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General Community News
Weekly Ubuntu Development Update
Daniel Holbach posted a summary of the current state of Oneiric development. It includes upcoming dates and milestones relevant to developers, a discussion with Paolo Sammicheli on his experiences as a developer, and tips about getting involved with Ubuntu.
More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1013
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011
The support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011. Ubuntu Security Notices no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-May/000148.html
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life
On June 1st, 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" was released. Ubuntu supplies security updates and critical fixes for a period of 5 years for LTS (long term support) releases. The period in which these fixes and updates are supplied has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-June/000149.html
Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released
The first Alpha release of Oneiric Ocelot is out. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Oneiric. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-June/000853.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (89375) +8842 over last week
- Critical (135) +97 over last week
- Unconfirmed (49726) +4198 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translation Stats Lucid
- English (UK) (8) -4378 over last week
- Spanish (5858) -2836 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (27205) -2772 over last week
- French (34565) -4995 over last week
- Turkish (43273) -8114 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Switch windows more easily using Unity launcher - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28065/
Option for invisible mouse cursor. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28094/
Login screen appears to "freeze" after entering password - not a bug - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28063/
Using Ubuntu on USB is quite not easy - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28091/
Bluetooth Applet only shows in deprecated Notification Area - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28067/
Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
LoCo News
Ubuntu Community Week: It's New!
A new learning event titled "Ubuntu Community Week" is starting this cycle which aims to help Ubuntu users find the community, participate in the community, create your community, and much more. This event is scheduled to take place from Mon 18 July - Fri 22 July, 2011.
More information can be found at http://randall.executiv.es/ucw . If you're interested in presenting, there's a call for presenters at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005413.html
We want to know about the best LoCo Team Blogs!
If you have a blog that you use to post about the awesome things your LoCo Team does, then you should add it to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoPortalFeeds . The new loco.ubuntu.com will use some of those feeds to provide people with an overview of all of the amazing things going on in the LoCo community.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005401.html
Leo Iannacone: Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme
The theme for Planet Ubuntu-it has been updated to match the Ubuntu website style. The code is available on Launchpad for people to modify.
More information can be found at: http://en.leoiannacone.com/?p=182
Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Team re approvals are underway
1 week after being announced, 3 LoCo teams out of a total of 27 teams have submitted applications for re-approval. The LoCo Council is using bugs on Launchpad to track re-approval statuatuses. Teams can also request to have their applications reviewed at the LoCo Council's monthly IRC meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda
More information can be found at: http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1037
Alan Bell: Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs
Alan Bell announced that while his chickens might enjoy playing with the CDs, the Ubuntu UK LoCo would rather send them to people who need them. People on dialup can request a CD by emailing alanbell [at] ubuntu.com with a clear subject saying you would like a CD and then sending a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough to hold a CD to the address he replies with. The LoCo will also be giving CDs to people distributing recycled PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu so that they can also include a CD with the computer, and to people representing Ubuntu at events and conferences.
More information can be found at: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2937
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
The Fridge: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011
Kate Stewart announced that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) officially ended on May 1, 2011. There will no longer be Security Notices or updated packages released for it. Information about upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is available here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades
More information can be found here: http://ubuntu-news.org/?p=3640
Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans
Jono discusses his plans to make the LoCo Directory more tab-worthy, a hub of activity, and to encourage teams to share updates and other achievements. He is going to be having phone calls with several people to try and make these goals a reality. He has also prepared an initial design for how this LoCo Team Portal could look.
More information can be found here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/
Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad
The Ubuntu Friendly program (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly) is a community-driven hardware validation program. They have just created the Ubuntu Friendly Squad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad) for people to start participating in the program. People participating at this stage will be helping to get the team organized. There is a mailing list and a Launchpad project (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly) for people interested in getting involved.
More information can be found here: http://arapulido.com/?p=389
Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved
Daniel discusses his top 3 ideas for getting people involved in contributing to Ubuntu. They are:
- The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly.
- The documentation needs to be clear.
- Contributors need to find their first tasks easily.
He also mentions that people are still actively working on revamping the Packaging Guide and that the ubuntu-dev-tools package contains a bitesize script for marking bugs that are appropriate for new contributors to work on.
More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1000
Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric
Jono talks about the different projects that the members of the community team (Jono Bacon, Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, and Ahmed Kamal) will be working on during the Oneiric development cycle. Some other misceclaneous activities that they will be working on include:
- A mentoring program
- Various Classroom events
- Release Parties
- Ubuntu Developer Summit
and bringing LoCo teams to the next level
More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3415
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 9th 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2011/20110609
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 9th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-06-09
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
Security Updates
USN-1144-1: Subversion vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1144-1
USN-1122-3: Thunderbird regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1122-3
USN-1146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1
USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
subversion 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012336.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012337.html
lupin 0.29.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012338.html
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.904+svn827-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012339.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012340.html
oss4 4.2-build2002-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012341.html
libimobiledevice 0.9.7-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012342.html
flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012343.html
multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu11.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012344.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-14ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012345.html
dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012346.html
dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012347.html
sysvinit 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012348.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.9 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012349.html
unbound 1.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012350.html
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009488.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009489.html
lupin 0.32.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009490.html
libimobiledevice 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009491.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009492.html
flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009493.html
dovecot 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009494.html
lintian 2.4.3ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009495.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009496.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009497.html
unbound 1.4.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009498.html
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
amarok 2:2.4.0-0ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011928.html
sandboxgamemaker 2.6.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011929.html
unscd 0.47-2build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011930.html
icedtea-web 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011931.html
unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011932.html
empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011933.html
pyside 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011934.html
foolscap 0.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011935.html
system-config-printer 1.3.1+20110222-0ubuntu16.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011936.html
ipython 0.10.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011937.html
gnome-user-docs 3.0.0+git20110406ubuntu10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011938.html
subversion- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011939.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011940.html
flashplugin-nonfree- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011941.html
lyx 2.0.0-1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011942.html
bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011943.html
libwx-perl 1:0.98-1build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011944.html
emerald 0.7.2-0ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011945.html
aeskulap 0.2.2b1-7ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011946.html
compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011947.html
compiz-plugins-main 0.9.4+bzr20110527-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011948.html
mini-dinstall 0.6.28.1ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011949.html
cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011950.html
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.3.99+git20110116.0e27ce3a-0ubuntu12.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011951.html
foo2zjs 20110210dfsg-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011952.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.11.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011953.html
qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011954.html
vlc- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011955.html
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