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.
Ubuntu Weekly News, work-in-progress

In this Issue

WORK IN PROGRESS

This is our next issue being built. If you'd like to be involved or have any suggestions, please get in contact with us at #ubuntu-news on libera.chat (https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest?#ubuntu-news), or email ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com

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What we are working
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    • Per Package Uploaders: Lena Voytek; Arif Ali
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  • LXD: Weekly news #400
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    • Foundations Team Updates - 2025-06-26
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  • 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
  • Event report: UbuCon EU + OpenSouthCode 2025 (Málaga, Spain)

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    • Revolutionizing Web Page Creation:
    • Ubuntu Core is now available on MediaTek’s Genio platform
    • Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD
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  • Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations
  • RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory “SVM” Support For Mesa 25.2
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General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: # (+/-#)
  • Critical: # (+/-#)
  • Unconfirmed: # (+/-#)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

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

Team leads are responsible to summarize
Otherwise will be demoted to the “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

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

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-XX-XX

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-08-27/47542/4

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

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!

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

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

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

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

The Planet

Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

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

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

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

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

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 27x - whatever the topic

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e272/

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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Archive

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Further News

As always you can find more Ubuntu news and announcements at:

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić - LXD
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) - Rocks
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at: Glossary (UWN)

Get Involved

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