Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 912

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UWN Issue 912 September 28-October 4 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 912 for the week of September 28 - October 4, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Project docs: Going (semi)official!
  • Questing Quokka (25.10) Final Freeze
  • Call for testing: first set of 25.10 RCs ready!
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-10-03
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Canonical at UbuCon Asia 2025
  • Onboarding Event
  • Ubuntu Korea @ FOSS for All Conference 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • Core24 Steam | Call for Testing
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 8 - Containers: Steady paths for agile stacks
  • Mir Office Hours - 2025-09-25 15:15UTC
  • 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

Ubuntu Project docs: Going (semi)official!

Robert Krátký tells us of the new http://documentation.ubuntu.com/project URL for Ubuntu documentation. We’re also told there is “a lot of new content” along with other fixes, especially for the Ubuntu Community team’s docs. A list of Ubuntu Project docs article series is provided along with discussion on direct work being done, with us requested to notify the documentation team if any 404 errors are discovered with the new setup. A progress report is provided (including Release team, Developer Membership Board & more), as well as mentioning some work on polishing the contributors section (thanks given to Nick Rosbrook & Benjamin Drung for advising). The report finally ends with telling us how to get involved.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-going-semi-official/68378

Questing Quokka (25.10) Final Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta has posted the Final Freeze notice for Ubuntu Questing Quokka (25.10). This post reminds us what exactly this means, and reminds us the ISO build cronjobs will be shutdown and some RC images spun up shortly.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-October/001385.html

Call for testing: first set of 25.10 RCs ready!

Utkarsh Gupta tells us the first set of Ubuntu 25.10 release candidate (RC) images are building, and are available for downloading and testing as you read this. A link to the ISO QA tracker is provided so we can record our results, with us invited to test.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2025-October/006552.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143340 (-215)
  • Critical: 314 (-5)
  • Unconfirmed: 73426 (-65)

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% (45884/219)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1367)
  • French: 85.18% (52037/6240)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67619/1123)

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; 2025-10-03

We have released rocks for PHP 8.3 and 8.4: https://hub.docker.com/r/ubuntu/php.
Chisel’s manifest and jsonwall packages are now also available under a fully Apache-2.0 compliant repo, at GitHub - canonical/chisel-manifest: Apache-2.0 licensed mirror of the manifest and jsonwall modules from Chisel.. We have also received some Chisel package slice updates for libc6-dev, util-linux, gearman, openssh-client, apparmor and .NET8 SDK.

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and further dates please visit: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

LoCo News

Canonical at UbuCon Asia 2025

Graham Morrison gives us an event report regarding Canonical at UbuCon Asia 2025. Along with reminders of what UbuCon Asia was, its location and dates, we’re shown photos and given details of the event and some description of events at the booth. Talks given by Canonical staff are mentioned, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/canonical-at-ubucon-asia-2025/68484/

Onboarding Event

Muluh Penn Junior Patrick has posted a notification giving details of an Onboarding virtual event on 11 October 2025.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/onboarding-event/68593

Ubuntu Korea @ FOSS for All Conference 2025

Youngbin Han has posted details of Ubuntu Korea being a FOSS for All Conference 2025. This post gives date (8 Nov), location, and details including links for more. We’re also asked if we’d like to volunteer at the booth, and told whom to contact if we’re interested.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-korea-foss-for-all-conference-2025/68617

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

Core24 Steam | Call for Testing

Ashtonn has posted part of a GitHub discussion that tells us of the work being done on a core24 version of Steam including ‘gaming-graphics’. We’re told this is ready for testing, and told how to test it, and if we prefer how to revert to the core22 version. If bugs are encountered, we’re told how to report them, as well as given a list of known issues.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/core24-steam-call-for-testing/68569/

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 8 - Containers: Steady paths for agile stacks

Athos Ribeiro starts the 8th issue of the Ubuntu Server Gazette with a brief discussion of different needs; most stable versus newest. This leads of an announcement of stable versions of containerd and runc packages in Ubuntu 25.10, with much of this post covering why that’s important. We’re told how we can choose either *-app to receive regular updates, or *-stable to keep a more stable environment, with numerous links should we need more, including a brief discussion on tracking updates if we need the latest details as they occur.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-8-containers-steady-paths-for-agile-stacks/68680

Mir Office Hours - 2025-09-25 15:15UTC

Whilst this Mir Office Hours was last week; a post giving us a Youtube link so we can watch the Mir Office Hours, and notes on the video have been added.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-office-hours-2025-09-25-15-15utc/67657/1

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Linux 6.17 Released: Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Ready, New Optimizations

Michael Larabel writes about the release of the Linux 6.17 kernel, which will power Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43 and more. We’re told of the “exciting improvements” in this kernel, and of the hardware that will benefit from this. Links for Michael’s testing thus far, the official kernel.org website, and more are provided.

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

Ubuntu Touch Mobile Linux OS Is Now Finally Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Marius Nestor writes about the release of Ubuntu Touch Mobile Linux 24.04-1.0 based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. We’re told of new features, including a new layout designed for larger screens, app updates and more. A link to the official release announcement is provided, and supported devices are given.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-mobile-linux-os-is-now-finally-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts

Ubuntu 25.10 Ready With “Stubble” For Better ARM64 Experience

Michael Larabel reports on Canonical’s improvements to the boot process for the ARM64 architecture; focusing on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. With a feature freeze exception granted, the updates will be included in the Ubuntu 25.10 release.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Stubble-Ready

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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Conclusion

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