Release mutter 42.9 to jammy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
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High
|
Jeremy Bícha |
Bug Description
Impact
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There is a new bugfix release in the stable 42 series.
https:/
The overall GNOME project considers GNOME 42 to be end of life now and there are no more scheduled releases for mutter 42 after 42.9
This is basically a prerequisite for GNOME Shell 42.9 LP: #2023913
The current version of Mutter in Jammy is 42.5.
Test Case
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Complete the test case from
https:/
Extra Test Case 1
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This release also cherry-picks a patch to fix the prompt to enable accessibility features using keyboard shortcuts.
0. Install the updated mutter packages. Then log out and log back in.
1. Open the Settings app (gnome-
2. In the left sidebar, click Accessibility
3. In the typing section, click Typing Assist
4. Turn on the first switch to enable turning accessibility features on and off using the keyboard
5. Close the Settings app
6. Press the Shift key 5 or 6 times in a row
7. You should see a system prompt about turning on Sticky Keys
What Could Go Wrong
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Mutter is an essential component of the default Ubuntu desktop and for the desktop used by Ubuntu Budgie.
A severe enough bug could mean that people are unable to use their desktop version of Ubuntu.
Smaller bugs could interrupt people's workflows.
mutter is part of GNOME Core and is included in the GNOME micro release exception
https:/
Other Info
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Upstream assumes that people will be using matching versions of mutter and gnome-shell. To be cautious, I therefore bumped the dependency version in GNOME Shell 42.9 to require mutter >= 42.9 (even though GNOME Shell 42.9 appears to run ok with Mutter 42.5). I believe the only way to make the dependency relationship work the other way (not allow Mutter 42.9 with GNOME Shell 42.5) requires bumping the Breaks version but I don't think it's worth using Breaks unless necessary.
This release will also enable AMD Xilinx/Mali support on Wayland. See https:/
description: | updated |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: dt-870 |
summary: |
- Release mutter 42.6 or 42.7 to jammy + Release mutter 42.7 to jammy |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Release mutter 42.7 to jammy + Release mutter 42.9 to jammy |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) |
tags: |
added: verification-done verification-done-jammy removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy |
description: | updated |
Maybe just wait for 42.7:
https:/ /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/mutter/ -/merge_ requests/ 2744