Issue375


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. 12.04.x HWE Stack EOL Notification
    2. Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) End of Life reached on July 17 2014
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubucon LatinAmerica Speakers! #1
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Juju 1.20 is out the door!
    2. Brightbox now offering official Ubuntu images
  6. The Planet
    1. Jonathan Riddell: Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 announcements
    2. The Fridge: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
    3. The Fridge: [Proposed] Ubuntu Online Summit dates: 4-6 Nov 2014
    4. Lubuntu Blog: PCManFM 1.2.1
    5. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Content Hub to replace Friends API
    6. Lubuntu Blog: Box support for MATE
    7. Nicholas Skaggs: A new test runner approaches
  7. Other Community News
    1. Upstart 1.13 released
    2. Unity8 & Mir update July 8 & 15, 2014
  8. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
    2. “Sometimes the best man for the job isn’t.”
    3. Canonical welcomes Brightbox to its Certified Public Cloud Programme as first European partner
  9. In The Press
    1. This Feisty Linux Company Has An Interesting Plan To Topple Android
  10. In The Blogosphere
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E15 – The One with the Thumb
    2. Ubuntu Quality Utopic Hackfest
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E16 – The One with the Race Car Bed
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 13.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 375 for the weeks July 7 - 20, 2014.

In This Issue

  • 12.04.x HWE Stack EOL Notification
  • Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) End of Life reached on July 17 2014
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • Ubucon LatinAmerica Speakers! #1

  • Juju 1.20 is out the door!
  • Brightbox now offering official Ubuntu images
  • Jonathan Riddell: Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 announcements
  • The Fridge: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
  • The Fridge: [Proposed] Ubuntu Online Summit dates: 4-6 Nov 2014
  • Lubuntu Blog: PCManFM 1.2.1
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Content Hub to replace Friends API
  • Lubuntu Blog: Box support for MATE
  • Nicholas Skaggs: A new test runner approaches
  • Upstart 1.13 released

  • Unity8 & Mir update July 8 & 15, 2014

  • Canonical News
  • This Feisty Linux Company Has An Interesting Plan To Topple Android
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

12.04.x HWE Stack EOL Notification

Leann Ogasawara announces the upcoming End of Life for the 12.04.x HWE Stack. She mentions that “on August 7, 2014, the 5th and final point release for 12.04 (ie. 12.04.5) will deliver the kernel and graphics stack derived from 14.04. At that time, security updates and bug fixes for older hardware enablement stacks will no longer be provided.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-July/000186.html

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) End of Life reached on July 17 2014

Adam Conrad sends a follow-up to the announcement sent out last month, stating that as of July 17th, 2014, Ubuntu 13.10 is no longer supported. "No more package updates will be accepted to 13.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks," he mentions.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-July/000187.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (111254) +495 over last week
  • Critical (170) -4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (55588) +326 over last week

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Mikołaj Bartnicki (http://askubuntu.com/users/280493/mikolaj-bartnicki), Rana Muhammad Waqas (http://askubuntu.com/users/197678/rana-muhammad-waqas), AthloX (http://askubuntu.com/users/57224/athlox), Creator (http://askubuntu.com/users/288159/creator) and steeldriver (http://askubuntu.com/users/178692/steeldriver)

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Ubucon LatinAmerica Speakers! #1

Sergio Meneses announces the first round of speakers for UbuCon Latin America this year, including Bhavani Shankar, Marcos Alvarez Costales, Fernando Lanero, Fernando García Amen and Darwin Proaño Orellana. The event will be taking place during August in Cartagena, Colombia.

http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/ubucon-latinoamerica-speakers-1/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Juju 1.20 is out the door!

Jorge Castro announces the release of Juju 1.20, with many improvements, including High Availability, Availability Zone Placement, and improvements to LXC an MAAS components.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/07/08/juju-1-dot-20-is-out-the-door/

Brightbox now offering official Ubuntu images

Jorge Castro lets us know that Brightbox is now offering official Ubuntu images for their users to create Ubuntu Cloud instances.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/07/16/brightbox-now-offering-official-ubuntu-images/

The Planet

Jonathan Riddell: Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 announcements

Jonathan Riddell writes that Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 are almost out of the door and ready for release, and in follow up posts announces the formal release of Plasma 5 and a release event in Barcelona.

https://blogs.kde.org/2014/07/07/frameworks-5-and-plasma-5-almost-done

https://blogs.kde.org/2014/07/17/plasma-51-kickoff

https://blogs.kde.org/2014/07/17/barcelona-plasma-and-kde-frameworks-50-release-party

The Fridge: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members

Elizabeth K. Joseph announces the appointment or membership renewal for the Ubuntu Membership Board.

  • Alan Pope
  • Rick Spencer
  • Marco Ceppi
  • Chris Wayne
  • Svetlana Belkin
  • John Chiazzese
  • C de-Avillez
  • Pablo Rubianes
  • Silver Fox

Congratulations to the new and renewed members of the team!

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/07/07/new-ubuntu-membership-board-members-2/

The Fridge: [Proposed] Ubuntu Online Summit dates: 4-6 Nov 2014

Daniel Holbach proposes the dates for the next Ubuntu Online Summit. Holbach also mentions that these are still open for discussion, as there is currently a conflict with another event, and a link to the thread on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list where this is being discussed is also included.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/07/08/ubuntu-online-summit-dates-4-6-nov-2014/

Lubuntu Blog: PCManFM 1.2.1

Rafael Laguna announces the 1.2.1 release of PCManFM, including fixes for tons of bugs and new implementations.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2014/07/pcmanfm-121.html

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Content Hub to replace Friends API

Michael Hall lets us know of the migration of the Friends API to the Content Hub. He also writes about consolidating the APIs, as well as what it means for App Developers.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/07/content-hub-to-replace-friends-api/

Lubuntu Blog: Box support for MATE

Rafael Laguna announces the release of the Box theme being natively supported in Lubuntu. It can now be downloaded by anyone who wants to give it a try.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2014/07/box-support-for-mate.html

Nicholas Skaggs: A new test runner approaches

Nicholas Skaggs writes about a new tool inside autopkgtest. He mentions the current problem and solution to this, what it means, and asks everyone for feedback about this new tool.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/07/a-new-test-runner-approaches.html

Other Community News

Upstart 1.13 released

James Hunt announces the 1.13 release of Upstart, listing a summary of the changes.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/upstart-devel/2014-July/003313.html

Unity8 & Mir update July 8 & 15, 2014

Kevin Gunn lets us know the latest about Unity8 and Mir.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg08965.html

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg09050.html

Canonical News

Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions

Read the story of the City of Munich, who migrated 12,000 workstations to Linux in 2012 and saved the city more than 10 million euros.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/07/07/ubuntu-and-open-source-help-the-city-of-munich-save-millions/

“Sometimes the best man for the job isn’t.”

Jane Silber writes an article about the woman currently working at Canonical.

http://blog.canonical.com/2014/07/14/sometimes-the-best-man-for-the-job-isnt/

Canonical welcomes Brightbox to its Certified Public Cloud Programme as first European partner

A warm welcome is given to Brightbox as the first European partner to the Certified Public Cloud Programme. Brightbox is now offering official Ubuntu Cloud images.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/07/16/canonical-welcomes-brightbox-to-its-certified-public-cloud-programme-as-first-european-partner/

In The Press

This Feisty Linux Company Has An Interesting Plan To Topple Android

Julie Bort of Business Insider interviews Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical, about Canonical’s plans for mobile in a space with such big competitors and keeping app developers happy.

http://www.businessinsider.com/canonical-plans-to-topple-android-2014-7

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E15 – The One with the Thumb

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Fifteen of the Ubuntu Podcast!

  • We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
    • Microsoft seized 22 domain names from no-ip.com…
    • Soofas: benches with solar-powered charging stations…
    • KDE gives up on the low-cost, totally non-proprietary tablet for now…
    • ATVOD regulator requires online video blog to submit to broadcasting regulation…
    • ISPs take GCHQ to court over privacy breaches…
    • Shotwell and Geary free software projects are denied tax-exempt status in the US…
    • Former Merrill-Lynch CEO requests the right to be forgotten by Google…
    • CentOS 7 is released…
    • Open Rights Group launches blocked.org…
  • We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community

  • Upcoming OggCamp 2014 news

  • And more!

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/07/10/s07e15-the-one-with-the-thumb/

Ubuntu Quality Utopic Hackfest

Nicholas Skaggs hosts the Quality Hackfest for the Utopic cycle at Ubuntu on Air!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lAmjBr-Khw

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E16 – The One with the Race Car Bed

In this week’s show:

  • We interview David Hermann about his MiracleCast project…

  • We also discuss:
    • Getting a dashcam…
    • Going to Bruges…
    • Reading a Stephen King book (Pet Sematary) for the first time…
    • And something that we’ll never know now…

  • We share some Command Line Lurve: YouTube-Upload to upload videos to YouTube from the command line

And we read your feedback, including:

  • Simon's link to Seafile
  • ”’full screen cast email here when we have permission”’

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/07/17/s07e16-the-one-with-the-race-car-bed/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 13.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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