Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 899

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 999 for the week of June 29 - July 5, 2025.
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In this Issue

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What we are working
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  • Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches End of Life on 10th July 2025
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  • LXD: Weekly news #401

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    • +1 Maintenance reports
    • Foundations Team Updates - 2025-07-03
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  • Ubuntu Nepal : UbuCon Asia 2025 Meetup
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  • Introducing Debcrafters
  • Ubucon Latin America 2025, Call for papers
  • Call for Testing: Multipass 1.16.0 Release Candidate
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  • How to get a job at Canonical
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  • Lubuntu Council Members 2025
  • 5 Reasons Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop
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  • Listening to contributors (code, documentation, translation, testing, etc.): participate in a feedback session
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    • Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21
    • Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK
    • Spring support available on Ubuntu
    • Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy
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  • Critical Linux “sudo” flaw allows any user to take over the system
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  • Ubuntu Raises its RISC-V Profile Requirements
  • Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default
  • GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49
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  • Podcast:
  • Ubuntu Portugal:E354 - EmĂ­l.IA
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General Community News

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches End of Life on 10th July 2025

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team reminds us that Ubuntu 24.10, released on October 10, 2024, and thus reaches its End of Life on July 10, 2025. We’re told what this means, and given the link giving details on how to upgrade any remaining Ubuntu 24.10 system to Ubuntu 25.04 in the days remaining.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-June/000313.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

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 #401

The highlight of the past week in LXD is added support for using a client secret in the OIDC authorization code flow. Additionally, LXD received a series of bug fixes addressing issues with instance migration and copying.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-401/63668

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

Ubuntu Nepal : UbuCon Asia 2025 Meetup

Aaditya Singh tells us of a productive meeting on June 28, 2025 working on UbuCon Asia 2025. We’ve shown photos of the UbuCon Asia 2025 team which is a colloboration by Ubuntu Nepal, GNOME Nepal and the UbuCon Asia committee.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepal-ubucon-asia-2025-meetup/63640

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

Introducing Debcrafters

Jon Seager introduces the Debcrafters team, which is “dedicated to the maintenance of the Ubuntu Archive”. We’re told the primary goal is the health of the Ubuntu Archive, but its constructed so contributors of other distributions can also join the team (including possibility of payment). The post goes into details of mission, tools and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-debcrafters/63674

Ubucon Latin America 2025, Call for papers

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola makes a “Call for Papers” for UbuCon Latin America 2025 which is on October 16-17 in Cuenca, Ecuador. Some details and a link for submissions is provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-latin-america-2025-call-for-papers/63741

Listening to contributors (code, documentation, translation, testing, etc.): participate in a feedback session

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/listening-to-contributors-code-documentation-translation-testing-etc-participate-in-a-feedback-session/63837

Call for Testing: Multipass 1.16.0 Release Candidate

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-multipass-1-16-0-release-candidate/63883

The Planet

How to get a job at Canonical

https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-get-a-job-at-canonical

Other Community News

Lubuntu Council Members 2025

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lubuntu-council-elections-2025/62174/5

5 Reasons Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop

https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-xfce-is-my-favorite-linux-desktop/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Critical Linux “sudo” flaw allows any user to take over the system

https://cybernews.com/security/critical-linux-sudo-flaw-discovered/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Raises its RISC-V Profile Requirements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-raises-its-risc-v-profile-requirements

Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds

https://9to5linux.com/steam-client-now-enables-proton-by-default-for-games-without-native-linux-builds

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers-Approved-49

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 354 - EmĂ­l.IA

“NĂŁo tivemos tempo de gravar esta semana, mas
este Ă© o episĂłdio que VAI REVOLUCIONAR A INDÚSTRIA DOS PAPAGAIOS ESTOCÁSTICOS! Uma revelação em primeira mĂŁo e em exclusivo explosivo.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e354/

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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

Glossary of Terms

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