Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 572 for the week of March 24 - 30, 2019. The wiki page of this issue is available
here.
In this Issue
- Nominations Open for UK Open Source Awards
- Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta released
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Kdenlive Devs Had a Sprint, Made This Awesome Vid
- Ubucon Portugal 2019
- LoCo Events
- Mir News: 29th of March 2019
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Audio and Video
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 18.10
- And much more!
General Community News
Nominations Open for UK Open Source Awards
Jonathan Riddell advises of the sixth UK Open Source Awards, to be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 12 June 2019. Nominations are now open for the awards ; Categories and criteria for nominations are provided.
https://jriddell.org/2019/03/26/nomi...source-awards/
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta released
Adam Conrad of the Ubuntu Release team announces the beta pre-release of the Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop, Server and Cloud products. This also includes Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu-Budgie, Ubuntu-Kylin, Ubuntu-MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu flavors. Instructions on reporting bugs are included, as all testing resulting in comments, bug reports or patches will help improve this release.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ch/004743.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
Rik Mills : MOTU Application
Eric Desrochers, on behalf of the DMB. announces the granting to Rik Mills (acheronuk) MOTU privileges.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ch/002845.html
Congratulations to this contributor!
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open: 134839 (-8)
- Critical: 386 (-3)
- Unconfirmed: 66324 (+53)
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translations
- Ukrainian: 87.57% (33949/2772)
- German: 85.84% (38690/2)
- Spanish: 85.26% (40264/1964)
- French: 80.64% (52884/5861)
- Bosnian: 79.92% (54849/155)
Hot in Support
Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions
Ask (and answer!) questions at:
https://askubuntu.com/
Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads
Find more support at:
https://ubuntuforums.org/
LoCo News
Kdenlive Devs Had a Sprint, Made This Awesome Vid
Joey Sneddon writes about Kdenlive as a great open-source video editor, and that the Kdenlive team recently had a Sprint in Lyon, France to improve buffering of the editor's refactoring branch ahead of the coming release. A video of some of the Sprint is included.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/...is-awesome-vid
Ubucon Portugal 2019
Diogo Miguel Constantino Dos Santos (diogoconstantino) writes to invite all to the first Ubucon Portugal 2019 event on the 6th of April. Additional help is requested to manage the event and the booth. Diogo provides links for more details and contacts.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuco...gal-2019/10399
LoCo Events
The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:
Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/
The Hub
Mir News: 29th of March 2019
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) reports of continuing fixes in non-standard build environments and Wayland extension support. While work also continues to merge the layer-shell branch into Mate snap, WLCS 1.0 is nearing release. We are advised of several threads opening for discussion for designs to make a MirAL framework snap work with snaps.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-n...rch-2019/10409
Canonical News
In the Blogosphere
Canonical Reportedly Not Planning To Enable Wayland-By-Default For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Michael Larabel reminds us of the short term Ubuntu 17.10 GNOME & Wayland defaults before switching back to X.Org, with X.Org looking to remain for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Michael provides some clues as to his sources, and views on where Fedora too is going with Wayland. Whilst we can still choose to use Wayland on Ubuntu, don't expect to see it the default before at least Ubuntu 20.10.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...ault-20.04-LTS
NVIDIA Lands Fix To Avoid High CPU Usage When Using The KDE Desktop
Michael Larabel reports on the the resolution by NVIDIA engineer Erik Kurzinger for the long standing high CPU load under the KDE desktop (Bug #322060) issue. The workaround will no longer be required in the next KDE Plasma release - Plasma 5.16, though the variable (GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1) can still be set in current KDE Plasma environments.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...E-High-CPU-Fix
In Other News
Asus Just Gave You 1 Million Reasons To Switch From Windows To Linux
Jason Evangelho reminds us of the recent Kaspersky ShadowHammer alert about Asus laptop users distributing malware through the Asus Live Update utility hidden as a legit-update. Jason explores why Ubuntu and Linux is safer and how Canonical's packaging of Ubuntu helps to achieve security.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev.../#38fd62b44a4a
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 25
Ghostscript is back to haunt us for another week, plus we look at vulnerabilities in ntfs-3g, snapd, firefox and more.
https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-25/
Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Security Team: Mon, April 1, 4:30pm 5:30pm
- Desktop Team: Tue, April 2, 3:30pm 4:30pm
- Kernel Team: Tue, April 2, 5pm 6pm
- Ubuntu Translations: Thu, April 4, 3pm 4pm
- Ubuntu Foundations: Thu, April 4, 3pm 4pm
- Community Council: Thu, April 4, 5pm 7pm
- Ubuntu Membership Board: Thu, April 4, 8pm 9pm
- Ubuntu Membership Board: Thu, April 4, 10pm 11pm
For more details and farther dates please visit:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/
Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 18.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
End of Life: April 2019
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
End of Life: April 2021
Ubuntu 18.04 Updates
End of Life: April 2023
Ubuntu 18.10 Updates
End of Life: July 2019
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