feat: support 26.10 as a stable build-base
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Current evaluation
Merged PR adding Ubuntu 26.10 as a stable build-base, replacing the devel wildcard fallback, and updating spread tests to use qemu-user-binfmt.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The pull request was merged, successfully adding support for Ubuntu 26.10 as a stable build-base and updating the test infrastructure to use qemu-user-binfmt on newer hosts.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) is stable, so it can be named as a build base
instead of falling back to the `devel` wildcard. The build base has to match the
release of the system that builds the image, so hosts on 26.10 had no valid build
base other than `devel`.
Also adds a 26.10 spread system, and uses `qemu-user-binfmt` on 26.04 and later,
where `qemu-user-static` is no longer packaged.
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| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | closed resolved | Merged PR adding Ubuntu 26.10 as a stable build-base, replacing the devel wildcard fallback, and updating spread tests to use qemu-user-binfmt. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #322 feat: support 26.04 as a build-base | imagecraft | merged | Merged PR #322 via commit be019b2, adding Ubuntu 26.04 as a supported build-base while leaving existing defaults unchanged. | |
| #214 feat: support 26.10 as a stable base and build-base | debcraft | merged | Merged PR #214 adding Ubuntu 26.10 as a stable base and build-base, replacing the `devel` wildcard fallback, and updating craft-providers to 3.8.0. | |
| #1200 feat: stabilize ubuntu@26.04 build-base | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR #1200 as ad7df6a0, stabilizing ubuntu@26.04 build-base support with all CI checks passing. | |
| #184 feat: support ubuntu 26.10 as a devel base | debcraft | merged | PR debcraft#184 (DEBCRAFT-78) was merged into main, adding Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking' as an allowed devel base in project validation; +228/-25 across 15 files, all CI checks green, 2 approvals. Spread test coverage deferred until spread infrastructure exists. | |
| #1020 feat(project): add ubuntu@26.04 as a 'devel' base | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR #1020 (commit 0c9f3558) added ubuntu@26.04 as a 'devel' base across 13 project, test and config files; the base was later stabilized in #1200 after #1074 temporarily dropped it from valid build-base options. | |
| #956 feat: add support for Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking) | craft-providers | merged | Merged as ef04bef, adding Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking) support in craft-providers 3.7.0. Follow-up #980 (628f199) fixed unknown-base slow-test failures from #979. | |
| #1074 fix: ubuntu@26.04 is not a valid build-base yet | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR #1074 as commit 8995d20e, removing unstable ubuntu@26.04 from valid build-base options so only stable bases and devel are accepted; fixes #1069. | |
| #955 feat(project): set 26.04 as the current 'devel' base | craft-application | merged | Ubuntu 26.04 was set as the current devel base; PR #955 was squash-merged as commit 73a0e4ea after two approvals and with all listed CI checks passing. | |
| #6225 feat: stable core26 support | snapcraft | merged | Merged #6225 as df4418f67, enabling stable core26 snap builds; it fixes #6088 and supersedes the earlier experimental support in #6182. | |
| #458 feat: support ubuntu@24.04 devel rocks | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR #458 added Ubuntu 24.04 devel-rock support via base: ubuntu@24.04 and build-base: devel in commit 4e8de463. |