Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 873

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 873 for the week of December 29, 2024 - January 4, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2026 - Call for bids!
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Studio: Upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS are NOT WORKING
  • Other Community News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek

Mark Shuttleworth writes subsequent to our loss of Steve Langasek, and tells us how Steve was a ‘hero’ in open source life and why. We are told his life was “short but remarkable”, and will not be forgotten. Mark’s post is followed by many others, who too mourn the loss of Steve, writing what they feel.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/remembering-and-thanking-steve-langasek/52665

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144089 (+30)
  • Critical: 308 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73748 (+25)

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% (45989/267)
  • Ukrainian: 86.22% (48360/1444)
  • French: 84.87% (53101/6314)
  • Swedish: 80.31% (69118/812)
  • Spanish: 77.23% (79933/4740)

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 2026 - Call for bids!

Youngbin Han wishes us Happy New Year before moving to the accepting of hosting bids for UbuCon Asia 2026. This post gives details of UbuCon Asia hosting bids, and gives details should you wish to bid for the 2026 event. Many links are provided for more, where to go if you have questions, as well as the closing date of 1 April 2025.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2026-call-for-bids/52303

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 Planet

Ubuntu Studio: Upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS are NOT WORKING

The Ubuntu Studio development team brings up investigations about reported problems from users of Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS release-upgrading to Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS. Links to bugs are provided, and discussion on why this issue has occurred and differences with other flavors of Ubuntu. Further we’re told the Ubuntu Studio team is working with the Ubuntu Foundations Team on possible solutions, which will hopefully be provided soon.

https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/01/upgrades-from-22-04-lts-to-24-04-lts-are-not-working/

Other Community News

Cohabitating in Passadena: SCALE 22x’s Colocated Events

Christine Hall writes that there will be “at least eight colocated open source focused events, in addition to the main attraction”, inclusive of Ubuntu. We’re given some history, and why co-location is a good thing, some details about Scale 22x, links for more details, as well as some details of the (current) colocated events.

https://fossforce.com/2024/12/cohabitating-in-passadena-scale-22xs-colocated-events/

OpenUK’s 2025 New Year Honours List

This post tells us of the OpenUK’s ‘New Honours List’, and gives congratulations to a number of individuals worthy of honour in 2025. We’re reminded that work done within the role of your paid job is not included in assessing those worthy of honour.

https://openuk.uk/honours/

10 Year Anniversary of the Ubuntu MATE Community

Luke Horwell reports that on January 3, 2025, the Ubuntu MATE community turned ten (10) years old. We’re given some history, before thanks is given to the many over the years that have made Ubuntu MATE as good as it is. Next up is a review of major events (heavy focus on Ubuntu MATE’s discourse), some details of site membership, and more.

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/10-year-anniversary-of-the-ubuntu-mate-community/28787

Xubuntu Development Update January 2025

Sean Davis apprises us of the developments for the 25.04 release: major package updates, supporting libraries, and components overhauls are listed. Screenshots of several of the apps are included. Finally is a link to the To-Do list whereto is the invitation to make contributions.

https://www.bluesabre.org/2025/01/04/xubuntu-development-update-january-2025/

In the Blogosphere

Canonical Experimented With Rebuilding Its Ubuntu 25.04 Packages Under LLVM/Clang

Michael Larabel informs us that the first rebuild results of Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) were shared on the mailing list. We’re told why the rebuild results are useful for package maintainers, and that LLVM Clang compiler was used to rebuild the main components. Some summary details and links for more are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Plucky-Rebuild-LLVM

Other Articles of Interest

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

Security Updates

End of Year Break: no activity reported

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

No activity reported

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

No activity reported

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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