Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 794

By guiverc | Published: 2023-07-03

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 794 for the week of June 25 – July 1, 2023. 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 793

By guiverc | Published: 2023-06-26

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 793 for the week of June 18 – 24, 2023. 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 792

By guiverc | Published: 2023-06-19

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 792 for the week of June 11 – 17, 2023. 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

Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS began on May 31, 2023

By guiverc | Published: 2023-06-17

This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent one month ago to confirm that as of May 31, 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS standard support has ended. No more package updates are planned to be accepted to the primary archive of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Remember that if you can’t upgrade to 20.04 LTS or later immediately, Canonical provides Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to users with Ubuntu Pro. You can find more info about Ubuntu Pro here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support
https://ubuntu.com/esm

The original Extended Support warning follows, with upgrade instructions:

Ubuntu announced its 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) release 5 years ago, on April 26, 2018. 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 18.04 LTS will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 22.04 LTS release via 20.04 LTS. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is via Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrades may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FocalUpgrades for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JammyUpgrades for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 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 18.04 LTS to customers through Ubuntu Pro. Further information can be found here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-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 customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-annouce mailing list on Thu Jun 15 14:51:08 UTC 2023 by Utkarsh Gupta

Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) reaches End of Life on July 20 2023

By guiverc | Published: 2023-06-14

Ubuntu announced its 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release almost 9 months ago, on October 20, 2022, and its support period is now nearing its end. Ubuntu 22.10 will reach end of life on July 20, 2023.

At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 22.10.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 22.10 is via Ubuntu 23.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LunarUpgrades

Ubuntu 23.04 continues to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. Announcements of security updates 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

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 Jun 14 08:49:16 UTC 2023 by Łukasz ‘sil2100’ Zemczak, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.