Comment 0 for bug 2006402

Landscape Client 22.09 has been released. We would like to get these changes into focal, jammy, kinetic, and lunar.

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 includes important bug-fixes that impact a large amount of our supported customers, a large amount of which are on focal. Main fixes include:

  1) Preventing the generation of large messages and logs that can overwhelm Landscape Server (LP: #1995775)
  2) Improved MOTD slowdown on machines with many tap network interfaces (LP: #2006396)
  3) No longer using deprecated apt-key when storing trusted GPG keys (LP: #1973202)
  4) Fixed issue recognising Parallels VMs as Virtual Machine clients (LP: #1827909)
  5) Fixes for incorrect logfile rotation config (LP: #1968189)
  6) Client-side backoff handling to moderate traffic to Landscape Server during high load (LP: #1947399)
  7) Avoid sending empty messages when catching up to expected next message (LP: #1917540)

New features:

  8) --is-registered CLI option to quickly check if client is registered (LP: #1912516)
  9) Can now report Ubuntu Pro attachment information if the version of Landscape Server it is registered to supports this (LP #2006401)

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/22.09

=== Patches ===

Branches allowing for recreation of the tested packages are attached to this bug report. A simple "debuild" should be possible once checked out.

=== 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.