Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 896

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 896 for the week of June 8 - 14, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #398
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143181 (-79)
  • Critical: 313 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73148 (-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% (45882/121)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47399/1415)
  • French: 85.04% (52539/6509)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/775)
  • Spanish: 77.44% (79203/4776)

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 #398

This past week, LXD received several bug fixes, including cloud-init configuration parsing improvements where cloud-init headers were accidentally stripped, and fixes for various edge cases that could cause unexpected errors.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-398/62488

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 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:

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On Xorg

Michael Larabel reports that Canonical have announced they’re “aligning with upstream” and thus dropping support for Xorg/X11 with the GNOME 49 release in Ubuntu 25.10. Michael quotes Jean Baptiste Lallement on Ubuntu Discourse, and provides a link too.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-No-GNOME-X.Org

Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10th – Upgrade Soon

Joey Sneddon alerts users of Ubuntu 24.10 that its approaching its End of Life (EOL) rather soon. Joey reminds us most users release-upgrade to the next release rather soon after its release, alas this time the upgrade path was closed for some time, though all issues have been resolved. Joey tells users to expect one more kernel upgrade for the Ubuntu 24.10 release.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-eol-july-2025

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Adds Power Warnings for EU Compliance

Joey Sneddon warns users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that they’ll soon receive a “short notice when tweaking power management features” as Ubuntu complies with recent EU ‘ecodesign’ regulations. We’re given details of this, told users of Ubuntu 25.04 already see these ‘disclaimers’, with this change being backported to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS which is preinstalled on OEM devices.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-04-power-management-warnings-eu-regulations

Ubuntu 25.10 Adds New Rust Library to Default Installs

Joey Sneddon tells us a “new Rust-based library is included by default in Ubuntu 25.10”. We’re given details of the ‘rust-hwlib’ package, and how it’s used by Ubuntu Pro software. Details are also given that its expected this will be backported to existing Ubuntu releases too, but the focus for now is on the development release.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-adds-new-rust-library-to-default-installs

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 351 - Beringela Nuclear

“Ainda a braços com livros electrĂłnicos e cachuchos espertos, o Miguel e o Diogo dĂŁo belas liçÔes sobre como Reduzir, Reutilizar e Reciclar que envolvem passarinhos e ovos estrelados; dizem mal do Windows 11 e como dizer adeus ao Windows 10 da melhor maneira - e ainda tĂȘm tempo, entre reuniĂ”es muito LoCo, para fazerem rebentar a Ășltima bomba da Canonical - que estĂĄ a dar prĂ©mios! - mas tambĂ©m envolve deixar X.org para trĂĄs na berma da estrada. Depois revimos as novidades sobre cimeiras variadas, datas novas para as agendas e o que podemos esperar das novas versĂ”es de Ubuntu Touch e Questing Cueca (Ă© assim que se diz, nĂŁo é ?).”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e351/

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

Security Updates

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 10, 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2026

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I would be nice if the " Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04" came with dates on each line item.
Thank you.

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worcester12345 -

I do appreciate your expressed interest.
That info is not available to be parsed with the tools we have at our disposal.
For reference of some of what we do parse:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2025-June/date.html

Cheers

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That is all well and good, but those don’t have dates, either.

I just figured it would be easy, since there must be a date it came out attached to something somewhere. I wonder if AI would help pull this info out of the ether and stitch it all together.

Again, the info exists. Computers excel at manipulating info. This is a very technical group of people.

Thanks anyhow.

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worcester12345 -

A good thought - however, until one comes along with the acumen to retool will not have a chance to happen. I can see too where it will be bandwidth intensive in addition to pull the dates. Environmentally Un-friendly ?

-save our poor servers too-

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If you’d like to take our scripts, propose an alternative, that would be welcome. We’ll be happy to review/consider it.

You can find our scripts via https://git.launchpad.net/uwn

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Well, you probably want to help integrating the Ubuntu OVAL data into the UWN tooling then 


you can use it with openscap from the archive 


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I would have no idea where to begin on that, but I’m willing to look.

That said, there are probably at least 5 people reading this right now, who could do this on a napkin.

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The page Git : Code : Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter should provide clues as to how to quickly download the code so you can see what we run.

ie. from that page is

git clone https://git.launchpad.net/uwn

You likely already know this, but you can view our docs on this site via Topics tagged docs