Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 920

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UWN Issue 920 November 23-29 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 920 for the week of November 23 - 29, 2025.

In this Issue

  • A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 1: Announcement
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-11-28
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • My time at Ubucon India 2025
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Terraforming Planet Ubuntu
  • Contributing to design as a technical author, Part 1: Starting small
  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap
  • Resolute Snapshot 1 released
  • Ubuntu docs: here we go again
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • 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

A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 1: Announcement

Shane Crowley starts the ‘first in a series’ of posts about the “project to create a new Ubuntu wiki”. We’re reminded how valuable the wiki has been, some of its history, some more recent problems with it, and thus scheduled for retirement in August 2026. This post focuses mostly on where we are, and how we got here, with more details of the new wiki we’ll see in alpha form provided next year. Thanks is given to Robert Krátký, Aaron Prisk, and Mauro Gaspari.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/a-new-ubuntu-wiki-part-1-announcement/72729/

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations Florent!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143971 (+52)
  • Critical: 314 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73890 (+21)

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% (3976/106)
  • Swedish: 95.93% (14300/745)
  • Ukrainian: 88.92% (38899/1584)
  • German: 86.95% (45804/146)
  • French: 85.24% (51810/6376)

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; 2025-11-28

The Chisel package slices for tomcat10 are now available! Other new slices include cpp-14 and changes to pyrepl in the Python3.13 slices.

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News

My time at Ubucon India 2025

Tushar Gupta (tshar5526) relates his experience and the talk he gave at the recent Ubucon India LoCo event. He covers some of the talks, workshops, and audience participation/interactions. Tushar proclaims the IISc campus is “amazing” and much storied. In conclusion he thanks the many whose works produced a “well run event” that strengthens the India community.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/my-time-at-ubucon-india-2025/72871

Ubuntu Circles! (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 also see:

The Hub

Terraforming Planet Ubuntu

Aaron Prisk writes about Planet Ubuntu, reminding us what it is, before reporting it’s ‘dying’. We’re told the current infrastructure is set for retirement early in 2026, and currently relies on Bazaar which is being sunset this month. Aaron tells us of his idea to “terraform Planet Ubuntu”; outlining his idea with a link to the new GitHub project page. We’re walked through what has been done, told of lots of 404 errors in the feed list and how those can be fixed, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/terraforming-planet-ubuntu/72694

Contributing to design as a technical author, Part 1: Starting small

Shane Crowley briefly gives us some of his background before joining Canonical as a technical author. He walks us through some of what he has done thus far, before telling us this is the first in a series of posts on his experience in “contributing to design as a technical author”. Shane talks about his contributions to the WSL team, text and user flows, feedback, and more. Shane gives us a list of links for more information on specific topics, before thanking the many reviewers of this work.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/contributing-to-design-as-a-technical-author-part-1-starting-small/72725

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

Jean Baptiste Lallement tells us the Desktop team just got back from the engineering sprint in Gothenburg, and is thus now able to share “what’s coming next” for Ubuntu Desktop. This includes GNOME 50, two new default applications, Wayland on Nvidia, and more. This is an extensive post covering a lot of detail, reminding us of the important dates for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, with more to come as the development cycle progresses. Feedback is welcome.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-lts-the-roadmap/72740/

Resolute Snapshot 1 released

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces the “first successful publication of the monthly snapshot” in the Ubuntu 26.04 or resolute development cycle. This includes Ubuntu’s flavors, with links to the release notes (what’s there thus far), with us told the next snapshot will be released on December 18. A note is made that some images are older than others, but this is being worked on and will be resolved.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-1-released/72760

Ubuntu docs: here we go again

Robert Krátký updates us on what’s happening with Ubuntu docs. First up is discussion on the Ubuntu Project docs overall. Then Robert gives us a quick summary of the last six months and what’s to come in the next six months with brief coverage of the past two weeks. A discussion of a question raised by a PR from Michael Hudson Doyle relating to a rather old Ubuntu policy is covered too. Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu for Developers, Ubuntu on WSL, and more are covered in varying amounts. As well ‘what’s next’ is revealed with an invitation to get involved.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-docs-here-we-go-again/72761

Other Community News

Going all-in on a Wayland future

This KDE blog tells us KDE Plasma 6.8 will be “Wayland-exclusive” with X11 apps “entrusted to Xwayland” and no Plasma X11 session. We’re told most KDE Plasma users already use Wayland so won’t notice this, and that this change will open up new “opportunities for features, optimizations, and speed of development”. We’re told the KDE Plasma X11 session will still be supported until early 2027 using KDE Plasma 6.7. This post gives us details on this, including gaming, Nvidia users, a link to known issues, and more (including KDE Plasma on BSD).

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V

Joey Sneddon reminds us that Flutter apps using the ‘UI toolkit developed by Google’ are utilized by Ubuntu for many of its own apps. But given RISC-V doesn’t support Flutter, some changes have been submitted via PR to hopefully achieve RISC-V support. We’re shown a screenshot, given links to learn more, and told it “underscores Canonical’s commitment” to Ubuntu’s desktop experience and the wider open-source community.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-risc-v-flutter-support

Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - “Exclusively Open-Source” With RADV

Michael Larabel writes about Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 giving us details, including who’ll benefit from the updates. We’re reminded of a prior notification on dropping OpenGL and Vulkan drivers in favor of Mesa; with this release being a completion of that task. Details, quotes, and a link for more are provided. Both Ubuntu 22.04.5 and Ubuntu 24.04.3 have this update. Joey makes comment that Ubuntu 25.10 users are better off using their newer “built-in packages”.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-Software-25.20.3-Linux

GNOME 49.2 Released with Improved Handling of Tiled Monitors and Sticky Keys

Marius Nestor has written about the GNOME 49.2 release and its ‘various bug fixes and improvements’. We’re given details of the fixes included, links should we need more about specific fixes, and a link to the official release announcement. Also covered is the release of GNOME 48.7 with a brief list of the apps which received bug fixes.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-2-released-with-improved-handling-of-tiled-monitors-and-sticky-keys

Ubuntu Replacing System Monitor and Totem with New Apps

Joey Sneddon writes that a new media player and system monitoring utility should ship with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. We’re told about Showtime and Resources, we are reminded about prior app changes that appeared in Ubuntu 25.10, as well as being given a quote on why from Canonical’s Jean Baptiste Lallement. We’re also told we don’t need to wait to see these apps, as they’re in Ubuntu 25.10’s repository and thus we can install and use them now. Some screenshots and links are provided. Joey advises too that we can continue using prior apps if we decide we prefer them.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-26-04-lts-showtime-resources-default-apps

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 367 - A Todo o Vapor

“Nesta semana e seguintes, vamos apostar no Ubuntu Touch e trazer o Software Livre nos telefones para as massas! O Miguel resolveu problemas com a ajuda da comunidade, o Diogo vai ao Porto evangelizar à bruta com o Ruben Carneiro e o sol brilhará para todos nós. A Canonical promete suporte para 15 anos; o Xubuntu foi hackeado porque não usa Hugo (womp, womp); o Miguel agora usa mano e bro em cada frase por causa de impressoras e vai converter-se ao Debian com Plasma e MEU DEUS, AS MÁQUINAS DA STEAM SÃO LINDAS!! …”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e367/

Corrode; Rust In Production: S05 E05 - Canonical - Jon Seager, VP Engineering for Ubuntu

“What does it take to rewrite the foundational components of one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions? Ubuntu serves over 12 million daily desktop users alone, and the systems that power it, from sudo to core utilities, have been running for decades with what Jon Seager, VP of Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical, calls ‘shaky underpinnings.’ In this episode, we talk to Jon about the bold decision to ‘oxidize’ Ubuntu’s foundation. We explore why they’re rewriting critical components like sudo in Rust, how they’re managing the immense risk of changing software that millions depend on daily, and what it means to modernize a 20-year-old operating system without breaking the internet.”

https://corrode.dev/podcast/s05e05-canonical/

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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