Launchpad’s new homepage Launchpad has been around for a while, and its frontpage has remained untouched for a few years now. If you go into launchpad.net, you’ll notice it looks quite differ...
Users can now add their Matrix accounts to their profile in Launchpad, as requested by Canonical’s Community team. We also took the chance to slightly rework the frontend and how we display soc...
https://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-verified-federated-matrix-accounts
Launchpad has supported building for riscv64 for a while, since it was a requirement to get Ubuntu’s riscv64 port going. We don’t actually have riscv64 hardware in our datacentre, since we’...
Access tokens can be used to access repositories on behalf of someone. They have scope limitations, optional expiry dates, and can be revoked at any time. They are a stricter and safer alternativ...
https://blog.launchpad.net/general/introducing-project-scoped-access-tokens
Since they were introduced in 2007, Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives (PPAs) have always been hosted on ppa.launchpad.net. This has generally worked well, but one significant snag became cl...
It took a while, but now Launchpad finally allows users to edit their comments on questions, bug reports and merge proposal pages. The first request for this feature dates back from 2007. Since t...
https://blog.launchpad.net/general/comment-editing-is-now-possible
After a few weeks of development and testing, we are proud to finally announce that Git protocol v2 is available at Launchpad! But what are the improvements in the protocol itself, and how can yo...
https://blog.launchpad.net/code/git-protocol-v2-available-at-launchpad
On 2020-08-13, we deployed an update that caused users whose full names contain non-ASCII characters (which is of course very common) to be unable to log into Launchpad. We heard about this serio...
https://blog.launchpad.net/general/login-regression-for-users-with-non-ascii-names
The From: addresses used by Launchpad’s bug notifications have changed, to improve the chances of our messages being delivered over modern internet email. Launchpad sends a lot of email, most o...
https://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/bug-emails-now-use-the-bugs-address-in-the-from-header
Here’s a brief changelog of what we’ve been up to since our last general update. Bugs Add basic GitLab bug linking (#1603679) Expect the upstream bug ID in the “number” field of GitHub is...
https://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-news-march-2019-july-2019