Issue 948 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of June 7 - 13, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-948/83893

In this Issue

- Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) reaches End of Life on 9 July 2026
- The Ubuntu Forums Archive
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Checkbox 7.3.0 stable release
- Workshop 0.9.1 has been released
- Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 15 - Hardware-backed PGP — finally a clear what, why and how
- Ubuntu @ DevConf CZ 2026
- MATE: No 26.04 Release, How does that Affect You, and What Is the Future of Ubuntu MATE?
- Tiger Agent: a debugging checklist you could hand to a machine
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS for the crafts
- Ubuntu 26.10 is switching to dbus-broker
- Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS Backports Megathread
- Other Community News
- Ubuntu Cloud 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, 25.10, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 949 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of June 14 - 20, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-949/84188

- In this Issue
- Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape
- Julian Andres Klode: Stepping down from the DMB
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2026-06-16
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Hello from the new Ubuntu-MATE maintainers team
- Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
- Anbox Cloud 1.30.0 is released
- Help us design the next GitHub Actions for Rockcraft
- Autopkgtest: a postmortem and prebirthem
- Template: Streamlining open source design contributions
- Launchpad security advisory: Fix applied for unsafe tar file extraction vulnerability
- Other Community News
- What Say You
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 950 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of June 21 - 27, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-950/84429

In this Issue
- Ubuntu Summit 26.04: connected by open source
- Stonking Snapshot 2 released
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Ubuntu Africa Meetup/Workshop 2026
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Workshop 0.9.2 has been released
- Building better craft linters and artifacts
- Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Share your feedback and relive the magic!
- Anbox Cloud on C4A metal
- New Temporary Kubuntu Council
- Some recent cdimage changes for improved consistency
- Terraform LXD Provider 3.0.0 has been released
- [Result] Lubuntu Council Elections 2026
- Other Community News
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 951 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of June 28 - July 4, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-951/84654

In this Issue
- pedit COW kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations
- DirtyClone Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available
- Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates this week
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2026-07-03
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Event report - UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2026
- Everything Ubuntu at Open Source Summit and KubeCon India 2026
- Ubuntu @ PyCon Kenya 2026
- Cerquem lloc per a la propera festa ubuntaire
- UbuCon India 2026 - Volunteer Application
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Kernel SRU schedule for July/August 2026
- Event Report - PyCon Italy 2026
- The Rock Garden Grows: Hardening Old Docker Images
- Ubuntu at DevConf.CZ 2026
- Try the upki preview for Ubuntu!
- Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 16 - Does pollinate still earn its place on every Ubuntu boot in 2026?
- What Say You
- Meet the Members: wgarcia
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 952 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of July 5 - 11, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-952/84897

In this Issue
- Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) reached End of Life on 9 July 2026
- Public Exploit Turns 15-Year Linux Kernel Flaw Into 5-Second Root Attack
- Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Ubuntu @ KDE Akademy 2026
- UbuCon Latin America 2026
- OpenPrinting News: Opportunity Open Source 4.0 - Call for Proposals extended to end of July
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Workshop 0.9.3 has been released
- Run Workshop actions in a CI pipeline
- The 2026.06.22 SRU Cycle is started
- Call for testing: ubuntu-lint
- What Say You
- Lubuntu is officially in my .iso roster.
- Canonical News
- In the Press
- In the Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 953 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of July 12 - 18, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-953/85157

In this Issue
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2026-07-14
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Timetable for UbuCon Asia X COSCUP 2026 Now available!
- Visit Ubuntu Community booth @ UbuCon Asia X COSCUP 2026
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Infrastructure outage
- AMDGPU performance regression in Kernel 7.0.0-28.28
- The OMP SDK automation: a hands-off story
- Other Community News
- What Say You
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10 [EOL], and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 954 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of July 19 - 25, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-954/85383

- In this Issue
- Snapd - multiple vulnerabilities fixed
- First Stonking Stingray test rebuild
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- FWTS 26.07.00 is released
- Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 17– Our AI policy for documentation
- Restoring Translated Package Descriptions (DDTP) in Ubuntu
- Glibc 2.44 release for Stonking
- Introducing Frontdesk, a first-pass triage bot for sponsoring requests
- A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 5: Pre-launch
- Other Community News
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- Canonical News
- In the Press
- In the Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 955 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of July 26 - August 1, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-955/85673

- In this Issue
- Ubuntu’s virtualization hardware enablement (HWE) stack: a new model for confidential computing enablement
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 956 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of August 2 - 8, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-956/85865

In this Issue
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2026-08-07
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- The Book of Container Myths
- LightDM 1.33.0 released
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 957 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of August 9 - 15, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-957/86061

In this Issue
- Januscape vulnerability CVE-2026-53359 mitigations available
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- COSCUP x UbuCon Asia 2026 report from Yeonguk Choo
- Ubuntu Community. @PyDay Namibe - Angola 2026 is coming!
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Stonking Stingray 26.10 Wallpaper Competition
- Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 18 - Auto-MIR: teaching a robot to fill my TODOs
- The 2026.08.03 SRU Cycle is started
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 958 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of August 16 - 22, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-958/86309

In this Issue
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- UbuConLA 2026 Schedule
- UbuCon Asia 2026 @ COSCUP: Organizing, Speaking, and Learning in Taipei
- UbuCon India 2026: Annual Ubuntu India Community Conference
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- LightDM 1.33.1 release + apologies
- Workshop 0.9.5 has been released
- Investing in automated C to Rust translation
- Other Community News
- In the Press
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-released/86808

Issue 959 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of August 23 - 29, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-959/86642

In this Issue
- Stonking Stingray (to be 26.10) is in Feature Freeze
- Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS released
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Event Report - Pyday Namibe - Angola 2026
- UbuCon Asia 2026 @ COSCUP: Event Report
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Checkbox 7.4.0 stable release
- First look: Lustre for Charmed HPC
- What happened to Ubuntu(Preview)?
- Making local LLM behaviour visible with OpenTelemetry and COS Lite
- Other Community News
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- In the Press
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 960 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of August 30 - September 5, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-960/87045

In this Issue
- Stonking Snapshot 3 released
- Call for nominations: 2026 Ubuntu Community Council
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Ubuntu UK Local Community Visit to Bletchley Park – 7th November 2026
- COSCUP x UbuCon Asia 2026 report from Euiseo Cha
- Successful Instruction Session by Ubuntu Nepal in Collaboration with GNOME Nepal
- Introduction to Open Source, Communities, Linux and GNOME: A Hands-on Session at MBMC College
- Ubuntu Connect: Empowering Communities Through Collaboration
- My Experience at COSCUP x UbuConAsia 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan
- Software Freedom Day: Glasgow Gamer Club - Install Linux / Repair Cafe
- DebConf 26 Travel Report
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Checkbox 7.5.0 stable release
- Local Cloud Simulation with Multipass
- “Bullet-Proof” KDE Initiative: How Ubuntu Studio Benefits
- Introducing PPA Dependency Pinning
- [Winners]: Stonking Stingray Wallpaper Competition
- The 2026.08.31 Cycle is started
- Dracut news for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and 26.10
- Other Community News
- What Say You
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- Canonical News
- In the Press
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- Credits
- And much more!

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS released

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-5-lts-released/87608

> As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided, so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-severity bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

It also provides us with *live* media with the 7.0 HWE kernel (for ISO/images using the HWE kernel stack)

Issue 961 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of September 6 - 12, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-961/87456

In this Issue
- Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS released
- [24.04.5 Desktop addendum] Installer to Crash
- Entertaining the idea of linux-firmware-hwe
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2026-09-09
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Linux firmware split in Noble and Resolute
- Kubuntu 26.04.1 and what “Bullet-Proof KDE” actually changes
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 962 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of September 13 - 19, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-962/87765

In this Issue
- Ubuntu 24.04.5.1 LTS released
- Stonking Snapshot 4 released
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- [Report] Edinburgh Linux User Group Meetup – 12 September
- A Linux Install Party está de volta!
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Launchpad builders now turn on build profiles by default
- Canonical Academy beta is open
- Guess the release 27.04 - T
- Modernizing Ubuntu testing with automation and transparency
- Steam core26 - Call for Testing
- Improving Ubuntu Desktop stability under memory pressure
- Kubuntu.org is on GitHub — come open a PR
- 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, and 26.04
- And much more!

Issue 963 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of September 20 - 26, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-963/88127

In this Issue
- Stonking Stingray (to be 26.10) Beta Freeze
- Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray Beta will be delayed
- Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy
- Security advisory: multiple vulnerabilities found in Canonical LXD
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Checkbox 8.0.0 stable release
- Imagecraft 1.0 released
- Rust-coreutils 0.10 now available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- Mir in 27.04 - what’d you want?
- The Brazilian-Cameroonian Discussion Group
- The new Ubuntu wiki has launched
- Microsoft Entra ID Password and MFA sign-in comes to Ubuntu
- What Say You: If it hurts, do it more!
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- In the Press
- In the Blogosphere
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Beta released

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-beta-released/88662

"The Ubuntu Release team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products. ... This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavors."

Issue 964 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is here! Covering the week of September 27 - October 3, 2026

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-964/88469

In this Issue
- Upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS now enabled
- Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Beta released
- 2026 Ubuntu Community Council: AMA is now open
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
- Event report: UbuCon Asia X COSCUP 2026 - Organizing a joint event with the largest FOSS gathering in Taiwan
- [Event Report] UbuConLa 2026 - Santiago, Chile
- Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
- Ubuntu Community Discourse
- We Put Our Websites on a Token Diet — Our Homepage Lost 98% of Its Weight
- Ubuntu Concept 26.10 Snapdragon Edition
- Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 19: Automatic Debian merges with git ubuntu deltarebase
- Other Community News
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
- And much more!