Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 864

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 864 for the week of October 27 - November 2, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Plucky Puffin is now open for development
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Meeting Reports
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Removing Qt 5 from Ubuntu before the release of 26.04 LTS
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Plucky Puffin is now open for development

Paride Legovini on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces Ubuntu Plucky Puffin as being open for development. Some toolchain details are noted (which may need changes in package builds) and we’re told an auto-sync will soon start. A link to the release schedule is also provided.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-October/043164.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 145288 (+42)
  • Critical: 315 (-2)
  • Unconfirmed: 73501 (+40)

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% (46656/116)
  • Ukrainian: 86.01% (49119/1265)
  • French: 83.80% (56855/7310)
  • Swedish: 79.70% (71257/992)
  • Spanish: 76.83% (81337/5263)

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/

Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #369

The highlight of the past week is a new setting in LXD that makes virtual machine CPU auto pinning optional instead of applying it by default.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-369/49213

Other 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

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

Removing Qt 5 from Ubuntu before the release of 26.04 LTS

Simon Quigley reminds us of the removal of Qt4 some time ago, and starts a thread asking about the coming need to remove Qt5 in transitioning to Qt6. This thread is exploring the timeline. With no set date yet decided this is the goal that the Release Team would like to meet, but there are clear blockers and it is being worked on. Can this be removed prior to 26.04 LTS? For any questions, details of the Ubuntu Qt Matrix channel are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/removing-qt-5-from-ubuntu-before-the-release-of-26-04-lts/49296

Other Community News

Ubuntu Summit 2024 highlights - Linux gaming talks on UMU and Heroic Launcher

Liam Dawe remarks that Ubuntu Summit 2024 has concluded, and gives a focus here on talks related to gaming. Embedded video links are provided, with details of where to jump to (links are for the day presentations), plus details on why and who will be interested in watching these gaming talks.

Xfce 4.20pre1 released

Alexander Schwinn announces “Xfce 4.20pre1 is now available for download”. Provided is a list of the 4.19 core components, links to the tarballs, and to the release notes. We are advised of a new component and reminded that Wayland support will only be experimental. “The final Xfce 4.20 release is planned for December.” Finally, that “Testing would be much appreciated”!

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2024-November/001442.html

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025

Marius Nestor writes about the plans going into GNOME 48 due for release 19 March 2025. We’re told its dubbed “Bengaluru” which is the host city of GNOME Asia Summit 2024. Details and the release schedule are provided. Pieces of some of those details we’ll see are teased here.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-desktop-environment-release-date-slated-for-march-19th-2025

Google’s Flutter UI Toolkit Forked As Flock

Michael Larabel reports that Google’s open-source Flutter UI toolkit has been forked as Flock. We’re told its intended to be a “Flutter+” that will ‘innovate faster’ avoiding the “under-staffed Flutter development team”. A link to the FlutterFoundation site is given for more details.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Flutter-UI-Flock-Fork

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

Michael Larabel writes about CVE-2024-9632 relating to an X.Org Server flaw that “can lead to local privilege escalation”. We’re told the issue was introduced in 2006, and impacts XWayland too, We are given some details and the mailing list link advisory announcement.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-CVE-2024-9632
Patched:

Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs

Michael Larabel tells us about Intel’s latest patch releases which include new CPU microcode for 13th Gen & 14th Gen ‘Raptor Lake’ processors. We’re given some details of these patches, a quote from the docs, and more, including a link for late-loading on GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPL-Microcode-Voltage

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations

Michael Larabel writes about the -O3 compiler optimizations (rather than -O2) now in development in the newly started Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ release, We’re told auto-syncing from Debian has begun, Perl 5.40, and Haskell / GHC 9.6.6, and more get mentioned.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Plucky-Puffin

Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations

Michael Larabel informs us that Miriway 24.10 is released, a compositor that gives numerous desktops an easy ‘migration path to Wayland’. We’re given a list of improvements, a link to the project on GitHub, and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miriway-24.10-Released

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 240

“For the third and final part in our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Alex is again joined by Luci as well as Diogo Sousa to discuss future trends in cybersecurity and the likely threats of the future.”

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-240/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 322 - Na Ubuntu Summit 2024 (Haia)

“O nosso enviado especial Diogo Constantino esteve em Haia, nos PaĂ­ses Baixos, para A CIMEIRA mais importante do ano (depois da Festa do Software Livre!): a Ubuntu Summit 2024. Para alĂ©m de ter visto muitas novidades no mundo do Ubuntu e trazer notĂ­cias bem frescas, ainda teve oportunidade de conversar em PortuguĂȘs com alguns participantes dessa cimeira.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e322/

Ubuntu OnAir: Ubuntu Developer Membership Board Meeting @ Ubuntu Summit 2024

This video shows a special Ubuntu Developer Membership Board meeting held live at the Ubuntu Summit 2024. Chaired by Simon Quigley, and includes board members Robie Basak, Benjamin Drung, Simon Chopin, Thomas Ward, and Utkarsh Gupta. Interested parties Lena Voytek, Mattia Rizzolo, David Mohammed, and Sudip Mukherjee were in attendance. This meeting focuses on the Ubuntu Core Developer application by Sudip, showing us some of the Core Dev application process as questions are asked of and answered by Sudip. Thanks is given to Noah Chelliah for the video.

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

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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