It’s Friday, so that means another alpha release of E17! I’m calling this one “Serious”. As in

I’m off sick, so I don’t have a lot to report in terms of bug fixing done today.

I do, however, have some good news for Ubuntu users. World-renowned artist, programmer, and philanthropist Luis Felipe Strano Moraes has been hard at work lately setting us up with new official (in EFL terms, not Ubuntu) packaging. I won’t say that the result is the Mona Lisa of PPAs, but it’s close.