Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 904

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 904 August 3 - 9, 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 904 for the week of August 3 - 9, 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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  • Call for testing: first set of 24.04.3 RCs ready!
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    • Rik Mills (rikmills); Ubuntu Core Developer
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  • LXD: Monthly news #406
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  • Ubuntu Project docs: Sorting things out
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  • What craft means for Canonical
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  • GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released
  • AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements
  • GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen
  • NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux
  • Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver
  • exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17
  • Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland
  • NetworkManager 1.54 Brings Support for Configuring Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding
  • Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack
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General Community News

Call for testing: first set of 24.04.3 RCs ready!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2025-August/006456.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: Monthly news #406

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/monthly-news-406/65661

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 Project docs: Sorting things out

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-sorting-things-out/65613/

The Planet

What craft means for Canonical

https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-craft-means-for-canonical

Other Community News

What Say You

Here we elicit your adventures, your trials and how you triumphed; your desktop, why it is your preference; have you made a bug report, tell the experience; coding or other development works worth the comment; tips - tricks and other neat things you have discovered … many other subjects too…

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-49-Beta

AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-AppArmor

GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-49-Beta

NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Beta-Linux-Driver

Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-24.35.30872.36

exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-exFAT

Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/chrome-140-wayland-auto-detection-linux

NetworkManager 1.54 Brings Support for Configuring Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding

https://9to5linux.com/networkmanager-1-54-brings-support-for-configuring-per-device-ipv4-forwarding

Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New

https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-2-open-source-graphics-stack-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

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, 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 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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