Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 861

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 861 for the week of October 6 - 12, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #366
  • Rocks Public Journal 2024-10-11
  • Ubuntu HPC Meeting Notes: 2024/10/9
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Pohang
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release & 20th Anniversary Event @ Busan
  • LoCo Events
  • Introducing the NVMe/TCP PoC with Ubuntu Server 24.10
  • Expanding the Xubuntu Community: Matrix & Discourse
  • 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, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole

Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) giving a link where we can download it. We’re given some details of what is enclosed, a quote from Mark Shuttleworth highlighting a “new pace for delivering the latest upstream kernel” and more. This post includes screenshots, and is followed by other Ubuntu community release announcements.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole

Interested in the flavors? Release announcements as follows:

This release is widely covered, the following is a collection of articles selected by our editors:

Other platform’s support:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144932 (+130)
  • Critical: 315 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73250 (+94)

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% (46685/110)
  • Ukrainian: 86.01% (49121/1265)
  • French: 83.80% (56855/7202)
  • Swedish: 79.49% (72001/935)
  • Spanish: 76.83% (81337/5257)

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 #366

The highlight of the past week is the significant improvement in lxc CLI auto-completion and added support for binfmt_misc namespacing in LXD. The LXD UI also received several new features and bug fixes, including the ability to move instances and volumes between storage pools.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-366/48557

Rocks Public Journal 2024-10-11

Chisel v1.0.0 has been released, and openjdk-21-jdk-headless has been sliced for 24.04.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-10-11/48682

Ubuntu HPC Meeting Notes: 2024/10/9

Jason C. Nucciarone posts the Ubuntu HPC meeting notes for October 9, 2024. This includes agenda and discussion notes, plus some feedback.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-hpc-meeting-notes-2024-10-9/48622

LoCo News

Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Pohang

Youngbin Han writes about a Ubuntu 24.10 release, and 20th anniversary party being held in Pohang city on November 9th. Details, links and more are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-release-party-pohang/48579

Ubuntu 24.10 Release & 20th Anniversary Event @ Busan

Choo Young-wook announces that the Ubuntu Korean Community is hosting a release party in Busan on the 15th of November. Participants will have the experience of installing Ubuntu; learning the process hands on. The schedule and additional notifications are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubuntu-24-10-20-busan/49699

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

Introducing the NVMe/TCP PoC with Ubuntu Server 24.10

Olivier Gayot tells us that the Foundations team have worked on a proof of concept demonstration of installing Ubuntu Server on a disk-less machine over TCP. We’re given a link to the documentation on this, along with some specifics, before being told we can “try it at home” and asked to provide feedback or raise bug reports if problems are encountered.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-the-nvme-tcp-poc-with-ubuntu-server-24-10/48620/

Expanding the Xubuntu Community: Matrix & Discourse

Sean Davis tells us the Xubuntu team has ‘embraced’ Matrix and Discourse. We’re reminded what Matrix and Discourse are, and told how they’ll be used, and that existing resources such as IRC and mailing lists aren’t going anywhere either. The many links of our available options are also provided in this post.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/expanding-the-xubuntu-community-matrix-discourse/48612/

Other Community News

user: unknown userid for users when using db in nsswitch.conf

A critical regression has been identified in snapd 2.65.3 using LDAP support. The package has been reverted to 2.63 with the advisory for a manual fix sudo snap revert snapd. Release 2.66 addresses the issue and is presently in the beta channel awaiting release to the stable channel.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2083890

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Gamer? The Steam Snap Now Runs Better Than Ever

Joey Sneddon writes that Canonical’s Steam snap has had numerous performance improvements. We’re told Valve still recommends their deb packages, then we are given some details of the improved release of snapd. This release specifically helps the Steam snap (removal of all AppArmor and seccomp restrictions). We’re told that Steam isn’t running “un-sandboxed” though, just that there is more control over the containerization. Links for more details are provided, as well we are told the steam snaps may start as fast as debs now too.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/10/ubuntu-gamer-the-steam-snap-now-runs-better-than-ever

NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors

Michael Larabel reminds us of the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC 2024) held at Montreal, where NVIDIA shared a road-map giving their Wayland plans. Details of the presentation, where Nvidia is “encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API”, some slides, a embedded video, and more are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Roadmap-2024

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 319 - AntevisĂŁo da Festa do Software Livre 2024

“A Joana SimĂ”es voltou e contou-nos as muitas aventuras que teve (e ainda vai ter) um pouco por todo o mundo; ainda falĂĄmos dos nossos Fairphones, das muitas Cimeiras, Encontros, ConvençÔes e encontrĂ”es de comunidades por esse mundo fora - e a nossa favorita: a Festa do Software Livre e a Ubucon de 2024, cujo programa estivemos a rever em antecipação. A Festa ’tĂĄ forte, pĂĄ!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e319/

Ubuntu OnAir:

The Linux Experiment:

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, 24.04, and 24.10

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

Ubuntu 24.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2025

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