Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 862

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 862 for the week of October 13 - 19, 2024.

In this Issue

  • New Ubuntu Community Council 2024
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #367
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-18
  • UbuCon Asia 2025 Bid for Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Taipei
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Concept heart Snapdragon X Elite
  • What’s new in APT in Ubuntu 24.10?
  • IntelⓇ Neural Processing Unit (NPU) Driver Snap Available for Accelerating AIML Workloads on IntelⓇ Core Ultra Processors
  • Please try out dracut
  • Ubuntu Governance Sync Meetings 2025
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • 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

New Ubuntu Community Council 2024

Merlijn Sebrechts, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council, reports the new Ubuntu Community Council members: Heather Ellsworth, Scarlett Moore, Nathan Haines, José Antonio Rey, Thomas Ward, Merlijn Sebrechts, and Aaron Rainbolt. They’ll serve for two years. Valued members Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman and Jason C. Nucciarone, and all who stood are thanked, including outgoing Council members Monica Ayhens-Madon, Chris Guiver, and Torsten Franz.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/new-ubuntu-community-council-2024/48991

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 145044 (+112)
  • Critical: 316 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73299 (+49)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.71% (46657/114)
  • Ukrainian: 86.01% (49121/1309)
  • French: 83.80% (56855/7249)
  • Swedish: 79.63% (71505/975)
  • Spanish: 76.83% (81337/5472)

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 #367

The highlights of the past week are a new lxc command for creating files, symbolic links, and directories without specifying their source, and the ability to delete TLS and OIDC fine-grain identities. Additionally, new LXD Terraform provider release [Release v2.4.0 · terraform-lxd/terraform-provider-lxd · GitHub] brings support for managing storage buckets.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-367/48758

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-18

With Chisel v1.0.0 out, there is a new Discourse post that explains it all in a nutshell [Chisel manifest is supported in newly released v1.0.0]! The Ubuntu 24.10 chisel-release [chisel-releases/slices at ubuntu-24.10 · canonical/chisel-releases · GitHub] is now also available.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-10-18/48974

LoCo News

UbuCon Asia 2025 Bid for Kathmandu, Nepal

Aaditya Singh has posted the Kathmandu Nepal proposed bid for UbuCon Asia 2025. This post includes details of Nepal, the city of Kathmandu, a few proposals for the venue, and more. Some pictures, many links, details of the Local team, and more are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2025-bid-for-kathmandu-nepal/48809

Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Taipei

Rj Hsiao announces the release party at Taipei is open for registrations. It’ll be held on November 23, 2024 with this post including the details.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-release-party-taipei/48945

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 24.10 Concept heart Snapdragon X Elite

Tobias Heider announces the “the next iteration of our Ubuntu concept image for Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops with our new X Elite developer preview”. Providing the goal of the developer preview, which expands from the prior preview which focused on just a single device, to support as many devices as possible. To achieve this goal, help in testing this preview is requested. A list of devices it’s known to work with is provided, as well as a list of not yet supported devices. Details on helping test with hardware you have access to is provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800

What’s new in APT in Ubuntu 24.10?

Julian Andres Klode reminds us that Ubuntu 24.10 ships with APT 2.9.8, with this post showing us how to understand, and better use the new features in this version of apt.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/whats-new-in-apt-in-ubuntu-24-10/48941

IntelⓇ Neural Processing Unit (NPU) Driver Snap Available for Accelerating AIML Workloads on IntelⓇ Core Ultra Processors

Will French announces “the availability of the intel-npu-driver snap”. We’re told this is “an AI inference accelerator built into” Intel Core Ultra processors. This post tells us how to install it, and tells us to ‘stay tuned’ for better integration with NPU plugins.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/intel-neural-processing-unit-npu-driver-snap-available-for-accelerating-aiml-workloads-on-intel-core-ultra-processors/48955

Please try out dracut

Benjamin Drung tells us Ubuntu is “considering replacing initramfs-tools by Dracut as initrd generation tool in future Ubuntu releases”. We’re then told existing Ubuntu 24.10 users can give it a try now, as that release already has it shipped. This post then tells users how to test it out if they’re willing, giving details of what to explore first, and how to report success or what to file bugs against for problems.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/please-try-out-dracut/48975

Ubuntu Governance Sync Meetings 2025

“Following the success of the Ubuntu flavor sync meetings, we are starting Ubuntu governance sync meetings in 2025. These meetings will serve as a baseline for collaboration and coordination across all the Ubuntu community governance bodies. To keep a familiar format and a schedule that works well across time zones, we are going to use the same framework of the Ubuntu flavor sync meetings.” Meeting details, the schedule, and the point of contact are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcement-ubuntu-governance-sync-meetings-2025/48996

Other Community News

Southern California Linux Expo 2025: Call For Presenters

This post gives details of the Southern California Linux Expo 2025 (SCaLE 22x) detailing the location next year. A list of important dates is provided; the first of which is November 1, 2024 on which proposal submissions need to be in. With requirements given for presentations in this call for presenters, a plethora of details & links are provided if required.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/cfp

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Looking back at 20 years of Ubuntu, the world’s most popular Linux distro

Rich Edmonds notes its been two decades since Ubuntu appeared, and included many ‘nostalgic’ callbacks in their latest Ubuntu 24.10 release. We’re then reminded of some of the wins and loses over the years, which includes Ubuntu’s positive impact on education. This post is a brief view of some highlights in the last two decades with Ubuntu.

https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-turned-20/

Ubuntu turns 20: ‘Oracular Oriole’ shows this old bird’s still got plenty of flight

Liam Proven tells us “Ubuntu 24.10 is out”, and includes ‘several acknowledgments’ that the Ubuntu project has been going 20 years. We’re quickly told of some of the new features in Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop, and more. Liam walks us through some of Ubuntu and other distributions past as he remembers it, including how fast the “Warty” release was; winning him as a convert. We’re even reminded of the ShipIt program.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/ubuntu_oracular_oriole_released/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu 25.04 Codename Revealed

Joey Sneddon reminds us of the pattern of Ubuntu codenames, and tells us Ubuntu 25.04 will be ‘Plucky Puffin’. This post includes some history, especially of the ‘warty’ or initial release of Ubuntu, and a ‘story’ on that initial ‘warty warthog’ codename.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/10/ubuntu-25-04-codename-revealed

In Other News

Join for juju bar & session at Ubuntu summit 2024

Erik Lönroth tells us there will be a “Juju Bar” after the opening ceremony on Friday evening at Ubuntu Summit 2024. Mention is also made of a Juju event on Saturday too, with a note that registration for this event is required due to limited seats.

https://discourse.charmhub.io/t/join-for-juju-bar-session-at-ubuntu-summit-2024/15844

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 239

“In the second part of our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Luci is back with Alex, along with Eduardo Barretto to discuss our top cybersecurity best practices.”

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-239/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 320 - Baderna na Caserna III

“AVEIRO TREMEU. Numa cave mal iluminada, rodeados de cervejas e patinhos de borracha, um bando de perigosos meliantes reuniu-se em assembleia secreta, perturbando gravemente o sono das gentes sérias e trabalhadoras dessa malograda cidade, para espalharem a sua mensagem de Software Livre. O que aconteceu? Uma gravação clandestina, que obtivemos em exclusivo, revelar-vos-á TUDO!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e320/

Ubuntu OnAir: Documentation Office Hours # 22 - GitHub Actions for documentation

The Open Documentation Hour for 11 October 2024 is hosted as usual by Graham Morrison, with this session presented by Artem Konev, Sr. Technical Author for Canonical. The topic is ‘GitHub Actions for documentation’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2CGhGXpnc | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/odh-33-github-actions-for-documentation/48950

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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