot. (LP: #1780996)

Kernel and Hardware support updates

Considerable work has been done in Ubuntu 16.04.4 on improving support for many specific items of hardware.

Note that upstream commits to stable kernel releases are listed separately below.

linux-azure

1751799

linux-azure: 4.13.0-1012.15 -proposed tracker

makedumpfile

1635597

d/kernel-postinst-generate-initrd : Add scsi_dh_* modules if in use so the system can dump a crash when root is on multipath (Closes: 862411)

makedumpfile

1658733

KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND: add noirqdistrib to default command line. As it's only used by ppc64el, it's not required to be conditionally added.

pciutils

1746666

debian/patches/08-Sysfs-Read-failures-of-optional-attributes-are-not-f.patch: Cherry-pick from upstream to support machines in which we have read failures of optional attributes.

lshw

1582181

AArch64: cpuinfo: Remove redundant cpu caps loop (Merged into EZix upstream commit [20cda772])

hdparm

1757481

Update d/hdparm-functions: Only enable APM on disks that advertise it.

linux-hwe-edge

1761184

linux-hwe-edge: 4.15.0-15.16~16.04.1 -proposed tracker

linux-hwe-edge

1761177

linux: 4.15.0-15.16 -proposed tracker

linux-hwe-edge

1760106

FFe: Enable configuring resume offset via sysfs

linux-hwe-edge

1752026

Ubuntu18.04:POWER9:DD2.2 - Unable to start a KVM guest with default machine type(pseries-bionic) complaining "KVM implementation does not support Transactional Memory, try cap-htm=off" (kvm)

linux-hwe-edge

1758910

Important Kernel fixes to be backported for Power9 (kvm)

linux-hwe-edge

1757497

Ubuntu 18.04 - IO Hang on some namespaces when running HTX with 16 namespaces (Bolt / NVMe)

linux-hwe-edge

1760678

linux: 4.15.0-14.15 -proposed tracker

linux-hwe-edge

1758662

Bionic] mlx4 ETH - mlnx_qos failed when set some TC to vendor

linux-hwe-edge

1760585

Bionic update to 4.15.15 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1758206

Ubuntu 18.04 [ WSP DD2.2 with stop4 and stop5 enabled ]: kdump fails to capture dump when smt=2 or off.

linux-hwe-edge

1759279

Intel Ubuntu 18.04 Bug] Null pointer dereference, when disconnecting RAID rebuild target

linux-hwe-edge

1730829

Feature]Crystal Ridge:add support for the platform capabilities NFIT sub- table in ACPI 6.2A

linux-hwe-edge

1759848

Allow multiple mounts of zfs datasets

linux-hwe-edge

1759848

SAUCE: Allow mounting datasets more than once

linux-hwe-edge

1759722

ISST-LTE:KVM:Ubuntu1804:BostonLC:boslcp3: cpu hotplug on boslcp3g4 guest dumping call traces continuously.

linux-hwe-edge

1756150

test_bpf fails

linux-hwe-edge

1759655

Bionic update to v4.15.14 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1759655

System fails to start (boot) on battery due to read-only root file-system // Bionic update to v4.15.14 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1730775

Feature][CFL][ICL] [CNL]Thunderbolt support (Titan Ridge)

linux-hwe-edge

1752828

nfp: fix disabling on hw-tc-offload in flower

linux-hwe-edge

1759045

Important KVM fixes for ppc64el

linux-hwe-edge

1755161

Update to ocxl driver

linux-hwe-edge

1752672

CAPI Flash (cxlflash) update

linux-hwe-edge

1730770

Feature][CFL] Enable pmc_core driver for H, S, and U SKUs

linux-hwe-edge

1739522

Bug] ISH support for CFL-H

linux-hwe-edge

1727228

ath9k can't connect to wifi AP

linux-hwe-edge

1755470

P9,Power NV][Witherspoon][Ubuntu 18.04][Perf] : PMU events by name it is not listed under perf list

linux-hwe-edge

1751796

zed process consuming 100% cpu

linux-hwe-edge

1751796

SAUCE: Fix ioctl loop-spin in zed

linux-hwe-edge

1758886

Bionic update to 4.15.13 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1753708

Ubuntu18.04:PowerPC - Set Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default to "always"

linux-hwe-edge

1757465

Bionic update to 4.15.12 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1757228

cxl: Fix timebase synchronization status on POWER9 missing (CAPI)

linux-hwe-edge

1737873

Feature][GLK] Enable L2 CDP (Code and Data Prioritization)

linux-hwe-edge

1751724

Feature] Crystal Ridge-Restrict DAX to configurations with struct page

linux-hwe-edge

1756978

Bionic update to 4.15.11 stable release

linux-hwe-edge

1739665

FFE][Feature] KVM CLX avx512_vnni

linux-hwe-edge

1756254

Ubuntu18.04[P9 DD2.2 Boston]:Unable to boot power8 compat mode guests(ubuntu14.04.5) (kvm)

linux-hwe-edge

1754206

Allow hugepage backing for "p8compat" mode kvm guests

linux-hwe-edge

1745899

Bug][KVM][Crystal Ridge] Terrible performance of vNVDIMM on QEMU with device DAX backend

linux-hwe-edge

1752818

nfp: read ME frequency from vNIC ctrl memory

linux

1766264

linux: 4.4.0-122.146 -proposed tracker

linux

1757435

Redpine: WiFi scan stopping issue observed with BLE

makedumpfile

1763532

kdump-tools: Add reasonable default kdump kernel cmdline for arm64. The files that contain the default kernel cmdline are now generated per-architecture at build-time. Consequently, kdump-tools is no longer Architecture: all. .

zfs-linux

1763067

Add ZFS 0.7.0 compat fix for zvol_id The BLKZNAME ioctl msg size has changed in ZFS 0.7.0 so add forwards compat handling for this ioctl by retrying with this newer msg size if the first call fails

kexec-tools

1763532

The default crashkernel parameter didn't work on any known arm64 systems, set a reasonable default instead .

linux-base

1766728

Update xenial to the latest linux-base.

fwupd

1761006

Change metadata server to upstream requested one

linux-hwe-edge

1766452

linux: 4.15.0-20.21 -proposed tracker

linux-hwe-edge

1766391

package shim-signed (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: installed shim-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 5

linux-hwe-edge

1750594

Eventual OOM with profile reloads

linux-meta-hwe-edge

1738259

need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

intel-microcode

1769043

SECURITY UPDATE: New upstream microcode data file 20180425 to provide IBRS/IBPB/STIBP microcode support for Spectre variant 2 mitigation for Pentium Silver N/J5xxx, Celeron N/J4xxx (sig 0x000706a1) and Xeon E5/E7 v4; Core i7-69xx/68xx (sig 0x000406f1)

linux-aws

1766264

linux: 4.4.0-122.146 -proposed tracker

linux-aws

1757435

Redpine: WiFi scan stopping issue observed with BLE

linux-meta-hwe

1738259

need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

linux-meta-hwe

1738259

need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

linux-kvm

1766264

linux: 4.4.0-122.146 -proposed tracker

linux-kvm

1757435

Redpine: WiFi scan stopping issue observed with BLE

linux-firmware

1757443

Redpine: BLE radio lost issue

linux-firmware

1763823

Update firmware for 18.04 hwe kernel

linux-firmware

1752044

Update Qualcomm QCA6174-HMC (DW1820) to comply with CE-RED (Radio Emissions Directive)

linux-meta-hwe

1738259

need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

linux-meta

1738259

need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

sssd

1771805

d/p/fix-ad-passwd-renewal-fd-leak.diff: Fix fd leak triggered by the AD machine password renewal task .

makedumpfile

1746299

Backport latest makedumpfile to xenial.

kexec-tools

1743529

Backport latest kexec-tools from bionic to xenial .

linux-azure

1766452

linux: 4.15.0-20.21 -proposed tracker

linux-azure

1766391

package shim-signed (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: installed shim-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 5

linux-azure

1750594

Eventual OOM with profile reloads

linux-azure

1761181

linux-azure: 4.15.0-1004.4 -proposed tracker

linux-azure

1761177

linux: 4.15.0-15.16 -proposed tracker

linux-azure

1760106

FFe: Enable configuring resume offset via sysfs

linux-azure

1752026

Ubuntu18.04:POWER9:DD2.2 - Unable to start a KVM guest with default machine type(pseries-bionic) complaining "KVM implementation does not support Transactional Memory, try cap-htm=off" (kvm)

linux-azure

1758910

Important Kernel fixes to be backported for Power9 (kvm)

linux-azure

1757497

Ubuntu 18.04 - IO Hang on some namespaces when running HTX with 16 namespaces (Bolt / NVMe)

linux-azure

1760678

linux: 4.15.0-14.15 -proposed tracker

linux-azure

1758662

Bionic] mlx4 ETH - mlnx_qos failed when set some TC to vendor

linux-azure

1760585

Bionic update to 4.15.15 stable release

linux-azure

1758206

Ubuntu 18.04 [ WSP DD2.2 with stop4 and stop5 enabled ]: kdump fails to capture dump when smt=2 or off.

linux-azure

1759279

Intel Ubuntu 18.04 Bug] Null pointer dereference, when disconnecting RAID rebuild target

linux-azure

1730829

Feature]Crystal Ridge:add support for the platform capabilities NFIT sub- table in ACPI 6.2A

linux-azure

1759848

Allow multiple mounts of zfs datasets

linux-azure

1759848

SAUCE: Allow mounting datasets more than once

linux-azure

1759722

ISST-LTE:KVM:Ubuntu1804:BostonLC:boslcp3: cpu hotplug on boslcp3g4 guest dumping call traces continuously.

linux-azure

1756150

test_bpf fails

linux-azure

1759655

Bionic update to v4.15.14 stable release

linux-azure

1759655

System fails to start (boot) on battery due to read-only root file-system // Bionic update to v4.15.14 stable release

linux-azure

1730775

Feature][CFL][ICL] [CNL]Thunderbolt support (Titan Ridge)

linux-azure

1752828

nfp: fix disabling on hw-tc-offload in flower

linux-azure

1759045

Important KVM fixes for ppc64el

linux-azure

1755161

Update to ocxl driver

linux-azure

1752672

CAPI Flash (cxlflash) update

linux-azure

1730770

Feature][CFL] Enable pmc_core driver for H, S, and U SKUs

linux-azure

1739522

Bug] ISH support for CFL-H

linux-azure

1727228

ath9k can't connect to wifi AP

linux-azure

1755470

P9,Power NV][Witherspoon][Ubuntu 18.04][Perf] : PMU events by name it is not listed under perf list

linux-azure

1751796

zed process consuming 100% cpu

linux-azure

1751796

SAUCE: Fix ioctl loop-spin in zed

linux-azure

1758886

Bionic update to 4.15.13 stable release

linux-azure

1753708

Ubuntu18.04:PowerPC - Set Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default to "always"

linux-azure

1757465

Bionic update to 4.15.12 stable release

linux-azure

1757228

cxl: Fix timebase synchronization status on POWER9 missing (CAPI)

linux-azure

1737873

Feature][GLK] Enable L2 CDP (Code and Data Prioritization)

linux-azure

1751724

Feature] Crystal Ridge-Restrict DAX to configurations with struct page

linux-azure

1756978

Bionic update to 4.15.11 stable release

linux-azure

1739665

FFE][Feature] KVM CLX avx512_vnni

linux-azure

1756254

Ubuntu18.04[P9 DD2.2 Boston]:Unable to boot power8 compat mode guests(ubuntu14.04.5) (kvm)

linux-azure

1754206

Allow hugepage backing for "p8compat" mode kvm guests

linux-azure

1745899

Bug][KVM][Crystal Ridge] Terrible performance of vNVDIMM on QEMU with device DAX backend

linux-azure

1752818

nfp: read ME frequency from vNIC ctrl memory

linux-azure

1723913

Artful] Support headset mode for DELL WYSE

linux-azure

1521712

power: commonise configs IBMVETH/IBMVSCSI and ensure both are in linux-image and udebs

linux-azure

1723986

Touchpad and TrackPoint Dose Not Work on Lenovo X1C6 and X280

linux-azure

1721070

powerpc/64s: Add workaround for P9 vector CI load issuenext

linux-azure

1718679

Upgrade to 4.13.0-11.12 in artful amd64 VM breaks display on wayland

linux-azure

1718734

ipmmu-vmsa driver breaks arm64 boots

linux-azure

1717920

autopkgtest profile fails to build on armhf

zfs-linux

1760173

Revert previous fix, re-work by checking for a container using /run/systemd/container and set timeout to zero for zfs list or zpool status when running inside a container

rfkill

1777476

postinst: do not fail in case udev is not available (e.g. chroot)

linux-meta

1773407

linux-crashdump isn't built for arm64

linux-firmware

1778529

Restore firmware files which were previously shipped with the kernel

linux

1779376

linux: 4.4.0-131.157 -proposed tracker (LP: #1779376)

linux

1781413

Cannot set MTU higher than 1500 in Xen instance (LP: #1781413)

linux-aws

1779379

linux-aws: 4.4.0-1063.72 -proposed tracker (LP: #1779379)

linux-aws

1779376

linux: 4.4.0-131.157 -proposed tracker (LP: #1779376)

linux-aws

1781413

Cannot set MTU higher than 1500 in Xen instance (LP: #1781413)

systemd

1779815

debian/extra/start-udev: Set scsi_mod scan=sync even if it's builtin to the kernel (we previously only set it in modprobe.d) LP: #1779815

Unsorted changes

friendly-recovery

1752362

/lib/recovery-mode/l10n.sh

apparmor

1670408

debian/patches/base-journald-updates.patch: update base abstraction for additional journald sockets Backport from 2.11.0-2ubuntu5 by Jamie Strandboge <jamie@ubuntu.com>

libgcrypt20

1748310

Disable the library reading /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled file and going into FIPS mode. This fixes a hang on boot when using a FIPS-enabled kernel with encrypted installations

dpkg

1751114

Allow detached upstream orig tarball signatures when extracting version 1.0 non-native source packages

apt

1751225

broke Content-Length: 0 redirects (in xenial only)

systemd

696435

udev: Mark ndb devices as inactive until connected.

systemd

1717471

networkd: in dhcp, change UseMTU default to true, to accept DHCP provided MTU by default.

systemd

1718444

sysctl: apply parameters in-order, instead of randomly.

systemd

1722481

shutdown: sync filesystems, before going into a killing spree.

systemd

1734409

sysctl: do not fail, when cannot apply sysctl changes due to read-only sysfs in containers.

systemd

1732803

journald: don't reduce BurstRateLimit on low disk space

initramfs-tools

1623125

make fixrtc catch "n/a" string and fall back to a sane value for the date command instead

plymouth

1750465

Make the lsb-release triggers interest-noawait, so that we don't block configuration of an Essential: yes package during upgrades.

xdg-user-dirs

1754356

use $HOME as preferred before using getpw

python-oslo.context

1507937

Adding support unicode for older type of user id

apport

1738581

data/general-hooks/generic.py: Only include JournalErrors for apport-crash reports which are private by default.

plymouth

1705345

debian/patches/timeout-for-ping.ptach: Don't wait forever for a reply from a ping command.

pam

1538284

Fix "Unescaped left brace in regex" with Perl 5.22.

distro-info-data

1769992

Add Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish.

distro-info-data

1743936

Correct EOL date for zesty.

apport

1658188

apport/ui.py: Ensure the Date field exists in a report before using it in a comparison.

plymouth

927636

debian/patches/misc-changes.patch: Drop call to stop_animation as it would unreference a bunch of variables and cause a crash writing a NULL VMA.

apport

1746668

data/apport: Properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace.

debootstrap

1773496

Add (Ubuntu) cosmic as a symlink to gutsy.

sosreport

1761442

d/p/Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch: Fix bug in _collect_strings that causes error trying to str.decode()

desktop-file-utils

1769954

Use noawait trigger

python-pyvmomi

1593469

Upload to xenial

gcc-5

1759152

Backport upstream revision r257489 (Spectre #2 mitigation for s390x).

llvm-toolchain-6.0

1772632

Backport to xenial.

apt

1762766

don't hang if multiple sources use unavailable method (Closes: 870675)

apt

1778547

Fix lock counting in debSystem

apt

1778551

apt.conf.autoremove: Catch some new Ubuntu module packages

dns-root-data

1721129

Rebuild as an update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

squashfs-tools

1779914

debian/patches/0008-use-macros-not-raw-octal-with-chmod.patch, debian/patches/0009-also-set-stickybit-as-non-root.patch: apply stickybit when run as non-root . Patches thanks to Tyler Hicks.

util-linux

1732865

d/patches/lscpu-Read-available-CPUs-max-and-min-frequencies.patch, d/patches/lscpu-make-cpu_-max-min-_mhz-usage-more-elegant.patch: Backport upstream fixes to correctly read minimum and maximum CPU frequencies on ppc64 when some cpus are guarded or offline. LP: #1732865

amd64-microcode

1778738

Default to 'early' instead of 'auto' in the initramfs-tools hook when building with MODULES=most (LP: #1778738)

slang2

1537528

d/p/init-crash.patch: Fix crash on multiple initialisation when TERMCAP set (LP: #1537528)

packagekit

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

appstream

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996) - packages installing app-info should not have to wait for appstream to be configured.

guile-2.0

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996) (Closes: #903915)

sphinx

1780996

Convert trigger to noawait (LP: #1780996)

postgresql-common

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

intel-microcode

1778738

Default to early instead of auto, and install all of the microcode, not just the one matching the current CPU, if MODULES=most is set in the initramfs-tools config (LP: #1778738)

shared-mime-info

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

glib2.0

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

gdk-pixbuf

1780996

Convert triggers to noawait (LP: #1780996)

clamav

1783632

SECURITY REGRESSION: clamav-daemon fails to start due to options removed in new version and manually edited configuration file. (LP: #1783632)

python-wadllib

1729754

Fix MIME encoding of binary parts (LP: #1729754).

systemd

1784454

debian/extra/start-udev: test that sync parameters file is writable, before writing to it. On old kernels (e.g. v4.4) the file is available but is read-only, thus writing to it causes init to fail and thus raise a kernel panic. As an extra caution ignore failures to write into that file anyway, since synchronous scsi probing is not critical enough to prevent starting d-i. LP: #1784454

XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/16.04.5 (last edited 2018-08-02 15:03:31 by sil2100)