Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 897 for the week of June 15 – 21, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Developer Membership Board: process and membership changes
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore
• Announcing the 10th Edition of UbuconLA: Cuenca, Ecuador
• LoCo Events
• Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks
• Other Community News
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• Canonical News
• In the Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
• And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

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

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 896 for the week of June 8 – 14, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• LXD: Weekly news #398
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• LoCo Events
• Canonical News
• In the Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
• And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Krytarik Raido
• Bashing-om
• Chris Guiver
• Wild Man
• Din Mušić – LXD
• 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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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 895 for the week of June 1 – 7, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Call for nominations: DMB appointment process
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• LXD: Weekly news #397
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• LoCo Events
• Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 4: Stable Release Updates – The Misunderstood process
• Lubuntu Council Elections 2025
• Kernel HWE update for the upcoming Noble 24.04.3 point release
• Phasing out Bazaar code hosting
• Canonical News
• In the Press
• In the Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
• And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Krytarik Raido
• Bashing-om
• Chris Guiver
• Wild Man
• Din Mušić – LXD
• And many others

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 894 for the week of May 25 – 31, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) began on May 29, 2025
• Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life (EOL)
• Bringing together 20 years of documentation
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• LXD: Weekly news #396
• Rocks Public Journal; 2025-05-30
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Successful Training Session by Ubuntu Nepal in Collaboration with GNOME Nepal
• Web Frontend deployment with Ubuntu Workshop @ Pohang
• LoCo Events
• LXD 6.4 has been released
• Dependency merging in APT 3.1.0ubuntu2
• Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
• Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is coming to your circle of friends, from London
• The 2025 Frankfurt Engineering Sprint: What did you miss?
• Apport local information disclosure vulnerability fixes available
• Other Community News
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• In the Blogosphere
• Other Articles of Interest
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
• And much more!

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

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This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent one month ago to confirm that as of May 29, 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS standard support has ended. No more package updates are planned to be accepted to the primary archive of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Remember that if you can’t upgrade to 22.04 LTS or later immediately, Canonical provides Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to users with Ubuntu Pro. You can find more info about Ubuntu Pro here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-lts-end-of-life-standard-support-is-coming-to-an-end-heres-how-to-prepare
https://ubuntu.com/esm

The original Extended Support warning follows, with upgrade instructions:

Ubuntu released its 20.04 (Focal Fossa) release 5 years ago, on March 23, 2020. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The standard support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on May 29, 2025.

Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 24.04 LTS release via 22.04 LTS. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is via Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrades may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JammyUpgrades for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS continue to be actively supported with security updates and bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found here:

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

Canonical provides Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to customers through Ubuntu Pro. Further information can be found here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/focal-fossa-end-of-standard-support
https://www.ubuntu.com/esm

Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customize or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu May 29 16:37:01 UTC 2025 by Ural Tunaboyu, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.