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

[Jim Hodapp]

+1 to moving ahead.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Simon Fels <simon.fels at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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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