Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 890

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 890 for the week of April 27 - May 3, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly News #393
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록 안내 [Registration Guide]
  • LoCo Events
  • Patch Pilot Hand-off 25.10
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 3 - Document with a little help from my friends
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142976 (+71)
  • Critical: 312 (-3)
  • Unconfirmed: 72900 (+30)

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% (45900/266)
  • Ukrainian: 86.36% (47888/1464)
  • French: 85.03% (52564/6624)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/1262)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79204/5449)

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 #393

The highlight of the past week is the improvement of volume metadata for backups, moving LXD’s Disaster Recovery framework another important step forward. Additionally, the documentation for network ACLs was significantly improved, and the support for all-projects across LXD entities was further expanded.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-393/60030

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

UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록 안내 [Registration Guide]

Youngbin Han posts (in Korean) about registration for the forthcoming UbuCon Korea 2025 event, which also honors the 20th anniversary of the community. Registration details and links are provided, including details of the coupon system used for early bird registrations.

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubucon-korea-2025/49982

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

Patch Pilot Hand-off 25.10

Dave Jones writes to ‘fellow Patch Pilots and Ubuntu community members’ in respect to opening the Patch Pilot program for the 25.10 cycle. Quick details are provided, including the link to the previous cycle’s thread, with this thread now open for 25.10 patch pilot posts.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/patch-pilot-hand-off-25-10/60037/1

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 3 - Document with a little help from my friends

Christian Ehrhardt reminisces on Ubuntu’s history of having a server guide to help users. From its starts, the few community contributors, to more modern times and use of Ubuntu Discourse in the process is mentioned. Next is the Canonical Open Documentation Academy, which the Ubuntu Server Guide has now joined. We’re given details and invited to help contribute to this documentation.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-3-document-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/60012/

Other Community News

Xubuntu: This lightning-fast Linux distro will hook you the moment you try it

Jack Wallen gives us a review of Xubuntu 25.04 telling us at the outset that it’s “built for speed and simplicity, no matter your experience level”. We’re given a quick reminder that people do like lightweight, what Xfce is and how it matches that need, before moving to the Xubuntu details. We’re told Xubuntu is “classic”, shown a screenshot, reminded its highly configurable, and warned if we try it, we might find ourselves switching to it.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-lightning-fast-linux-distro-will-hook-you-the-moment-you-try-it/

UFC Flutter Desktop Jam

This post tells us of a Flutter Desktop Application Jam, giving details: what this is, the rules (which include date of July 27, 2025), where to go if we have questions, submissions, how judging is done, and more. Submissions open up on July 19, with this Jam a project of the Ubuntu Flutter Community.

https://itch.io/jam/ufc-flutter-desktop-jam

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support

Michael Larabel writes about the release of AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1, the official open-source AMD Vulkan driver. We’re told it “brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, other new features”. We are given specifics, and a link to GitHub if we want more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2025.Q2.1-Released

Ubuntu finally Made NVIDIA 570 for 24.04 | 22.04 Desktop

Ji m tells us Ubuntu has backported the latest NVIDIA 570 drivers for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10 installs. We’re briefly told of some of the benefits found in this driver, some [game] apps that will be improved, before we’re told how to install this driver.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/05/ubuntu-finally-made-nvidia-570-for-24-04-22-04-desktop/

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Opens For Development

Michael Larabel informs us Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” is open for development. With a link to Utkarsh Gupta’s announcement, Michael comments that Ubuntu 25.10 should be a ‘busy’ and ‘notable’ cycle, and gives some details of what to expect. Michael ends that he’ll keep us informed as different features land.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Development-Start

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 346 - Tenebrosa Conspiração nas Trevas

“O Miguel abriu um terminal e escreveu sudo do-release-upgrade às 11h30 do dia 29 de Abril. E o país ficou às escuras. Coincidência? Revelamos todos os detalhes de uma investigação bombástica que revelará os segredos chocantes de uma sociedade secreta de GNU-Linux que governa o mundo e que envolve pessoas tão famosas como o Diogo, a Soficious, HatRat e o PewDiePie - uma sociedade que opera nas trevas (literalmente) e que é tão poderosa que obrigou o governo Federal Alemão a usar formatos abertos! Para além disso, ainda falámos sobre as últimas novidades compartimentadas de Firefox 138 e os próximos eventos da agenda: Raspberry Pi Jam, Open Lab no LCD Porto, Encontros Ubuntu, Encontros nacionais do Community Day de Home Assistant e datas para a Wikicon Portugal.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e346/

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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