UWN Issue 910 September 14-20 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 910 for the week of September 14 - 20, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Questing Quokka (to be 25.10) now in Kernel Feature Freeze
  • Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Beta released
  • Update on Launchpad mailing lists shutdown
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-09-19
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Korea 2025 has wrapped up - celebrating 20 years of Korean LoCo
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Project docs: post pit-stop push
  • Daily dangerous desktop images have landed!
  • Canonical announces it will support and distribute NVIDIA CUDA in Ubuntu
  • 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 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Questing Quokka (to be 25.10) now in Kernel Feature Freeze

This short post from Timo Aaltonen of the Ubuntu Kernel team alerts users and developers that the Kernel feature freeze now applies to Ubuntu questing quokka. A link for details is provided, with a reminder that “all the new features for the kernel (6.17) have landed in questing-proposed” with the focus now on bug fixing.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-September/001382.html

Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Beta released

This mailing list post from Utkarsh Gupta of the Ubuntu Release team tells everyone that the Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Beta has been released. It contains details of the release, a reminder that its “known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs”, but isn’t the final release. We’re given links for many more details or to download images, and told of the Ubuntu flavors taking part.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-September/000316.html

Interested in the flavors? Release announcements as follows:

The Beta release is widely covered, the following is a collection of articles selected by our editors:

Update on Launchpad mailing lists shutdown

Alvaro Crespo Serrano (alvarocs) provides us with an update on the “sunsetting launchpad’s mailing lists” features next month. This update gives us a more concrete week (13-17 October) when emails will be no longer be accepted or sent. As with prior notices, we’re given details on migration paths (via links) and for seeking help if we need it.

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/update-on-launchpad-mailing-lists-shutdown

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143557 (+135)
  • Critical: 320 (+3)
  • Unconfirmed: 73481 (+122)

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

Translations

  • Albanian: 98.87% (3976/0)
  • German: 86.93% (45884/215)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1366)
  • French: 85.18% (52037/6211)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67620/751)

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

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-09-19

25.10 chisel-release is now open :tada:! Also, Rockcraft now supports rocks with shorter names. Finally, find the updated Chisel docs with a new reference for the prefer path property.

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

LoCo News

UbuCon Korea 2025 has wrapped up - celebrating 20 years of Korean LoCo

Youngbin Han tells us UbuCon Korea 2025 has ‘wrapped up’. We’re reminded it was their third event and this UbuCon celebrated their 20th anniversary. We’re given a list of highlights, and shown some photos. Thanks are given to Microsoft Korea for the support. Youngbin gives a list of sponsors, and an embedded video showing the highlights. In conclusion he commentates “see you at next year’s UbuCon Korea”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-korea-2025-has-wrapped-up-celebrating-20-years-of-korean-loco/67700

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

Ubuntu Project docs: post pit-stop push

Sally Makin gives an update on the last two weeks of Ubuntu Project docs. We’re told of the Developer Membership Board documentation, with thanks given to Christian Ehrhardt, Utkarsh Gupta, Max Gilmour, Petrichor Park, and Dave Jones. We’re also told of Robert Krátký and Sally working on the quality of migrated docs, which includes Ubuntu Release team docs, Ubuntu Maintainer’s Handbook having its redirects done, and more. Mention is made of a Pull Request template which makes proposing changes easier, with us invited to take advantage of it and contribute.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-post-pit-stop-push/67453/

Daily dangerous desktop images have landed!

Tim Andersson introduces dangerous daily desktop images, which includes telling us why they were useful in this 25.10 cycle. The post lists the seeded snaps, provides links so we can download daily images, and gives thanks to Michael Hudson Doyle for debugging livecd-rootfs issues. Tim reintegrates the disclaimer that these images are intended for testing (not production).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/daily-dangerous-desktop-images-have-landed/67644

The Planet

Canonical announces it will support and distribute NVIDIA CUDA in Ubuntu

This Canonical post announces support for the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit via distribution within Ubuntu repositories for the CUDA software. We’re told what CUDA is, and how this will be an easier way to take advantage of it in Ubuntu systems.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-announces-it-will-support-and-distribute-nvidia-cuda-in-ubuntu

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

sudo vs sudo-rs: What You Need to Know About the Rust Takeover of Classic Sudo Command

Abhishek Prakash reminds us that Ubuntu 25.10 will use the rust based sudo-rs instead of the traditional sudo, with this post trying to address the questions of ‘what is sudo-rs?’, ‘why change?’, ‘what will it fix?’, ‘how to use it?’ and ‘can I use the old way?’. These questions are answered with links for additional details, some screenshots are given too. A conclusion is given, which includes some users who won’t notice the change, to server managers who should “pay attention” to the change.

https://itsfoss.com/sudo-vs-sudo-rs/

Ubuntu Integrates Rust uutils to Replace GNU Coreutils for Memory Safety

Victoria Mossi explores issues around “Canonical’s push to integrate Rust-based tools into Ubuntu” or the replacement of GNU Coreutils with its rust uutils alternative. Links are made to Phoronix testing, which does show “tangible improvements, but not without initial setbacks”. The post includes numerous links indicating where material is sourced should you need to explore further.

https://www.webpronews.com/ubuntu-integrates-rust-uutils-to-replace-gnu-coreutils-for-memory-safety/

In the Blogosphere

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements

Michael Larabel writes about the release of AMD ROCm 7.0 which he describes as a “very significant step forward”. We’re given a list of the many highlights in the release, links to the official release announcement, and the GitHub page. We are told some benchmarks will be provided soon.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.0-Released

Other Articles of Interest

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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