UWN Issue 902 July 20-26 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 902 for the week of July 20 - 26, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #404
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • OpenSaturday Conf. 2025 is a reality in Barranquilla!
  • LoCo Events
  • Crafting Your Software
  • Ubuntu Project docs: Will it blend?
  • What is practice leadership?
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143213 (+52)
  • Critical: 316 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73182 (-36)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • German: 86.93% (45898/142)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47391/1408)
  • French: 85.03% (52549/6548)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67702/1165)
  • Spanish: 77.77% (78062/6193)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

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Meeting Reports

LXD: Weekly news #404

This past week, LXD received several functional improvements and bug fixes, including support for removing devices via instance patching, enhanced image handling, and more reliable monitor process detection. Additionally, LXD UI now allows configuring Grafana dashboard URLs.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-404/64815

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

LoCo News

OpenSaturday Conf. 2025 is a reality in Barranquilla!

Carlos A. Maestre mentions FLISoL Barranquilla 2024, and UbuConLA 2024, and tells us about the upcoming OpenSaturday Barranquilla 2025. We’re told they’re looking for speakers in areas of Cloud, Dev, Cybersecurity, AI, Linux, or Open Source. Details are provided, including submission links, for both speakers and sponsors too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/opensaturday-conf-2025-is-a-reality-in-barranquilla/64904

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

Crafting Your Software

Jon Seager writes about complexity in packaging software, and Canonical’s attempts to “tame this complexity” with ‘crafts’. We’re reminded this started with Snapcraft more than a decade ago, and of the latest debcraft. This post concentrates on the ‘craft’ concept, and walks us through the minimum of four stages: pull, build, stage & prime. This is a long and explanatory work, with links should you need to use snapcraft, charmcraft, rockcraft or other ‘craft’. Example recipes, and more are given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/crafting-your-software/64809/

Ubuntu Project docs: Will it blend?

Sally Makin starts with a story about the Ubuntu Packaging Guide, and with it reminds us of the normal cycle of documentation in projects (treasure through to neglect). This guide was renewed (thanks to Dominik, Robert & Sally), but a different guide created by the Ubuntu Server team was also created that covers much of the same ground and needs merging. Sally covers what Robert has done, and more that needs to be done. Sally also covers the “listening to contributors” sessions held by Sebastian, thanking those who’ve attended thus far, with others offered a chance to speak, or contribute in other ways. Sally also covers some ‘analytics’ she has looked into, including some extra work being done on 404 errors due to moved pages.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-will-it-blend/64868/

The Planet

What is practice leadership?

Daniele Procida gives a first in a series of articles on engineering leadership at Canonical. Firstly discussed are three job titles for Daniele’s single job, before he moves to why he joined Canonical. Discussion is given on ‘engineering practice’, what it gains, and why it benefits an organization. Daniele reviews his four years at Canonical and reports “documentation is indeed firmly established”. Daniele also covers the work of another Canonical hire, that of Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément, who is dealing with the community practice of the company. Daniele concludes with a discussion of the Canonical Practice Leadership Handbook (link provided) and its workbook, which maybe of benefit to all teams/organizations.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-practice-leadership

Other Community News

This lightweight Linux distro makes switching from Windows 10 easy

Jack Wallen gives us a review of Lubuntu 25.04 telling us “it’s perfect for reviving older hardware”. We’re told some basics (Ubuntu base, LXQt desktop), that’s it’s “fast, reliable, and easy to use”. Jack shows some screenshots, and walks through what we’ll find on this desktop. Jack touches on the “Openbox entry” that some might find confusing, and a shade feature he finds useful. For those wanting to share files using Samba; Jack suggests adding Dolphin, he reports how fast it is. A link is provided so we can download Lubuntu.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-lightweight-linux-distro-makes-switching-from-windows-10-easy/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Fortifying Ubuntu’s Root with sudo‑rs: How Rust Reinforces Privilege Escalation

George Whittaker writes that “privilege escalation” has always been “a tightrope between convenience and risk”. As such ‘sudo’ has always been a target for exploits. Thus Ubuntu’s switching from sudo to sudo-rs. We’re told of the Trifecta Tech Foundations “Privilege Boundary” initiative that funded the sudo-rs creation. We are told users of Ubuntu 25.10 shouldn’t notice the difference, despite this significant change underneath. George briefly touches on some of the work occurring to ensure this change happens (Canonical funding of the “Milestone 5” which will benefit containers of older Ubuntu 20.04), and other utils that are now rust based. These lend a layered security strategy promoting “Ubuntu’s dedication to secure foundations”.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/fortifying-ubuntus-root-sudo-rs-how-rust-reinforces-privilege-escalation

In the Blogosphere

AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

Michael Larabel informs us of the release of ROCm 6.4.2, which includes support for Radeon RX 7700 XT. We’re given some details of this & other changes, with a link to the rocm.docs.amd source.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.4.2

Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

Michael Larabel writes that Intel Linux software engineers have “been busy working on Wildcat Lake support” in the kernel drivers. We’re told how this could benefit us when we start using the Linux 6.17 kernel. Links to Mesa merge requests and more are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Wildcat-Lake-Mesa

OVMF Debug Log Driver Slated For Linux 6.17 To Help Analyze UEFI VM Boot Issues

Michael Larabel this time writes about the Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) changes being made in the Linux 6.17 kernel, which will aid in debugging system boot problems. We’re given details of how this may help us, We are given a link to the Efi.git codebase, and told it was authored by Red Hat engineers.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OVMF-Debug-Log-Driver

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 357 - Cetáceos CEOívoros

“Saiu o Firefox 141 com imensas novidades (algumas delas estúpidas, outras catitas); como a Webgpu vai acelerar a vossa experiência de navegação; porque é que a Battlestar Galactica é a melhor série de sempre; o Miguel emitiu em AM num rádio prestes a explodir e está à procura de engenheiros espanhóis vivos - e finalmente instalou Snaps no Ubuntu Touch; em África vai decorrer finalmente a primeira Ubucon África, na Tanzânia, de 11 a 15 de Agosto; o Diogo e o Miguel discutem planos diabólicos para soltarem orcas do Zoomarine na sequência da iniciativa Stop Killing Games; e apressem-se a enviar o vosso papel de parede bonito para o concurso!.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e357/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04

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

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