Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 906

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UWN Issue 906 August 17-23 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 906 for the week of August 17 - 23, 2025.

In this Issue

  • SRU and Governance docs → Ubuntu Project docs
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-08-22
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • FOSS for All Conference 2025
  • UbuCon Africa x DjangoCon Africa 2025: A Celebration of Community and Open Source
  • Pre-UbuConLA 2025: Virtual Talks and Workshops Leading Up to Our Main Event
  • LoCo Events
  • [winning works] Questing Quokka Wallpaper Competition
  • Ubuntu Project docs: Piloting ‘article series’
  • [Spec] stubble: A secure-boot friendly device-tree loading EFI stub
  • Ubuntu at DevConf.US - Boston, USA, September 19th - 20th
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

SRU and Governance docs → Ubuntu Project docs

Robert Krátký outlines a proposal, initially discussed elsewhere. Robert starts by reminding readers of the consolidation of all Ubuntu project docs in the one place; here he discusses SRU and Governance docs in regards to that one location goal. Control over these docs is covered, as well as other potential complications, and possible mitigations required. Robert asks for reactions to this, and reports that if there is no opposition to this plan he’ll handle the migration.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2025-August/043423.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143392 (+14)
  • Critical: 319 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73252 (+45)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: BugSquad - Ubuntu Wiki

Translations

  • German: 86.93% (45899/136)
  • 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: Support and Help - Ubuntu Community Hub

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Meeting Reports

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-08-22

The chisel-releases CI is now faster and disallows the removal of existing slice definitions within a Chisel release. The Ruby3.3 chiseled rock is out! :gem: Finally, checkout out this new LinkedIn post about Chisel!

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and farther dates please visit: Ubuntu Fridge | Calendars | Ubuntu Community Hub

LoCo News

FOSS for All Conference 2025

Youngbin Han firstly tell us what the FOSS for All Conference 2025 is, then, who’s it for and that they’re currently recruiting speakers. This is an event post giving details, links, and dates.

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/foss-for-all-conference-2025/50229

UbuCon Africa x DjangoCon Africa 2025: A Celebration of Community and Open Source

Bright Adams gives us an event report on the coming together of UbuCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa for the one event. We’re shown some photos, and given some details of Ubuntu’s role at the event, and more. Bright expresses gratitude to contributors, organizers, volunteers and sponsors, before finishing with a view ahead.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-africa-x-djangocon-africa-2025-a-celebration-of-community-and-open-source/66513/

Pre-UbuConLA 2025: Virtual Talks and Workshops Leading Up to Our Main Event

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola gives us event details of Pre-UbuConLA 2025. This post tells us what this is, when it is, and that it will feature three educators from Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, plus two computer engineering students from ESPOL (Ecuador). More details are to come next week.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/pre-ubuconla-2025-virtual-talks-and-workshops-leading-up-to-our-main-event/66678

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

[winning works] Questing Quokka Wallpaper Competition

In this post on the Voting thread for Questing Quokka Wallpaper Competition, Aaron Prisk tells us Dilip, Julian Tomasini, nkh, lyk lyk, and OrbiteLambda created ‘the winning works’, and gives us a link to the where we can see the winning entries, plus the official wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/vote-questing-quokka-wallpaper-competition/65939/11

Ubuntu Project docs: Piloting ‘article series’

Robert Krátký discusses progress over the last two weeks on the Ubuntu project docs. We’re told of the initial dump of Developer Membership Board (DMB) docs and guidance about the proposed migration, with mention of other smaller improvements too. Robert talks about how some docs are very ‘looong’ somewhat out of necessity, and here discusses ‘article series’ as a means to have this broken down into smaller chunks. This and more are covered in this somewhat detailed post. Robert also talks about created shortcuts for our Matrix channels support that make them easier to list/remember.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-piloting-article-series/66405/

[Spec] stubble: A secure-boot friendly device-tree loading EFI stub

Tobias Heider here writes a spec on the universal arm64 desktop ISO treatment for Secure Boot (EFI) hardware. This is a technical post (being a spec) which covers the current solution, dtbloader, systemd-stub (UKI) and more are covered. Readers may benefit from reading Tobias’ discourse post before reading the spec.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/spec-stubble-a-secure-boot-friendly-device-tree-loading-efi-stub/66278/

Ubuntu at DevConf.US - Boston, USA, September 19th - 20th

Jason C. Nucciarone tells us that Ubuntu will be staffing a booth at DevConf.US in Boston this year. We’re told Aaron Prisk will be there too, proffering some ‘cool demos’, and more. We’re given details, and told if we’re in the Boston/New England area and are interested in helping with the booth, please respond in this thread, or message them via Matrix.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-at-devconf-us-boston-usa-september-19th-20th/66731

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 RC0 comes with Ubuntu 24.04 support

Mels Dees of Techzine tells us of the first release candidate of SQL Server 2025. We’re given some details of features in this release, and told support “for Ubuntu 24.04 is currently limited to the Enterprise Evaluation Edition, which is available for 180 days”. The recommendation is still for SQL Server 2022 to be used with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/134009/microsoft-sql-server-2025-rc0-comes-with-ubuntu-24-04-support/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu’s New “Dangerous” Daily Builds – What Are They?

Joey Sneddon gives some ‘stats’ of ‘the Ubuntu Dangerous’ image in a rather humorous manner. We’re given some details of the new ‘dangerous builds’ though.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ubuntu-dangerous-daily-builds-snap-testing

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu OnAir: How to build your Wayland compositor with Mir - Part 1

“The first in a series of videos detailing how to use the Mir libraries to build your own compositor, or display server. In this video you’ll see how to: - install the Mir libraries - set up your developer environment - build a basic compositor …”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJXcx5a_jJA

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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