Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 577

By wildmanne39 | Published: 2019-05-06

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 577 for the week of April 28 – May 4, 2019. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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!

Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) reached End of Life on April 25 2019 (ESM available)

By wildmanne39 | Published: 2019-05-02

This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent a month ago to confirm that as of April 25, 2019, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS basic support has ended. No more package updates[1] will be accepted to the 14.04 primary archive, and any subsequent support will be done via Extended Security Maintenance. Over the coming weeks, various images will be archived, and the primary archive will be copied to old-releases.

Again, we remind you that for customers who can’t upgrade to 16.04 or later immediately, Canonical offers Extended Security Support for 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu Advantage customers, more info about which can be found here:

https://ubuntu.com/esm

[1] We expect one more update to the ubuntu-advantage client to support future ESM features.

The original Extended Support warning follows, with upgrade instructions:

Ubuntu announced its 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) release almost 5 years ago, on April 17, 2014. 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 14.04 will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on Thursday, April 25th, 2019.

Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 18.04 LTS release via 16.04. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 14.04 is via Ubuntu 16.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrades may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenialUpgrades for Ubuntu 16.04 and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BionicUpgrades for Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 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 14.04 LTS to customers through Ubuntu Advantage. The announcement including details about how and where to purchase extended support can be found here:

https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/02/05/ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr

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 customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Wed May 1 23:18:57 UTC 2019 by Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 576

By guiverc | Published: 2019-04-29

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 576 for the week of April 21 – 27, 2019. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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!

Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 575

By wildmanne39 | Published: 2019-04-22

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 575 for the week of April 14 – 20, 2019. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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!

Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License

Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) released

By guiverc | Published: 2019-04-19

Codenamed “Disco Dingo”, 19.04 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, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.0 based Linux kernel, our default toolchain has moved to gcc 8.3 with glibc 2.29, and we’ve also updated to openssl 1.1.1b and gnutls 3.6.5 with TLS1.3 support.

Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 introduces GNOME 3.32 with increased performance, smoother startup animations, quicker icon load times and reduced CPU+GPU load. Fractional scaling for HiDPI screens is now available in Xorg and Wayland.

Ubuntu Server 19.04 integrates recent innovations from key open infrastructure projects like OpenStack Stein, Kubernetes, and Ceph with advanced life-cycle management for multi-cloud and on-prem operations, from bare metal, VMware and OpenStack to every major public cloud.

The newest Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, 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:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiscoDingo/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 19.04.

To get Ubuntu 19.04

In order to download Ubuntu 19.04, visit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 18.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 19.04 if they have selected to be notified of all releases, rather than just LTS upgrades. For further information about upgrading, see:

http://www.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:

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiscoDingo/ReleaseNotes

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
http://www.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:

#ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
http://www.ubuntuforums.org
http://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:

http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks 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:

http://www.ubuntu.com/support

More Information

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

http://www.ubuntu.com

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

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

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu Apr 18 13:13:39 UTC 2019 by Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team