Release Notes

May 2026

12 May

  • Removed suppression of snap manifest generation for private snap builds. For more information, see Bug #2030668.

April 2026

28 April

23 April

  • Changed most user-facing help.launchpad.net links to documentation.ubuntu.com/launchpad links.

  • Released a new version of the distro series page. See launchpad.net/ubuntu/resolute for an example.

13 April

  • Added the build_path option to snap package recipes, allowing for having multiple snapcraft.yaml in the same repository.

  • Removed blog posts from front page (link to blog is still available in the footer)

6 April

  • Switched to python-debian from apt_pkg to process upload files.

March 2026

31 March

  • Fixed Ubuntu milestones timeout.

20 March

  • Fixed snap, charm and source package listings and Merge Proposals active reviews timeouts.

12 March

  • Export BinaryPackageBuild.distro_series to the API.

  • Add admin-only cancel_upload API endpoint for builds.

February 2026

16 February

  • Add a Package column in the milestone page

9 Feb

  • Bug fix #1893791: Allow users to add a package back to a bug task with existing packages.

January 2026

5 Jan

  • Add more builder metrics in the builder overview page.

December 2025

17 December

  • Removed translations automatic synchronisation as part of bzr decommissioning.

1 December

  • Owners of a PPA can now see “Manage Webhooks” button in the PPA page. For more information, see Introducing Webhooks for Package Uploads in PPAs.

  • Builder farm’s home page now also displays “Cleaning” and “Idle” builders.

  • Explicitly specify the mirror page URLs while registering new mirrors, as some users were misunderstanding the “Official” mirror option as referring to a country’s official mirror.

November 2025

27 November

  • Users can now add GitHub accounts to their profile’s social links.

  • Fixed archive webhook trigger function. Webhooks configured on an archive are now correctly triggered, and can be set for rejected package upload use cases.

26 November

  • Launchpad mailing lists have been fully shut down. The static HTML archives for all the public Launchpad mailing lists are now available at https://archive.lists.launchpad.net.

  • The correct social links are now shown in Launchpad error pages (LP: #2132134)

October 2025

27 October

  • Webhooks can now be configured on archives for successful or unsuccessful source and binary package uploads, and binary build events.

17 October

  • Support for the core26 snap base has been enabled and recipes can use it.

September 2025

1 September

  • The ‘Use Fetch Service’ and ‘Fetch Service Policy’ options are available for charms via the API and the Edit recipe page.

August 2025

21 August

  • The ‘Use Fetch Service’ and ‘Fetch Service Policy’ options are available for rocks and sourcecraft packages via the APIs.

5 August

  • The ‘Use Fetch Service’ button for snaps has been moved from Administer recipe to Edit recipe.

July 2025

30 July

11 July

  • Launchpad no longer supports the creation of new mailing lists. For more information, please refer to this announcement.

June 2025

27 June

  • The bzr codebrowse interface (loggerhead) has been disabled and all codebrowse URLs will receive a ‘404 Not Found’ response status code. Accessing bzr repositories using the bzr CLI tool via HTTP and SSH continues to work.

17 June

  • Removed bzr codebrowse links on all pages that had them. This is in preparation for the upcoming shutdown of the loggerhead bzr codebrowse interface.

May 2025

12 May

  • New snaps, OCI recipes, and PPAs no longer build for i386 by default.

  • Added new webhook scopes for merge proposal events.

5 May

  • Adoption of craft-platforms: supports multi-base platforms syntax for Charm builds and short-form platforms syntax for Snap builds in recipe configurations.