Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 872

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 872 for the week of December 22 - 28, 2024.

In this Issue

  • New Ubuntu Membership Board 2024
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • 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

New Ubuntu Membership Board 2024

Merlijn Sebrechts announces the new Ubuntu Membership Board. We’re told Aaron J. Prisk, Lucy Llewellyn, Billy D. Quinn, Larry Tarvin, Mattia Rizzolo, Marius Quabeck and Soumyadeep Ghosh comprise the new board, elected for two years. Merlijn thanks Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman and Bright Adams and others who nominated themselves for this role; there are only seven seats available.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/new-ubuntu-membership-board-2024/51814

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144059 (+18)
  • Critical: 308 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73723 (+23)

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

Translations

  • Ukrainian: 86.22% (48360/1444)
  • French: 84.86% (53141/6314)
  • Swedish: 80.31% (69118/812)
  • Spanish: 76.91% (81053/4740)

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

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 Asia 2024

Aryan Kaushik writes about UbuCon Asia 2024, with extra detail that was too much for an earlier GNOME Asia post of his. We’re given a history for the decisions that lead to UbuCon Asia 2024, some of the challenges faced, and told it all came together well. We’re given some photos, told the event had a slight financial surplus and where this money will go too. A link to an ‘aftermovie’ is provided, and discussion of the future plans too.

https://aryank.in/posts/2024-12-25-ubucon-asia-2024/

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:

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning

Michael Larabel tells us AMD has made another Vulkan driver update that will benefit Linux gamers. We’re reminded of the Vulkan 1.4 update, and told AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 now supports it too. We’re also told some performance tuning has made some games faster, given some other details, plus links to the update & binaries available on GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q4.3-Released

AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14

Michael Larabel informs us that AMD Ryzen users may see increased power savings when using the Linux 6.14 kernel due to an AMD P-State driver change. We’re reminded of details provided earlier, a bug report (link and quote included) which led to this patch and the improvements it provides.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Ryzen-Linux-6.14

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 330 - Especial Comilanzenas

"Recebemos uma colecção de convidados especiais (Joana Simões, André Bação, Gato Galão Gagarine) neste episódio aberto ao povo e falámos de tudo, sem rede e sem tabus: o Império não fez nada de errado; convidámos o Governo Civil de Lisboa a receber peúgas malcheirosas; pusemos em causa a validade de sondagens democráticas no mundo do software geoespacial, arengámos sobre opções de domótica e routers livres, Lunokhod, planetário, walkie-talkies e estabilizadores de corrente e exibimos as nossas compras de Comilanzenas (*Natal), para fazer inveja lá em casa. Em suma: um fartar vilanagem!?

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e330/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10

Security Updates

End of Year Break: No activity to report.

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

No activity to report.

End of Life: July 2025

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Conclusion

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The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team wishes all the very best in the New Year. Happy New Year!
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