Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 871

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 871 for the week of December 15 - 21, 2024.

In this Issue

  • Vote Extension: 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #376
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-12-20
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Latin America, Barranquilla 2024!
  • LoCo Events
  • Advanced Intel® Battlemage GPU features now available for Ubuntu 24.10
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Vote Extension: 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board

Merlijn Sebrechts updates the Call for nominations 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board thread. Though it was updated the timeline no longer applies, as the voting cycle has been extended by a month. We’re told as the timeline will be delayed, the new timeline dates will be added when known.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-2024-ubuntu-technical-board/50081/9

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144041 (-1060)
  • Critical: 308 (-2)
  • Unconfirmed: 73700 (-28)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.90% (46000/300)
  • Ukrainian: 86.22% (48360/1444)
  • French: 84.85% (53199/6428)
  • Swedish: 80.31% (69118/814)
  • Spanish: 76.91% (81053/4745)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #376

This past week LXD received numerous bug fixes aimed at improving usability and user experience. Additionally, LXD UI received several new features, including the ability to configure fine-grain permissions.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-376/51342

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-12-20

Rockcraft v1.7.0 is out! We also got some exciting new package slice definitions, for packages like .NET9, Redis, NGINX, tzdata-legacy and python3-pip!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-12-20/51631

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 News

UbuCon Latin America, Barranquilla 2024!

Carlos A. Maestre gives us a report on UbuCon Latin America, Barranquilla 2024, which includes event highlights, a list of workshops & masterclasses, numerous photos, and more. Thanks to many individuals, teams, and organizations are given which include: Lina Elizabeth & #UbuntuCO, Caribedev, Python Barranquilla, and RedTeam Barranquilla, Universidad de la Costa, staff behind the scenes, Canonical, speakers and workshop instructors, and the LinuxBQ team.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-latin-america-barranquilla-2024/51317

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

Advanced Intel® Battlemage GPU features now available for Ubuntu 24.10

Chris Schnabel informs us that “Intel and Canonical are excited to announce the availability of an Ubuntu graphics preview for Intel Arc B580 and B570 ‘Battlemage’ discrete GPUs”. We’re told it ‘builds’ on what was previously available, with the preview available to be enabled today. Along with details, we’re also provided a link to the intel-graphics preview GitHub README.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/advanced-intel-battlemage-gpu-features-now-available-for-ubuntu-24-10/51616

Other Community News

Xfce 4.20 released

These are the release notes for Xfce 4.20 found on Alexxcon’s software development blog. We’re told the release contains almost two years of work, that almost all Xfce components are able to run on Wayland (with thanks given to specific developers), before it moves to giving specific details about the included apps and Xfce components. This is a long thread, with numerous example screenshots, and concludes offering thanks to various sponsors of the project.

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_14.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Linux Mastodon App Tuba Updated with Post Scheduling, Drafts + More

Joey Sneddon writes about a new version of Tuba which is an open-source Mastodon client. We’re given details, some screenshots, as well as a list of changes in this new 0.9.0 version, and a link to the code on GitHub.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-mastodon-client-tuba-update-drafts

Ubuntu Adds Support for Unicode’s Newest Emoji

Joey Sneddon tells us that Ubuntu has added support for Unicode’s newest Emoji via an updated version of Noto Color Emoji font. We’re given the reason for this update in a quote by Canonical’s Jeremy Bicha. A later amendment to the article highlights the updated package (still in proposed at the time) triggered a regression in another package, which has resulted in the package release being paused; we’re told we may not get it till after Christmas.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/ubuntu-update-support-for-emoji-16-0

NVIDIA Driver 565 Available to Install in Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Ji m tells us the latest NVIDIA 565.77 driver package is available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10 via PPA. We’re given the commands to install it, some details of why we’d want it, numerous screenshots, and even details on how to remove it if required.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/12/nvidia-driver-565-ppa/

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 243

“It’s the end of the year for official duties for the Ubuntu Security team so we take a look back on the security highlights of 2024 for Ubuntu and predict what is coming in 2025.”

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-243/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 329 - Serial com Fibra

"O Diogo viajou até à Idade Média e descobriu a sensação de viver num tempo diferente, em que não tem velocidades de 1Gbps! Uma barbaridade! O Miguel viajou até à Idade do Cobre e relata-nos o que é viver com apenas 100 Mpbs. Depois, viajaram os dois até à Idade do Alumínio Anodizado, abrindo um pacote com uma misteriosa caixa, de um azul faíscante…que surpresas encerrará?!?

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e329/

Ubuntu OnAir: Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Crafting snaps quickstart guide 101

“In this workshop, Soumyandeep Ghosh (Member of the Snapcraft team) and our Snapcraft experts showcase how to create a snap from scratch. They run through real-life examples, with known issues and problems that users run into.”

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

Ubuntu OnAir: Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Lowering the Burden: a GUI App for Everything

“In this session, Erich Eickmeyer (Project Leader of Ubuntu Studio) talks through Zenity, a GNOME tool that gives developers what they need to create these all-important GUI apps. He’ll introduce the tools he has written to give regular users access to what would normally be done using the command line, all using BASH and Zenity.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Y16OI3OTo

Ubuntu OnAir: DH-037 - Adding an interactive command line to your docs

“In this session, we speak to Open Documentation Academy contributor David Ekete, who successfully created a wonderful interactive command line for documentation. We discuss implementation details and also the potential pitfalls of adding interactive elements to your documentation.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7pKdieSt74 | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/odh-037-adding-an-interactive-command-line-to-your-docs/51563

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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