Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 882

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 882 for the week of March 2 - 8 2025.

In this Issue

  • Warning Announcement: Ubuntu One password reset emails
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #385
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2025 Call for Proposals is now Open!
  • Triple Buffering, a debrief
  • Ubuntu Foundations 25.04 - Plucky Puffin progress
  • Announcing Meetingology: Matrix Edition
  • 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

Warning Announcement: Ubuntu One password reset emails

Alan Pope alerts us to phishing emails being sent out from ‘ubnuntu[.com’ - note the misspelling - that appear at first glance to come from Ubuntu.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/warning-ubuntu-one-password-reset-emails/56457

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142854 (+76)
  • Critical: 377 (+34)
  • Unconfirmed: 72786 (+43)

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% (45860/126)
  • Ukrainian: 86.37% (47848/1382)
  • French: 85.03% (52547/6310)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67690/1099)
  • Spanish: 77.43% (79227/4856)

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 #385

The highlight of the past week was LXD gaining support for automatically attaching Ubuntu Pro to LXD instances.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-new-385/56416

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 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

UbuCon Asia 2025 Call for Proposals is now Open!

Muhd Syazwan Md Khusaini announces “the call for proposals for UbuCon Asia 2025 are now open”. We’re reminded what UbuCon Asia is, told where and when it is, and given links for more (including link to Youngbin Han’s older blog). We’re also given a list of tracks, but told we are to see this list as a guide. We’re asked to help spread the word, and told where we can go if we have questions.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2025-call-for-proposals-is-now-open/56251

Triple Buffering, a debrief

Daniel Van Vugt reminds us triple buffering for GNOME recently landed in Mutter 48. We’re told here of the “multi-year effort”, going from the appearance at an Ubuntu Desktop hack day, through to today. This is a detailed post, with Daniel trying to outline it “isn’t as simple and straightforward as one might expect”, with this hopefully a useful learning presentation.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/triple-buffering-a-debrief/56314

Ubuntu Foundations 25.04 - Plucky Puffin progress

Matthieu Clemenceau gives us an update on progress towards Ubuntu 25.04; given that we’re now past the midpoint of cycle. Matthieu acknowledges and thanks Steve Langasek (vorlon) reminding us of what we’ve lost. We’re reminded Jon Seager is now VP of Ubuntu Engineering with links for other posts to learn more, before moving to the Foundations team updates. We’re minded of 24.04.2’s recent release, Feature Freeze for 25.04, given lists of component & toolchain updates, before moving to what’s new. This is a long post, with a reminder the Ubuntu 25.04 beta releasing on March 27, 2025.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-foundations-25-04-plucky-puffin-progress/56635/

Announcing Meetingology: Matrix Edition

Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) Makes his work known: “I have written an initial prototype of a brand new Matrix bot designed to replace meetingology.” Simon relates some community history that prompts the move to Matrix; and, he provides the logging bot in accommodation to the community feedback for this need. The test build is currently running in the Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#meeting:ubuntu.com room. Supporting links are provided and users comments and suggestions are requested. Testing and editing are open to Ubuntu Members while members of MOTU have permission to push changes and bug fixes. Polishing and additions to the bot are open to discussion with the bot going into production on April 2, 12:00 PM US/Central time. The usage guide, general instructions, and a FAQ are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-meetingology-matrix-edition/56734

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users

Marius Nestor writes about the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-8. We’re reminded its based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, told its a small update, but adds support for Volla Phone X23 and Volla Phone 22 devices and more. We’re told this smaller update is because they’re working on porting the base from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-8-released-with-volte-support-for-volla-phone-users

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default

Michael Larabel reminds us of the work done in replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut, and whilst progress has been made, we’re told Dracut won’t be default until Ubuntu 25.10. A link for those wishing to try Dracut is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Dracut-Default

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 339 - MagalhÔes Compila no Pacote

“O Diogo continua a braços com pacotes super manhosos que ele compila e o resultado Ă© menos do que desejĂĄvel; o Miguel arranjou um computador que larga lascas pegajosas de material duvidoso para poder viajar no tempo; a Mozilla continua a armar bronca com as mudanças nos termos de utilização do Firefox. Meio mundo desatou a instalar LibreWolf e trĂȘs gatos pingados desataram a instalar IceCat. O Chrome continua alegremente o seu monopĂłlio de captura de dados para venda e a Mozilla fita-o com inveja. Enquanto isso, ensinamos tĂ©cnicas de meditação com flautas de pĂŁ e doces regatinhos de ĂĄgua em fundo. Inspira, expira, compila.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e339/

Ask Noah: Show 431

“We’re live from SCaLE this year, and a panel joins us to learn more about how Ubuntu is trying to reach the next generation.”

https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/431

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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