USteve Langasek weCanonical usanda kwethula uhlelo lokuqala lwe- Incwadi yezindaba yamasonto onke ye-Ubuntu Foundations Team ngemininingwane ethile emnandi mayelana nohlelo oluzayo lwe-Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark).
Izinhlobo zokuqala ze-Alpha ze-Ubuntu 17.10 seziseduze, ngoba ukwethulwa kwayo kuhlelelwe uJuni 29, 2017, ngakho-ke onjiniyela be-Ubuntu basebenza kanzima ukufaka izici ezintsha epulatifomu, njenge Ukusekelwa kokusebenza okuzimele kwesikhundla (PIE) kunikwe amandla ngokuzenzakalela yokuphepha okwandisiwe, kanye nezinye izithuthukisi ezindaweni eziningi ezithakazelisayo, kufaka phakathi i-Secure Boot.
Ukusekelwa kwe-PIE kuyizindaba ezinhle kubasebenzisi be-Ubuntu Linux, njenge wonke ama-binaries ane-PIE manje azolayishwa ngokuzenzakalela ezindaweni ezingahleliwe ngaphakathi kwememori ebonakalayo, kanye nakho konke ukuncika kwayo, isikhathi ngasinye lapho lezi zinhlelo zisebenza. Lokhu kwenza ukuhlaselwa kwe-Return Oriented Programming (ROP) kube nzima kakhulu ukukwenza.
INetplan iza ku-Ubuntu Cloud 17.10
Phakathi kokunye ukuthuthuka okuphawulekayo kwe-Ubuntu 17.10 singasho ukuthi Ukuqaliswa kweNetplan, ukumiswa kwenethiwekhi ye-Canonical YAML ezithombeni ze-Ubuntu Cloud. Futhi, iNetplan izosetshenziswa ngokuzenzakalela ukulungisa amanethiwekhi lapho ufaka Ubuntu Server ngokusebenzisa isifaki seDebian.
Ngaphandle kwalokho, labo abafuna ukuqala i-Ubuntu kanye neWindows, onjiniyela bane- ukusekelwa okuthuthukisiwe ukuze abasebenzisi bakwazi ukuvula iWindows ngaphandle komthungo kusuka ku- I-GRUB bootloader. Amanye ama-patches nawo afakiwe ukuze ipulatifomu ingasakwazi ukukhuthaza abasebenzisi ukuthi bakhubaze i-boot ephephile lapho besebenzisa amamojula we-DKMS.
Okokugcina, kubonakala sengathi Ubuntu 17.10 izoba nokwesekwa kochungechunge lwePython 3.6, okushintshele enguqulweni entsha sekuqalile.
Phakathi kokunye, iqembu elibhekele i-kernel ye-Ubuntu nalo lisanda kumemezela ukuthi lizozama ukwengeza ku Linux 4.13 njenge-kernel ezenzakalelayo ye-Ubuntu 17.10, ehlelelwe ukukhishwa ngo-Okthoba 19 ozayo, 2017.