Canonical's Steve Langasek announced on Friday that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system has officially entered feature freeze development stages as of March 1, 2018.The feature freeze stage in the development of a Linux-based operating system means that the upcoming release won't receive any new features or major updated packages except for those that fix critical bugs. As such, the Ubuntu Release Team uploaded all packages to the bionic-proposed repository before the feature freeze deadline on March 1, 2018.
The problem is, over 800 packages are currently stuck in the bionic-proposed repo. In comparison, there were only 110 packages waiting in the proposed repo at the end of Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)'s development cycle. As such, Canonical urges all developers and contributors to resolve any issues and free as many packages as possible unti... (read more)
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