Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017

By lyz | Published: 2017-03-15

Ubuntu announced its 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) release almost 5 years ago, on April 26, 2012. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 12.04 will reach end of life on Friday, April 28th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 12.04.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 12.04 is via Ubuntu 14.04. Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 16.04 LTS release via 14.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrades may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TrustyUpgrades and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenialUpgrades. Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 continue to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security pdates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at:

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

For users who can’t upgrade immediately, Canonical has just announced an extended support package for Ubuntu Advantage customers, which will keep delivering security updates while you evaluate your upgrades to newer releases. The announcement, with details about how and where to purchase extended support, can be found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2017-March/000217.html

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-security-announce mailing list on Wed Mar 15 00:58:05 UTC 2017 by Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team

Upcoming Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: Call for nominations

By lyz | Published: 2017-03-14

The membership of Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre in the Developer Membership board will be expiring shortly and Adam Conrad’s membership will expire a few months after that. Subsequently, this email is a call for nominations to fill both of their positions although one elected developer will not begin their term immediately.

The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu developers themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when to entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu membership status.

The new member will be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad will be eligible to vote. To ensure that you receive a ballot in the initial mail, please add a visible email address to your Launchpad profile (although there will be an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not wish to do this).

The term of the new board members will be at least two years (there will be some changes to terms to get these two positions to share the same expiration date). Providing at least three valid nominations are received, voting will commence on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 and will last for approximately 7 days, ending on or around Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting thereafter.

Please send GPG-signed nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.

If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.

Please consider writing a short statement on your wiki page if nominated so that others get a better idea of for whom they are voting. If you include a link to this wiki page in your nomination mail or a followup, the DMB will share it when the call for votes begins.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Tue Mar 14 21:44:49 UTC 2017 by Brian Murray, on behalf of the DMB

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 502

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2017-03-14

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #502 for the week March 6 – March 12, 2017, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • Jose Antonio Rey
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • 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, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 501

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2017-03-07

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #501 for the week of February 27 – March 5, 2017, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Chris Guiver
  • Paul White
  • Simon Quigley
  • David Morfin
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • 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, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

IRC Council call for nominations 2017

By lyz | Published: 2017-03-01

The current IRC council has two members whose two year terms are ending. This means it is now election season. The expiring council members are:

  • Elky (Melissa Draper)
  • Flannel (Neal Bussett)

Details about the IRC Council and its charter may be viewed here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil. Council members serve a two year term, and may stand for multiple terms.

As explained on the wiki page the election process is as follows:

  • An open call for nominations should be announced in the IRC Community, and people can nominate themselves for a seat on the council. Any Ubuntu member is welcome to apply.
  • To apply for a seat the candidate must create a Wiki page outlining their work in the community, and inviting others to provide testimonials.
  • When the application deadline has passed, the IRC Council will review the applications and provide feedback on the candidates for the Community Council to review.
  • The Community Council will identify a shortlist for the board and circulate the list publicly for feedback from the community.
  • The shortlist identified by the Community Council will be voted upon by team members as described at CommunityCouncil/Delegation. Members of the Ubuntu IRC Members Team are eligible to vote.
  • The Community Council will then finalize the appointment of IRC Council members.

PLEASE NOTE: once started, the voting pool (collected from the Ubuntu IRC Members Team list) will not be changed. So… please make sure you are a member of the team. The only exception to this will be current members that hide emails

Originally posted to the ubuntu-irc mailing list on Tue Feb 28 20:07:05 UTC 2017 by C de-Avillez