Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 898

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 898 for the week of June 22 - 28, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #400
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Event report: UbuCon EU + OpenSouthCode 2025 (Málaga, Spain)
  • Un brindis por los 19 años de Ubuntu-VE
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 5 - Things to keep safe: Your circle of friends and your time!
  • Ubuntu Project docs update: making sense of the contributor story
  • Fwupdmgr offers KEK CA updates from 2011 to 2023
  • Open Source Summit from The Linux Foundation June 23-25 (Denver, Colorado USA)
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • 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 these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143088 (-64)
  • Critical: 311 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73100 (-62)

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% (45882/126)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47399/1394)
  • French: 85.04% (52539/6474)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67700/770)
  • Spanish: 77.65% (78487/4811)

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 #400

This past week, LXD received several bug fixes and improvements. Most notably, a new option has been introduced for VM filesystem disk devices to control the virtiofsd thread pool size, which can help improve I/O performance.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-400/63294

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-06-27

You can now enable rockcraft test when using the canonica/craft-actions/rockcraft-pack GitHub action. The .NET Runtime and ASP.NET chiseled images are now also available for ppc64le.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2025-06-27/63525

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

Event report: UbuCon EU + OpenSouthCode 2025 (Málaga, Spain)

Robert Krátký provides an Event report after attending OpenSouthCode 2025 and UbuCon EU in Málaga on June 20-21, 2025. Robert starts that it was held at an impressive venue (photos provided), before moving to Canonical’s doc team details. Robert made his presentation about the Open Documentation Academy; he covers a documentation workshop, and more. Robert mentions child care and what was available for kids, as well as some outside-of-work events.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-ubucon-eu-opensouthcode-2025-malaga-spain/63423

Un brindis por los 19 años de Ubuntu-VE

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola tells us (in Spanish and English) about the Ubuntu Venezuela community’s celebration of its 19th anniversary on June 13, 2025. We’re invited to a virtual event which will celebrate this on July 5, and given some details including a Telegram group to stay up to date.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/un-brindis-por-los-19-anos-de-ubuntu-ve/63543

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

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 5 - Things to keep safe: Your circle of friends and your time!

Christian Ehrhardt reminds us that Canonical provides a NTP-enabled NTP server backend that we can use, and of the aim of keeping us “secure by default” which is being achieved in stages. This post continues what has been provided before; reminding us of changes made in Ubuntu 25.04, what will occur with older releases in time, plus the current development Ubuntu Questing or 25.10 system. This post includes many links for those needing more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-5-things-to-keep-safe-your-circle-of-friends-and-your-time/63295/

Ubuntu Project docs update: making sense of the contributor story

Robert Krátký updates us on “a major reorg of the content structure for Ubuntu Project docs”. We’re told who provided informed (maintainer) discussions, that the Diátaxis framework is still being followed, but with new “contributor personas”. We are given details of the packaging guide PR queue work, archive admin, and other miscellaneous tasks too. The Community and Open Documentation Academy and ‘what’s next’ are also covered.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-update-making-sense-of-the-contributor-story/63308

Fwupdmgr offers KEK CA updates from 2011 to 2023

Corrado Venturini started this thread in the Support and Help area of Ubuntu Discourse, and asks what is KEK CA? why it’s needed and more. The thread is solved thanks to Oliver Grawert who answers the questions and alerts us to the reason being “MS KEK key certs from 2011 are expiring this month and need to be replaced by new ones”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/fwupdmgr-offers-kek-ca-updates-from-2011-to-2023/63421

Open Source Summit from The Linux Foundation June 23-25 (Denver, Colorado USA)

Heather Lemon provides us an Event Report for the Open Source Summit from the Linux Foundation in Denver June 23-25, 2025. Heather gives us some details of what she saw attending the “talks and their syllabuses” which includes links to more slides. The keynote, a Deep Dive into eBPF, Rex and more are covered in this extensive post.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/open-source-summit-from-the-linux-foundation-june-23-25-denver-colorado-usa/63534/

Canonical News

In the Press

How Questing Quokka (25.10) Ushers a New Era of Rust-Based Tools

George Whittaker, of the Linux Journal, writes that Ubuntu 25.10 “marks a decisive step towards modernizing the foundation of Ubuntu by integrating Rust”. George then moves to cover the significance of this change; serving as the lead in the Linux distributions. He notes that Ubuntu 25.10 “is a starting point, not the destination”, giving a few possibilities of what is to come.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-questing-quokka-2510-ushers-new-era-rust-based-tools

In the Blogosphere

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

Michael Larabel in this post discusses Intel Graphics Security Mitigations, and how disabling them can “yield a 20% performance boost”. We’re told “Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance”. We’re told this work will likely be seen in Ubuntu 25.10, given a quote (and link) to a Launchpad bug report which forms part of the basis for this post, plus a PPA where Ubuntu developers are testing their Compute Runtime builds with NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS enabled.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Disable-Intel-Gfx-Security-20p

RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory “SVM” Support For Mesa 25.2

Michael Larabel writes about Shared Virtual Memory improvements we should see in the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter. A link to a merge request made back in May 2025 is included, and other work done since then with details are provided for what will make it into this release.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-SVM-Merged

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

Michael Larabel talks about the reported revenue of the company behind Ubuntu, ie. Canonical. With reference to reported revenue back in 2014 for comparison, we’re given ‘headcount’ and revenue ($USD) from the 2024 annual report. Snippets from the report also give us a quick comparison with the 2023 year (P&L etc), and should we want more, we’re given a link to the full report filed at UK Companies House.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-2024-Annual-Report

Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

Michael Larabel reminds us of changes published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.202, that have now merged into Mesa 25.2. We’re given details, told of engineers who’ve been working on this, plus links should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Merges-AV1-Encode

Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support

Michael Larabel informs us of the Mir 2.21 release, giving us details of the improvements which include Cursor Scaling, mousekeys support and more. A link to GitHub is provided too.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.21-Released

NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of “NOVA” Open-Source Rust GPU Driver

Michael Larabel tells us that the NOVA-Core driver has a new co-maintainer. We’re told Red Hat’s Danilo Krummrich is joined by NVIDIA engineer Alexandre Courbot. We’re told Courbot has been posting code for awhile now, having now “stepped up” to co-maintain the Rust based driver.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co-Maintainer

Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 is Available to Download

Ji m tells us the Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 is available for download and testing. We’re reminded of the monthly snapshots for Quality Assurance testing purposes, given the snapshot release dates, some specs we’ll see in Ubuntu 25.10, links and more (including for Ubuntu Desktop flavors).

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-snapshot-2-is-available-to-download/

Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

Michael Larabel writes that Canonical’s Multipass and lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS is now “fully open-source”. We’re given some history of the VM manager, and told it “relies on KVM for virtualization on Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows, and QEMU under macOS”. Whilst prior versions relied on closed-source code in Windows and macOS, that code is now all GPLv3 open-source in Multipass 1.16 RC. A link to GitHub is provided if we want to view the “proprietary bits” that have been “opened up”.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Multipass-Fully-Open-Source

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 353 - Momento Flector a Meio Vão

“Esta semana passamos os olhos pelas novidades do Firefox 140 e como podemos libertar a nossa memória das abas e enfiar novos motores de busca; revemos o fim da vida para o Oracle Oriole, calculamos quando cairá a prateleira do Miguel e ainda visitamos a ausência de explicações sobre Flutter no novo portal de desenvolvedores de Ubuntu e adição de Wayland por omissão; estamos ansiosos por meter as mãos num novo caixote do lixo, fazemos penitência sobre «fake news» da Dinamarca, revemos os eventos na agenda e ainda dissemos muitíssimo bem da Google, da qual só podemos esperar coisas boas, circulem cidadãos, não há nada para ver!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e353/

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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Rocks Public Journal; 2025-06-27

You can now enable rockcraft test when using the canonica/craft-actions/rockcraft-pack GitHub action.
The .NET Runtime and ASP.NET chiseled images are now also available for ppc64le

Rocks Public Journal 2025-06-27

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Thanks @cjdc / Cristovao

I’ve added it, any issues please let us know (PM or here on thread).

ps: You should be able to edit UWN898 now too, wiki step was missed sorry.

Chris g.