Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 889

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 889 for the week of April 20 - 26, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Status of Oracular to Plucky upgrades
  • [update] Migration to rust-coreutils in 25.10
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #392
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Nepal’s Meetup For UbuCon Asia 2025
  • Korean LoCo Tea Party (May 17)
  • UbuCon Africa @ DjangoCon Africa 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • Agenda Topics for Communications Council - April 30th 2025
  • Behind the Curtain: Releasing Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin”
  • Visualizing and Exploring Ubuntu Excuses
  • Celebrating community contributions
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Status of Oracular to Plucky upgrades

Paride Legovini of the Ubuntu Release team has provided a status page for the 24.10 (oracular) upgrade path to 25.04 (plucky). This page provides a list (with links) of identified problems, which are currently preventing the upgrades from being open. We’re told necessary updates are ‘in the pipeline’ with upgrades being re-enabled ‘very soon’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/status-of-oracular-to-plucky-upgrades/59652

[update] Migration to rust-coreutils in 25.10

Julian Andres Klode provides us with the “relevant parts of the internal draft spec” on migrating to rust-coreutils this cycle (25.10). We’re reminded we can revert back if we wish, with this post giving us some details of the “arduous task”, with the checks and balances, to enable the migration. Existing test procedures will suffice for both versions and upgrades will prioritize rust-coreutils. A few known issues are also listed.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/migration-to-rust-coreutils-in-25-10/59708

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142905 (+3)
  • Critical: 315 (-2)
  • Unconfirmed: 72870 (+42)

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% (45900/229)
  • Ukrainian: 86.36% (47888/1462)
  • French: 85.03% (52564/6610)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/1269)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79204/5457)

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 #392

This past week, LXD received some bug fixes and several backports to 5.21 LTS, which will be included in the next bugfix release.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-392/59623

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 Nepal’s Meetup For UbuCon Asia 2025

Aaditya Singh tells us about a Ubuntu Nepal team meeting on April 19, 2025 related to UbuCon Asia 2025 planning. We’re told the ‘team is full of energy and motivation’ (photo provided), with thanks given to those who attended. We’re reminded the Call for Papers are closed.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepals-meetup-for-ubucon-asia-2025/59555

Korean LoCo Tea Party (May 17)

Youngbin Han alerts us to a Korean LoCo Tea Party on May 17, 2025 at Turing’s Apple, Seongsu-dong, Seoul, Korea, This post gives details, thanks Turing’s Apple for providing the space for the event, and links for registration or the Korean LoCo Forum for further details.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/korean-loco-tea-party-may-17/59813

UbuCon Africa @ DjangoCon Africa 2025

Mauro Gaspari (ilvipero) reports that the first UbuCon Africa event is happening due to the efforts of jangoCon Africa. A week long event featuring learning, sharing, and connecting will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, from August 11 to August 15. “We cannot wait to find points in common, host and attend amazing sessions, engage in workshops, and network with like-minded individuals.” Feedback is requested from the African open source community; spreading what it is to be Ubuntu.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-africa-djangocon-africa-2025/59940

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

Agenda Topics for Communications Council - April 30th 2025

Wild_Man (wildmanne39) has published the ‘proposed’ Agenda for the Communications Council meeting of April 30, 2025. This page is a wiki, so may change, with a request that additional details remain within the scope of the Communications Council.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/agenda-topics-for-comminucations-council-april-30th-2025/59595

Behind the Curtain: Releasing Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin”

Jean Baptiste Lallement, in this post, gives us a ‘glimpse’ of what happens behind the scenes of a release week. We’re walked through this final week, with photos provided. We’re thanked for ‘being part of Ubuntu’ and invited to stay in touch as we ‘build together’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/behind-the-curtain-releasing-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin/59634

Visualizing and Exploring Ubuntu Excuses

Matthieu Clemenceau documents ‘what happens when you upload a new package to the Ubuntu Archive’ which may help new Ubuntu developers. The process of packages ‘merged from Debian unstable’ through to them being in Ubuntu’s proposed pocket, before finally reaching the (development) release pocket is discussed. The steps, including various terms that are defined, are provided, including various reports on failures at various steps. Matthieu also covers two tools (visual-excuses and ubuntu-excuses) that maybe helpful in exploring failures too (though please note that as Ubuntu questing is still currently being setup, it maybe a few days before the tools return to working).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/visualizing-and-exploring-ubuntu-excuses/59824

The Planet

Celebrating community contributions

This blog post reminds us that the Launchpad project is almost 21 years old, having received many contributions. This post talks about contributing to open source, the Canonical Open Documentation Academy, before giving thanks to the contributors to Launchpad, which include gerryRcom, Jared Nielsen, Adriaan Van Niekerk, and Nathan Barbarick. The post includes some of the commit messages from these contributors.

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/celebrating-community-contributions

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Enable ESM in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Continue Getting Updates

Joey Sneddon reminds users of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS that the release is approaching the end of its standard support (29 May 2025). Users are reminded to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (or newer), or enable Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) as soon as possible. This post then tells users how to enable ESM on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The post includes some screenshots, and links if we need more details.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/enable-esm-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available for OrangePi’s New RISC-V SBC

Joey Sneddon tells us that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS developer images are now available for OrangePi’s new RISC-V SBC. Joey expresses that this news “underscores Canonical’s on-going interest in the fledgling, open-source architecture” reminding us of DeepComputing’s release of Ubuntu-powered RISC-V tablet and laptops, and Ubuntu 25.04 being available for the RISC-V SBCs. Specs of the SBCs, details, and links for more are provided.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-24-04-orangepi-rv2-images

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 345 - Ilegalidades de Curto Alcance

“Voltámos da quadra pascal muito mais gordos, depois de enfardar toda a espécie de doçarias, ensopados e lançamentos de Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin, a.k.a.: Fradinho. A conversa andou à volta de rituais religiosos, como apanhar doenças com cuspo dos vizinhos, como construir emissores de Onda Média de trazer por casa, habilidades e jigajogas com leitores de livros electrónicos de tinta electrónica e ainda todas as novas funcionalidades do 25.04, terapias com Painel de Bem-Estar, perigosas expedições ao Berço e promessas de grande galhofa com jogos de bebidas, durante as eleições Legislativas…”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e345/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: May 29, 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

Ubuntu 25.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2026

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