Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 875

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 875 for the week of January 12 - 18, 2025.

In this Issue

  • USN-7206-1: rsync vulnerabilities
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #378
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-01-17
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2025 Call for proposals to be opened on early March
  • LoCo Events
  • Noble Numbat (24.04.2 LTS) Point-Release Status Tracking
  • 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

USN-7206-1: rsync vulnerabilities

This Ubuntu Security Notice alerts us to various rsync vulnerabilities. Details of the discovered issues, including who discovered the flaws and the four CVEs involved are discussed. We’re given the package versions with fixes for each release, including ESM releases.

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7206-1

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations Skia, and welcome to the team!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144147 (+40)
  • Critical: 309 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73789 (+47)

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% (45987/268)
  • Ukrainian: 86.24% (48298/1404)
  • French: 84.88% (53091/6296)
  • Swedish: 80.33% (69059/786)
  • Spanish: 77.24% (79886/4614)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #378

The highlight of the past week is a new feature in LXD that enables attaching a VM root volume to another instance. Additionally, several bugs were fixed, and various improvements were made to error handling throughout the LXD codebase.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-378/53187

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-01-17

Rockcraft v1.7.0 is out! And you can now also find Chisel slice definitions for packages like file, cpio, iputils-ping and libarchive-tools.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2025-01-17/53472

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 2025 Call for proposals to be opened on early March

Youngbin Han blogs about UbuCon Asia 2025 to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal this year. This post gives us a list of upcoming dates, starting with the March 1 call for proposals. We’re given details on what is wanted with proposals for sessions (talks, workshops, BoF & lightning talks), with links should we need more.

https://blog.ubucon.asia/post/uca25-cfp/

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

Noble Numbat (24.04.2 LTS) Point-Release Status Tracking

Florent ‘Skia’ Jacquet has started the Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) point release status tracking document. This will be updated regularly as we approach the release planned for February 13, 2025. The tracking document contains a list of known release critical bugs, a summary of the notable changes, the status of the release itself, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-24-04-2-lts-point-release-status-tracking/53415/

Other Community News

Ubuntu Studio: Why you need this open-source Adobe alternative

Lance Evans starts by reminding us why many are moving to open source software, and in this article gives reasons we may want to use Ubuntu Studio. This is an extensive post, where Ubuntu Studio is downloaded and installed on three devices, with us walked through that process. We’re given screenshots, with commentary useful to newer users.

https://www.creativebloq.com/tech/ubuntu-studio-why-you-need-this-open-source-adobe-alternative

The Debian Project mourns the loss of Steve Langasek (vorlon)

The Debian Project announces the loss of Steve Langasek (vorlon), who passed away on January 1, 2025 at 45 years old. This announcement serves as an obituary from the Debian project, and summarizes Steve’s extensive contributions to the Debian, Ubuntu, and wider FLOSS community. His 20+ year career in FLOSS had a significant impact across the entire software world, in countless ways. The announcement also shares quotes from other Debian Developers who have worked with Steve, sharing memories of their interactions and the impact he had on their lives. “Steve’s email signature was a consistent reminder of his own dedication to Free Software: ‘Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS to set it on, and I can move the world. - Steve Langasek’”.

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250117

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Intel “Performance Tips” Published For Optimal Linux Graphics

Michael Larabel writes about ‘performance tips’ for optimal Intel Linux 3D accelerated graphics found in new documentation. We’re given details of what Caleb Callaway recommends, and more, and as well the link to the merge request for the update.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Perf-Tips-Linux-Graphics

LACT Linux GPU Control Panel Adds Support For Intel Graphics

Michael Larabel reminds us about the LACT which has been available for awhile now for AMD and later NVIDIA graphics, and tells us LACT 0.7 now supports Intel. This post gives us some details of the new release, with a link to GitHub should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.7-GPU-Control-Panel

AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates

Michael Larabel writes about an ‘early’ pull request (for the 6.14 Linux kernel) by DRM lead maintainer David Airlie who is going on leave for two weeks. We’re given ‘notable’ items Michael saw in the DRM pull request, along with links should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-DRM-Feature-Pull

Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14

Michael Larabel writes about what is expected in the Linux 6.14 kernel, providing both a list of features and links for more details. We’re also told this is the kernel that is expected in Ubuntu 25.04.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Features-Expected

GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use

Michael Larabel informs us about the GNU Coreutils 9.6 which has just released. Details of many of the new features and updated utilities (including a performance boost) are provided. We are given the link to the GNU.org release announcement for more information.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.6

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 332 - PODES ir ao ECTL!

“Neste episódio homenageámos Steve Langasek, uma das pessoas que mais contribuiram para as comunidades de Ubuntu e Debian; falámos muito sobre a nossa experiência com Ubuntu Touch, os seus últimos desenvolvimentos de convergência baseados em Noble Numbat (muito promissores!) desenvolvidos pela sua generosa comunidade e o futuro dos telefones equipados com esse SO; ultimámos os detalhes finais para o PODES e o ECTL e ainda discutimos a utilidade de gastar uma pipa de massa com o novo Raspberry Pi5 com 16Gb?”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e332/

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Wild Man
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