Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 863

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 863 for the week of October 20 – 26, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #368
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Event report – Ubuntu Korea @ GopherCon Korea 2024
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić
  • 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 862

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 862 for the week of October 13 – 19, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • New Ubuntu Community Council 2024
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #367
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-18
  • UbuCon Asia 2025 Bid for Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Taipei
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Concept heart Snapdragon X Elite
  • What’s new in APT in Ubuntu 24.10?
  • IntelⓇ Neural Processing Unit (NPU) Driver Snap Available for Accelerating AIML Workloads on IntelⓇ Core Ultra Processors
  • Please try out dracut
  • Ubuntu Governance Sync Meetings 2025
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić
  • Cristovao Cordeiro – cjdc
  • 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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New Ubuntu Community Council 2024

Merlijn writes: I’m happy to announce the new 2024 Ubuntu Community Council!

They are all elected for a period of two years.

I want to thank everyone who nominated themselves. While Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman and Jason C. Nucciarone sadly did not get a seat, they are still very valued community members with an impressive track record! We hope we can continue to work with them and any other community members to keep building this great project!

I also want to thank the outgoing Community Council members Monica Ayhens-Madon, Chris Guiver, and Torsten Franz. It was a pleasure working with you!

Originally posted to the Ubuntu Community Hub on Sat Oct 19 11:51 UTC 2024 by Merlijn Sebrechts, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 861

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 861 for the week of October 6 – 12, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #366
  • Rocks Public Journal 2024-10-11
  • Ubuntu HPC Meeting Notes: 2024/10/9
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Pohang
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Release & 20th Anniversary Event @ Busan
  • LoCo Events
  • Introducing the NVMe/TCP PoC with Ubuntu Server 24.10
  • Expanding the Xubuntu Community: Matrix & Discourse
  • 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, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić
  • Cristovao Cordeiro – cjdc
  • 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 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) released

Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, 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 24.10 features the latest Linux 6.11 kernel for improved performance and hardware support, marking a shift to a more aggressive kernel version selection policy going forward.

Building on our previous LTS efforts around performance engineering, Ubuntu 24.10 now includes kdump-tools on relevant platforms for automatic kernel crashdumps. The default desktop installation also includes sysprof for application and workload profiling.

Ubuntu Desktop delivers GNOME 47 with improvements to performance, user experience and enhanced touchscreen support. The power-profiles-daemon improves power management for AMD CPUs and GPUs while libfprint adds support for many new fingerprint reader devices. Ubuntu Desktop now defaults to Wayland on devices with NVIDIA graphics cards and defaults to the NVIDIA 560 open driver version.

Snap management has also been improved on desktop with better update management and messaging in both the dock and the App Center, alongside an experimental new permissions prompting feature which can be enabled in the new Security Center application.

Valkey now replaces Redis in Ubuntu 24.10 with a configuration migration package to support the transition. As always Ubuntu provides updated toolchains for GCC, LLVM, Rust, Golang and .Net alongside TCK certified packages for OpenJDK 21 and 17.

The newest Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, 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/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878#heading–official-flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 24.10.

To get Ubuntu 24.10

In order to download Ubuntu 24.10, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 24.10 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/oracular-oriole-release-notes

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:

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 10 16:03:21 UTC 2024 by Łukasz ‘sil2100’ Zemczak, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.