Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 909

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Ubuntu Weekly News

UWN Issue 909 September 7-13 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 909 for the week of September 7 - 13, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Questing (to be 25.10) now in UI Freeze
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • [submission] UbuCon Asia 2026 Bid for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • LoCo Events
  • Deprecating CVS and Subversion imports
  • Guess the release 26.04 - R
  • Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Timetable
  • Debcrafters Digest – Vol 2
  • The autopkgtest-dispatcher and the joy of clarifying terminology
  • 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

Questing (to be 25.10) now in UI Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta reports Ubuntu Questing is in ‘User Interface Freeze’, and provides a link for details should we not know what this means.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-September/001379.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143422 (+22)
  • Critical: 317 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73359 (+17)

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

Translations

  • Albanian: 98.87% (3976/0)
  • German: 86.93% (45884/82)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1366)
  • French: 85.18% (52037/6226)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67620/744)

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/

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

[submission] UbuCon Asia 2026 Bid for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman (fenris) has posted a UbuCon Asia 2026 bid for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is a detailed post in an advocacy to sponsor the event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2026-bid-for-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/67058/

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

Deprecating CVS and Subversion imports

Tushar Gupta reminds us of Launchpad’s code import service, with this post informing users that ‘Concurrent Version System to Bazaar’, ‘Subversion via cvs2svn to Bazaar’ and ‘Subversion via bzr-svn to Bazaar’ will “no longer be supported”. We’re told the reason for this change, we are given the timeline for this change, with details of the migration path. We’re reminded this is a “call for action” if you’re in a project that still uses these import methods.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/deprecating-cvs-and-subversion-imports/67062/

Guess the release 26.04 - R

Mauro Gaspari starts a ‘fun competition’ on guessing the codename and mascot for Ubuntu 26.04 ‘rr’. We’re given details of this, with Ubuntu Discourse badges being offered as prizes, and whilst there is no end-date currently specified, it’ll end when the official codename/mascot has been decided & announced.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/guess-the-release-26-04-r/61559

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Timetable

Aaron J Prisk has posted the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Timetable, which gives us details, namely date, time, talk, speaker and location, and of course links. This summit is held online, so the links are our ‘key of entry’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-25-10-timetable/65271

Debcrafters Digest – Vol 2

John Chittum starts by reminding us why testing is helpful, giving us a brief history of his work at Canonical in his journey, and the change of focus now to package testing. A link to a prior blog is provided which includes a simplified Package lifecycle diagram, with this article focusing on ‘britney’; which is the “heart of the CI system for Debian and Ubuntu”. John finally finishes mentioning discussions on improving the development workflow, and that Debcrafters are aware of some issues with fixes forthcoming.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/debcrafters-digest-vol-2/67301/

The autopkgtest-dispatcher and the joy of clarifying terminology

Ural Tunaboyu posts a “second entry of our series on rethinking how autopkgtests are run on Ubuntu”. We’re told of “good progress on provisioning LXD clusters”, with this post made “in tandem with” John Chittum’s post (last item in issue) giving us some technical details of the ‘autopkgtest-dispatcher’ runs, and touches on the rewrite. The article ends telling us the ‘autopkgtest frontend’ will be covered next time.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-autopkgtest-dispatcher-and-the-joy-of-clarifying-terminology/67303

Canonical News

In the Press

Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical’s servers take weekend off

Richard Speed writes about “a 36-minute server disruption” that is reported to have caused users “multi-day” problems relating to installs or updates, due to the resulting backlog from the down time.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/canonical_server_outage/

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Brings Groundbreaking Changes to Its October 2025 Release

A nice recap of the “major system changes that will reshape the Ubuntu experience”. Lucas Rees relates: what you need to know, technical details, key takeaway, why this matters, what users should do, and looking ahead. Reese requests readers “consider participating in beta testing to help ensure Ubuntu 25.10 meets the community’s needs …”

https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-brings-groundbreaking-changes-to-its-october-2025-release

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu 25.10 Yaru Theme Adds New App Icons

Joey Sneddon reminds us that Ubuntu 25.10 is in ‘User Interface Freeze’ but not before telling us of the Yaru design team changing the Ubuntu 25.10’s default theme. We’re walked through the changes, and shown what we’ll thus encounter when running Ubuntu 25.10 Desktop. Joey’s description includes pictures so we don’t have to wait.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-yaru-new-icons

Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Released With Faster base64: Outperforming GNU’s base64

Michael Larabel writes about the release of Rust Coreutils 0.2 which includes “massive performance gains”. Michael discusses this performance increase, giving comparison details comparing it to GNU Coreutils. He gives us the GitHub links for download or if we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.2.2

Linux 6.17 Successfully Lands In Ubuntu 25.10

Michael Larabel reminds us of Ubuntu 25.10’s inclusion of the 6.17 kernel which won’t be deemed stable until late this month (possibly after kernel freeze), but a Linux 6.17 ‘snapshot’ kernel is already running on Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs. Michael provides some details and links for more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Lands-Linux-6.17

Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Dracut by Default

Joey Sneddon writes about dracut being default in Ubuntu 25.10 which is a “foundational change to the way Ubuntu boots”. Joey is giving us details here, which include a ‘feature freeze exemption’, and discussion on how dracut differs, and what benefits it provides.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-switches-to-dracut-by-default

CUPS 2.4.13 Print Server Released With “Important” Security Fix

Michael Larabel tells us of the release of CUPS 2.4.13 which fixes security vulnerabilities; being CVE-2025-58060, as well as CVE-2025-58364. We’re also told of another fix included in this release, with a link to the GitHub page provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUPS-2.4.13-Released

Ubuntu Added NVIDIA 580 Driver Support for 24.04, 22.04 & 25.04

Ji m writes about support for NVIDIA 580 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.04. Along with some details of this and the benefits; as we may wish to take advantage, we’re told how we can add it to our systems.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/09/ubuntu-added-nvidia-580-driver/

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 362 - Malmen, Barbosa & Simões contra as torres do Técnic

“Desta feita recebemos a visita do Malmen (em directo de São Miguel), do André Barbosa (Wikimedia) e da Joana Simões (OSgeo) para falarmos um pouco sobre as suas aventuras tecnológicas e do que esperam da Festa do Software Livre no Porto. O Diogo e o Miguel visitaram o interior do país e trouxeram de lá muitas novidades boas; pelo meio discutimos as catástrofes globais da semana trazidas pelo jogo Alentejo Tinto’s Law, dramas da Comunidade e até Tamagochis no Ubuntu Touch.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e362/

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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