Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 880

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 880 for the week of February 16 - 22, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS released
  • Plucky Puffin 25.04 Wallpaper Competition
  • Plucky (to be Plucky Puffin) now in Feature Freeze
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #383
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Git & GitHub Session : Ubuntu Nepal’s Session In SandBox Hackathon Event
  • Ubuntu Africa & XION: Driving Smart Contract Development with Open-Source Solutions
  • LoCo Events
  • Evaluating the new APT solver in 25.04
  • Ubuntu 25.04 mid-cycle roadmap
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • 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

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS released

Florent ‘Skia’ Jacquet on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team announces the release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud and flavors. Details, links for more, including how to download the release are provided.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-February/000308.html

Ubuntu Studio Release announcement:

Media attention to the release:

Plucky Puffin 25.04 Wallpaper Competition

Aaron Prisk opens the Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin Wallpaper competition. Along with details, including categories and rules, we’re given links to prior 24.04 & 24.10 results.We are invited to make our submissions on this thread.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-25-04-wallpaper-competition/55539

Plucky (to be Plucky Puffin) now in Feature Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta reports that Ubuntu plucky (25.04) is now in Feature Freeze. We’re reminded what this means, and given a link to the feature freeze exception process.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-February/001366.html

Plucky Puffin Feature Freeze Statistics: Simon Quigley reminds us that Ubuntu Plucky is in Feature Freeze with Debian Import also frozen. In this post Simon gives us some stats and where Ubuntu 25.04 - and the flavors now stands. The stats on this page may be added to or change.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-feature-freeze-statistics/55626

Selected other posts on Ubuntu Plucky Feature Freeze:

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations, Pushkar! Thank you for your continued sustained contributions to Ubuntu, and welcome to the team!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142617 (-1,524)
  • Critical: 316 (+4)
  • Unconfirmed: 72674 (-158)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.94% (45859/117)
  • Ukrainian: 86.37% (47847/1378)
  • French: 85.03% (52549/6288)
  • Swedish: 80.66% (67906/714)
  • Spanish: 77.43% (79226/4575)

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 #383

This past week, LXD received several bug fixes and new features. The highlight is added support for injecting additional public SSH keys into instances.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-383/55405

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

Git & GitHub Session : Ubuntu Nepal’s Session In SandBox Hackathon Event

Aaditya Singh tells us about Ubuntu Nepal’s Git & GitHub session that was requested by the SandBox Hackathon team. We’re told the 16 February session was 2.5 hours long, given some photos, with thanks given to GNOME Nepal who collaborated with Ubuntu Nepal to make this session a success.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/git-github-session-ubuntu-nepals-session-in-sandbox-hackathon-event/55357

Ubuntu Africa & XION: Driving Smart Contract Development with Open-Source Solutions

Bright Adams (mrbite) gives us a report on Ubuntu Africa’s activities at XION Global Developers Tour held in Ghana. Along with some details, and photos, we’re walked through some highlights, given a conclusion (remarkable experience) and mention is made of future collaborations.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-africa-xion-driving-smart-contract-development-with-open-source-solutions/55514

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

Evaluating the new APT solver in 25.04

Julian Andres Klode reports that “apt 2.9.30ubuntu1 just migrated and enables the 3.0 solver as a fallback to the internal one, if that failed; and for automatic evaluation with apport”. We’re given a ‘tl;dr’ summary, then details of this change and a known issue. Julian adds he hopes this change will prove useful, and gives a hint on amending the solver option too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/evaluating-the-new-apt-solver-in-25-04/55618

Ubuntu 25.04 mid-cycle roadmap

Jean Baptiste Lallement writes as the newly appointed Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. He gives us a brief history of himself, before moving to what’s coming in Ubuntu Desktop 25.04. Plenty of links are provided in this detailed post, which includes coverage of Ubuntu Core, WSL, Multipass and more. If we’d like to get involved, we’re told how, and reminded we’ll get more updates as Ubuntu 25.04 gets closer.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-04-mid-cycle-roadmap/55690

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

FreSSH bugs undiscovered for years threaten OpenSSH security

Connor Jones alerts us to “two brand-new vulnerabilities in OpenSSH”. We’re told they were discovered by Qualys in January, and allow MitM or DoS attacks if left unpatched. Patches for CVE-2025-26465 and CVE-2025-26466 have been released.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/openssh_vulnerabilities_mitm_dos/

Ubuntu CVE patched package details can be found at:

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11’s coffin

Liam Proven tell us the GNOME 48 beta is out for testing, and gives us details of what we’ll see. Whilst Liam doesn’t see it as a “massive” release, he still sees advances & movements towards the “pure-Wayland future”. We’re given details, and told we’ll see it in Ubuntu 25.04.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/gnome_48_beta/

GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More: Michael Larabel gives us his thoughts on the GNOME 48 beta release, listing the various new features/changes, includes a picture, and link to the official announcement on GNOME’s discourse.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Beta-Released

Calamares Installer 3.3.14 Brings Internal Improvements

Bobby Borisov writes that a new Calamares installer is out (3.3.14). Bobby gives us details of the improvements within this version; we’re also given a link to the official announcement and source code on GitHub. [Editor: This version is already uploaded to Ubuntu repositories and ready for Ubuntu 25.04 where three flavors will use it]

https://linuxiac.com/calamares-installer-3-3-14-brings-internal-improvements/

In the Blogosphere

GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes

Marius Nestor writes about the bug fixes and other improvements we’ll find in the GNOME 47.4 update that was released. We’re walked through various improvements for the various components, given a link to the official announcement, as well as told that an updated GNOME 46.9 was released.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-4-released-with-performance-improvements-for-nautilus-bug-fixes

Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates

Michael Larabel reports that Ubuntu developers at Canonical are “looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement” packages that are available for LTS releases. Details of the proposal by Shane McKee are given, along with a link should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-LTS-HWE-More-Intel

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 337 - Chapeleiros de Al13

“ELES ANDEM AÍ! Depois de uma semana de grandes abalos, ouçam este podcast censurado e aprendam tudo o que há para saber sobre discos encriptados, comunicações seguras, alternativas às grandes tecnológicas e até…livros! Como sobreviver num mundo digital virado do avesso? Falámos de comunicações(in)seguras, alternativas às tecnológicas norte-americanas, paranóias várias e como o software livre nos pode ajudar a sobreviver na clandestinidade e ainda, intelijumência artificial, experiências com emissões no Twitch e a nobre causa de compilar aplicações do KDE para Snap.?”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e337/

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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