Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 883

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 883 for the week of March 9 - 15, 2025.
Ubuntu Weekly News.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #386
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025
  • Day 1 Highlight and event report from FOSSASIA
  • LoCo Events
  • Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
  • Waiting for a Linux system to be online
  • LXD 6.3 has been released
  • Among the waves: Plucky Puffin
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Plucky (to be 25.04) now in UI Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team, alerts us that Ubuntu plucky is now under Interface Freeze. We’re reminded why & given a link for more details if required.

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Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 142726 (-128)
  • Critical: 329 (-48)
  • Unconfirmed: 72686 (-100)

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Translations

  • German: 86.94% (45860/119)
  • Ukrainian: 86.37% (47848/1382)
  • French: 85.03% (52547/6312)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67669/729)
  • Spanish: 77.43% (79227/4583)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

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Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #386

The highlight of the past week is added support for attaching virtual machine snapshots to other virtual machines. Additionally, LXD UI support for restricted permissions and clustered environments has been improved. Storage volume pages now adapt to fine-grained permission settings with warning modals for misconfigurations, while storage pool usage reporting has been enhanced to provide per cluster member metrics for local storage pools.

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Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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LoCo News

UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025

Mauro Gaspari tells us that UbuCon Europe will be back at a ‘co-located event at OpenSouthCode 2025’, and we’re invited. Some details are provided with the links, and we’re asked to submit an abstract now if we’d like to submit a presentation.

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Day 1 Highlight and event report from FOSSASIA

Soumyadeep Ghosh gives an event report for Day 1 of the FOSSASIA Summit 2025. We’re given a list of top questions from attendees, some highlights of the day, and we are told more updates are to come.

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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:

The Hub

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

Jon Seager reminds us of the recently published Engineering Update where four key themes were mentioned; this post focuses on one of those, being “Modernization”. Jon outlines where Ubuntu will go, some of the focus starting in the 25.10 cycle, with how this can benefit Ubuntu’s diverse userbase. Next we’re introduced to the tool ‘oxidizr’ which includes some howto details so we can explore it; with us encouraged to play & discuss on Matrix. More is also discussed in this somewhat detailed post.

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Waiting for a Linux system to be online

In this post, Lukas MĂ€rdian discusses the nuances surrounding the definition of an online Linux system. He provides a link to a pending specification which formalizes the concept, and includes how NetworkManager and systemd-networkd differ in this respect, before introducing enhanced Netplan v1.1 functionality.

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LXD 6.3 has been released

Thomas Parrott announces the new LXD 6.3. We’re told of its new features and improvements, with some details highlighted which include: a new snap track, a pure storage driver, Ubuntu Pro attachment, and more. This is another rather long & detailed post, with thanks given to all contributors. A link to download it or install on Linux, MacOS & Windows is provided.

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The Planet

Among the waves: Plucky Puffin

Aaron Prisk tells us about Puffins; the ‘beaky bird’ mascot for Ubuntu 25.04. We’re then shown the official Plucky Puffin wallpapers, before being walked through some of what the Design team of Canonical considered in creating these images. Next to official wallpapers we’re shown the artwork submitted & voted by the community in the various categories, and given a link if we’d like to get involved in the community, and contribute to Ubuntu.

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Other Community News

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Michael Larabel reminds us of the positions held by longtime KDE developer Jonathan Riddell, before telling us that Jonathan will ‘step down from the KDE Plasma release management role’ once “KDE Plasma 6.3 series is completed”.

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kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split

This mailing list post by Vlad Zahorodnii records that the “(basic) kwin split” has completed, and gives details of what that means. As this is a developer mailing list, details can be technical, but links are provided. As well, the ‘git’ commands used to backport fixes are provided. We’re also told “kwin-x11 still contains traces of Wayland” and why this is the case.

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Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes

Michael Larabel writes that Mir 2.20 is out, and gives us details of the new features of this latest Wayland compositor and libraries. Lists of enhancements, and bugs fixed are provided, along with a link to GitHub if we need more. Editorial note: Mir 2.20 will be found in Debian Trixie, but not slated for Ubuntu 25.04.

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GNOME 48 RC Released with Global Shortcuts & HDR Luminance Setting UI

Ji m explores what we’ll find in GNOME 48’s Release Candidate, which Ubuntu 25.04 will have. We’re told the stable release date will be March 19, 2025, and walked through some of the features we’ll discover, which includes some screenshots. We’re also told how we can try it now; if we can’t wait we can use the GNOME installer image, or Ubuntu dailies.

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LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerminal Updates

Marius Nestor tells us some of what we’ll see in the coming LXQt 2.2 desktop. We’re told the Wayland session is being improved, though still marked as experimental, as well as other improvements. The LXQt 2.2 desktop is expected to be officially released mid-April 2025. Editorial note: As 25.04 is already in Feature Freeze, this won’t be seen until Lubuntu 25.10.

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Ubuntu 24.04 Fixes Bluetooth Audio Connection Issues

Joey Sneddon notes that a fix is coming out for users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that are unable to use bluetooth audio devices on a restart or suspend. Joey gives us details of the problem, tells us Ubuntu 24.10 users didn’t experience this issue, with the code in 24.10 being back-ported to Ubuntu 24.04 for this fix. Links for more are included.

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Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Update Brings New Icons

Joey Sneddon reminds us of Feature Freeze for Ubuntu 25.04, and here writes about a Yaru Theme update which includes new icons. Along with discussion on the changes, we’re given some screenshots, including some comparisons between the new 25.04 look, and prior 24.10 appearance. We’re finally reminded the beta release is March 27, 2025.

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Featured Audio and Video

Linux User Space: Episode 5:08 - Make It Snappy

“Syncing the Notes,The History of Snaps & How Much We Absolutely Adore Them - How’d 9 Years of Snaps Go?”

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Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 339.1 - Adiado para obras

“Esta semana, por razĂ”es que nĂŁo podemos desvendar, nĂŁo haverĂĄ episĂłdio. Depois revelaremos tudo! Entretanto, deixamos nas notas algumas hiperligaçÔes de artigos bem gostosos, para trabalho de casa. Boas leituras - e olhem que sai no teste!”

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Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

“In this video I discuss Ubuntu’s decision to switch to using rust implementations of the core utilities (mkdir, ls, cat, etc
) and what it could mean for the broader Linux ecosystem.”

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Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 24.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2025

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Conclusion

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Credits

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