Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 886

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 886 for the week of March 30 - April 5, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Clarifying Policy Re: Asynchronous Contributing Developer Applications
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #389
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-04-04
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Guess the release: 25.10 - Q
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 2 - Tasty network test cookies for everyone
  • A VisionFive 2 and a Raspberry Pi 1 B
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Clarifying Policy Re: Asynchronous Contributing Developer Applications

Simon Quigley in this mailing list thread, continues discussion relating to the Ubuntu Developer Membership Board and asynchronous Ubuntu Contributing Developer applications. Simon councils “commentary is a reflection in my capacity as a current member of the DMB and chair of the most recent meeting”, and outlines the benefits for Ubuntu Contributing Developers, encouraging new ‘active’ developers to apply.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2025-March/002811.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142755 (-119)
  • Critical: 321 (-10)
  • Unconfirmed: 72711 (+9)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.93% (45900/224)
  • Ukrainian: 86.36% (47888/1416)
  • French: 85.02% (52584/6478)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67703/769)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79204/4571)

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 #389

The highlight of the past week in LXD is added support for BPF Token delegation inside containers. Further, LXD UI received several new features, including SSH key management and security.csm configuration for instances and profiles.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-389/58241

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-04-04

The OCI annotation org.opencontainers.image.description will be embedded in all rocks, starting from the coming Rockcraft v1.10.0 release. There’s also a new Rockcraft feature release where you can try a new feature for building rocks with Ubuntu Pro bits. On Chisel, RabbitMQ and InfluxDB have been sliced (among others), and we’re aiming to get 3rd party scanning tools to start supporting chiseled filesystems.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2025-04-04/58539

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

Guess the release: 25.10 - Q

Mauro Gaspari reminds us Ubuntu ‘plucky puffin’ is soon to release, and has thus started a ‘fun community activity’ in suggesting the next ‘mascot codename’ for what will be Ubuntu 25.10 later this year. Rules are outlined, and we’re told winning suggestion(s) will get a special badge of Ubuntu’s Discourse. The activity has started, and we’re told it’ll end when the codename of the next release is publicly announced.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/guess-the-release-25-10-q/58251

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 2 - Tasty network test cookies for everyone

Christian Ehrhardt gives us a ‘recipe’ using cooperation, quality assurance, and network tests, three attributes that foster the development of the eco-system, ensuring our hallmark quality. We’re even given a quote from an upstream source which expressed ‘Thanks’, before a brief list of successful examples with links.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-2-tasty-network-test-cookies-for-everyone/58446

The Planet

A VisionFive 2 and a Raspberry Pi 1 B

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph reminds us of prior attempts to install an OS on a StarFive VisionFive 2 SBC. Lyz notes Canonical’s ‘formalized’ documentation on installing Ubuntu, and follows it. The process is discussed, including some help from Emil Renner Berthing (esmil) via Ubuntu’s Matrix, and the system is working. Next Lyz covers an ignored Raspberry Pi 1B, and updates an OS there.

https://princessleia.com/journal/2025/04/a-visionfive-2-and-a-raspberry-pi-1-b/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux

Marius Nestor discusses the latest Steam Client release, focusing on the Linux platform improvements. We’re told of faster downloading of updates, a fix or non-steam Protons, and more. We are also told there are other bugs fixed which will provide “a better gaming experience”, with a link to the release notes if we need more.

https://9to5linux.com/valves-latest-steam-client-release-brings-faster-download-of-updates-on-linux

APT 3.0 Debian Package Manager Released with Revamped Command-Line Interface

Marius Nestor provides a critical review of the major APT 3.0 release, introducing “new features and many enhancements”. The wide range of changes include: the new solver, comment history, uncompressed indexes, automatic pager, support for OpenSSL. and much more. This release is dedicated to the late Steve Langasek [vorlon] and we will see it as default in 25.04.

https://9to5linux.com/apt-3-0-debian-package-manager-released-with-revamped-command-line-interface

LACT 0.7.3 Further Enhances This GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool

Michael Larabel writes about the updates to this “GPU configuration and monitoring tool”. The tool works across Intel, AMD, and Nvidia vendors. A link is provided to download or for more details.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.7.3-Released

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 342 - ReuniĂŁo Europeia de CondomĂ­nio

“Hosana, Hosana, o Tiago estĂĄ entre nĂłs; no seu triunfal regresso falĂĄmos do abandono de VScodium e adopção de Zed; navegadores de Internet alĂ©rgicos a Javascript, terminais do sĂ©culo passado, protectores de ecrĂŁ e outros temas tĂŁo interessantes como legislação e autodeterminação digital Europeia; clĂ­nicas veterinĂĄrias de Linux, como o Libreoffice Ă© prejudicado pelo Open Office e longas diatribes sobre ideias patetas pan-europeias e empresas que fazem «lobby» com garrafas de whisky e pequenos almoços com outras bebidas Ă  escolha.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e342/

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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