[System Enablement] New releases: wifi-ap=10 pulseaudio=8.0-3

[Simon Fels]

As both platform and commercial QA have approved the new snaps I would like
to go ahead with both snaps earlier than waiting for next Wednesday and
publishing them to stable.

Any objections from anyone?

regards,
Simon

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Simon Fels <simon.fels at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> A new release of the wifi-ap and pulseaudio snaps were pushed into the
> candidate channel. This release includes several improvements for both
> snaps.
>
> wifi-ap:
>
> * Switched to a unix domain socket instead of a local TCP endpoint to
> provide secure access to the management service REST API endpoint via a
> content interface based slot.
>
> * The management service now controls the access point process directly
> instead of both being two independent systemd service units. This makes
> coordination and application of configuration changes a lot easier.
>
> * New wifi-ap.status command is now available which shows the current
> status of the AP.
>
> * Improve configuration wizard which now has an auto mode as well which is
> executed directly after the installation of the snap to provide an
> out-of-the-box experience and directly spawn up an access point users can
> connect to. Wizard can be manually invoked too and guides the user through
> the configuration of the access point.
>
> * Added extensive testing of the whole snap via spread
>
> pulseaudio:
>
> This is the first release of the snap. We currently only support running
> pulseaudio in system mode and with that only support Ubuntu Core devices.
> Installing on classic desktop devices is possible but not yet supported.
>
> Please note that we require a kernel with ALSA support enabled which is
> not yet the case for all reference devices like the Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.
>
> ---
>
> An overview of which revisions / versions of the particular snaps are
> available in which channel is available at https://docs.google.com/spr
> eadsheets/d/1q2dmjPQ0Bam3p3frmmrX2WI3d1r8iusE0JTc0wm2jKM/edit#gid=0
>
> The snaps have passed our engineering QA and will now be tested by the
> platform and commercial QA teams before the new versions are pushed to the
> stable channel.
>
> Bileto requests are:
> - wifi-ap: https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/2333
> - pulseaudio: https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/2327
>
> If you have any questions feel free to ping me.
>
> regards,
> Simon
>
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