Comment 0 for bug 1401523

Landscape Client 14,11 has been released. We would like to get these changes into lucid, precise, trusty, utopic.

As far as released version of Ubuntu are concerned, the required pieces of information for the needed SRU follow (as laid out in the "Procedure" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates).

=== Statement explaining the impact ===

This release sports both bug-fixes and new features and we would like to make sure all of our supported customers (even those on lucid, precise, trusty and utopic) have access to these improvements. The notable ones are:

    - Fix regression occurring when performing Landscape-driven release
      upgrades (LP: #1389686)
    - Fix regression occurring when switching the client between different
      Landscape servers (LP: #1376134)
    - Support reporting QEMU virtualization (LP: #1374501)
    - Bump Juju integration message format (LP: #1369635, LP: #1362506)
    - Drop provisioning registration message (LP: #1362506)
    - Drop cloud registration message (LP: #1342646)
    - Fix handling broken packages (LP: #1326940)
    - Add new Swift usage message type (LP: #1320236)
    - Fix platform detection on POWER machines (LP: #1271615)
    - Fix platform detection for arm64 machines (LP: #1306824)

Some packaging-only changes are as follows:
  * Dropped sysinfo-ignore-nonexistent-config patch, already applied upstream

For more details see the aforementioned bugs (all mentioned in the debian/changelog of the proposed packages).

=== How the bug has been addressed ===

We have been following the development procedure laid out in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandscapeUpdates

Furthermore, the testing procedure results can be seen in
https://wiki.canonical.com/Landscape/ClientSRUTests/14.11

=== Patches ===

Debdiff patches against the currently released landscape version are attached to this bug report, by distribution.

=== Detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug ===

N/A

=== Discussion ===

All the source packages have been subject to the QA process detailed in the LandscapeUpdates document linked above.