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UWN Issue 939 April 5-11 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 939 for the week of April 5 - 11, 2026.
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What we are working
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Ubuntu Summit 26.04: CALLOUT FOR MUSICIANS!
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  • UbuCon Asia 2026 Team meeting 2026-03-26 13:30 UTC
  • UbuCon Asia 2026 Team meeting 2026-04-07 13:30 UTC
  • +1 Maintenance report from 30 Mar to 3 Apr
  • Foundations Team Updates - 2026-04-09
  • Kubuntu 26.04 weekly update — final stretch to April 23rd
  • +1 Maintenance report from April 6 to April 10, 2026
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    Call for Sponsors UbuCon Cameroon
    Event Report - PyCon Namibia 2026
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    26.04 Beta: tests.ubuntu.com retrospective rocket
    Llms.txt for documentation
    Server Triage report
    Improving Ubuntu Infrastructure Status Reporting
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    Xubuntu 26.04 Community Wallpaper Contest Winners
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    WSY: Ubuntu 26.04 surprisingly AWESOME
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  • Ubuntu Pro comes to Nutanix bare-metal Kubernetes
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  • RISC-V 101 – what is it and what does it mean for Canonical?
  • Intentional leadership at Canonical
  • What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
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    Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers - and it’s not just the performance bump
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    Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
    OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes
    Debian’s APT 3.2 Released
    PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility
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    Podcast:
  • Late Night Linux – Episode 380
  • Ubuntu Portugal: E376 - O OrĂĄculo do CenĂĄculo
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General Community News

Ubuntu Summit 26.04: CALLOUT FOR MUSICIANS!

Lorenzo’s Music has made a ‘callout for musicians’ teling us they’re doing another Ubuntu Summit Companion Stream, giving us details (May 27) and that they’re “looking for recordings of live performances to feature on the stream”. A link to a google-docs form is provided if we’d like to make a submission.

https://ubuntu.social/@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social/116365260598847301

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

Rocks Public Journal; 2024-XX-XX

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

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

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

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

Call for Sponsors UbuCon Cameroon

Muluh Penn Junior Patrick has published a “Call for Sponsors” for Python Cameroon & Ubucon Cameroon, giving us contact email, link and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-sponsors-ubucon-cameroon/79757

Event Report - PyCon Namibia 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-pycon-namibia-2026/79816/

Juan Luis Cano has logged an event report for PyCon Namibia 2026, which gives us a quick rundown of the event and more. We’re told Juan’s expectations given it was his third attendance of the conference and that he wasn’t disappointed. Some photos, highlights and more are provided. The report ends with a look into the future.

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 Circles!/LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please also see:

The Hub

26.04 Beta: tests.ubuntu.com retrospective rocket

Matthieu Clemenceau gives us a Ubuntu 26.04 beta retrospective in regards the new tests.ubuntu.com site. We’re given some stats, with special thanks going to Aaron Rainbolt, Leo Kolbeinsson and David Mohammed. Some issues encountered are touched on, and based on feedback some issues need to be addressed, with some now fixed, in progress too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/26-04-beta-tests-ubuntu-com-retrospective/79853/

Llms.txt for documentation

Robert KrĂĄtkĂœ: “This is a brief overview of investigation into the usefulness of the llms.txt standard proposal: what it is, the current state of adoption, results of some benchmark tests, and an overview of implementation options for Canonical documentation (with our recommended implementation to round things off)”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/llms-txt-for-documentation/79900/

Server Triage report

Athos Ribeiro has published an 'official Ubuntu Server triage report" as per documented procedures, with us told where we can find prior reports

NAH - I don’t know what to make/write about that; subsequent post by Lena Voytek gives a triage report for 2026-04-09 & 23 bugs.. so first post in thread is maybe just a header & what follows is the ‘meat’ of the topic.. but Lena also allows that subsequent reports maybe posted on different ‘individual topics’ too; that this is a ‘first attempt of a triage report on discourse’.. thus a summary may turn out incomplete if this ‘first attempt’ highlights flaws
 I’ve given up summary writing for this currently.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/server-triage-report/79956

Improving Ubuntu Infrastructure Status Reporting

Sebastien Bacher notes that “a few infrastructure reliability issues” have been encountered recently, and thus the need for improved Ubuntu Infrastructure Status reporting. We’re given details on the use of Upptime, with some of its limitations address as well, with some sample shots of what output it shows provided. We’re then introduced to Canonical Observability Stack (COS), before asked to ‘take a look’ and let them know of any services that are currently missing on the tracked list.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-ubuntu-infrastructure-status-reporting/79992

The Planet

Other Community News

Xubuntu 26.04 Community Wallpaper Contest Winners

The Xubuntu team are happy to show us the results of the Xubuntu 26.04 community wallpaper contest. All contestants are thanked, and we’re told 40 unique submissions were made and some other stats. We’re told of “5-way tie between 5th and 6th place” with the Xubuntu team providing a tie-breaking vote. All entries are viewable on Ubuntu’s Discourse, but the winning entries are shown to use here.

https://xubuntu.org/news/releases/26.04/2026-04-10-xubuntu-26-04-community-wallpaper-contest-winners/

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


Ubuntu 26.04 surprisingly AWESOME

“put ubuntu 26.04 on a 2019 #MacPro (7,1) with a 32GB HBM2 Vega II GPU. It’s surprisingly AWESOME for both gaming (current-gen AAA GOG games through Heroic Launcher run very very well) AND quite awesome at local AI. #Qwen35 getting nearly 80 tokens per second was really unexpected for this nearly obsolete box. All in all, silent and pretty good. Definitely runs better than MacOS.” - Zygmunt Krynicki

https://ubuntu.social/@zygoon@fosstodon.org/116369940049294460

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers - and it’s not just the performance bump

Jack Wallen writes that the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release has a “received a decent performance boost over version 25.10” according to recent Phoronix benchmarks. With some remarks on what Michael (of Phoronix) found, we are then told of a recent spin Jack made with the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta and told what Jack found. We’re told of some of the changes over prior releases, and why Jack ‘loves this new Ubuntu’.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-performance/

In the Blogosphere

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

Michael Larabel writes about the release of Rust Coreutils 0.8. We’re told it has ‘significant’ performance gains across core utilities, expanded WebAssembly ‘WASI’ support" and more. We’re given an update on the improved pass rate on GNU test suites, of a 45% faster dd command, as well as being given link the release notes on GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released

OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes

Marcus Nestor alerts us that OpenSSL 3.6.2 is available containing numerous security fixes for recent CVEs. We’re given details of the many CVEs with fixes with brief description of each of the vulnerabilities. We’re also told of OpenSSL 3.5.6, OpenSSL 3.4.5 and other older security/bugfix point releases, and given a link to the projects GitHub page for release notes.

https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-important-security-fixes

Debian’s APT 3.2 Released with History, Undo, Redo, and Rollback Support

Marcus Nestor tells us of the release of Apt 3.2 by the Debian Project. We’re told of new features including the rollback and history functionality, which will be seen in Debian 14 (forky) release in 2027, or the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

https://9to5linux.com/debians-apt-3-2-released-with-history-undo-redo-and-rollback-support

PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices

Marcus Nestor informs us of the release of PipeWire 1.6.3. We’re told of some of the fixes to crashes, alignment with RTP timestamps so RAOP will work on more devices, and more. Marcus includes a link to the project’s GitLab page for more if required.

https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-3-improves-raop-compatibility-to-make-it-work-on-more-devices

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Late Night Linux – Episode 380

“Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.”

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-380/

Portugal Podcast: Episode 376 - O OrĂĄculo do CenĂĄculo

“Santa PĂĄscoa a todos, crentes e nĂŁo crentes na Palavra do Software Livre, abençoado seja o NextCloud e as pastas partilhadas que deviam ser fĂĄceis em Ubuntu
e todavia
 Desta vez conseguimos insultar vĂĄrias comunidades e pessoas em particular, o que nĂŁo Ă© de somenos. InsultĂĄmos a Oracle, quase toda a comunidade de utilizadores de Mint (que o Diogo foi ajudar, na sua modesta magnanimidade); trouxĂ©mos mĂĄs notĂ­cias sobre Ubuntu Mate; rimos muito com Virtualbox, uma verdadeira matrioska de porcarias; e conseguimos insultar gratuitamente pessoas que sĂŁo portadoras de Snapofobia. Mas tambĂ©m recomendĂĄmos um youtuber portuguĂȘs interessante (Hat Rat) e promovemos o NextCloud como o canivete Suíço que resolve tudo. E encontrĂĄmos mais uma situação para fazermos queixinhas Ă  CNPD.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e376/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 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 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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