Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 860

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 - October 5, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open!
  • Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #365
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-03
  • Ubuntu Summit 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • The 2024.09.30 SRU Cycle started
  • Event Report - KDE Akademy 2024
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • 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

Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open!

Merlijn Sebrechts announces the Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open. We’re given details of this election, who can vote, and that voting ends October 17, 2024. Instructions are provided on voting, and Merlijn gives us contact details if problems are encountered.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-community-council-2024-elections-are-open/48509

Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces that Ubuntu Oracular Oriole (24.10) is now in Feature Freeze. Along with details of what this means, we’re told dailies will be stopped from automatic generation, with Release Candidate images generated in a few days.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2024-October/001362.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144802 (+5)
  • Critical: 315 (+2)
  • Unconfirmed: 73156 (-156)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.70% (46697/146)
  • Ukrainian: 86.01% (49113/1378)
  • French: 83.81% (56847/7321)
  • Swedish: 79.49% (71997/942)
  • Spanish: 76.81% (81413/5223)

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/

Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports

LXD: Weekly news #365

This past week LXD received several important bug fixes and improvements. The LXD UI highlight is added support for migrating custom storage volumes between storage pools.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-365/48406

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-03

Chisel just got some new cool features! There’s chisel info to inspect package slices :sunglasses: and there is also the base-files_chisel slice which, when used, will let you have a Zstandard-compressed manifest in /var/lib/chisel/manifest.wall. This manifest will let you infer other useful artifacts, like SBOMs! Additionally, plenty of new slices been created last week, including perl, squashfs-tools and ffmpeg dependencies.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-10-03/48503

LoCo News

Ubuntu Summit 2024

Mauro Gaspari has created the Ubuntu Summit 2024 event post, which gives details of this year’s Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on October 25-27 this year. With a brief summary, we’re given a link to register for in-person or remote attendance.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-2024/48492

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

The 2024.09.30 SRU Cycle started

Stefan Bader posts the 2024-September-30 SRU cycle that covers the four weeks to October-27. Milestone dates in this period are provided, along with kernel versions for supported releases. Following this is the next four weeks that ends November-24.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-2024-09-30-sru-cycle-started/48423

Event Report - KDE Akademy 2024

Mauro Gaspari gives us an event report of KDE Akademy 2024 held in Würzburg, Germany. Along with some photos, we’re told of some of the talks, and given links for more of the details.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-kde-akademy-2024/48484

Other Community News

Supporter spotlight: Kees Cook on Linux kernel security

The Reproducible Builds project, in their eighth installment in a series featuring key supporters, interviews Kees Cook, the founder of the Kernel Self-Protection Project. This is in Question and Answer format, with Vagrant asking questions of Kees.

https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2024/09/29/supporter-spotlight-kees-cook/

OpenPrinting News Flash - cups-browsed Remote Code Execution vulnerability

Till Kamppeter gives us a run down of the team’s quick response to this disclosed vulnerability.

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Flash-cups-browsed-Remote-Code-Execution-vulnerability/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries

Michael Larabel reports on this latest Vulkan API driver release. The highlights include: new performance tuning, updated headers, removing the NV31 PWS workaround, and added support for the VK_KHR_pipeline_binary extension. Michael also advises that there are several bug fixes and provides a link for downloads.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q3.3

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10

Michael Larabel writes that ‘reverse PRIME’ setups now work on Ubuntu 24.10, and further informs us that it will likely be back-ported to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Giving us a quote from Daniel Van Vugt, we’re also given a link to the Mutter change that corrected the issue with EGL modifiers.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Reverse-PRIME

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December

This time Michael Larabel writes about Xfce, telling us of Xfce 4.20’s desktop stepping stone dates toward release. We are given links & details from the Xfce 4.20 schedule, and more (including some teased Wayland improvements), and that other things are forthcoming.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Roadmap

In Other News

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 238

“For the first in a 3-part series for Cybersecurity Awareness month, Luci Stanescu joins Alex to discuss the recent CUPS vulnerabilities as well as the evolution of cybersecurity since the origin of the internet.”

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-238/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 318 - Impressões Digitais.

“Curiosamente, esta semana não falámos muito sobre Ubuntu - mas estivemos muito entretidos a elogiar o Internet Archive, a debater as motivações questionáveis de quem o ataca a propósito de DRM; comentámos as notícias sensacionalistas que se apanham pelas redes a propósito da Mozilla e Firefox; como é bom usar contentores; processos judiciais sobre privacidade e direitos dos utilizadores; pânico nas redes sobre vulnerabilidades em CUPS; a histeria geral porque se acabou o café e ainda deixámos trabalhos de casa com GUIX e ideias para navegadores de internet alternativos.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e318/

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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