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UWN Issue 921 November 30 -December 6 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 921 for the week of November 30 - December 6, 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 matrix (https://matrix.to/#/#news:ubuntu.com) or email ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com

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What we are working
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  • LTS qualifications for Resolute Raccoon
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    • Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in November 2025
    • Foundations Team Updates - 2025-12-04
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  • Call for Testing] FWTS supports on ACPI 6.6
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  • Getting the Most Out of Our Discourse Part 3
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    • Canonical announces general availability of Ubuntu on Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-9075 platform
    • Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for WSL
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  • Good News! Canonical Plans to Rebuild Ubuntu Wiki From Scratch
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  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 Rolls Out with VoLTE Support for Fairphone 4, Volla Phone 22
  • NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements
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    • MetaComputing Launches 45-TOPS Arm Linux-Ready PC Powered by CIX CP8180
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  • Podcast/videos
    • Ubuntu Korea: Reflecting past 20 years with our community members - Ubuntu Korea Community 20 Years
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General Community News

LTS qualifications for Resolute Raccoon

Robie Basak reports the Ubuntu Technical Board have agreed that Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and Ubuntu Cinnamon have been approved for LTS status for the Ubuntu 26.04 release. The remaining flavors are still subject to approval on request and will be non-LTS.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2025-December/003082.html

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://ubuntu.com/community | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News

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

Call for Testing: FWTS supports on ACPI 6.6

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-fwts-supports-on-acpi-6-6/72937

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…

Getting the Most Out of Our Discourse Part 3: The Importance of Topic Lifecycles

“I would like to focus on something that seems oft-neglected or given lower priority; namely, how topics evolve over time, and how we as a community can keep discussions clear, useful, and easy to navigate long after the first post is written and published.” Rubi1200

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/getting-the-most-out-of-our-discourse-part-3-the-importance-of-topic-lifecycles/72920/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Good News! Canonical Plans to Rebuild Ubuntu Wiki From Scratch

https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-wiki-rebuild-plan/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 Rolls Out with VoLTE Support for Fairphone 4, Volla Phone 22

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-1-1-rolls-out-with-volte-support-for-fairphone-4-volla-phone-22

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.44.01-Linux-Beta

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Korea: Reflecting past 20 years with our community members - Ubuntu Korea Community 20 Years

“Soon this December if 2025, Ubuntu Korea Community will be reaching our milestone - 20 years of the community since its beginning. To celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu Korea and also to reflect past years, We invited some of our community members who’ve been active or leading the community. Thank you Haze Lee, Sangbin Lim, Yeonguk Choo, Minseong Cho, Tahee Jang and Janghoon Sim for participating the interview!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Y_FAli--U

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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