24.04 Testing - Are you brave enough?

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Yeah. I have seen that as well. Will ping the Canonical devs when they are back from hols

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This is being handled via this issue Noble installer is an empty white window Ā· Issue #2407 Ā· canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer Ā· GitHub

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This should be fixed once mesa 23.3.3 enters the archive and then an ISO is built

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa

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This is perhaps the biggest issue impacting noble.

All apps potentially are impacted.

So if you have a favourite app please do look at the bug report and the examples of how to reproduce. See if your application is working ok.

Cheers

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Quick round-up of changes:

  1. The network applet now supports bluetooth tethering for network access - i.e. use your phone to be used to access the internet. So you should see your phone in the list of networks. Use budgie-control-center - networks / bluetooth to manage these connections
  2. budgie-welcome - getting started. The information about your NVME drives should now be displayed.
  3. budgie-welcome - gaming - corectrl. This now installs corectrl from the universe package rather than from a PPA.
  4. budgie-welcome - this now supports webkit2 v4.1 which is the latest and supported webkit. Better from a security point of view.
  5. budgie-welcome - our mastodon instance is now accessible from the front-page
  6. budgie-welcome - recommendations - the weird sized icons are no more - regular 64x64 icons on this page.
  7. our backports PPA now has noble packages - e.g. themes, icon-packs, nemo addons etc
  8. budgie-welcome now has noble updates so these packages can be installed. Lots of testing is needed to confirm that all of these installs and works correctly
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Good news 24.04 installer now appears and Iā€™ve successfully installed onto a virtualbox VM.

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Hi fossfreedom,

Iā€™m writing here just as bug-warning because it affects both budgie and gnome flavors on noble.

Installing evolution on noble and then running it, makes evolution itself crash; Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s something sandbox-related because itā€™s possible to run evo via terminal by

export WEBKIT_DISABLE_SANDBOX_THIS_IS_DANGEROUS=1
evolution

Just for letting people know.

Have nice days,
Sil

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interesting - is this a snap / flatpack or a deb install of evolution?

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a deb install; bug is already reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/2046801

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yeah - looks to be apparmor related - lots and lots of apps are affected.

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For everybody information:

thereā€™s another workaround, as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/2046801, last post ( [David Jao on 2024-01-30):

Create a file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evolution (the filename is important) with the contents below and restart AppArmor with ā€œsystemctl restart apparmorā€

abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>
/usr/bin/evolution flags=(unconfined) {
  userns,
  include if exists <local/usr.bin.evolution>
}

Then Evolution will work.

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v10.9 budgie-desktop has now entered the archive - notes about this in the first post.

Expect v10.9.1 to be released soon to resolve some issues noted by early testers.

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Lollypop disappeared for a few weeks due to transition activities by ubuntu devs causing lollypop to be removed from the release repo.

Its back!

More testng is needed to confirm that the brand new python 12 hasnā€™t broken lollypop somewhere.

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Team member Sam has packaged a new applet from an inspiring independent developer

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Available from our backports PPA - for Jammy, Mantic and noble is the media-player applet.

So this is an alternative to those that want to control media via the panel rather than raven.

Have fun!

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The noble ISO now boots successfully after an unfortunate 2 week hiatus.

New this time is that the installer window appears on boot - you now have a try-install option just like ubiquity did in previous versions.

In the next couple of weeks we will be switching from our own ubuntu-budgie installer to the new ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap installer that Canonical have been working on since lateish last year and just released this week. There are still a few issues to work through but once we consider it stable weā€™ll move to this.

Will post when this happens.

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Huge package dump today - the last 4 weeks of packages being held in the proposed channel has been released.

This includes using the new budgie-session session manager as well as new versions of budgie-control-center and budgie-desktop v10.9.1

release notes of budgie-control-center Release v1.4.0 Ā· BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-control-center Ā· GitHub

release notes for budgie-desktop Budgie 10.9.1 Released | Buddies of Budgie

Have fun testing. This will all be in todays daily build ā€¦ hopefully.

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The plymouth theme (the image that is displayed during boot up-to the login manager) has been revamped.

This now is a spinner based theme. For machines that boot with the manufacturer image, you will see that image up-to the login screen.

Note - Canonical are working through the problems of the plymouth themes disappearing/reappearing due to extraneous messages on the boot console. Hopefully sooner rather than later we should see a seamless boot image experience.

Do let us know your thoughts with the revised plymouth theme.

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I donā€™t know if this is the right place to ask, but what is the difference between software and app center.

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Software is ā€œgnome-softwareā€
App-Center is the new Canonical software store.

On a clean install you should now only have app-center installed.