Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 894

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 894 for the week of May 25 - 31, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) began on May 29, 2025
  • Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life (EOL)
  • Bringing together 20 years of documentation
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #396
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-05-30
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Successful Training Session by Ubuntu Nepal in Collaboration with GNOME Nepal
  • Web Frontend deployment with Ubuntu Workshop @ Pohang
  • LoCo Events
  • LXD 6.4 has been released
  • Dependency merging in APT 3.1.0ubuntu2
  • Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
  • Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is coming to your circle of friends, from London
  • The 2025 Frankfurt Engineering Sprint: What did you miss?
  • Apport local information disclosure vulnerability fixes available
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud 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

Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) began on May 29, 2025

Ural Tunaboyu on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team reminds us that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now in Extended Security Maintenance, and isnā€™t supported outside of ESM. This is a follow up notice from prior warning notices, with links for those who need to release-upgrade to 22.04 (or 24.04), or wish to learn more about ESM options.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-May/000312.html

Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life (EOL)

The Ubuntu Studio team warns users that the Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS release is now End of Life (EOL). Weā€™re told what this means, with a reminder that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS base packages will still get updates, but support has now ended.

https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/05/ubuntu-studio-22-04-lts-has-reached-end-of-life-eol/

Editorial note: All Ubuntu 22.04 LTS flavors are EOL.

Bringing together 20 years of documentation

Sally Makin reminds us of announced plans to ā€œrevitalize the Ubuntu Project documentationā€ which includes the various places where documentation can currently be found. Weā€™re given details of the work progressing ā€œover the next 6 monthsā€ which should see all that documentation in ā€œa single placeā€. Weā€™re given details on the Ubuntu Project docs, the two guiding technical authors (Robert KrĆ”tkĆ½ and Sally Makin), how to get involved with this project, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/bringing-together-20-years-of-documentation/61780/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143415 (+196)
  • Critical: 312 (-3)
  • Unconfirmed: 73281 (-150)

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% (45892/127)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47399/1417)
  • French: 85.03% (52564/6632)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/789)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79203/4762)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

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Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #396

This past week, LXD received several bug fixes and a quality-of-life feature that optionally waits for networks and storage pools to be ready, in addition to LXD being ready to process requests. Additionally, LXD UI received support for creating and managing cephobject storage pools.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-396/61676

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-05-30

Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is now available in chisel-releases. At the same time, Ubuntu 20.04 also reached its End of Standard Support, so the corresponding base and derivative images will not longer get published to Docker Hub and ECR.

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

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

Successful Training Session by Ubuntu Nepal in Collaboration with GNOME Nepal

Aaditya Singh writes about the recent session titled ā€œš—Ÿš—¶š—»š˜‚š˜… š—Øš—»š—¹š—¼š—°š—øš—²š—±: š—›š—®š—»š—±š˜€-š—¢š—» š˜„š—¶š˜š—µ š—¢š—½š—²š—» š—¦š—¼š˜‚š—暝—°š—² & š—¦š—²š—暝˜ƒš—²š—æ š—¦š—øš—¶š—¹š—¹š˜€ā€ run jointly by Ubuntu Nepal and GNOME Nepal. Weā€™re given details of the session, with thanks given to the Advanced College of Engineering and Management, Research and Innovation Unit where the session was held, and in particular thanks to Upendra Prasad Neupane. Photos are included.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/successful-training-session-by-ubuntu-nepal-in-collaboration-with-gnome-nepal/61750

Web Frontend deployment with Ubuntu Workshop @ Pohang

Youngbin Han gives us details of a Web frontend deployment workshop which will run on June 7, 2025 at Handong University in Pohang. Details, including how to register, are included.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/web-frontend-deployment-with-ubuntu-workshop-pohang/61759

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:

LXD 6.4 has been released

Thomas Parrott on behalf of the LXD team announces the release of LXD 6.4 . Weā€™re walked though various features and improvements, which includes a ā€˜new snap trackā€™ with details on what this means, and how to manage our install(s). Changes and support for features like ā€œā€“all-projectsā€ are covered, and much much more. This post includes links to the complete changelog, and how to download for Linux, MacOS & Windows users.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lxd-6-4-has-been-released/61433/

Dependency merging in APT 3.1.0ubuntu2

Julian Andres Klode updates us on new ā€œinvented dependency merging in APTā€ which existed in questing-proposed when Julian published this note. Weā€™re given details, which currently will only impact Ubuntu questing (25.10) users, with this post additionally warning users and giving clues should they experience ā€œunexpected side-effectsā€ in this new apt update routine. Julian welcomes any ā€˜thoughts and ideasā€™ on improving this, with a further reply added that it was ā€œchanged to only merge dependencies on the same packageā€.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/dependency-merging-in-apt-3-1-0ubuntu2/61816

Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation

Jon Seager reminds us of Ubuntuā€™s ā€œpredictable, six-month cadenceā€ for releases, and how other newer projects have some ā€œdesirable propertiesā€. Weā€™re told Jon is going to ā€œbuild a release process that takes advantage of modern release engineering practicesā€ over the coming months; which should continue current stability, introduce and more automated testing. Weā€™re told of ā€˜monthly snapshotā€™ releases, with a list of creation dates for a remainder of the ā€˜questingā€™ (25.10) schedule. This long post includes much detail, including the manual processes performed by the existing Ubuntu Release team, and automation which will largely run the monthly snapshots. Weā€™re reminded these are not supported products (being snapshots of the the development release) and more.

Editorial note: The first Questing Snapshot (1) was released days ago, and exists on the Ubuntu ISO QA tracker.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/supercharging-ubuntu-releases-monthly-snapshots-automation/61876/

The Planet

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is coming to your circle of friends, from London

Mauro Gaspari tells us about the upcoming Ubuntu Summit 2025. Weā€™re told of a new naming scheme that times with Ubuntuā€™s releases, meaning two events from 2026 on. The Ubuntu 25.10 Summit will be in London, in the given details we are told that itā€™ll run October 23-24, 2025, and to ā€˜stay tunedā€™ for more.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-summit-25-10-is-coming-to-your-circle-of-friends-from-london

The 2025 Frankfurt Engineering Sprint: What did you miss?

Nkeiruka Whenu tells us ā€˜what we missedā€™ from Canonicalā€™s Frankfurt Engineering Sprint held May 11-18, 2025. Weā€™re talked through much of what occurred as Nkeiruka saw it, before she briefly mentions some personal travel she did whilst overseas, in this ā€˜recap of a remote Software Engineer in Techā€™.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-2025-frankfurt-engineering-sprint-what-did-you-miss

Apport local information disclosure vulnerability fixes available

Octavio Galland writes about Qualysā€™ discovery of CVE-2025-5054 that impacts Ubuntu Core, and CVE-2025-4598 which affects other non-Ubuntu systems. Weā€™re given details of the vulnerabilities, told how the exploit works, given a list of impacted Ubuntu releases, told how to check if weā€™re impacted and how to upgrade our systems. Links for more are provided.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/apport-local-information-disclosure-vulnerability-fixes-available

Other Community News

Ubuntu Budgie 25.04: One of the Best Desktops on the Market

Jack Wallen gives a review of Ubuntu Budgie 25.04. Weā€™re told heā€™s a user of the Budgie Desktop by choice, and that the release is ā€œoutstandingā€. Jack outlines how he reviewed the system, gives us his findings including some screenshots. He also mentions installing the Ollama AI CLI tool to see how itā€™d perform with a limited resource VM, it didnā€™t run well until he gave it more resources, but then weā€™re told on Ubuntu Budgie it outshone Ubuntu or Fedora.

https://thenewstack.io/ubuntu-budgie-25-04-one-of-the-best-desktops-on-the-market/

Ubuntu Cloud News

In the Blogosphere

Xfceā€™s xfwm4 Merges Wayland Compositor Code Based On wlroots

Michael Larabel reports on the merging of Xfceā€™s Xfwm4 Wayland Compositor component using wlroots code. This code merge will finally do away with Xfce needing alternative Wayland compositors. In the details provided here, we are provided links to the merge and the Xfce Wayland roadmap should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-xfwm4-Merges-Wayland-Code

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates

Michael Larabel writes about the release of NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver. Weā€™re given a brief history of the R757 release branch, before moving to two fixes noted in the stable release of today. Details are provided, as well as a link to download the driver from NVIDIA.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-575.57.08-Linux

GNOME 48.2 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

Marius Nestor reports on the release of GNOME 48.2 which includes various improvements and bug fixes. Weā€™re told of two new wallpapers ā€˜celebrating Pride monthā€™, and other things in the release, which includes fixes to some GNOME apps with details provided (Epiphany, Nautilus, Maps and more). A link to the official release announcement is also given.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-2-desktop-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMDā€™s Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Michael Larabel in reminding us how ā€œwell the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these daysā€ that there is little to report on. The recent release of Radeon Software for Linux 25.10.1 mentions that starting with 25.20: the ā€œAMD proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers will no longer be included in the releaseā€. Michael quotes the release notes that told us this, and provides the link, with a note that this ā€œnuggetā€ was noted by a Phoronix reader.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-Software-Drop-Prop-GL-VK

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 349 - Choques com Tinta

ā€œO episĆ³dio de hoje farĆ” correr muita tintaā€¦electrĆ³nica. Como escapar aos monopĆ³lios de Ā«e-readersĀ» de marcas abelhudas? Podemos fazer um em casa com fita-cola, cartĆ£o, cuspo e Alpine Linux? Estas e outras questƵes mais profundas sobre um mundo que morre e outro que estĆ” em dores de parto colam-se a todas as outras coisas a acontecerem na agenda: Firefox 139, terminais retro engraƧados, Teletexto num Terminal(!), Home Assistant Community Day, Wikicon Portugal, Ubucon Europe, Ubuntu Summit, Festa do Software Livre, ECTL Portoā€¦Ć© um nunca acabar. E decidimos fazer uma autĆ³psia ao Pocket, mais uma vĆ­tima da Mozilla. Querem pacotes? Perguntem ao Dan!ā€

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e349/

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 20.04 [now EOSS] 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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