Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 849

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 849 for the week of July 14 - 20, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Upcoming APT cryptography changes for 24.04.1
  • Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) reached End of Life on July 11, 2024
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LoCo Events
  • Oracular Oriole 24.10 Wallpaper Competition
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Upcoming APT cryptography changes for 24.04.1

Julian Andres Klode reminds us “weak public key algorithms in APT” will become errors (instead of warnings) at 24.04.1. The effort is for increased safety and to upgrade security. We’re told why this hadn’t occurred at 24.04’s release, before touching on some adversely impacted repositories, and the mitigation plan for these.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2024-July/006122.html

Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) reached End of Life on July 11, 2024

This official (follow up) mailing list post alerts us that Ubuntu 23.10 is now officially ‘End of Life’ as of 11 July 2024. We’re reminded what this means, and given links telling us how to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2024-July/000303.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144255 (+79)
  • Critical: 309 (+2)
  • Unconfirmed: 72798 (+99)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • German: 86.69% (46737/141)
  • Ukrainian: 85.94% (49359/1250)
  • French: 83.77% (56990/7277)
  • Swedish: 78.52% (75409/1128)
  • Spanish: 76.76% (81599/4785)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://ubuntuforums.org/

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please see:

The Hub

Oracular Oriole 24.10 Wallpaper Competition

Aaron Prisk posts that the Ubuntu 24.10 Wallpaper Competition is open, reminding us this release marks 20 years of Ubuntu. With details of the competition categories and rules, important dates are given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-24-10-wallpaper-competition/46455

Other Community News

LibreOffice 24.8 RC1 is available for testing

We’re told that Libreoffice 24.8 will release at end of August 2024, and given links to release plans and more. This post invites us to download the LibreOffice 24.8 RC1, and report any found issues on LibreOffice’s Bugzilla. If we need help, we’re given the QA Team IRC and Matrix channels, and thanked for the testing we do.

https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/16/libreoffice-24-8-rc1-is-available-for-testing/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler

Michael Larabel tells us about some of what we can expect in the Linux 6.11 kernel, as the merge window is about to open.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Early-Look-Features

New Power Sequencing Driver Subsystem Merged For Linux 6.11

Michael Larabel writes about the new driver subsystem for power sequencing that is being merged into the Linux 6.11 kernel. We’re given details including a quote from Linaro engineer Bartosz Golaszewski.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Power-Sequencing

GNOME 47 Finally Adding Accent Color Support

Ji m writes about what he saw in the first alpha release of GNOME 47, and here concentrates on the accent color support. We’re reminded Ubuntu has had this feature since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, with this feature now default. Some other features, including screenshots are included.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/07/gnome-47-finally-adding-accent-color-support/

Ubuntu Fast-Tracks AppArmor Fix for Flatpak Apps Failing to Start

Joey Sneddon tells us the recent AppArmor fix inadvertently prevented some Flatpak apps from running, giving us examples of problems. We’re told the developers quickly got a fix committed, tested and is ‘fast-tracked’ to updates. Details, including package version with the fix, are provided.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/ubuntu-apparmor-fix-for-telegram-flatpak

Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support

Michael Larabel informs us that “networking subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel” ; telling us what is found within. We’re given details of the hardware that will benefit, and given a link to networking pull.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Networking

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements

Michael Larabel tells us of power management updates that have merged into Linux 6.11. With details of the improvements for AMD, Intel and more, we’re given links if we need more detail than Michael’s summary.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Power-Management

XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11

Michael Larabel informs us of the XFS file-system updates that have merged into the Linux 6.11 kernel. We’re given a summary, plus a quote from Darrick Wong, and the link to the XFS merge.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-RT-FITRIM-Linux-6.11

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

Michael Larabel reminds us the EXT4 file-system is mature & doesn’t get many feature additions, but here the Linux 6.11 kernel can see “20% performance boost in some scenarios”. Along with the pull request, and a quote from Ted Ts’o, Michael give us some details, noting it’s ‘great’ to still see new performance optimizations.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EXT4

NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

Marius Nestor tells us that NVIDIA have announced “plans to fully transition to the open-source GPU kernel modules with the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver”. Supported GPUs are listed, as well as those that will only work with the open source driver.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-560-linux-graphics-driver-to-fully-adopt-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 308 - Trocas & Baldrocas

“Esta semana o Miguel andou a brincar com Kubuntu, automaçÔes falhadas em Home Assistant e clonou um disco com DD com consequĂȘncias inesperadas. O Diogo anda a ler um novo livro empolgante (Privacidade 404), que recomenda a toda a gente; abjurĂĄmos erros cometidos em episĂłdios anteriores; dissecĂĄmos penosamente o rastreio publicitĂĄrio da Mozilla no Firefox; descascĂĄmos na Apple e na Google e ainda ressuscitĂĄmos a saudosa CĂąndida Branca Flor, graças a uma clamorosa falha de segurança em OpenSSH.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e308/

Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and farther dates please visit: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

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