Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 897 for the week of June 15 - 21, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Developer Membership Board: process and membership changes
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore
  • Announcing the 10th Edition of UbuconLA: Cuenca, Ecuador
  • LoCo Events
  • Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • 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

Developer Membership Board: process and membership changes

Robie Basak makes the announcement that the DMB has moved to an appointment process. We’re told it was a consensus decision by the Technical Board, with seats being held now by Christian Ehrhardt, Julian Andres Klode, Lena Voytek, and Utkarsh Gupta. Thanks for service are given to Simon Chopin, Brian Murray, Simon Quigley and Thomas Ward who have stepped down. The DMB is one member short; qualifying individuals are encouraged to contact the Technical Board and follow the new process provided via link.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-June/001376.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143152 (-29)
  • Critical: 312 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73162 (+14)

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% (45882/132)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47399/1393)
  • French: 85.04% (52539/6474)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/762)
  • Spanish: 77.65% (78487/4810)

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/

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

What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore

Gabriel Aguiar Noury starts by telling us of the “first Ubuntu IoT Day in Southeast Asia” held in Singapore on May 27, 2025. We’re given some details of the nine presentations from ‘leading industry experts’, with three of them covered in some detail in this blog.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/highlights-iot-day-singapore

Announcing the 10th Edition of UbuconLA: Cuenca, Ecuador

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola (naudyvu) pronounces “the tenth edition of UbuconLA”. The event, working alongside the Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela communities, will take place on October 16–17, 2025, at the University of Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-the-10th-edition-of-ubuconla-cuenca-ecuador/63237

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 Planet

Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks

Eduardo Barretto alerts us to two vulnerabilities discovered by Qualys, namely CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019. We’re told how they can be misused by attackers in some detail; before moving to releases and the package versions to apply to get fixes (18.04 & later). We’re also told how we can check our systems to see if we’re impacted, and how to apply updates. A discussion on mitigation is provided; where applying fixes is the easy way, but an alternative from Qualys is also mentioned & discussed, before thanking Qualys for their “excellent reporting”.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/udisks-libblockdev-lpe-vulnerability-fixes-available

Other Community News

About Plasma’s X11 session

Nate Graham notes that X11 is in the news, so in this blog he gives us the KDE “Plasma teams plans for X11 support going forward”. We’re told the X11 session will continue to be maintained, though X11 will eventually be dropped, but no date or timeline on when currently exists. We’re told why X11 is being dropped, also noting that 73% of Plasma 6 users are using Wayland from logged telemetry data (60% for all Plasma users, including Plasma 5). But when the change will be effected is mostly up to all the “distros”.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

XOrg Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues

Michael Larabel tells us that XOrg Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 have been released which include a “batch of security” fixes. Michael gives us details of flaws detected by Security researchers Nils Emmerich and Julian Suleder of ERNW security firm. The CVEs are now fixed with these releases. Links to the xorg-announce message, quotes from ERNW security firm’s blog and a link to their blog are provided for further information

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.17

Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time

Joey Sneddon tells us “Ubuntu is changing the way time management is handled in its next release”. We’re told this will “bolster” security, and given some specifics of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) change to Chrony + Network Time Security (NTS) being implemented in Ubuntu 25.10 (questing). A link is provided that will tell users of Ubuntu 25.04 how they can switch to this now, but this change is expected to impact new installs only at this point, but users who release-upgrade from 25.04 will be able to switch themselves by a “command or two”.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-chrony-nts-default-25-10

Mesa’s Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images

Michael Larabel writes “Karol Herbst of Red Hat continues doing a great job improving this Rust-based OpenCL driver within Mesa” and tells us of the latest improvements. We’re given links to the merge request for handling sRGB images, and to Mesa documentation and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Rusticl-sRGB-Images

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 352 - Triunfo do Kejserpingvin

“Enquanto os pĂłlos derretem, falĂĄmos de MARP e criação de diapositivos com Markdown; como o Ubuntu recria o Tratado de Tordesilhas com satĂ©lites; a Dinamarca serĂĄ o primeiro passo para a Grande ExpansĂŁo do ImpĂ©rio do Pinguim Imperador; dicas sobre como evitar buracos traseiros nas telecomunicaçÔes, onde se enfiam toda a espĂ©cie de raias de espionagem; como a Apple fez um Linux aguado com 2% de sumo Ă  base de concentrado; o Oracle Oriole tropeça nos atacadores quando tenta actualizar-se; refrescĂĄmos a agenda de eventos para as prĂłximas semanas - e fomos ao Bazaar.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e352/

Destination Linux: episode 423 - Good-bye to X11 in Ubuntu (GNOME) 


“
 the week’s biggest stories: Ubuntu 25.10’s bold move to drop GNOME on X11 for Wayland, Apple’s new containerization feature that sneaks Linux into macOS, and Murena’s privacy-focused /e/ OS 3.0 update. They spar over kernel-level anti-cheat rootkits, debate Wayland’s readiness for prime time (NVIDIA woes and all)
”

https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-423/

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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No, it is not 60% for Plasma 5, but 60% for all Plasma users (including users from Plasma 5).

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leinad-ix - Thanks !

Noted the correction and edit made.

-all help is appreciated-

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Thanks @leinad-ix for correction.