Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 854

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 854 for the week of August 18 - 24, 2024.

In this Issue

  • “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
  • SRU announcement
  • Call for nominations: Ubuntu Community Council
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Weekly Meeting Reports
  • Starcraft Clinic 2024-Aug-16
  • Midwest Superfest and Software Freedom Day 2024
  • UbuCon Asia 2024
  • UbuCon Korea 2024 has wrapped up with 151 attendees this year!
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu WSL channel on Matrix
  • The CMA wants your comments on web apps
  • 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!

General Community News

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Dan Goodin reports on a windows fix to a two year old vulnerability that had some unforeseen issues. With details of the problem, and Microsoft’s fix; a fix that didn’t work for many people & thus left systems that failed to boot. We’re walked through this story, and the consequences, before being given steps for a workaround with mention of some of the problems in the secure-boot approach.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

SRU announcement

Roxana Nicolescu alerts readers that the SRU (Stable Release Updates) cycle 2024.09.02 will be skipped due to infrastructure change. We’re told the next SRU cycle will start when infrastructure is ‘back online’ which is expected start of October, with known details provided & more to come. We’re also told this won’t impact critical security fixes during the current cycle.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2024-August/152944.html

Call for nominations: Ubuntu Community Council

Merlijn Sebrechts, in announcing the call open, provides the guidelines for applying and why one should take up the responsibility. The nominations will close on Sunday September 22, 23:59 UTC, with the vote to end on Sunday October 13, 23:59 UTC. Additional informative links and the application link are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-ubuntu-community-council/47458

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144576 (+125)
  • Critical: 307 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73191 (+108)

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% (46620/107)
  • Ukrainian: 85.97% (49268/1268)
  • French: 83.79% (56895/7296)
  • Swedish: 79.16% (73174/1138)
  • Spanish: 76.80% (81451/4795)

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/

Weekly Meeting Reports

Starcraft Clinic 2024-Aug-16

Meeting summary includes the topics: Remote Build, Mesa, dotnet snap, Snapcraft 7, Riscv64, and more. Thanks are given to all who sponsored and to those who joined.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

LoCo News

Midwest Superfest and Software Freedom Day 2024

Zackariah Fosdyck tells us the Midwest Superfest which is hosted by the Peoria-Area Amateur Radio Club has a booth for LibrePlanet Illinois team and Ubuntu Illinois Local Community team on September 21, 2024. This post gives details of that event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/midwest-superfest-and-software-freedom-day-2024/47325

UbuCon Asia 2024

The UbuCon Asia team, with the collaboration of UbuCon India team, will be organizing the UbuCon Asia 2024 in Jaipur, India, from 31 August to 2 September. So, those who have booked the tickets, pack your bag and lets make this event a great success. Anyone having visa related issues or any other issue, please contact us on:

https://events.canonical.com/event/47/program

UbuCon Korea 2024 has wrapped up with 151 attendees this year!

Jungmin Yoon (paperbox), in relating the August 9th conclusion, advises of the many participants who produced these workshops and events. The program included 9 talks, 2 workshops, 3 lightning talks, 3 BoFs, and a signing key party. Minseong Cho (mscho7969) renders reporting support with adding additional screen shots and a big thanks to the sponsors of the event: “It would be difficult to make the event happen without any help from our sponsors!”

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-korea-2024-has-wrapped-up-with-151-attendees-this-year/47443

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 WSL channel on Matrix

Jean Baptiste Lallement reports a new Matrix channel for the Ubuntu WSL community.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-wsl-channel-on-matrix/47322

Ubuntu 24.10 Testing Week

Aaron Prisk reminds us October is approaching, as is Ubuntu 24.10. This post highlights Ubuntu Testing Week which runs from August 22-29 where users are encouraged to grab the latest build & run some tests. This detailed post gives some details on what we’ll see when testing Ubuntu 24.10, plus details on useful inputs for testing. It includes flavour testing, with links where we can speak with other testers, or gain knowledge on Quality Assurance testing.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-testing-week/47330

The Planet

The CMA wants your comments on web apps

Stuart Langridge writes that the UK CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) has put out a request for proposals related to anti-competitive behavior by web browsers or platforms and the current (potential) list of remedies. Stuart outlines the ‘state of affairs’ as he sees it, requesting readers to read the linked document and express their own view. Further Stuart tells us he is speaking in OWA at the State of the Browser on September 14 in London (details provided), and gives links to other related details/opinion.

https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/

Other Community News

GNOME 47.beta Released

Jordan Petridis announces that the GNOME 47 beta is now available, giving us details and requesting we help test it. Links and a reminder that this is beta software are provided.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-beta-released/22919/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers

Michael Larabel writes that Canonical’s Daniel Van Vugt has continued ‘hacking on the GNOME Mutter triple buffering support’ that has been in Ubuntu/Debian awhile now, though Michael expresses a view that its unlikely to be mainstreamed to GNOME 47. Another merge request that will be in the GNOME 47 release is mentioned, along with details on Canonical hiring new desktop software engineers.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Fixes-EGLDevice-GNOME

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems

Michael Larabel writes about Linux Vendor Firmware Services (LVFS) which was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat nine years ago. This post covers a ‘brief retrospective’ by Richard on what this code has achieved, with links should you need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-9th-Birthday

NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default

Marius Nestor tells us the NVIDIA 560 has been released as stable, with this the first version to use open-source GPU kernels by default. We’re given highlights of this release, details of some use-cases that will benefit from its use, as well as links to the release notes and where we can download it.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-560-linux-driver-released-with-open-gpu-kernel-modules-by-default

LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite

Michael Larabel blogs that LibreOffice 24.8 is now officially out, giving us some details of what is found in this release. We’re given a screenshot, and a link to the Document Foundation wiki for more info, or to LibreOffice to download.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.8-Released

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 235

“A recent Microsoft Windows update breaks Linux dual-boot - or does it? This week we look into reports of the recent Windows patch-Tuesday update breaking dual-boot, including a deep-dive into the technical details of Secure Boot, SBAT, grub, shim and more, plus we look at a vulnerability in GNOME Shell and the handling of captive portals as well.”

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-235/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 312 - Nuno do Carmo

"Um Português, um Suíço exilado em Portugal e um Português exilado na Suíça entram num bar: a Microsoft é uma empresa Open Source? Como é que se pronuncia SUSE correctamente? Suza? Suze? Suzy? Suzette? A resposta a esta e muitas outras perguntas serão dadas pelo Nuno do Carmo (a.k.a.: Corsário), um multifacetado Tech Writer (Kubernetes e outras aplicações cloud native) e Microsoft MVP (Profissional Muito Valioso), Embaixador da CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) e da CIVO. É perito em WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) - e trabalha na SUSE, um sistema operativo Gnu-Linux muito popular no sector empresarial.?

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e312/

Ubuntu OnAir: Opportunity Open Source IIT Kanpur, India - Room 1: Plenary - Sat, Aug. 24, Afternoon

“Live coverage of the Opportunity Open Source conference in the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India, for attending the conference remotely. This is the stream for the Room 1 (Plenary) on Saturday, Aug. 24 in the afternoon. On this day we will have sessions from 3:00pm - 7:10pm IST or 9:30 - 13:40 UTC (or 4:10 hours of streaming).”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7vGeTwTDs

Destination Linux: episode 384 - Ubuntu’s New Kernel Strategy & What It Means for Users

"On this episode, we’re going to discuss Ubuntu announcing a major Linux Kernel change that the Linux community will love! … "

https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-384/

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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Added about UbuCon Asia, which will be from 31 August to 1 September.

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Great
Pleased you made the contribution.

-every little bit helps-

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My pleasure and of course it’s my duty too! :wink:

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soumyadghosh Hey

A bit on editorial:
See how we presented your meeting report - what is required is a summary of a article written in such a manner as to encourage the reader to click on the provided source link.

Respects all around :smiley:

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