Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 914

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UWN Issue 914 October 12-18 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 914 for the week of October 12 - 18, 2025.
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What we are working
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    • Foundations Team Updates - 2025-10-16
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  • End of 10 Install Event Abingdon Library
  • A Cimeira do Ubuntu chama!
  • The Ubuntu UK Community Social is Back!
  • Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Extended & Release Party in Thessaloniki!
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  • Ubuntu Project docs: the final furlong!
  • Release 26.04 LTS without the ISO Tracker
  • Ubuntu worker nodes for Oracle OKE are now in Limited Availability
  • Patch Pilot Hand-off 26.04
  • Ubuntu Test Rebuilds
  • Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools (Mir 2.23.0 update)
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    • NVIDIA DGX Spark: The developer’s personal AI supercomputer built on an Ubuntu base
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  • Canonical MicroCloud is the Proxmox alternative you didn’t know about
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  • Waiting to Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10? Here’s When You Can
  • Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix:
  • Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix
  • Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes
  • Dracut in Ubuntu: What it is & Why it Matters (or Doesn’t)
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    • Why Broadcom’s Ubuntu Bet on VMware Will Delight Devs and Ops
    • Radxa Orion O6N – A smaller, cheaper 12-core Armv9 Nano-ITX SBC
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  • Podcast:
    • LINUX Unplugged: Engineering the Future
    • ubuntuportugal: E364 - Guaxinim Resoluto e outras Festas
    • Open Documentation Hour: Eposode 039
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General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: # (+/-#)
  • Critical: # (+/-#)
  • Unconfirmed: # (+/-#)

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

Translations

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 “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-XX-XX

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rocks-public-journal-2024-08-27/47542/4

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

End of 10 Install Event Abingdon Library - 1st November 2025

Ernie (Ernmander) tells us the “Ubuntu UK Community are assisting in an End of 10 install event at Abingdon Library, Oxfordshire” on November 1, 2025. We’re given details, a map, and time, shown a flyer and provided a link should we need more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/end-of-10-install-event-abingdon-library-1st-november-2025/69670

A Cimeira do Ubuntu chama!

This Portuguese post gives details of the Ubuntu Summit 25.10, and in particular a Ubuntu-pt Local Community extension held in Portugal. Details are provided on an “interactive dynamic between Lisbon and Porto”, with tutorials available for those that come along. An agenda giving times for each day is provided, as well as numerous links.

https://centrolinux.pt/post/2025-outubro-ubuntu-summit-25.10/

The Ubuntu UK Community Social is Back!

David Potter posts about a social event the Ubuntu UK Community is running on November 30, 2025. This post gives details, including how we can get there, and requests we let the team know if we’re attending to they have a rough guide on expected numbers.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-ubuntu-uk-community-social-is-back/69716

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Extended & Release Party in Thessaloniki!

Efstathios Iosifidis gives us details in Greek on a Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Extension party and celebration of the release of Ubuntu 25.10. We’re reminded of the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 and told this event will allow those attending to connect with the global community. Date, time and details of the event (Summit, then to a nearby shop for release party) are given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-25-10-extended-release-party/69751

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

Ubuntu Project docs: the final furlong!

Sally Makin provides an update on the Ubuntu Project docs progress. We’re told the Ubuntu Developer Membership Board docs migration has finalized, thanks given to Ural Tunaboyu for release page update, Ravi Kant Sharma for updating the bug triage page, and Robert Krátký for many fixups. Other work done by Robert and Sally is mentioned, as well as Ubuntu Community Team docs migration with thanks to Aaron Prisk & Mauro Gaspari. There is more including “what’s next”, as well as how we can get involved too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-the-final-furlong/69497

Release 26.04 LTS without the ISO Tracker

Utkarsh Gupta reminds us the ISO tracker has served Ubuntu for over fifteen years, but having become ‘increasingly unreliable’ this proposal is put forward to release Ubuntu 26.04 LTS without the ISO tracker. We’re told of the Test Observer and what will replace it, given the rationale for this proposal. We’re given the specification of what will be used this cycle for this cycle, of the automated testing and validation and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/release-26-04-lts-without-the-iso-tracker/69577/

Ubuntu worker nodes for Oracle OKE are now in Limited Availability

Aaron Whitehouse tells us “Ubuntu worker nodes are now natively available on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)”, with some brief details provided and link so we can learn more. We’re invited to give it ‘a try’ and let Aaron know ‘how you get on’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-worker-nodes-for-oracle-oke-are-now-in-limited-availability/69584

Patch Pilot Hand-off 26.04

Dave Jones (waveform) has started the Patch Pilots thread for the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, reminding readers what the thread is for, including that it’s intention is for hand-off reports only, and thus questions about the thread should be asked elsewhere.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/patch-pilot-hand-off-26-04/69586

Ubuntu Test Rebuilds

Sebastien Bacher writes about a regular Ubuntu Archive activity ‘test rebuilds’. We’re told why test rebuilds are done, what it looks like, and given some examples. We’re shown some pages from the questing or 25.10 cycle, so we can better understand the topic.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-test-rebuilds/69789

Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools (Mir 2.23.0 update)

Michał Sawicz tells us of updated mir-test-tools and ubuntu-frame as a result of the latest Mir release (2.23.0). We’re given links to view highlights we’ll find in this release, and told how we can test it. If no problems are reported, these tools will be promoted to stable in a week.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-frame-mir-test-tools-mir-2-23-0-update/69897/

The Planet

Other Community News

What Say You

Here we elicit your adventures, your trials and how you triumphed; your desktop, why it is your preference; have you made a bug report, tell the experience; coding or other development works worth the comment; tips - tricks and other neat things you have discovered … many other subjects too…

A good thing by Bashing-om

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Canonical MicroCloud is the Proxmox alternative you didn’t know about

Jeff Butts reminds us why Proxmox is loved by its users, before telling us that Ubuntu MicroCloud is now a real competitor. We’re told what MicroCloud is, and ‘what it brings to the table’ including its strengths. A comparison is made against Proxmox, which includes strengths of both, before ending with a recommendation that “MicroCloud is well worth exploring”.

https://www.xda-developers.com/canonical-microcloud-proxmox-alternative/

In the Blogosphere

Waiting to Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10? Here’s When You Can

Joey Sneddon reminds us that whilst Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9, the release notes and later the Release Status tracking document report the upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10 won’t open on or before October 23rd (see last weeks issue; UWN 913). Joey then discusses the upgrade opening delay, giving some thoughts on why its there.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-10-delay

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Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes

Michael Larabel writes about fixes to issues dating back to 2017 in the Intel open-source Mesa driver code. We’re told how the problems were experienced, often by game players, given a link to the merged code, as well as shown some screenshots that will help us to appreciate the now fixed problem in Mesa 25.3-devel, which should be back-ported soon.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Fixes-Long-GPU-Mesa-Issue

Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix

Michael Larabel reports the release of Mesa 25.2.5, which includes a fix for rendering issues relating to various “game hangs/crashes”. A picture and link to prior article talking about the fix [see prior item in this UWN issue], and link to the mailing list announcement is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2.5-Released

Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs

Michael Larabel tells us about Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team enhancing GPU driver support for old Radeon RX200 series graphics cards. We’re told of the work landed by Timur Kristóf that will fix some problems experienced by users of 12 year old AMD Hawaii GPUs, or fixes for GFX6/GFX7 hardware, with link to the merge request provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Fixes-2025-Hawaii-GPUs

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Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes

Michael Larabel writes about fixes to issues dating back to 2017 in the Intel open-source Mesa driver code. We’re told how the problems were experienced, often by game players, given a link to the merged code, as well as shown some screenshots that will help us to appreciate the now fixed problem in Mesa 25.3-devel, which should be back-ported soon.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Fixes-Long-GPU-Mesa-Issue

Michael expands on this a little more in the following articles, the first reporting the release of Mesa 25.2.5, and in the second the fixes by Timur Kristóf that will be of great benefit for specific older graphics cards.

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Dracut in Ubuntu: What it is & Why it Matters (or Doesn’t)

Joey Sneddon writes about Dracut used in Ubuntu 25.10, and tells us “what it means for you”. Joey highlights that what our install uses will vary whether or not we installed, or upgraded to Ubuntu 25.10, before walking us through the job it does, and how the older initramfs and newer dracut differ, and some cases where end-users may actually see an improvement.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/what-is-dracut-ubuntu

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

LINUX Unplugged: Engineering the Future

“We’re back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10…”

https://linuxunplugged.com/636

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 364 - Guaxinim Resoluto e outras Festas

“O Diogo ficou afectado da garganta? O Miguel perdeu o comboio? A culpa é da IA! De regresso da Festa do Software Livre, comentámos alguns momentos altos do magnífico certame, fizemos pouco de economistas, da CP e de pessoas e comunidades de Software Livre que enviarão cartas iradas ao Provedor do Podcast. Babámo-nos com o novo Raspberry Pi 500+; revimos as últimas novidades do Firefox 144; as últimas versões 20.04 e 24.04 do Ubuntu Touch; o grande festão Intercidades que vai acontecer a 25 de Outubro em Lisboa e Porto e ainda discutimos DRAMA à volta da Canonical e Flatpaks, para pegar fogo à tenda do circo.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e364/

Ubuntu OnAir: Episode 039 - Documentation Office Hours 10th October 2025

“Dilyn Corner talks about how important having a good documentation has been for the engineers at Canonical build solutions from its products.”

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GbTb_J9G8Y

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10

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

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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