Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 811

By guiverc | Published: 2023-10-30

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 811 for the week of October 22 – 28, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • The Ubuntu Summit
  • Canonical reaffirms 10 year LTS of Linux kernel and Ubuntu
  • Noble Numbat is now open for development
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Mantic Minotaur (23.10) Release Party at Tarragona (Saturday November 18, 2023)
  • LoCo Events
  • Reworking Mir “graphics platform” APIs
  • Incoming Rockcraft changes
  • Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Release Party in Crete, Greece
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 20.04, 22.04, 23.04 and 23.10
  • And much more!

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!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 810

By guiverc | Published: 2023-10-23

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 810 for the week of October 15 – 21, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • And many others

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Call for nominations for the Local Communities Council

By guiverc | Published: 2023-10-19

We’re looking for a number of motivated people that want to restart the Local Communities (LoCo) Council. Although the council has been vacant for some time, its mission is still important and demanded by the community.

The LoCo Council is a board of people who are in charge of empowering and helping out (Loco Teams) worldwide. Their members have two-year terms, and we have five open seats at the Council.

Who we are looking for

– You are an Ubuntu Member.
– You show humanity, gentleness and kindness in your communication.
– You create a welcoming atmosphere.
– You want to invest time in the next year to restart the operations of the LoCo Council and support the community.
– You are willing to meet with the other council members once or twice a month on IRC, and contribute on the council mailing list.

What you get

– You have the opportunity to play a significant role in building the future of the Ubuntu community.
– You get wide recognition of your contributions with a high-profile, elected, position.
– You get the power to shape the LoCo council, including their decision making structure and responsibilities.

The LoCo Council is currently inactive and will be reconstituted with this election. You can find more information about the previous tasks and descriptions of the LoCo Council at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

How to apply

If this sounds like you, or a person you know, please send your nominations to community-council at lists.ubuntu.com.

Please include the name, Launchpad ID, and Ubuntu Wiki page for whom you are nominating, as well as a few lines about the nominee, so the Community Council can get an idea of why you/they would like to join the Council and why you/they would like to be considered. If you nominate someone else, please make sure that they are aware of their nomination.

The Community Council welcomes nominations from all over the world and from any LoCo Team, verified or not. Nominees do not need to be Team Contacts or Team Leads. However, they need people active on their teams and naturally must be current Ubuntu Members.

Nominations are now open and will close on Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 23:59 UTC. After that, the Community Council will review the submissions and will set up an election.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-news-team mailing list on Wed Oct 18 19:44:08 UTC 2023 by Torsten Franz, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council. Post can also be read at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-for-the-local-communities-council/39557/1

Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) released

By guiverc | Published: 2023-10-16

Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”, 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.

Security takes center stage in this release with experimental support for TPM-backed full disk encryption landing on Ubuntu Desktop. Based on the same architecture as Ubuntu Core, encryption keys are stored in the Trusted Platform Module and only released by authenticated boot software to protect against device tampering.

PPAs are now added as deb822-formatted .sources files where keys are directly embedded into the file’s signed-by field to create a 1:1 mapping between the PPA and its key.

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 is based on GNOME 45 and sports a brand new App Center built in Flutter. This delivers a fast, intuitive way to manage both snap and deb packages on your machine and lays the groundwork for a richer store experience using snap metadata going forward. This release also sees the return of ZFS guided install, and a change of the default install flow to prefer a streamlined set of default packages.

Ubuntu administrators will benefit from the inclusion of Netplan as the default backend for storing NetworkManager settings, unifying the Server and Desktop networking experience. Fleet management has also been improved with a new `pro enable Landscape` quickstart enrollment feature and the inclusion of certificate auto-enrollment policies for Active Directory as part of ADsys.

Ubuntu 23.10 delivers the latest toolchains and runtimes for Python, Java, Go, C, C++, Rust, and .NET. This release also includes the latest version of `docker.io` and the addition of both `docker-buildx` and `docker-compose-v2` to support Docker developers on Ubuntu.

Finally, we are excited to announce that Ubuntu 23.10 will support the latest Raspberry Pi 5 upon its release later this year.

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/mantic-minotaur-release-notes/#heading–official-flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 23.10.

To get Ubuntu 23.10

In order to download Ubuntu 23.10, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 23.04 will be shortly offered an automatic upgrade to 23.10. 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/mantic-minotaur-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:

#ubuntu on irc.libera.chat
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
https://ubuntuforums.org
https://askubuntu.com
https://discourse.ubuntu.com

Help Shape Ubuntu

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/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 Mon Oct 16 22:31:37 UTC 2023 by Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 809

By guiverc | Published: 2023-10-16

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 809 for the week of October 8 – 14, 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!

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