Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 915

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UWN Issue 915 October 19-25 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 915 for the week of October 19 - 25, 2025.
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  • Enabling updates on Ubuntu 25.10 systems
  • [Updated] Questing Quokka Release Notes
  • Resolute Raccoon is now open for development
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-21-10
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Vote result: LoCo rebranding and rescoping resolution
  • Discover your fully open source robotics observability at ROSCon 2025
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Release Party @ Taipei
  • LoCo Events
  • TPM-backed FDE: Take 2 minutes to help widen Ubuntu compatibility with your TPM configuration!
  • Canonical’s new design system : towards a design system ontology
  • Other Community 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, 25.04 and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Enabling updates on Ubuntu 25.10 systems

Julian Andres Klode informs us of a ‘now-resolved’ bug in the date command, that is causing some non-updated Ubuntu 25.10 systems to not auto-check and update themselves (thus not getting the fix). We’re told how we can check to see if this is impacting our system, and how we can fix it.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2025-October/009890.html

[Updated] Questing Quokka Release Notes

The Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Release notes have been updated a few times since release, but we’re bringing this update to your attention. In UWN issue 913 we highlighted upgrades from 25.04 were expected on or before October 23, with that date now pushed to ‘on or before November 3, 2025’. The blocker bugs and reason for delay are also listed.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/questing-quokka-release-notes/59220

Resolute Raccoon is now open for development

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces that ‘resolute’ is open for development. We’re told auto-sync will be enabled soon. A link to the release schedule is provided, and more.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2025-October/043470.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143518 (+24)
  • Critical: 313 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73579 (+45)

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% (3984/104)
  • Ukrainian: 88.92% (38899/1580)
  • German: 86.93% (45889/139)
  • French: 85.24% (51812/6455)
  • Swedish: 80.77% (67514/781)

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

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-21-10

The Rust 1.83 rock is now available in Docker Hub and ECR.

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

Vote result: LoCo rebranding and rescoping resolution

Youngbin Han informs everyone that the LoCo rebranding and rescoping voting is closed, and provides results. The two motions are listed, votes shown and we’re told both motions were carried. A link to the voting details is provided for background.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/vote-result-loco-rebranding-and-rescoping-resolution/70080

Discover your fully open source robotics observability at ROSCon 2025

Gabriel Aguiar Noury tells us about ROSCon 2025 which is being sponsored by Canonical. We are told what they will showcase at ROSCon booth 51/52 with partners Advantech and Botmind. Details of Workshops, and Talk (including dates, times and rooms) are given with no RSVP required. Details of an ‘all-on-one’ ROS fleet management system is given, a new foundation for autonomous robotics, Ubuntu and NVIDIA Jetson Thor, and more.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/roscon-2025

Ubuntu 25.10 Release Party @ Taipei

Rj Hsiao has made an Ubuntu 25.10 Release Party event in Taipei, with details, including time and date provided here.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-release-party-taipei/70880

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

TPM-backed FDE: Take 2 minutes to help widen Ubuntu compatibility with your TPM configuration!

Didier Roche reminds us of prior updates on TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption in Ubuntu 25.10, and the discovery that “some systems which previously reported as compatible with TPM/FDE in ubuntu releases are not anymore with this new release”. Some “simple mitigations” can fix this for some users. This post seeks for us to provide system details by installing a snap package and running it, and providing the results in a google survey form. Responses here should help ensure more TPM-backed FDE systems work in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/tpm-backed-fde-take-2-minutes-to-help-widen-ubuntu-compatibility-with-your-tpm-configuration/70352/

Canonical’s new design system : towards a design system ontology

Adrián Villa posts “the first in a series about Canonical’s new design system”. It starts with a TL;DR summary, before getting to the detail in a somewhat long post. We’re reminded of the CSS library Vanilla Framework, and told of scaling issues over the last decade with it. This thread starts to outline how these “gaps” can be filled in ensuring quality.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/canonicals-new-design-system-towards-a-design-system-ontology/70367/

Other Community News

Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help

Do you use Ubuntu Unity and would love to help make contributions to Ubuntu? The Ubuntu Unity team is suffering from a lack of contributors, and Maik has a call out for help. If you have time and some skills, please pitch in to help get Ubuntu Unity back on track in this Ubuntu 26.04 cycle. You can respond now on this thread.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/regarding-ubuntu-unity-and-a-call-for-help/71095

Xubuntu Website Hijack Served Malware Downloads (Now Fixed)

Joey Sneddon tells us the Xubuntu website was compromised over the weekend (October 18 -19, 2025) giving up ‘Windows malware’ instead of a torrent file. We’re told there is no indication that the direct ISO downloads “were modified, altered, replaced or otherwise interfered with”. Joey expresses a view that most users wouldn’t have been fooled, but “less tech-literate users running Windows” may have been. We’re told the entire download page was disabled “as soon as the Xubuntu team were made aware”. Joey discusses WordPress, and “vulnerabilities exploited in third-party plugins and themes” but reports the team is still in ‘triage’ mode. Finally Joey provides the official Ubuntu links to download Xubuntu ISOs.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack

  • Inquiry for a comment regarding reports on a potential compromise - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2025-October/012218.html
  • Team lead update:
    bluesabre: “We’re eagerly awaiting the official communication from our hosting provider on this. We’ll share additional details once they’re available. For now, the download page has been taken offline. Official ISO downloads are still available from the Ubuntu servers
”

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/expanding-the-xubuntu-community-matrix-discourse/48612/4

[Southern California Linux Expo] Call for Presentations

This is the Call for Presentations for the 23rd Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 23X) which will run March 5-8, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Details, important dates, and links for more, are provided. Details include SCaLE Tracks, the Co-Located Events (with links), and of course what is required to submit a proposal. Should you need help, an email is provided.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features

Arindam ‘outlines a list of new features’ we’ll find in Xubuntu 25.10. He starts with the kernel and base Ubuntu 25.10 updates, before getting to Xfce apps such as thunar. Arindam also lists the app versions provided in the release.

https://www.debugpoint.com/xubuntu-25-10-features/

Canonical News

In the Press

How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next

Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes that a “hacker with some help from the ESA got Doom to run on a satellite” and gives us the details. We’re told it was built on and ‘showed off’ open source’s adaptability, as well as reminded how ubiquitous doom was. The developer Ólafur Waage used Chocolate Doom 2.3 as it ran on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which was already executing on OPS-SAT. We’re walked through the running, including the use of the satellite’s real-time images to replace Doom’s normal backgrounds.

Editorial Note: Ólafur Waage presented at the Ubuntu Summit 25.10, so you may have already heard him speak about this, and seen images of doom running in space. If you missed this, video links are available for each day.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next/

Multipass: Fast, Scriptable Ubuntu VMs for Modern DevOps

Janakiram MSV tells us why Canonical’s Multipass is a ‘versatile tool’. Starting with background and reasons why its useful, he then moves to telling us how to get started with it. We’re shown some screenshots, and a comparison is made to VirtualBox, before Janakiram gives us his conclusions.

https://thenewstack.io/multipass-fast-scriptable-ubuntu-vms-for-modern-devops/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Daily Builds Now Available for Download

Joey Sneddon informs us that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS daily images are now available for download and testing. Joey gives us some details of the release date, details of where we’ll find the ISOs, and the meaning of ‘current’ and ‘pending’ directories too.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu-26-04-daily-builds-available

Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

Michael Larabel tells us of the release of Rust Coreutils 0.3 which include ‘Speed-Ups’ and better GNU compatibility. We’re told of the improved pass rate in GNU test suite testing, as behavior closely matches GNU Coreutils, with a graphic highlighting progress in this regard. A link to GitHub’s Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 Release page is provided for the details.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.3-Released

How to Upgrade to KDE Plasma 6.5 on Kubuntu 25.10

Joey Sneddon shows us how we can upgrade our KDE Plasma version to 6.5 if we’re running Kubuntu 25.10 by using the Kubuntu backports PPA. We’re told to use it ‘at our own discretion’ and why this is, how to take advantage of this, or back it out if we have problems, and more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/how-to-upgrade-kde-plasma-6-5-kubuntu-25-10

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Videos

In the following days, expect to see individual sessions uploaded to the Canonical Ubuntu YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@ubuntuos).

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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