UWN Issue 917 November 2-8 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 917 for the week of November 2 - 8, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Welcome Developers and New Member
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-11-07
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Summit Extended – Uyo Edition
  • UbuCon India 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • Other Community News
  • What Say You
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Welcome Developers and New Member

Kernel Upload Rights:

  • Abdur Rahman (maskedarray)
  • Massimiliano Pellizzer (mpellizzer)
  • Guoqing Jiang (~guoqingjiang)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2025-November/164420.html

Ubuntu Membership:

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143793 (+74)
  • Critical: 313 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73807 (+50)

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% (3984/106)
  • Ukrainian: 88.92% (38899/1583)
  • German: 86.95% (45804/146)
  • French: 85.24% (51810/6375)
  • Swedish: 80.77% (67514/695)

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; 2025-11-07

Chisel v1.3.0 is out! It adds support for unmaintained and unstable Ubuntu releases as well as fixes for CVEs GO-2025-3956/CVE-2025-47906 and GO-2025-3922/CVE-2025-58058.

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu 25.10 Summit Extended – Uyo Edition

Bright Adams (mrbite) writes that the Ubuntu 25.10 Summit Extended (Uyo) was an ‘incredible success’. We’re told it was attended by over 40 developers and enthusiasts, and reminded it celebrated the release of Ubuntu 25.10, strengthening the ‘growing Ubuntu community in Nigeria’. Along with some photos, we’re told a little of this event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-summit-extended-uyo-edition/71564/

UbuCon India 2025

This is a reminder (UWN 911) that UbuCon India 2025 will soon be live (November 15-16, 2025). This post lists the event tracks of the conference, with tickets and chance to sponsor still available.

https://ubuntu-in.netlify.app/events/ubucon-india-2025 | https://konfhub.com/ubucon-india-2025

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:

Other Community News

OpenPrinting News - Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting

Till Kamppeter reminds us that he was ‘laid off’ by Canonical earlier this year after nearly 20 years of employment. Till’s post then moves to his ‘looking for a new solution’. We’re walked through to the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) accepting to invest in OpenPrinting at the same monthly compensation as Canonical provided until end 2026. We’re given details, including that OpenPrinting is a sub-organization of the Linux Foundation, with Till giving thanks to numerous people.

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/

What Say You

Ubuntu Summit 25.10: Personal Highlights

Jon Seager writes about attending Ubuntu Summit 25.10, mentioning briefly the history, and the new format of this event. The bulk of this post is Jon highlighting his favourite talks, including links so we can (re-)watch both days too. This is a somewhat extensive post, with honorable mentions of other talks too, before thanking Utkarsh Gupta for his presentation. Finally a conclusion that “the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 a really enjoyable event” with talks “high in quality, charisma and creativity”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-25-10-personal-highlights/71509/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

Liam Proven had a discussion with Jon Seager (Canonical’s VP of Engineering) at the Ubuntu Summit 25.10, with this post a “heavily condensed version”. This an extensive and somewhat technical discussion covering a number of topics with a focus firstly on Ubuntu Desktop in the next 5-10 years. Discussion also includes confinement, TPM FDE, PipeWire as a snap, testing Flatpak in future releases, and more.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/canonical_jon_seager_qa/

In the Blogosphere

The Release Schedule for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Out

Ji m gives us the Ubuntu 26.04 Release schedule, and some possible versions we’ll find in the release. Official links are provided, and the scheduled dates for GNOME 50 Alpha, Beta, RC and more.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/the-release-schedule-for-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-out/

GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”

Michael Larabel reports that the GNOME Mutter merge has occurred that “‘completely drops’ the X11 back-end” as a first step in removing the X11 code in the GNOME 50 cycle. We are reminded that GNOME 50 will still support XWayland.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Drops-X11

How to Enable amd64v3 Packages on Ubuntu 25.10

Joey Sneddon tells us that “Ubuntu’s new amd64v3” code will “squeeze a bit more performance out of Ubuntu 25.10”. We’re firstly told how we can check to ensure our systems can use this code, with the advisory that only packages in the ‘main’ repository have amd64v3 builds. If we decide to use it Joey gives us a guide on how we do this. We’re also told how to revert it, as well as given some discussion on how it will appear (all repositories but still optional) in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Joey finally gives a warning as it’s still experimental in Ubuntu 25.10.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/how-to-enable-amd64v3-packages-ubuntu-25-10

Featured Audio and Video

Late Night Linux – Episode 358

“Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive…”

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-358/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 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 25.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2026

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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