Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 893

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 893 for the week of May 18 - 24, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Sunsetting Launchpad’s mailing lists
  • Installing chrony by default, to enable Network Time Security (NTS)
  • Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal 2025-05-19
  • LXD: Weekly news #395
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Nepal + GNOME Nepal, UbuCon Asia 2025 going super strong!
  • Korean LoCo Tea Party (May 17)
  • LoCo Events
  • Announcing 6.17 Kernel for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
  • Plasma 6.4 Beta1 available for testing
  • KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 with Major Bug Fix!
  • Ubuntu Cloud 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!

General Community News

Sunsetting Launchpad’s mailing lists

Jürgen Gmach first reminds us what Mailing Lists were for, and how they are managed (some on Launchpad, some not). We’re then warned that launchpad will stop providing mail list services as of the “end of October 2025”. Alternatives are briefly touched on, before giving a “Call for action” to those teams still using launchpad mailing lists.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sunsetting-launchpad-s-mailing-lists/61492

Installing chrony by default, to enable Network Time Security (NTS)

Lukas Märdian reminds us of the recent Ubuntu Engineering Sprint, and the planned move “with installing ‘chrony’ by default in all Ubuntu 25.10+ images, replacing systemd-timesyncd”. We’re given details of the change that will occur on the “week starting June 2”, and given clues how the change can be rolled back. Details on testing NTS in chrony on Ubuntu 25.04+ systems is also provided.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2025-May/006423.html

Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing

Robie Basak on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board makes a call for nominations in restaffing the Developer Membership Board. Details of the positions, requirements and more are given.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-May/001375.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143219 (+31)
  • Critical: 315 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73131 (+16)

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% (45898/227)
  • Ukrainian: 86.36% (47888/1464)
  • French: 85.03% (52564/6765)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/1277)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79204/5450)

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

Rocks Public Journal 2025-05-19

" What’s new? Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is now available in chisel-releases "

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2025-05-19/61308

LXD: Weekly news #395

This past week, LXD received several bug fixes, and LXD UI added a bulk delete feature for warnings. Additionally, for those that build LXD from source, the process is now a bit simpler, as liblxc is taken from the upstream Git repository instead of using globally installed package.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-395/61374

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 + GNOME Nepal, UbuCon Asia 2025 going super strong!

Aaditya Singh starts by telling us “Ubuntu Nepal + GNOME Nepal, UbuCon Asia 2025 going super strong !!”. We’re told of the May 18 UbuCon Asia 2025 meetup, provided a photo of the well attended meetup, and reminded the UbuCon Asia 2025 runs from August 30-31 in Kathmandu Nepal.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepal-gnome-nepal-ubucon-asia-2025-going-super-strong/61304

Korean LoCo Tea Party (May 17)

Youngbin Han tells us of a well attended tea party on May 17, 2025, where people shared their thoughts on the last UbuCon Korea. The focus was on suggestions for the upcoming UbuCon Korea in August. Thanks is given to all who attended, with us shown some photos.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/korean-loco-tea-party-may-17/59813/3

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

Announcing 6.17 Kernel for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka

Kleber Souza on behalf of the Canonical Kernel team announces Ubuntu 25.10 will ‘target’ the 6.17 Linux kernel. We’re reminded of the kernel policy, and given details for current Linux (6.17) release predictions. The Ubuntu 25.10 release schedule dates are provided, which highlights how close dates are, thus a reminder this ‘target’ is still “tentative”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-6-17-kernel-for-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka/61484

The Planet

Plasma 6.4 Beta1 available for testing

The Kubuntu team announce KDE Plasma 6.3.90 (Plasma 6.4 Beta1) is now available for testing via Beta PPA for users of Ubuntu 25.04, or those using the 25.10 development release. Along with more details, we’re reminded this is a beta release, thus it should be avoided on production environments. Rather extensive instructions are provided, as well as how to contact the team if more clarifications are needed.

https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-6-4-beta1-available-for-testing/

KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 with Major Bug Fix!

Scarlett Moore tells us of a major bugfix included in the KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 that was mainly impacting non-KDE users using KDE apps. We’re told the reason why many of these bug reports never made it to Scarlett’s eyes, thus users who gave up on KDE apps packaged as snap packages are asked to re-try them so as to discover the fixes. Scarlett also provides us with good news regarding her surgery, before touching on finances and future maintenance.

https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-application-snaps-25-04-1-with-major-bug-fixlife-good-news-finally/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Debian’s APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu

Michael Larabel writes about the Apt 3.1 release, which is now the default for Ubuntu Linux. Brief mention is made of the new “apt why” and “apt why-not” sub-commands too.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3.1-Released

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Game Recordings and Remote Play on Linux

Marius Nestor updates us on the latest Steam Client which “improves game recording and remote play” when “capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs”. Marius talks through some updated features in the release, provides a link to the release notes, as well as providing some clues on updating to this release.

https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-game-recordings-and-remote-play-on-linux

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Future Driver Plans

Michael Larabel updates us to NVIDIA’s current Wayland Limitations and their future driver plans. Michael outlines what Nvidia released in their new post, and provides a link to source on the NVIDIA Developer Forum.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R575-Wayland-Plans

GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default

Michael Larabel writes about the code merged into GNOME’s Display Manger (GDM) which disables X11/X.Org session by default. We’re told this merge is inside the current GNOME 49 cycle, with Michael quoting the merge request reasoning. Details of this are discussed, along with details that X11/X.Org is not expected to be dropped from the code-base until GNOME 50.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GDM-Disable-X11-Default

GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS

Joey Sneddon expresses concern over the recent GNOME GDM changes relating to the dropping of X11/X.Org in GNOME 50, which is expected to be included with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. We’re given a quote by Ubuntu developer Jeremy Bicha that highlights a problem users may encounter if using multiple desktops. A brief summary of discussion on the issues is provided, and possible ways forward.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-dropping-x11-support-ubuntu-impact

Fwupd 2.0.10 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad

Marius Nestor tells us about the release of Fwupd 2.0.10 which adds support for new devices. Along with a link to the release notes on GitHub, we’re gives details of the improvements and the new devices that are supported.

https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-10-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-lenovo-legion-touchpad

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events

Michael Larabel informs us that the lininput input handling library used by X11 and Wayland is “preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system”. Michael gives us some expected details of the new system, and reminds us of the Rust-based WASM alternative via a quote from Peter Hutter as the motivation behind this change. We’re shown a sample script that swaps left & right mouse buttons, and told the new code should be merged in libinput 1.29.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-Lua-Plugin-System

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 348 - Inferência Estatística Turbinada

“No regresso desta semana semeamos teorias da conspiração sobre bibliotecários malvados com azia, atiramos uma orquestra ao chão, partimos telefones a alta altitude com mapas «off-line» e o Diogo volta a matar impiedosamente o pobre gorila Harambe, enquanto discutimos a validade (ou não) de termos assistentes de inferência estatística turbinada a meterem o bedelho no nosso uso diário do computador…mas fechados numa caixinha e amordaçados, para não darem com a língua nos dentes.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e348/

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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