Issue477


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released
  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. Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party San Francisco Concluded!
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Luke Faraone: Snappy Sprint Heidelberg
    2. Laura Czajkowski: NoSQL Podcast: Service deployments with JuJu Charms
    3. Aaron Honeycutt: Working with github
    4. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Snapd 2.11/Snapcraft 2.13: downgrade installed snaps, release to users from the command line
    5. Ubuntu GNOME: The Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Wallpaper contest has started, guys!
    6. Justin McPherson: Introducing React Native Ubuntu
  7. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns
    2. Best Converged Apps!
    3. Use any app from your Ubuntu Phone or Desktop!
    4. How the M10 tablet can save you luggage space!
  8. Canonical News
  9. In The Press
    1. You Can Finally Buy These Old-School Disney Games on GOG
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 16.10 To Ship with Nautilus 3.20
    2. Well That Only Took Forever: Ubuntu Phone To Finally Add iCal, CalDav Support
    3. Bored? Check Out These New Ubuntu Phone Videos
    4. Canonical Plans to Unify and Clean Up Networking Configuration in Ubuntu Linux
    5. Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Is the Last in the Series, Brings Xenial Xerus' Linux Kernel
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 2nd August 2016
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E23 – German Sparkle Party - Ubuntu Podcast
    3. Full Circle Weekly News #29
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 16.04 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 477 for the week August 1 - 7, 2016.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party San Francisco Concluded!

  • LoCo Events

  • Luke Faraone: Snappy Sprint Heidelberg

  • Laura Czajkowski: NoSQL Podcast: Service deployments with JuJu Charms

  • Aaron Honeycutt: Working with github
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Snapd 2.11/Snapcraft 2.13: downgrade installed snaps, release to users from the command line
  • Ubuntu GNOME: The Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Wallpaper contest has started, guys!

  • Justin McPherson: Introducing React Native Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. He shares that key features of this point release include an updated kernel, stability improvements, and increased hardware support across all architectures. He goes on to provide links for downloading this release as well as flavor variants of the release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2016-August/000211.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (124721) +262 over last week
  • Critical (359) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (61461) +157 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: heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl), andrew.46 (http://askubuntu.com/users/57576/andrew-46), Zanna (http://askubuntu.com/users/527764/zanna), Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg) and luchonacho (http://askubuntu.com/users/308164/luchonacho)

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party San Francisco Concluded!

Elizabeth K. Joseph writes about the Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party in San Francisco and shares her experience hosting the event. She writes, “The space was excellent, having power strips set up at a pair of tables near the entrance, a whole area of seating for the presentation and an open floor plan that lent itself to casual chats as well as pulling out laptops to swap tips with each other.” She shares other details and her slide notes from the presentation she gave.

http://princessleia.com/journal/2016/08/ubuntu-16-04-release-party-san-francisco-concluded/

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 Planet

Luke Faraone: Snappy Sprint Heidelberg

Luke Faraone blogs about Snappy after attending a recent Snappy sprint focused on upstream and cross-distribution collaboration. Luke tells us of advances in confinement with non-Ubuntu distros and other topics discussed at the sprint. He also mentions that he has agreed to co-maintain snapd in Debian.

http://blog.luke.wf/2016/07/snappy-sprint-heidelberg.html

Laura Czajkowski: NoSQL Podcast: Service deployments with JuJu Charms

Laura Czajkowski writes about a recent episode of the NoSQL podcast where she is joined by Michael Hall of Canonical and Juju contributor José Antonio Rey. Together, they review the process for creating Juju charms and the advantages to using them.

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2016/08/02/nosql-podcast-service-deployments-with-juju-charms/

Aaron Honeycutt: Working with github

Aaron Honeycutt tells us about his GitHub usage has been since late July contributing to projects such as UBports, Magic Device Tool, and the Kubuntu Manual. Aaron also writes about his work on the Kubuntu Podcast.

http://usefoss.com/index.php/2016/08/04/working-with-github/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Snapd 2.11/Snapcraft 2.13: downgrade installed snaps, release to users from the command line

The new version of Snapd is out and comes with many new commands and features. David Callé writes about the new features and commands that are included such as buy, find private, and many more. He also talks about the improvements to the Java Plugins and some useful interface changes.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/08/04/snapd-211-snapcraft213/

Ubuntu GNOME: The Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Wallpaper contest has started, guys!

Alfredo Hernández informs us that the Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 wallpaper contest has started. Ten wallpapers will be selected for the 16.10 release from entries, and rules for entry in the contest are provided.

http://ubuntugnome.org/the-ubuntu-gnome-16-10-wallpaper-contest-has-started-guys/

Justin McPherson: Introducing React Native Ubuntu

Justin McPherson of the Webapps team at Canonical tells us about React.js; a UI framework. Along with HTML5 application support, React Native applications will now run on the Ubuntu platform. A link to instructions is provided.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/08/05/introducing-react-native-ubuntu/

Ubuntu Phone News

App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns

Steph Welson from the Canonical Design Team talks about the release of the second phase of the app design guides containing various features like navigation and layouts. These are the sequels to the phase one release which included the get started and the building blocks.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/08/app-design-guides-phase-2-release-patterns/

In a post by Steph on Ubuntu Insights, the phases of the App Design Guidelines are outlined: http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/02/the-app-design-guides-go-live-bit-by-bit-2/

Best Converged Apps!

Amrisha Prashar writes about the results of the recent competition to see which apps converged the best on all Ubuntu devices. She lists the five winners and some brief reasons why they were chosen.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/02/best-converged-apps/

Use any app from your Ubuntu Phone or Desktop!

Amrisha Prashar writes about the new feature in Ubuntu phones and tablets to run traditional Ubuntu deb packages on Unity 8 with a mouse and keyboard. She links to a technical guide by Kyle Nitzsche on how this is done.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/04/use-any-app-from-your-ubuntu-phone-or-desktop/

How the M10 tablet can save you luggage space!

Amrisha Prashar writes about the luggage space savings that could be taken advantage of when using the BQ M10 Tablet. She states, “We’ve calculated that the M10 vs the average laptop and it’s accessories saves you approximately 1.5kg! Imagine all the extra items you could take with you in your suitcase with that much of a saving!”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/04/how-the-m10-tablet-can-save-you-luggage-space/

Canonical News

In The Press

You Can Finally Buy These Old-School Disney Games on GOG

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 are included in the list of supported operating systems in this article by Matt Peckham for Time Magazine, writing, “16-bit video game platforming classics The Lion King, Aladdin and The Jungle Book are now available DRM-free for $9.99 a piece.”

http://time.com/4439894/disney-games-gog/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 16.10 To Ship with Nautilus 3.20

Joey-Elijah Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the Nautilus update that will land in Ubuntu 16.10 and talks about it’s new and improved features. He writes, “The latest stable version of the file manager is currently pending in the yakkety-proposed updates, along with some other GNOME 3.20 apps and a bump to GTK 3.20.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/nautilus-3-20-ubuntu-16-10

Well That Only Took Forever: Ubuntu Phone To Finally Add iCal, CalDav Support

Joey-Elijah Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! informs users of Ubuntu Phone that iCal/CalDav support might be coming in as soon at OTA-13. He writes that for a while it has been possible with a few workarounds in the command line but not very user friendly. He also reports that support for OwnCloud's Multi-calendar sync will be possible too.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/ubuntu-phone-calendar-sync-ical-caldav

Bored? Check Out These New Ubuntu Phone Videos

Joey-Elijah Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! links to some videos about the Ubuntu Phone. He writes, "Whether you’re stuck on the commute home, or just bored and curious, here are three short (and not so short) videos from the past week or so that you wouldn’t be a fool for checking out."

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/recent-ubuntu-phone-videos-worth-checking-out

Canonical Plans to Unify and Clean Up Networking Configuration in Ubuntu Linux

Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes that Canonical's Martin Pitt, maintainer of systemd for Ubuntu, reports that there are plans to clean up network configuring with netplan. He writes that the new "nplan" package has already landed in Ubuntu 16.10 also known as Yakkety Yak and though not set as default yet, brave testers and early adopters can install the nplan package and report issues to the Ubuntu developers.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-plans-to-unify-and-clean-up-networking-configuration-in-ubuntu-linux-506957.shtml

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Is the Last in the Series, Brings Xenial Xerus' Linux Kernel

Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes about the official release and availability of ISO images for Ubuntu 14.04.5. He shares that this will mostly be the last maintenance update for the 14.04 version, which borrows the Linux kernel setup of the 16.04 LTS with added upgrades. Marius Nestor from softpedia.com elaborates in the article below.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-14-04-5-lts-is-the-last-in-the-series-brings-xenial-xerus-linux-kernel-507019.shtml

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 2nd August 2016

"It's time for another live Q&A session with the Ubuntu Community Team! This week Michael Hall will be joined by Didier Roche who will be talking about snaps and answering questions about how to build and run them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOWPxQqbUAY

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E23 – German Sparkle Party - Ubuntu Podcast

It's Episode Twenty-three of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. This week the podcast includes news, community news, upcoming events, and "working to the sound of a dehumidifier."

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/08/04/s09e23-german-sparkle-party/

Full Circle Weekly News #29

Just a quick message to let you know that Full Circle Weekly News #29 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-29/ and, Full Circle Magazine #111 came out last week: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-111/

The show is also available via: RSS: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/feed/podcast Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85347&refid=stpr TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Full-Circle-Weekly-News-p855064/ and PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/the-full-circle-weekly-news

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 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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