Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 905

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UWN Issue 905 August 10-16 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 905 for the week of August 10 - 16, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Questing (to be 25.10) now in Feature Freeze
  • Ubuntu Release Management Newsletter - August 2025
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-08-12
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • DjangoCon Africa 2025 kicks off
  • LoCo Events
  • [update] Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases
  • Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 to be an Unstable Kernel at release
  • EuroPython 2025: “I came for the language, but stayed for the community”
  • Welcome to the CODA Workshop at DjangoCon Africa
  • [Video] UbuCon Korea 2025 Interview with Sponsors
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Questing (to be 25.10) now in Feature Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team reports that Ubuntu Questing (what will be Ubuntu 25.10 on release) is now in Feature Freeze. We’re given details of what this means, a link to the Feature Freeze Exception process if required, and wished “happy bug squashing”.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-August/001378.html

Ubuntu Release Management Newsletter - August 2025

Tim Andersson posts the first of the Ubuntu Release Management team newsletters, this one for August 2025. We’re told these will come out monthly, and include details of recent events such as the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, end of life of Ubuntu 24.10, and so much more. We’re told of work on off-site backups of all cdimages, plus new ‘dangerous’ desktop images, and more. Congratulations is given to Tech Lead Utkarsh Gupta for his work. If we need to get in touch with Ubuntu Release Management team members (Utkarsh Gupta, Florent ‘Skia’ Jacquet and Tim Andersson) we can use the linked Matrix channel.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-release-management-newsletter-august-2025/66242/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143278 (+4)
  • Critical: 318 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73207 (-29)

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% (45899/133)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1406)
  • French: 85.03% (52552/6429)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67608/1115)
  • Spanish: 77.80% (77963/6212)

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

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-08-12

The criu dependencies have been sliced in chisel-releases, and the coreutils package has been further sliced into individual binary slices.

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

DjangoCon Africa 2025 kicks off

Bright Adams gives us an event report for day one of DjangoCon Africa 2025. The report contains multiple photos, and we’re told the “vibe is pure magic”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/djangocon-africa-2025-kicks-off/65954/

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

[update] Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases

Brett Grandbois has updated the Ubuntu Kernel team documentation that outlines procedures. This is an older doc which is worth a read if you’re interested, otherwise to find what’s new you can use the Ubuntu Discourse’s history feature to jump down to the newer “Late Release”. You’ll note the highlights and quickly see the differences, both additions (green) and removals (red) in this policy document.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kernel-version-selection-for-ubuntu-releases/47007/

Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 to be an Unstable Kernel at release

Brett Grandbois updates us on the status of the Linux kernel we’ll find in Ubuntu 25.10 when released. We’re given dates, and shown why its possible a final RC (Release Candidate) kernel may be shipped. We’re reminded of recent policy changes reflected in the prior UWN listed item.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/linux-6-17-in-ubuntu-25-10-to-be-an-unstable-kernel-at-release/65912

EuroPython 2025: “I came for the language, but stayed for the community”

JĂŒrgen Gmach gives us an event report on attending EuroPython 2025 in Prague, where he presented a talk. We’re shown some photos, given details of JĂŒrgen’s experience there highlighting certain people and sessions. The organizers, sponsors, Canonical, and the community team are thanked.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/europython-2025-i-came-for-the-language-but-stayed-for-the-community/65986

Welcome to the CODA Workshop at DjangoCon Africa

Geoffrey Nyaga Kinyua invites us to an upcoming CODA Workshop at DjangoCon Africa. We’re given details of the workshop, told who’s it for, preparations required by participants, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/welcome-to-the-coda-workshop-at-djangocon-africa/66059/

[Video] UbuCon Korea 2025 Interview with Sponsors

Youngbin Han tells us the Korean LoCo “successfully organized UbuCon Korea 2025 with 194 registration and 163 check-ins”. We’re briefly given some details of the event, the sponsors are thanked, with this mostly about feedback on that sponsorship. A link to a (Youtube) video is provided of this, with us warned most of it is in Korean.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/video-ubucon-korea-2025-interview-with-sponsors/66069

Other Community News

Dark mode improvements in Plasma

Vlad Zahorodnii has written this blog telling us about dark mode improvements made in the KDE Plasma desktop. We’re told of a recent Plasma Sprint, which led to many of the improvements that are outlined. We’re told how we can create day/night wallpapers for ourselves.

https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2025/08/11/dark-mode-improvements-in-plasma/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Developing New “Dangerous” Desktop Images Concept

Michael Larabel tells us about the Ubuntu Release Management team “pursuing a new concept called ‘Dangerous’ Desktop Images”. We’re told what this will be, which includes quotes from Tim Andersson and the Ubuntu Release Management Newsletter for August 2025.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Dangerous-Desktop

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 360 - Tristes TĂłpicos

“O episĂłdio de hoje Ă© abreviado, porque estĂĄ um calor de ananases dos trĂłpicos; demos uma vista de olhos sobre tĂłpicos assim-assim, outros meio tristes sobre vistas curtas, fizemos vista grossa sobre temas entrĂłpicos e hĂĄ mudanças Ă  vista.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e360/

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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