Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 850

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 850 for the week of July 21 - 27, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Summit 2024 Call for Abstracts extended!
  • Announcing the Multipass 1.14.0 release
  • Call For Testing: FFmpeg SDK for core24
  • Canonical to present keynote session at Kubecon China 2024
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • 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!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144354 (+99)
  • Critical: 306 (-3)
  • Unconfirmed: 72859 (+61)

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% (46736/142)
  • Ukrainian: 85.94% (49359/1250)
  • French: 83.77% (56990/7172)
  • Swedish: 78.52% (75409/1120)
  • Spanish: 76.76% (81599/4787)

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

Ubuntu Summit 2024 Call for Abstracts extended!

Jason C. Nucciarone informs us that the Ubuntu Summit 2024 Call for Abstracts has been extended to August 3, 2024. The new closure time info is provided, along with a note on who to reach out to if you’re having issues.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-2024-call-for-abstracts-extended/46582

Announcing the Multipass 1.14.0 release

Ricardo Abreu informs us of the release of Multipass 1.14.0 with new features. The main highlight is a brand new GUI to manage your VMs. You can now bridge a public network to an existing instance, and forcefully stop instances using the new --force flag. Snapshots are now also available on the VirtualBox backend, joining QEMU and Hyper-V, in addition to other improvements and fixes. Release notes, details on giving it a try, and more are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-the-multipass-1-14-0-release/46668

Call For Testing: FFmpeg SDK for core24

Soumyadeep Ghosh issues a call for testing of ffmpeg-sdk that has been updated to core24. Details of the significant change within the release is provided, along with where to report anything discovered in your testing.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-ffmpeg-sdk-for-core24/46671

The Planet

Canonical to present keynote session at Kubecon China 2024

Andreea Munteanu (AI) and Adrian Matei (Managed Services) will represent Canonical in a keynote session at Kubecon China in Hong Kong on August 21, 2024. This post gives details, and a link to register for the event.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/kubecon-china-2024

Other Community News

KDE Human Interface Guidelines update

Nate Graham reminds us that it’s been a month since he wrote the Human Interface Guidelines, and he updates us on events. This includes a Linux Magazine story, contributions from Joshua Goins, Thiago Sueto, Christoph Wolk and more. We’re told there are still more merge requests pending, but more eyeballs are required to resolve some TODOs if we’d like to help.

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/25/kde-human-interface-guidelines-update/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules

Michael Larabel reports on the release of the NVIDIA 560.28.03 beta driver. We’re given some details on the open source or proprietary kernel modules used, depending on GPU. As well Michael discloses some improved features and provides a link to the NVIDIA website if we need more information.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-560.28.03-Beta-Linux

VMware Hypercall API Makes It Into Linux 6.11 For Basis To Allow Confidential Computing

Michael Larabel reports the VMware Hypercall API has been merged into the Linux 6.11 kernel. We’re told a little of why this is wanted, and given a quote and a link to the git pull request.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Hypercall-Linux-6.11

Linux 6.11 Is Looking Good In Early Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

Michael Larabel writes that after some bench-marking on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation, the 6.11 kernel has some “nice performance gains” over 6.10 in some areas. This detailed post gives comparisons of the Linux 6.10 kernel in contrast with the 6.11 kernel as it stood at time of testing (25 July).

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

NVIDIA’s Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

Michael Larabel reminds us that NVIDIA is moving to open-source Linux kernel drivers. Michael gives the view that the open-source modules are in “great shape”, with performance “basically in parity”. We’re told the proprietary drivers will remain available where required, or if preferred, but there are some benefits of the open-source code. This is a multi-page benchmark comparisons which includes speed, power usage and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-555-open

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 309 - Ananás na Chapa

“Devido a motivos imprevistos e a um calor de ananases - ou por outra, de fritar ananases - esta semana não teremos mais um episódio de podcast. Todavia, trazemos uma bonita mensagem de Natal e memórias nostálgicas dos anos 80.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e309/

Ubuntu OnAir: ODH-019: Open discussion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and documentation

“Today we thought we’d have a a kind of a more informal question and answer session. But we’re going to start on the subject of AI because it’s something that whenever we bring up internally we never stop talking about. I know that when we brought it up in the past in these office hours people have wanted to talk about it and we’ very much like to encourage people to get involved with the discussion …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzFm0jnd0bc

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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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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Hi! I see you are covering the release of Multipass. Let me know if you have questions that I can help with for that.

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ricab it is great to be aware of your interest in the production of the Newsletter.
We have often covered major releases of Multipass; a very short summary of the announcement. A summary of the announcement content is all that we do. As you are versed in writing, and will do a better job of summarizing than I, you have my encouragement to write up a 4 sentence summary in this issue. Alternately, critique what we write up sometime this weekend. We close out the edit window Sunday evening US CST.

Regards

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Hi @bashing-om ! @ricab and I worked on a brief summary for the release announcement, that you can use as is or refine if needed:

This release is packed with new features! The main highlight is a brand new GUI to manage your VMs. You can now bridge a public network to an existing instance, and forcefully stop instances using the new --force flag. Snapshots are now also available on the VirtualBox backend, joining QEMU and Hyper-V, in addition to other improvements and fixes. Check out the full release notes and try it out now at multipass.run!

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Most excellent :stuck_out_tongue:

Being close to the subject sure enhances what is written for the summary - no way I could do as well.
gzanchi if you want a part time job writing summaries for UWN, you have my endorsement.

Cheers

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Thanks a lot @bashing-om for covering the call for testing announcement. It means a lot. Please let me know, whenever you need to know more specific details.

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Hey soumyadghosh

Glad we are able to push things along.
IRT " whenever you need to know more specific details" I can only suggest that you (and others too) peruse on Saturday/Sunday what we have written - see what can be done better. We are always open to critique and suggestions. The Newsletter is an open WIKI that all can add/edit.

Cheers

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If you view the doc in RAW mode, you can also see our <--COMMENT: should.we.blah? --> that don’t show when users normally view page.

Feel free to comment suggestions too, as these will be removed prior to publish (with comments considered & addressed).

Thanks.

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@bashing-om happy to provide summarising services as needed :smiley:

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Thank a lot @discobot :grinning:

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.