Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 901 for the week of July 13 - 19, 2025.
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    • Muhammad Syazwan Md Khusaini (jipangmenjerit); Ubuntu Membership
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  • LXD: Weekly news #403
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2025-07-15
    • Rocks Public Journal moved to Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter
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    • +1 maintenance report - Week 28, 2025
    • Foundations Team Updates - 2025-07-17
    • Ubuntu Flavor sync meeting notes: July 14, 2025
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  • UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록/취소, 당일 체크인 등 안내
  • UbuCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa 2025
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  • Multipass: your cloud starts here
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  • Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
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    • Canonical at RISC-V Summit China 2025
    • Let’s meet at AI4 and talk about AI infrastructure with open source
    • ESWIN Computing launches the EBC77 Series Single Board Computer with Ubuntu
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  • Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025
  • Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support
  • Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode
  • Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 “Kepler” GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
  • Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17
  • Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADVAdditional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV
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  • Podcast:
    • Ubuntu Portugal: E356 - Os Esquilos de Ésquilo
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General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: # (+/-#)
  • Critical: # (+/-#)
  • Unconfirmed: # (+/-#)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Meeting Reports

Team leads are responsible to summarize
Otherwise will be demoted to the “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

LXD: Weekly news #403

The highlight of the past week was significant improvements to the LXD UI, including dark mode and support for managing storage bucket keys. Additionally, LXD received several bug fixes, primarily improving storage operations.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/weekly-news-403/64409

Rocks Public Journal; 2025-07-15

Chisel v1.2.0 is out, introducing support for hard links and handling of path conflicts. The Python3.13 rock is now available in Docker Hub and ECR.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/project/rocks/117

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and farther dates please visit: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

LoCo News

UbuCon Korea 2025 참가등록/취소, 당일 체크인 등 안내

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubucon-korea-2025/50056

UbuCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa 2025

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubucon-africa-and-djangocon-africa-2025

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please see:

The Hub

Multipass: your cloud starts here

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-your-cloud-starts-here/64557

The Planet

Other Community News

Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

https://www.phoronix.com/news/R600-RV770-Fixes-Mesa-25.2

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-Mesa-Default

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vulkan-AV1-Decode

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-BCM5770X-BNGE-6.17

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 “Kepler” GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-Vulkan-1.2

Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enables-BMG-SR-IOV-Linux

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT-Mesa-25.2

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 356 - Os Esquilos de Ésquilo

“A semana que passou foi uma tragédia grega, estamos exaustos, porém, (ESQUILO!) cheios de esperança. Falámos de projectos de electrónica semi-falhados, anéis espertos, aplicações para Ubuntu Touch (com snaps!), Waydroid, (ESQUILO!), novidades da OTA-9, jogos antigos que nunca morrem e activistas que não os deixam morrer, Ambientes Virtualizados para Linux, agenda do mês, (ESQUILO!) Youtubers que se convertem para linux e ainda dissemos mal daquelas miniaturas bregas dos vídeos do Youtube, que nunca usamos porque temos o Invidious…ESQUILO! E preparem-se…o Flutter vem aí e vai abrir uma barragem de aplicações para Ubuntu Touch!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e356/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 24.10 Updates

End of Life: July 10, 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2026

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