Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 908

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UWN Issue 908 August 31 - September 6 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 908 for the week of August 31 - September 6, 2025.
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  • rust-coreutils transition landing in release pocket
  • Call for Nominations: Ubuntu Communications Council
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-09-05
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Lasting Memories from DjangoCon Africa and UbuCon Africa 2025
  • Ubuntu at DevConf.US - Boston, USA, September 19th-20th
  • Event Report from Youngbin Han - UbuCon Asia 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • The Immutable Linux Paradox
  • Sudo-rs is now default for Questing Quokka
  • Multipass 1.16.1 bug fix release
  • OpenJDK 19 removal from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  • Ubuntu Project docs: Another day at the officeā€¦
  • Desktop docs taking a new direction
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud 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

rust-coreutils transition landing in release pocket

Julian Andres Klode provides a ā€œheads upā€ to Ubuntu developers that the rust-coreutils transition is landing in the ā€˜release pocketā€™. Julian lists why this is ā€œparticularly interestingā€, gives a list of changes, and provides a link to the merge request.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2025-September/043437.html

Call for Nominations: Ubuntu Communications Council

Wild_Man, on behalf of the Ubuntu Communications Council, tells us that all seven seats will need to be filled, and asks for nominations. Weā€™re told the term is two years, given details of the requirements, told what the Communications Council does, and the responsibilities of Council members. The timelines for nomination and voting are provided, along with details if weā€™d like to apply.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-ubuntu-communications-council/66654

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143400 (+131)
  • Critical: 316 (-3)
  • Unconfirmed: 73342 (+75)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • Albanian: 88.77% (39420/0)
  • German: 86.93% (45899/143)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1366)
  • French: 85.18% (52037/6345)
  • Swedish: 80.75% (67607/755)

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 ā€œOther Meeting Reportsā€ section as bulleted

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-09-05

The Go rock is out! This is a rock for building Go applications, and includes Go as well as other build essentials.

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

Lasting Memories from DjangoCon Africa and UbuCon Africa 2025

Ngazetungue Muheue tells us about attending DjangoCon Africa and UbuCon Africa 2025. Weā€™re told the experience was ā€œunforgettableā€ and inspiring. Weā€™re shown some photos, told about meeting others attending at the Kilimanjaro Airport, the conference itself is summarized, the speakers are listed, Ubuntu participation at the conference is noted , and more. This is a detailed report, with us given ā€˜key takeawaysā€™, with some thank youā€™s given to the Python Tanzania team, DjangoCon Africa organizers, and all who attended.

https://kafkai.com/en/blog/djangocon-ubucon-africa-2025-open-source-community/

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

Jason C. Nucciarone has posted event details for Ubuntu at the DevConf.US in Boston. Jason gives the dates & times, tells us he is staffing the booth, and invites us along if weā€™re in the Boston/New England area, or are interested in helping out.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-at-devconf-us-boston-usa-september-19th-20th/66542

Event Report from Youngbin Han - UbuCon Asia 2025

Youngbin Han gives us an event report about attending UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Weā€™re given details, shown some photos, given some details of opening remarks and some talks, he includes people and teams at the event, and more. Youngbin thanks organizers including Canonical, Onlyoffice, Deepcomputing, and tells us the location for the 2026 event hasnā€™t been decided, but gives us a link to its ā€˜call for bidsā€™.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-from-youngbin-han-ubucon-asia-2025/66637

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

The Immutable Linux Paradox

Jon Seager writes about ā€˜Immutable Linux distributionsā€™, giving a brief history, before moving to Ubuntu Core. Weā€™re told what an immutable system is, its benefits and more, before moving to the paradox such systems include. A number of alternative approaches are discussed (ostree, bootc, nixos) before covering how Ubuntu Core does it. A final summary of the four alternative ways of achieving a system is finally given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-immutable-linux-paradox/66456

Sudo-rs is now default for Questing Quokka

Ravi Kant Sharma gives a "quick updateā€™ on progress of the sudo-rs change for Ubuntu 25.10. This post refers to prior articles for overview, with this post focusing on the technical change itself as implemented. Weā€™re told the ā€œjob is not doneā€ with details of what still needs to occur, testing, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sudo-rs-is-now-default-for-questing-quokka/66497/

Multipass 1.16.1 bug fix release

Ricardo Abreu announces the release of Multipass 1.16.1. Weā€™re told its a bug fix release with a quick overview and links to GitHub or documentation for more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-1-16-1-bug-fix-release/66490

OpenJDK 19 removal from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Toolchains team, reports on the removal of OpenJDK 19 from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in October 2025. Weā€™re told why this will be done, what it may mean for users of it, including replacing it with supported versions. We are told how we can remove the package our systems.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/openjdk-19-removal-from-ubuntu-22-04-lts-jammy-jellyfish/66491

Ubuntu Project docs: Another day at the officeā€¦

Robert KrĆ”tkĆ½ updates us on the Ubuntu Project docs. Weā€™re given a list of the current Ubuntu Project docs articles, thanks is given to the contributors who added a ā€œhow to check for accessibility issuesā€ article too. Weā€™re given updates on the DMB docs, Release team, SRU and Governance docs, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-another-day-at-the-office/66526

Desktop docs taking a new direction

Marek SuchƔnek tells us of Ubuntu Desktop docs consolidation. A number of things are addressed, including user experience, contributor issues, and the benefits that will be obtained in this new approach. This includes how its better for contributors, with an invite for us to become involved.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-docs-taking-a-new-direction/66580

Other Community News

End Of 10 - Akademy Edition

The KDE Akademy is teaming up with the End of 10 campaign and is going to hold a ā€œlarge install eventā€, introducing people to KDE software. This post gives details, including location and date & time (11 September in Berlin).

https://akademy.kde.org/2025/eo10-akademy/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

Michael Larabel informs us that the NVIDIA ā€œNouveauā€ open-source driver should become more stable with fixes coming in the Linux 6.17 kernel. Weā€™re given a short history, and told of the ā€œstellar work of Faith Ekstrand and David Airlieā€ that address the problems. Michael gives a link to the patch, a quote, and more. The patch should make the Linux 6.17-rc5 release.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-More-Reliable-Fix

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40

Michael Larabel updates us on the release of NVIDIA 580.82.07 driver. Weā€™re told it includes a few notable changes, and gives details. links are provided for us to learn more or to download.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580.82.07-Linux-Driver

GNOME 49 Restores Ability to Launch X11 Desktop Sessions

Joey Sneddon writes that the GNOME Project may still include X11 support for GNOME 49. Weā€™re given a quick ā€˜recapā€™ and told some of that change has now been ā€˜undoneā€™. Joey gives us details and quotes, including from GDM maintainer Adrian Vovk, and he tells us this should include Ubuntu 25.10. Weā€™re reminded this is a ā€œtemporary reprieveā€ with the changes expected now in GNOME 50.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-49-reenables-x11-session-support-in-gdm

Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

Michael Larabel tells us about Miracle-WM 0.7 now being available. Weā€™re reminded what this will bring us (Mir-powered Wayland), that it wraps up the Sway/i3 IPC compatibility work, and other fixes matching Mir 2.22 release. Links and picture are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.7

Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release

Michael Larabel reminds us of AMDā€™s prior announcements with regard to AMDā€™s Mesa Vulkan Support (RADV), and OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in regards to Radeon. Michael notes here that ā€œGitHub activity has also dried upā€, with the last release back on 30 April, and more. In Michaelā€™s conclusion he comments ā€œit looks safe to say now that AMD is placing all their cards with RADV for Linux useā€.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Four-Months-Go

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Lead Dev Answers Your Comments About ā€˜sudo-rsā€™

ā€œUbuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs, a Rust-based reimplementation of sudo. That announcement sparked plenty of discussion across our social channels. In this episode, Jon, VP Engineering and Ubuntu Lead Developer, answers your comments and questions from our socials. He shares the thinking behind the transition, why it matters for security and sustainability, and what it means for everyday Ubuntu users. Along the way, he adds context and reflects on how these changes shape our community.ā€

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hXqal3BNYM

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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