Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 899

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 899 for the week of June 29 - July 5, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches End of Life on 10th July 2025
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #401
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Nepal : UbuCon Asia 2025 Meetup
  • LoCo Events
  • Introducing Debcrafters
  • Ubucon Latin America 2025, Call for papers
  • Listening to contributors (code, documentation, translation, testing, etc.): participate in a feedback session
  • Call for Testing: Multipass 1.16.0 Release Candidate
  • How to get a job at Canonical
  • Other Community News
  • 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

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, was 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

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143032 (-56)
  • Critical: 314 (+3)
  • Unconfirmed: 73112 (+12)

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% (45883/138)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47397/1427)
  • French: 85.04% (52540/6478)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67701/1142)
  • Spanish: 77.65% (78488/5997)

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 #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

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 collaboration by Ubuntu Nepal, GNOME Nepal and the UbuCon Asia committee, expanding Ubuntu exposure.

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 it’s 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 are 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

Sebastian Trzcinski-ClĂ©ment tells us he’d like to “listen to contributors” and provides a form to be filled in with some details, so you can be considered for some ‘feedback sessions’. We’re told these sessions are for Sebastian, other engineers, and Canonical product managers so they can “listen” and gather “valuable feedback”.

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

Ricardo Abreu tells us Multipass 1.16.0 is nearing release, and asks us to help test the release candidate. Details on testing are provided. We are asked to report any issues we experience.

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

The Planet

How to get a job at Canonical

Daniele Procida tells us it can be helpful to have some “insider guidance” if we’re “interested in applying for a role at Canonical”, with this post giving us that guidance. This detailed post gives us some details about Canonical’s size, annual hire rates plus numbers of applicants. The post is telling us how to do research for a job, make useful applications and more.

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

Other Community News

Lubuntu Council Members 2025

Merlijn Sebrechts makes a final post on an existing Lubuntu Council Elections 2025 thread telling us the new members in the Lubuntu Council are Roberalz, Aaron Rainbolt, and Thomas Ward.

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

5 Reasons Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop

David Delony tells us why Xfce is his favorite desktop environment. Reasons he covers includes; Xfce using a standard desktop model, it runs on anything - having low requirements, allows much tweaking, and stays out of the way.

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

Canonical News

In the Press

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

Ernestas Naprys alerts us to an “easy-to-exploit sudo flaw that allows unauthorized users to run commands as root”. We’re told of two critical flaws discovered by Stratascale Cyber Research Unit (CRU), and given details including how it can be misused.

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

This ‘sudo’ exploit impacted Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04. Please apply all updates to get the flaw patched; package versions with the fix are provided in Ubuntu Security notices.

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Raises its RISC-V Profile Requirements

Joey Sneddon writes that “Canonical is bullish in promoting Ubuntu for RISC-V devices”, but warns with a new LTS “release looming” they may be “rethinking the kind of RISC-V hardware” that will be supported “going forward”. Joey makes note of a bug report that highlights many devices supported by 25.04 may not be able to use Ubuntu 25.10. We’re told Ubuntu 25.10 will ‘bump’ the baseline RISC-V profile (RVA) to RVA23 where it was RVA20 for Ubuntu 25.04. Joey provides details, and mentions Ubuntu 24.04 LTS still has long-term support available.

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

Marius Nestor tells us about the new Steam Client update released by Valve. We’re told one major improvement is “Proton by default for games that don’t have a native Linux build”. Other citations are improved installation speed, a new In-Game Overlay Performance monitor, and more. A link to the release notes is included.

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

Michael Larabel informs us that the GNOME project have approved Papers replacing Evince. We’re given some quotes about this change, a screenshot, and links should we need more.

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

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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