Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 913

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 913 for the week of October 5 – 11, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) released
  • The clock is ticking: Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is just around the corner
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Latin America 2025 Agenda Now Available
  • LoCo Events
  • How we delivered the new APT solver in 25.10
  • Staying in the loop on the Ubuntu Discourse [POLL]
  • Ubuntu 25.10: A Retrospective
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04, and 25.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • irihapeti
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) released

Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka”, is here. This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, partnering with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.

Ubuntu 25.10 introduces GNOME 49 with media and power controls on the lock screen, HDR brightness settings, and enhanced accessibility features in line with the European Accessibility Act. New apps include Loupe, a modern image viewer, and Ptyxis, a lightweight terminal emulator.

Built on the Linux 6.17 kernel, this release brings nested virtualization on Arm, early Intel TDX host support for confidential computing, and enhanced support for TPM-backed full disk encryption with passphrase support, recovery key management and better integration with firmware updates. Network Time Security (NTS) is enabled by default for more secure time synchronization.

Developer experience advances with updated toolchains for Python 3.13.7 and availability of 3.14 RC3, GCC 15, Rust 1.85, Go 1.25, OpenJDK 25, and previews of .NET 10 and Zig.

Ubuntu 25.10 also debuts Rust-based implementations of sudo and coreutils for improved memory safety, and adopts the new RVA23 profile as the baseline for RISC-V, paving the way to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

The newest Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes under the Official Flavours section:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/questing-quokka-release-notes/59220#heading–official-flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 25.10.

To get Ubuntu 25.10

In order to download Ubuntu 25.10, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 25.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 25.10 if they have selected to be notified of all releases rather than just LTS upgrades. For further information about upgrading, see:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/questing-quokka-release-notes/59220

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

https://ubuntu.com/desktop
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

https://matrix.to/#/#support:ubuntu.com
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/support
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Help Shape Ubuntu

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

https://ubuntu.com/community/contribute

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, IoT, cloud, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/support

More Information

You can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below:

https://ubuntu.com

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu Oct 9 09:46:52 UTC 2025 by Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 912

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 912 for the week of September 28 – October 4, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Project docs: Going (semi)official!
  • Questing Quokka (25.10) Final Freeze
  • Call for testing: first set of 25.10 RCs ready!
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-10-03
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Canonical at UbuCon Asia 2025
  • Onboarding Event
  • Ubuntu Korea @ FOSS for All Conference 2025
  • LoCo Events
  • Core24 Steam | Call for Testing
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 8 – Containers: Steady paths for agile stacks
  • Mir Office Hours – 2025-09-25 15:15UTC
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc)
  • irihapeti
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 911

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 911 for the week of September 21 – 27, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • First Questing Quokka test rebuild
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Registration for the 10th UbuConLa is now available!
  • Ubucon India 2025
  • OpenPrinting News: UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal
  • OpenSaturday Conf 2025 Barranquilla, here are the speakers!
  • LoCo Events
  • Checkbox 6.0.0 stable release
  • Sidetracks, detours, and the birth of autopkgtest-janitor
  • Call for testing: mesa-2404 (update to v25)
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Foundations Edition: What’s Coming and What’s Next
  • The final piece of the puzzle: autopkgtest-website
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • irihapeti
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 910

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 910 for the week of September 14 – 20, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • 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!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
  • irihapeti
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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