Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 831

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 831 for the week of March 10 – 16, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • UbuCon Asia 2024 – Call for proposals
  • Catalan Team: Call for participation in the Noble Festival
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Quality – Communications and Testing Practices
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 23.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • 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!

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 830

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 830 for the week of March 3 – 9, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu 24.04 Testing Week
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Invitación al 20º Flisol en Mérida, Venezuela
  • LoCo Events
  • Documentation Office Hours recording 1st March 2024
  • Include Performance tooling in Ubuntu
  • Kernel Accessories Seed and Metapackage
  • Ubuntu 20th Anniversary – Party Planning
  • UbuCon @ SCaLE 21x – Schedules and Call for Booth Volunteers
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 23.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • 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 829

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 829 for the week of February 25 – March 2, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Noble Numbat (to be 24.04) now in Feature Freeze
  • Launchpad’s new homepage
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Czechia / Slovakia LoCo: InstallFest 2024 in Prague
  • UbuCon Asia 2024 – Calling for sponsors!
  • LoCo Events
  • Call for nominations: Matrix Council
  • Documentation Office Hours
  • FliSoL Barraqnuilla 2024 – Women in. Tech
  • Proposal: Drop the games from Ubuntu Desktop’s full install
  • New requirements for APT repository signing in 24.04
  • GNOME Online Accounts no longer compatible with budgie-/cinnamon-/unity-control-center
  • Looking forward with the LoCos
  • GitHub repository README.md
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 23.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • 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 828

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 828 for the week of February 18 – 24, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS released
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Jams Day & 2024 Annual General Meeting
  • FLiSoL Barranquilla 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • Introducting “miracle-wm”, a Wayland compositor built on Mir
  • Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS Installer – Usability Test
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 23.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • 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 22.04.4 LTS Released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-severity bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

22.04.4 also includes a new arm64+largemem ISO for ARM servers which provides a 64k page size kernel. This can increase throughput at the cost of higher memory usage. See here for more details:

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/choosing-between-the-arm64-and-arm64-largemem-installer-options

Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 22.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Kylin 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Studio 22.04.4 LTS, and Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS are also now available. More details can be found in their individual release notes (see ‘Official flavours’):

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668

Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years from the initial 22.04 LTS release for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, and Ubuntu Core. All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years. Additional security support is available with ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance).

To get Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

In order to download Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 22.04.4 LTS via Update Manager.

We recommend that all users read the 22.04.4 LTS release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668

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:

#ubuntu on irc.libera.chat
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
https://ubuntuforums.org
https://askubuntu.com

Help Shape Ubuntu

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

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/contribute

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, clouds 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 Feb 22 17:42:53 UTC 2024 by Łukasz ‘sil2100’ Zemczak on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team