Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 884

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 884 for the week of March 16 - 22, 2025.

In this Issue

  • One Week until Plucky’s Beta
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #387
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-03-21
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Fossasia Summit 2025
  • Ubuntu Nepal x Sandbox: Fostering Innovation and Inclusion at a National-Level Hackathon!
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Frame Security
  • The display bug we can’t fix
  • Implementation of ship-live within a squashfs
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

One Week until Plucky’s Beta

Simon Quigley earlier reminded us of Ubuntu Plucky’s (25.04) Feature Freeze, continuing here he gives us a list of key dates & announcements for each state (Simon thanks the team member who wrote each announcement). We’re then given a list of pending discussions, before a ‘Call to Action’ geared largely at Ubuntu’s flavors, to ensure that Ubuntu 25.04 is a “great release”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/one-week-until-pluckys-beta/57497/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142704 (-22)
  • Critical: 330 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 72706 (+20)

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% (45860/119)
  • Ukrainian: 86.37% (47848/1382)
  • French: 85.03% (52546/6409)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67669/737)
  • Spanish: 77.43% (79227/4583)

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 #387

The highlights of the past week are LXD 6.3 and LXD Terraform provider v2.5.0 releases.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-387/57362

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-03-21

The Ubuntu-based Node.js rock is now available on Docker Hub and ECR. Rockcraft now has support for the expressjs framework. Finally, we’re running a Rockcraft User Research initiative to collect UX feedback from all container enthusiasts. If you’d like to participate, please fill in the survey in any of our Ubuntu | Containers website pages.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2025-03-21/57630

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

Fossasia Summit 2025

Soumyadeep Ghosh tells us about Fossasia Summit 2025. Soumyadeep firstly tells us he presented a lightning talk, was on the Ubuntu booth, plus a KDE booth. We’re told of some of the setup of the Ubuntu booth, thanks given to Gregory, then told many other booths were using Ubuntu as well. We’re shown numerous photos, as each day is briefly discussed. Soumyadeep then gives us his experiences visiting Bangkok as a student; details that maybe useful if we’re ever in that position. Soumyadeep thanks Canonical, Bhavani Shankar Ravindra, Youngbin Han, Mauro Gaspari, Aaron J Prisk, Ratchanan Srirattanamet, Nikita and Alexandre HAMAMDJIAN.

https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/blog/fossasia-summit-2025/

Ubuntu Nepal x Sandbox: Fostering Innovation and Inclusion at a National-Level Hackathon!

Aaditya Singh writes about a Sandbox Hackathon held for 48-hours as a ‘coding marathon’. We’re told 27 teams came together to “build tech solutions addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), disabilities, and marginalized communities”. Ubuntu Nepal contributed to this event, with community members being mentors. We’re given details, names of the mentors & participants, numerous photos, with thanks are given to St. Xavier’s College, SXC Collabrains, and GNOME Nepal.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepal-x-sandbox-fostering-innovation-and-inclusion-at-a-national-level-hackathon/57436/

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

Ubuntu Frame Security

Michał Sawicz has provided us with documentation that explains “a number of aspects of security in the context of the Ubuntu Frame snap ecosystem”. The document is broken down into sections covering Threat model, Cryptography, and Hardening. As well as briefly covering each, links for more details are provided to learn more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-frame-security/47128

The display bug we can’t fix

Daniel Van Vugt writes about issues with “lack of bandwidth in the connection between the computer and the monitor” which users wrongly believe are bugs that can be easily fixed with software. Daniel discusses both a monitor’s full resolution not being available, and monitors briefly going dark, and how the best cables we can afford should be used to alleviate these conditions.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-display-bug-we-cant-fix/57434

Implementation of ship-live within a squashfs

Simon Quigley discusses moving “the ship-live apt pool from debian-cd into livecd-rootfs”, admitting his knowledge isn’t complete and welcoming more detail from others. Simon briefly discusses some effects which may not even be noticed in this complex and technical topic. The thread includes a response from Michael Hudson Doyle.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/implementation-of-ship-live-within-a-squashfs/57510

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu 25.04 To Enable NVIDIA Dynamic Boost By Default

Michael Larabel informs us that Ubuntu 25.04 will have NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support enabled by default where ‘capable’. We’re reminded what this GPU feature is, that prior releases of Ubuntu haven’t shipped with it, but a feature freeze exception has added it for Ubuntu 25.04. Links are provided for those needing more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-NV-Dynamic-Boost

Ubuntu Developers Discuss Abandoning Mailing Lists For Discourse

Michael Larabel reminds us Ubuntu developers recently switched from IRC to Matrix, with this post discussing some groups moving to Ubuntu’s Discourse for long-form communications instead of mailing lists. We’re given a link if we’d like to read the discussion started by Robie Basak.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mailing-Lists-Discourse

NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes

Michael Larabel gives us details of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux driver, including a list of fixed bugs. We are told it should help those using GeForce RTX 5070, and given a link to download it.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-570.133.07-Linux-Driver

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More

Michael Larabel reports on the release of GNOME 48, which we’ll see in Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04. We’re told of some highlights in the release, given a screenshot, and given links to release notes and GNOME’s Discourse announcement.

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

Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes

Michael Larabel covers the release of Mesa 25.0.2, or open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. We’re told there are many fixes, with Michael giving details of some of these, including hardware that will benefit most, plus a link to the release announcement.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0.2-Released

In Other News

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Thom Holwerda asks us what SourceHut, GNOME’s GitLab & KDE’s GitLab have in common, then tells us that it’s that they’re dealing with immense traffic load from AI scrapers. We’re told being open-source there are far fewer restrictions than on corporate sites; thus the effect of this scraping is equivalent to a DDoS. This post mentions the effects on numerous sites, plus their admins, and we’re warned if no solution is found, our access to code repositories, including bug reporting, may require a lot more ‘hoop jumping’ in the future.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141969/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Featured Audio and Video

Linux User Space - The History of Ubuntu’s Snap Packages

“All the history you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu’s Snap packages, how they’re related to earlier Snappy and Click apps, and what the original intent of it all really was!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5srDPTA3U

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 340 - PATA na poça

“Depois de sobreviverem por milagre, os anfitriões voltam cheios de novidades. O Miguel descobriu o formato PATA-com-fitinha na dissecação de um Magalhães; continua a campanha de solidariedade «vamos ajudar o Miguel a descobrir uma Caixa Mágica» com bonitas canções; o Diogo voltou do ESPECTACULAR primeiro Festival de Tecnologia Popular, organizado pela Odet em Setúbal e traz-nos um relato do evento; e provavelmente vai dedicar-se à medicina veterinária, com a abertura de uma Clínica de Linux. E como não podia deixar de ser, malhámos forte e feio no Firefox e nas trapalhadas da Mozilla - vamos precisar do patrocínio de um remédio para a azia e inibidores de ácido gama-aminobutírico.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e340/

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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