23.03 release notes

These are the release notes for Landscape 23.03.

Highlights

  • Landscape Server can be installed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

  • Manages all versions from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) onwards

  • Native Ubuntu Pro awareness

  • Landscape Client is compatible with Debian Bullseye

  • Landscape manages all machines with an Ubuntu Pro subscription without needing a license.txt file to be installed on the server

  • Compatible with Canonical’s air-gapped contract server

  • Landscape Client package for the RISC-V (RV64) CPU architecture

  • Landscape Server packages for the s390x, rv64, and arm64 (AArch64) CPU architectures

  • Modernized Charms authored in Juju’s Operator Framework

  • Added the publication date of Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) to the Packages page

  • Landscape API HTTP request parameters are now order-agnostic

  • Query optimization on the Activities page when selecting many computers

  • Added public keys for mirroring Jammy pockets

  • Improved user experience and API for environments where machines are cloned

  • Computer count on dashboard sidebar is consistent with other counts

  • Faster out-of-the-box reporting of packages, for Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) and onwards

Bug fixes

  • #1945456 Landscape Login page using an older version of jQuery

  • #1966970 GPG license gets truncated if it’s too large

  • #1966199 XSS - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability via the page_key parameter

  • #1970224 Update logos

  • #2009079 Landscape can’t use Duo for OIDC

  • #2043035 Landscape UI lag

  • #2070049 Allow binary script uploads via API and downloads via UI

Upgrade Notes

Performing an in-place upgrade from Landscape 19.10 entails a fresh installation using either Juju, Quickstart, or a Manual installation; and restoring the database. Going forward, Juju is the recommended installation method. In the future, upgrading Landscape via Juju will be a two-step process: one command to pause Landscape, and one command to perform the upgrade.

Upgrade a Landscape 19.10 Quickstart Installation to Landscape 23.03

Upgrade a Landscape 19.10 Manual Installation to Landscape 23.03

Patch Notices

  • landscape-server 23.03+18.3 published on 25 June 2024

    • Fix: allow binary script uploads via API and downloads via UI (LP: #2070049)

  • landscape-server 23.03+18.2 published 5 June 2024

    • fix(package-search): include sslmode parameter in config for connections to Postgres. Previously hardcoded to ‘disable’ (LP: #2064756)

  • landscape-server 23.03+18.1 published 19 Apr 2024

    • Fix: reduce number of hanging /ajax polls (LP: #2043035)

  • landscape-server 23.03+18 published 17 Jan 2024

    • Backport: re-apply Ubuntu Pro licenses to machines that have lost theirs

  • landscape-server 23.03+17 published 21 Sep 2023

    • update message handler and UI for snap holds and summary info

    • add API endpoint remove-wsl-hosts

    • add API endpoint and activity to delete child computer instances

    • add API endpoint to get mirror repo info

    • add option to removal profile to also remove child computers

    • add API endpoint and activity to stop child computer instances

    • add API endpoint and activity to start child computer instances

    • add async server to manage hostagent messages

    • escape registration key shell characters

    • add API endpoint list-wsl-hosts

    • bugfix for API endpoint create-script-attachment

    • rewrite update_computer_packages in PL/pgSQL; regenerate DB schema using PostgreSQL 12

    • reimplement package name searches using pg_trgm; port packagesearch to use native pg_trgm

  • landscape-server 23.03+16 published 13 Jul 2023

    • Fixed missing python patch files for activity_info

  • landscape-server 23.03+15 published 12 Jul 2023

    • Snap management for installing, refreshing, and removing snaps

    • Add distribution and series to API get-repository-profiles

    • Fix flat repo handling

  • landscape-server 23.03+14 published 29 Jun 2023

    • Fixed issue with SQL patch

  • landscape-server 23.03+13 published 27 Jun 2023

    • Restart services periodically to reduce memory usage

    • Upload path mirror repo fix

    • Fix create script api bug

    • Fix script page UI bug

  • landscape-server 23.03+12 published 25 May 2023

    • Reworded esm-disabled message

    • Added lunar hash-ids

  • landscape-server 23.03+11 published 19 May 2023

    • Add identity argument to bootstrap accounts script

    • Add UbuntuPro to license role name mapping for accounts

  • landscape-server 23.03+10 published 10 May 2023

    • Fixes when writing meta-release tag files.

    • New messaging to prompt landscape-client upgrades prior to problematic release-upgrades.

    • Fixed flat repository mirroring when mirror suite is “/”.

  • landscape-server 23.03+9 published 25 Apr 2023

    • Fix invitations for OIDC login.

    • Clean up API JSON output.

  • landscape-server 23.03+8 published 07 Apr 2023

    • Remove next_url parameter for OIDC logins.

    • Fix tags overflowing in UI.

  • 23.03+7 published on April 4, 2023

    • Improved CSV formatting and --cve option for security vulnerability API

    • Fix for login redirects, and API decoding errors

    • Provide hash-id-databases script that ignores maintenance status

    • Duo OIDC login error fix