Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 892

bashing-om · May 12, 2025, 9:27pm

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 892 for the week of May 11 - `7, 2025.
Ubuntu Weekly News, work-in-progress

In this Issue

WORK IN PROGRESS

This is our next issue being built. If you'd like to be involved or have any suggestions, please get in contact with us at #ubuntu-news on libera.chat (https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest?#ubuntu-news), or email ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com

What we are working
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- build_by_default=False for i386 - https://blog.launchpad.net/general/build_by_defaultfalse-for-i386
- Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers - https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-thanks-dev-giving-back-to-open-source-developers
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To “Training Solo”
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
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- DISA releases Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 STIG with Chef
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General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open: # (+/-#)
Critical: # (+/-#)
Unconfirmed: # (+/-#)

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

Translations

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

Team leads are responsible to summarize
Otherwise will be demoted to the “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-XX-XX

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-08-27/47542/4

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

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:

Ubuntu Arizona LoCo: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/upcoming-events-for-azloco/38466
Ubuntu-pt LoCo: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/ubuntu-pt/132
Registered LoCo contacts: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/129

The Hub

The Planet

Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

build_by_default=False for i386 - https://blog.launchpad.net/general/build_by_defaultfalse-for-i386
Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers - https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-thanks-dev-giving-back-to-open-source-developers

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To “Training Solo”

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Microcode-Training-Solo

Branch Privilege Injection Vulnerability Disclosed For Intel CPUs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Branch-Privilege-Injection

Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Snapdragon-X1E

In Other News

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 27x - whatever the topic

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e272/

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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Further News

As always you can find more Ubuntu news and announcements at:

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

Krytarik Raido
Bashing-om
Chris Guiver
Wild Man
Din Mušić - LXD
Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) - Rocks
And many others

Glossary of Terms

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