Canonical hasn't promoted a new Ubuntu Touch image for a few days

Feb 4, 2014 10:43 GMT  ·  By

Canonical has been working very hard to provide the best Ubuntu Touch experience, but its efforts have been hindered by some bugs and regressions.

Users have gotten used to constant updates, almost on a daily basis, but it's been a while since the previous promoted image. This is actually a good thing, because it means that the developers are crushing bugs as we speak.

“The regression hunting continued today. We had multiple random application tests failing on the 3 images over the week-end. The issue was in the image from Friday.”

“We found that the applications doesn't seem to randomly starts even on mako and upstart-app-launch was reverted to last good-known version. We asked to modify the testing plan to include explicitly running applications AP tests to be able to catch this in the future,” said Canonical's Didier Roche.

Canonical performs a series of automated and manual tests (thank you Alan Pope for this info) that allow it to only release bug-free versions of Ubuntu Touch, as much as humanly possible.