Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 887

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 887 for the week of April 6 - 12, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Plucky Puffin (25.04) Final Freeze
  • Plucky Puffin (25.04) Release Status Tracking
  • New SRU team Matrix room
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #390
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Africa at Innovate Conference 2025: DeFi-ing the Odds
  • LoCo Events
  • Revitalising Ubuntu Project Documentation
  • Ceph: Contribute to our documentation
  • Ubuntu at DebConf25
  • Ubuntu at GUADEC 2025
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • 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

Plucky Puffin (25.04) Final Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team reports Ubuntu Plucky Puffin (25.04) is now in Final Freeze. Along with details of what this means, we’re also told the RC (Release Candidate) images will be created soon.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-April/001372.html

Plucky Puffin (25.04) Release Status Tracking

Matthieu Clemenceau makes available the live document capturing the progress toward the release, set for the 17th. A checklist is provided for finer details on individual stats. Feed back is requested on the relevancy of this documentation. Status is on track with various reports provided. Contact links are also given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-25-04-release-status-tracking/59091

New SRU team Matrix room

Christopher James Halse Rogers (roaf) reminds us of the move to Matrix for Ubuntu development, and outlines an ‘experiment’ of having SRU traffic in a separate room. It’s hoped this will help Ubuntu contributors.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2025-March/019776.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142810 (+55)
  • Critical: 316 (-5)
  • Unconfirmed: 72766 (+55)

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% (45900/225)
  • Ukrainian: 86.36% (47888/1415)
  • French: 85.02% (52584/6580)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67703/1140)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79204/5034)

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 #390

In the past week, LXD received several bug fixes. Highlights include improved shutdown logic, better snapshot handling, and support for downgrades within point releases of an LXD LTS series.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-390/58727

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

Ubuntu Africa at Innovate Conference 2025: DeFi-ing the Odds

Bright Adams tells us “Ubuntu Africa proudly sponsored and actively participated in the Innovate Conference 2025”. We’re told both of the event, what it hoped to achieve, shown some photos, and given an ‘in brief’ summary of Ubuntu Africa’s Impact. Thanks is offered to those who helped the event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-africa-at-innovate-conference-2025-defi-ing-the-odds/58678

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

Revitalising Ubuntu Project Documentation

Jon Seager reminds us of his prior expressed thoughts on Ubuntu documentation, and continues here the discussion on ‘revitalizing’ Ubuntu Documentation. The focus is started on the Ubuntu 25.10 cycle, with us given ‘The Plan’, a list of resources that maybe useful, and we’re reminded “Documentation is the backbone of a thriving open-source community”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/revitalising-ubuntu-project-documentation/58694/

Ceph: Contribute to our documentation

Sharon Koech reminds us “our documentation is a collaborative effort”, and here reveals a “contributing guide” that is geared for Ceph Docs contributions, but maybe useful for other Ubuntu projects as well. The guide “contains details on how to work with Discourse, how you can participate in our Open Documentation Academy, and the way to structure your documentation contributions using the Diátaxis framework. You’ll also find out about the requirements for contributing, the general workflow, how to engage with the team, and how to write (a guidance for writing that includes our style guide)”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/contribute-to-our-documentation/58751

Ubuntu at DebConf25

Mauro Gaspari has created an event on Ubuntu Discourse for DebConf25, giving us details, and includes an invitation to join the Ubuntu Community at DefConf 25 (Ubuntu is a gold sponsor).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-at-debconf25/58869

Ubuntu at GUADEC 2025

Mauro Gaspari reminds us GUADEC is the GNOME Community’s annual conference, and with this event record on Ubuntu Discourse, we can access details. Canonical is a silver sponsor, and we’re invited to come along.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-at-guadec-2025/58898

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

I’m a Linux power user, and the latest Ubuntu update put a smile on my face

Jack Wallen writes about Ubuntu 25.04 and starts with noting it ‘put a smile on my face’. This article outlines details he noted that caused the ‘smile’, first up is the installer. Next mention is GNOME 48, with special mention of the ‘Wellbeing’ feature. We’re told the experience was good as it worked ‘as expected’. Jack notes surprise at the change of the document viewer (Evince replaced by Papers), gives some thoughts on performance, before moving to ‘should we upgrade?’. Links for more details including download are provided.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/im-a-linux-power-user-and-the-latest-ubuntu-update-put-a-smile-on-my-face/

In the Blogosphere

RADV Lands Workaround For Buggy HiZ/HiS On AMD RDNA4 GPUs

Michael Larabel reports on bugs found in the AMD RDNA4/GFX12 graphics, adding that workarounds have now landed. We’re given some details of the problem, and the fix by Samual Pitoiset (Valve), with a quote and a link to the merge should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Workaround-HiZ-RDNA4

Blender Is Looking For Help Testing Its Maturing Vulkan Backend

Michael Larabel reminds us that Blender 4.4, which recently launched, included improvements in its Vulkan back-end which is hoped to be ‘production-ready’ this year. To help with that we’re asked to help test Blender 4.5 alpha builds, with details provided by a link.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-Vulkan-Help-Testing

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default

Michael Larabel reminds us Ubuntu 25.04 is soon to ship, and tells us JPEG-XL support is now enabled by default. This post gives details.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-JPEG-XL-Default

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 343 - Atum de Cebolada Tech

"A Joana SimĂ”es, a.k.a. Princesa Leia, voltou com muitas novidades sobre o universo OSGeo, conferĂȘncias com S.U.S.H.I, controladores de jogos fofinhos que podem ser usados para tudo e anĂ©is espertos; o Diogo continuou a espancar verbalmente a Mozilla com uma tĂĄbua com pregos, enquanto relatava as Ășltimas novidades de Firefox e conselhos sobre relĂłgios espertos e o Miguel trouxe um bode.?

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e343/

It’s FOSS: APT 3.0: Debian and Ubuntu’s Package Manager Got Huge Update

“APT 3.0 is Here! What’s New in the Latest Version of Debian/Ubuntu’s Package Manager? APT (Advanced Package Tool) has hit a major milestone with version 3.0, bringing in plenty of visual changes and user experience improvements. In this video, we break down the most important new features and changes that you should know about. Whether you’re a casual Linux user or a seasoned sysadmin, knowing what’s changed in APT 3.0 will help you stay ahead of the curve.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cGxXfw8M7o

Ask Noah Show: 436 - Interview Jon Seagar

This episode, hosted by Noah Chelliah and Steve Ovens, includes an Interview with Jon Seagar (VP of Engineering at Ubuntu). In the section with Jon, Noah asks questions and Jon gives details; addressing user concerns. The Ubuntu section covers uutils/GNU Core Utilities, sudo code change, memory safe languages and why they’re of benefit, as well as coverage of user ‘pushback’. We’re told clear documentation will be provided if we prefer our systems to act like they did before.

https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/436

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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