Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 916

bashing-om · October 27, 2025, 8:59pm

Ubuntu Weekly News

UWN Issue 916 October 26-November 1 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 916 for the week of October 26 - November 1, 2025.
Ubuntu Weekly News, work-in-progress

In this Issue

WORK IN PROGRESS

This is our next issue being built. If you'd like to be involved or have any suggestions, please get in contact with us at #ubuntu-news on libera.chat (https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest?#ubuntu-news), or email ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com

What we are working

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Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Extended & Release Party στη Θεσσαλονίκη!
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 - Portugal Extension
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- [Anbox Cloud] lobal-ready from day one - https://ubuntu.com//blog/localization-testing
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Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive
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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

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 Extended & Release Party στη Θεσσαλονίκη!

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

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 - Portugal Extension

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-25-10-portugal-extension/71092

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:

Ubuntu Arizona LoCo: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/upcoming-events-for-azloco/38466
Ubuntu-pt LoCo: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/ubuntu-pt/132
Registered LoCo contacts: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/129

The Hub

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

[Anbox Cloud] lobal-ready from day one - https://ubuntu.com//blog/localization-testing

Canonical News

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Unity-25.10-Troubles

Ubuntu Unity Project Faces Uncertain Future - https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-unity-project-faces-uncertain-future/

In Other News

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, 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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Further News

As always you can find more Ubuntu news and announcements at:

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

Krytarik Raido
Bashing-om
Chris Guiver
Wild Man
Din Mušić - LXD
Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) - Rocks
And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at: Glossary (UWN)

Get Involved

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