Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 853

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 853 for the week of August 11 - 17, 2024.

In this Issue

  • First Oracular Oriole test rebuild
  • Oracular Oriole (to be 24.10) now in Feature Freeze
  • AppArmor user namespace creation restrictions cause many applications to crash with SIGTRAP
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Michigan LoCo Virtual Meetup August 25, 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • Event Report - DebConf 24
  • Anbox Cloud 1.23.0 has been released
  • Winners!: Oracular Oriole Wallpaper Competition
  • Proposal: Add the moderator bot and Ubuntu CoC links to subspaces of the Ubuntu Community space
  • Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 4: August Update
  • Netplan v1.1 released
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud 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!

General Community News

First Oracular Oriole test rebuild

Graham Inggs informs us the first test rebuild of Oracular Oriole was started on August 12, 2024. Details of architectures and where builds have finished are given, with a link to the rebuild results. We are requested to help fix build failures.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-August/043081.html

Oracular Oriole (to be 24.10) now in Feature Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta announces that pursuant to the release schedule, Oracular Oriole is now in Feature Freeze. We’re given reminders of what this means, plus info about Feature Freeze Exceptions where needed. Team focus is now on bug squashing!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2024-August/001355.html

AppArmor user namespace creation restrictions cause many applications to crash with SIGTRAP

A regression in a apparmor update has caused the failure of multiple apps. The fix, Stable Release Update, is now in the ‘proposed’ repository and we are requested to test. “The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/2046844

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144451 (+2)
  • Critical: 307 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73083 (+63)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.72% (46628/107)
  • Ukrainian: 85.97% (49266/1268)
  • French: 83.79% (56920/7296)
  • Swedish: 78.99% (73747/1131)
  • Spanish: 76.79% (81476/4795)

Hot in Support

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Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

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LoCo News

Michigan LoCo Virtual Meetup August 25, 2024

Ryan (unklebonehead) tells us of “a Virtual Meetup on Sunday August 25th from 2 - 4pm Eastern on Jitisi Meet”; hosted by the Michigan LoCo. Details of the meeting are provided, with the URL to be added closer to the event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/michigan-loco-virtual-meetup-august-25-2024/47077

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

Event Report - DebConf 24

Mauro Gaspari gives us a event report on DebConf 24. We’re told about the week of DebCamp, followed by the week of DebConf itself; where Canonical was a Gold sponsor, and held a booth at Job Fair day. Special thanks is given to Youngbin Han, Yeonguk Choo, Minseong Cho and Junsang Moon. Canonical representatives present are listed, with links and details for some sessions, photos, and more are shown. This is a detailed report.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-debconf-24/47104

Anbox Cloud 1.23.0 has been released

Keirthana T S announces the release of Anbox Cloud 1.23.0. With a link to the component versions, the new features and improvements are covered, along with known issues, A notice of depreciations is given, and a list of bug fixes, with links for more details including upgrade instructions.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/anbox-cloud-1-23-0-has-been-released/47158

Winners!: Oracular Oriole Wallpaper Competition

Aaron Prisk posts on the Oracular Oriole Wallpaper Competition thread (covered in issue 852) that the ‘time is up’ and announces the winners of the competition. Each category winner (with link to view wallpaper) is provided, along with thanks to all participants who “helped us celebrate this very special 20th anniversary release”. The wallpapers will be packaged in the next few days.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/vote-oracular-oriole-wallpaper-competition/47006/11

Proposal: Add the moderator bot and Ubuntu CoC links to subspaces of the Ubuntu Community space

Aaron Rainbolt, on behalf of the Ubuntu Matrix Council, puts forth a proposal that a Ubuntu Matrix moderation bot be used for all Ubuntu community subspaces in order to deal with spam problems. The problem is outlined, before we’re told how this proposal will help deal with the issue. Feedback can be given, and questions asked in this thread.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/proposal-add-the-moderator-bot-and-ubuntu-coc-links-to-subspaces-of-the-ubuntu-community-space/47203

Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 4: August Update

Oliver Smith provides another Ubuntu Desktop team update as feature freeze for Ubuntu 24.10 is reached, and Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS approaches. GNOME 47 beta is now available on daily builds, issues with the Steam snap, fixes for those using NVIDIA 550, and more are covered. This is a detailed post, covering a lot of topics including some screenshots, but we’re also told it’s part 1 only, with another part to come covering the rest of August 2024.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-part-4-august-update/47217/1

The Planet

Netplan v1.1 released

Lukas MĂ€rdian announces Netplan version 1.1 which is available on GitHub and will be deployed into Debian and Ubuntu. With details of the commits, highlights and bug fixes are listed within the changes in this release, and more are covered. A list of new contributors is provided, with plenty of links for those needing more specifics.

https://blog.slyon.de/2024/08/14/netplan-v1-1-released/

Other Community News

OggCamp 24: CfP is go!

This post tells us what OggCamp is, before moving to details on the talks. This is a call for presentations for OggCamp 24, with a link if we’d like to submit a proposal.

https://oggcamp.org/news/cfp/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

WebDAV Fixes for Fastmail, Mailbox Coming to Ubuntu 24.04

Joey Sneddon writes that users experiencing problems setting up Fastmail or mailbox.org on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will have fixes. With details of the problem, some details of the fix to GNOME Online Accounts are mentioned, along with mention of a OneDrive fix too. Updates are currently in the ‘proposed’ updates channel for testing.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/ubuntu-24-04-fastmail-mailbox-webdav-fixes

Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin

Michael Larabel reminds us what Miracle-WM is, and that it was developed by a Canonical Engineer (Matthew Kosarek). We’re told it will be used by a Fedora 41 Miracle Spin. Michael provides us with a screenshot, a embedded YouTube video, and the link to the Miracle-WM 0.3.1 project’s GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.3.1

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning

Michael Larabel reports the release of AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1, which includes Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support, though Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support is “retired”. We’re given some brief details of the updates, optimizations, performance tuning, and fixes & a link to GitHub for more, including to download.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q3.1-Released

Ubuntu’s X.Org Session Support Now Split Into Separate Package

Michael Larabel reminds us of the Ubuntu 24.10 feature freeze, then tells us that the Ubuntu GNOME X.Org session support is found in a separate binary from the main Wayland session. We’re told its now found in ‘ubuntu-session-xsession’, with Michael noting this is similar to what Debian & other distributions had already done. Details, including a link for more info, are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Split-X.Org-Session

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 311 - Fåbio Fontes & Rafael Gonçalves

“Desta vez fomos Ă  descoberta do estado da arte na indĂșstria dos videojogos, com dois convidados de peso: FĂĄbio Fontes e Rafael Gonçalves. Ambos tĂȘm experiĂȘncia no desenvolvimento de jogos em 2D e 3D com Godot e abandonaram alegremente plataformas proprietĂĄrias em favor desta Ășltima. Numa conversa muito interessante e desbragada, ficĂĄmos a saber porque defendem esta opção sem olharem para trĂĄs e como o Software Livre pode salvar uma indĂșstria que tem sido transformada por modelos de negĂłcio que nĂŁo favorecem os jogadores ou os criadores independentes.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e311/

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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