UWN Issue 901 July 13-19 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 901 for the week of July 13 - 19, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #403
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-07-15
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록/취소, 당일 체크인 등 안내
  • UbuCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Wallpaper Contest Opened for Submission
  • Multipass: your cloud starts here
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143161 (+64)
  • Critical: 316 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73146 (+18)

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% (45898/247)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47392/1489)
  • French: 85.03% (52551/6546)
  • Swedish: 80.72% (67702/1379)
  • Spanish: 77.64% (78518/5993)

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

LXD: Weekly news #403

The highlight of the past week was significant improvements to the LXD UI, including dark mode and support for managing storage bucket keys. Additionally, LXD received several bug fixes, primarily improving storage operations.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-403/64409

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-07-15

Chisel v1.2.0 is out, introducing support for hard links and handling of path conflicts. The Python3.13 rock is now available in Docker Hub and ECR.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/project/rocks/117

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

UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록/취소, 당일 체크인 등 안내

Youngbin Han writes (in Korean) with his UbuCon Korea 2025 Preparatory Committee hat on. Firstly we’re reminded of date changes with an extra day now required due to more registrations than expected. Then this post outlines some problems due to the large influx of registrations; procedures have been put in place to deal with that.

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubucon-korea-2025/50056

UbuCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa 2025

Daniele Procida writes about UbuCon Africa which is taking place in Arusha Tanzania on August 11-15, 2025 with DjangoCon Africa 2025. Daniele tells us there will be 3 days of talks, with some details provided including a Canonical Open Documentation Academy presentation. Links and more are provided.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubucon-africa-and-djangocon-africa-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:

The Hub

Ubuntu 25.10 Wallpaper Contest Opened for Submission

Aaron J Prisk starts the Ubuntu Questing Quokka 25.10 Wallpaper competition. We’re told of the submission themes (mascot, digital/abstract, photography), that the top two vote earners for each category will be used in Ubuntu 25.10. The rules are spelt out for us (which include no AI generated submissions), given the important dates, links to some prior competitions (for ideas) and more.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/ubuntu-25-10-wallpaper-contest/

Multipass: your cloud starts here

Jean Baptiste Lallement reminds us what Multipass is, and how we can find it useful in simplifying workflows on any OS. We’re briefly reminded of recent updates, before the post moves to the future; especially Ubuntu 25.10 & 26.04 LTS development cycles. We’re finally invited to try Multipass, and as the project is open source, to come and get involved too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-your-cloud-starts-here/64557

Other Community News

Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations

Matthew Hodgson speaks of some known issues with Matrix that include CVE-2025-49090; fixes are scheduled for August 11, 2025. We’re told some details are under ‘embargo’, and so fixes can roll out across all sites at the same time. The original planned date of 25 July was changed to the now August 11th. This post includes “important information for client developers” and more, and includes numerous dated updates.

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

Michael Larabel writes about fixes that will benefit older Radeon GPUs. We’re told of these fixes, that some newer cards already have, and more. A link to Patrick Lerda’s merge is given too.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/R600-RV770-Fixes-Mesa-25.2

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

Michael Larabel tells us about changes coming in the Linux 6.17 kernel that will benefit users of specific hardware. We’re told of the changes in Panther Lake support which will now be enabled by default, due to the experimental label now being removed, It is expected to see these benefits in Ubuntu 25.10.

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

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

Michael Larabel writes about changes that made it into Mesa 25.2 that will benefit “AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics”. We’re given some history, before Michael moves to Calder Young’s patch which includes the changes. A link to the merge request is included.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vulkan-AV1-Decode

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

Michael Larabel informs us that the Linux 6.17 kernel will include the new Broadcom BNGE driver which will allow network speeds up to 800 Gigabit. We’re given some details, and the link to the git code.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-BCM5770X-BNGE-6.17

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 “Kepler” GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Michael Larabel writes this time about NVIDIA Kepler GPU code entering the Mesa 25.2 codebase. We’re given details, a link to the patch which allows Kepler GPUs to be Vulkan 1.2 conformant, links to prior submissions, and more, including a link to prior benchmarking Michael did that is related.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-Vulkan-1.2

Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

Michael starts by telling us the 6.17 Linux kernel should be appreciated by many users due to improvements, and here focuses on Intel Battleimage graphics changes that will impact Panther Lake’s Xe3 graphics. We’re given details, links and more, as well as told we’ll get it using Ubuntu 25.10.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enables-BMG-SR-IOV-Linux

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

This time Michael Larabel writes about the Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver getting updates as part of Mesa 25.2. We’re told of Natalie Vock’s patch, given a link to the merge request, a quote which summarizing the change, and more. Michael does highlight the improvement (14%) discovered in testing.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT-Mesa-25.2

AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support

Michael Larabel in this post writes about AMD SmartMux which is now coming to Linux. Michael gives us a quote which tells us why we want this, before moving to other changes that were included in this AMDGPU pull request. We’re given details of these improvements, and told they’ll be in the 6.17 kernel and we’ll use them with Ubuntu 25.10.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SmartMux-Linux-6.17

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 356 - Os Esquilos de Ésquilo

“A semana que passou foi uma tragédia grega, estamos exaustos, porém, (ESQUILO!) cheios de esperança. Falámos de projectos de electrónica semi-falhados, anéis espertos, aplicações para Ubuntu Touch (com snaps!), Waydroid, (ESQUILO!), novidades da OTA-9, jogos antigos que nunca morrem e activistas que não os deixam morrer, Ambientes Virtualizados para Linux, agenda do mês, (ESQUILO!) Youtubers que se convertem para linux e ainda dissemos mal daquelas miniaturas bregas dos vídeos do Youtube, que nunca usamos porque temos o Invidious…ESQUILO! E preparem-se…o Flutter vem aí e vai abrir uma barragem de aplicações para Ubuntu Touch!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e356/

Ubuntu OnAir: Mir Office Hours 17th July 2025

This is the Mir Office Hours of July 17, 2025, hosted by Alan Griffiths and Michał Sawicz, including some questions asked by Neal Gompa. This episode covers the release of Mir 2.21, work on the Mir 2.22 release and more, with notes provided in the second link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J7ipbg4rmY

Agenda: Mir 2.21 1 release, Mir 2.22 release (DRM sync objects, Nvidia on GBM, More accessibility support: simulated secondary click, magnification, Live configuration helpers in MirAL, Bypass on Atomic KMS, overlay_cursor in screencopy), Miriway support for ext-workspace.

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

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Or follow us via our various social media presences:

Archive

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Archive

Further News

As always you can find more Ubuntu news and announcements at:

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić - LXD
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) - Rocks
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/glossary-uwn/42405

Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It’s your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. More on this at: https://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/

Or get involved with the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team! We always need summary writers and editors, if you’re interested, learn more at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/joining-the-ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-team/40929

Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-ideas/40053/. If you’d like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please check https://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/ for more information on where to get help.

Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Help improve this document in the forum.