Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 904 August 3 - 9, 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 904 for the week of August 3 - 9, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS released
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Project docs: Sorting things out
  • Debcrafters Digest – Vol 1
  • What craft means for Canonical
  • 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!

General Community News

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS released

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS for Desktop, Server and Cloud products, and flavors. We’re given some specifics of the point release, including links to the flavors. Numerous links are provided too for specifics (versions on ML or Fridge allow easier clicking of links).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released/65764

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

Interested in the flavors? Release announcements as follows:

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143274 (+76)
  • Critical: 318 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 7 (+51)

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% (45899/134)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1402)
  • French: 85.03% (52552/6423)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67608/1115)
  • Spanish: 77.80% (77963/6212)

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/

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 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: Sorting things out

Robert Krátký updates us on the last two weeks of Ubuntu Project docs. Reference is made to Sally’s prior update on Ubuntu Maintainers Handbook with details of progress given, editing the ‘article on merging’, and more. We’re told of a ‘best practices’ agreement on keeping docs consistent, the Sphinx Docs Starter Pack update, before telling us what’s coming in the next two weeks.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-project-docs-sorting-things-out/65613/

Debcrafters Digest – Vol 1

John Chittum expands on Jon Seager’s previous introduction of the Debcrafters team, covering “who Debcrafters is (and is not), what we’re working on” and more. This post touches on lots of topics: links to MOTUs, bug triage, links to documentation, improving SRUs, Autopkgtests, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/debcrafters-digest-vol-1/65754

The Planet

What craft means for Canonical

Daniele Procida starts by reminding us of Jon Seager’s prior article on crafting software, then mentions multiple Canonical products with ‘craft’ in their name; which are all “tools for making software”. Daniele explores the word ‘craft’ and points users back to Jon Seager’s article once again.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-craft-means-for-canonical

Canonical News

In the Press

Canonical’s OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed - and a whopping 12 years of security support

Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes about Canonical’s announcement of certified OpenJDK builds support. We’re given some details: Ubuntu Pro, up to 12 years of security support, and advantages for enterprise customers. This is a somewhat detailed post including ability to tailor the images for specific use cases, and a table of OpenJDK versions and support end dates. Links are included should more be needed, or just want to download the images now.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonicals-openjdk-builds-promise-java-devs-more-speed-and-a-whopping-12-years-of-security-support/

In the Blogosphere

GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes

Michael Larabel tells us the GNOME 49 Mutter beta is available for testing. We’ve given some details of changes in the compositor, links should we need more details, and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-49-Beta

AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements

Michael Larabel informs us of AppArmor changes found in a pull request by Canonical engineer John Johansen for the Linux 6.17 kernel. We’re given details of this AF_UNIX mediation support, a list of features, cleanups, and bug fixes in the change, with a link should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-AppArmor

GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen

Michael Larabel tells us here that the GNOME Shell 49 beta was released, concentrating this article on the “long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GNOME’s lock screen”. We’re reminded of some of the long history on this request, as well as told of other changes to other apps (eg. Papers replacing Evince) included in this GNOME Shell 49 beta. A link to the release commit is of course provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-49-Beta

NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan

Michael Larabel writes about the release of the NVIDIA 580.65.06 beta driver for Linux. We’re told of the bug fixes it contains, with special mention of the fifo-v1 protocol which Michael sees as ‘quite important’. Of course the link to NVIDIA’s web site is provided for more details or to download it.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Beta-Linux-Driver

Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

Michael Larabel reminds us of the discontinued support for “Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics” in Intel’s open-source Computer Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. He reports an updated ‘legacy’ driver for those older platforms is available. We’re given details of the fixes, the old bug report link, a link to the updated Compute Runtime driver, and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-24.35.30872.36

exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17

Michael Larabel this time updates us on exFAT patches in the Linux 6.17 merge window. We’re told of the problems they address, and that both fixes are now merged and “will likely be back-ported for prior kernel stable releases”. Links of course are provided, as well as a quote from Zhengxu Zhang of Unisoc explaining the patch.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-exFAT

Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux

Joey Sneddon tells us the “next major Chrome release will auto-detect which Linux display server its Ozone backend should use; a change that will resolve blurry UI issues for users running the browser on Wayland with fractional scaling enabled”. We’re told what Ozone is, what is done now and given some details of the change. Joey tells us of a comment spotted and reported at Phoronix (link provided) highlighting what it’ll mean for users. We’re told how we can try it out now, but reminded that Google have been ‘cautious’ in enabling it as default due to problems.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/chrome-140-wayland-auto-detection-linux

NetworkManager 1.54 Brings Support for Configuring Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding

Marius Nestor writes about the release of NetworkManager 1.54. We’re given some details of improvements included, a link to the GitLab page for details or download, and more.

https://9to5linux.com/networkmanager-1-54-brings-support-for-configuring-per-device-ipv4-forwarding

Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Marius Nestor informs us of the release of Mesa 25.2 which is a “major update with new features”. We’re given some highlights we’ll find in the release, told of some code replacements, and told of some “significant performance improvements” that will be noticed by some users. Links are provided to the release notes and the source tarball.

https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-2-open-source-graphics-stack-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

Linux 6.17 Standardizes The Keycode For The “Performance Boost” Key

Michael Larabel mentions input subsystem updates for Linux 6.17 which include mapping F13 to F24 keys by default for the PS/2 keyboard, plus a “performance boost” key found on some newer laptops now having a standardized keycode. A link to the patch merge and more is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Performance-Key

KDE Frameworks 6.17 Is Out to Improve Performance of All QtQuick-Based KDE Apps

Marius Nestor tells us of the release of KDE Frameworks 6.17. We’re given some details of this release, told the release can “slightly improve performance” for all “QtQuick-based KDE apps” and more. We’re told of some bugs that were fixed, and given a link to the release announcement too.

https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-17-is-out-to-improve-performance-of-all-qtquick-based-kde-apps

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 359 - Rolando Rinocerontes

“O Miguel fez declarações polémicas que vão incendiar as redes sociais, descobriu um simulador de vôo para Linux para perder mais tempo e o Diogo passou-se definitivamente para a Digi, onde (não) vai poder usufruir de velocidades de 10 Gbps. Surpreendentemente…também foi às compras: auscultadores, chaves USB, monitores portáteis, mini pc’s com Twin Lake N150…foi um fartote de despesismo. Mas também falámos sobre as últimas versões de Ubuntu com instantâneos de desenvolvimento, «rolling release»; o novo livro «The Ultimate Ubuntu Handbook» e as últimas novidades do Ubuntu Touch, que prometem!.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e359/

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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