Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 876

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 876 for the week of January 19 - 25, 2025.

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  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #379
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • SOOCon 2025
  • Barcamp Surrey
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Summit 2024 Reflections
  • 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!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143987 (-120)
  • Critical: 305 (-4)
  • Unconfirmed: 73723 (-66)

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% (45987/150)
  • Ukrainian: 86.24% (48298/1393)
  • French: 84.88% (53091/6302)
  • Swedish: 80.33% (69059/780)
  • Spanish: 77.26% (79824/4602)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

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

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Meeting Reports

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Otherwise will be demoted to the “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

LXD: Weekly news #379

The highlight of the past week are enhanced network pages in LXD UI with a visual representation of the network connections. LXD has also received several bug fixes in preparation for the upcoming 5.21.3 and 6.3 releases.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-379/53613

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

SOOCon 2025

Mauro Gaspari relates to us that Ubuntu and Canonical will be at SOOCon 2025 in London February 4-5, 2025. Links and some details of UK’s Open Technology Conference are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/soocon-2025/53909

Barcamp Surrey

Laura Czajkowski tells us of the Barcamp event in Surrey on August 2, 2025. We’re told it’s open and free for all, has good rail connections, parking space and EV charging options.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/barcamp-surrey/53936

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 Summit 2024 Reflections

Mauro Gaspari reflects on the 2024 Ubuntu Summit, with this blog celebrating the memorable three days. This detailed post contains many photos, links and details of many speakers/talks on the various days, before moving to the workshops. Coverage includes: the booths and hallway track, the Hackerspace event, Interviews, Closing party, and more. If you missed or were unable to attend, many links and a Youtube playlists are provided, as well as a link to the community photo album. Finally, ‘What’s next’ is covered.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-summit-2024-reflections

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm

Michael Larabel tells us a AMD engineer is asking what other Radeon graphics cards the community would like ROCm support for in Linux. We’re told this doesn’t preclude windows requests, but Michael focuses on the Linux side for the request. A link to the GitHub discussion is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Feedback-ROCm-Support

Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

Michael Larabel writes about the release of Wine 10.0, and its more than six thousand changes since 9.0. Some brief details, a link for more and to download are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Released

Linux 6.14 Networking Brings Many Wired & Wireless Driver Improvements

Michael Larabel here writes about the networking (wired and wireless) improvements found in the 6.14 Linux kernel. We’re given a list of features we’ll find, including links for more, before given a link to the network pull request.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Networking

Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV

Michael Larabel tells us that whilst merging pull requests for the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linus Torvalds merged some of his own code as well. We’re told of the changes Linus made, given a quote from the patch, and given links if we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Linux-CMOV-Address-Mask

AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack “ACS” For Advanced Linux Desktop Features

Michael Larabel informs us that AMD engineers have announced a new project “further outside the scope of their open source graphics drivers”. We’re given some details of the AMDGPU Composition Stack (ACS) which will deliver new features atop Wayland. We’re told it’s a fork of the Wayland Weston compositor, which is being used to experiment with newer features in order to “extract the best out of AMD Display and Graphics [hardware]”. Some details and a link for more is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AMDGPU-Composition-Stack

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11

Joey Sneddon writes that Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS will be released on February 13, 2025. We’re told the date was shared by Canonical’s Florent Jacquet, and reminded what this release is about.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/ubuntu-24-04-2-release-date

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

Marius Nestor reports on the release of GNOME 47.3. We’re given some details of the fixes included in this maintenance update with detail for the various apps and added support. As well, we are given a link to the announcement page from the GNOME Project, wherein we are told of the GNOME 46.8 update.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-3-improves-frame-rate-for-monitors-attached-to-secondary-gpus

GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New

Marius Nestor tells us the GNOME 48 alpha is available for testing, and tells us what’s new with it. Along with the release announcement link, we’re walked through many of the new features for each app covered in this release.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-alpha-is-now-available-for-public-testing-heres-whats-new

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 333 - GameDev, com Soficious e Rafael Gonçalves - I

“Recebemos dois convidados - Sofia «Soficious» e Rafael Gonçalves - para nos falarem do mundo dos jogos: em particular, da acessibilidade, desenvolvimento com Software Livre e Tinta Amarela. Como assim, tinta amarela? É verdade, tinta amarela! A conversa foi tĂŁo interessante, que vai ser dividida em dois episĂłdios; esta Ă© a primeira parte.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e333/

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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