Issue513


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 513 for the weeks of July 3 - 17, 2017.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) reaches End of Life on July 20 2017
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • Nobuto Murata: Knowing what services need restart with "needrestart"
  • Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make as a classic snap: intro
  • Robert Ancell: Snappy Sprint - London June 2017
  • Brian Murray: Using the Ubuntu Error Tracker for SRUs
  • Carla Seller: My first Snap.
  • Canonical News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) reaches End of Life on July 20 2017

Adam Conrad on behalf on the Ubuntu Release Team reminds us that Ubuntu 16.10, which was officially released on October 13, 2016, is a non-LTS release and as such its support period will cease on July 20. Adam notes that anyone still using Yakkety Yak 16.10 should upgrade to 17.04 soon to continue receiving security updates, with attached links provided for 17.04 release notes on upgrading.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2017-July/000222.html

The editors have also collected articles about the topic from around the Internet:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (131770) -892 over last issue
  • Critical (408) +0 over last issue
  • Unconfirmed (65927) +202 over last issue

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

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

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

Nobuto Murata: Knowing what services need restart with "needrestart"

With the release of Canonical’s Livepatch service for Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04, it has become easier to apply security and kernel updates without entirely rebooting the system. However, there are some caveats to this service. Nobuto Murata expands on this by quoting the useful “lsof” function, and talks about the helper script “needrestart” which among others, provides a prompt during service restarts.

https://medium.com/@nobuto_m/knowing-what-services-need-restart-with-needrestart-37419f44ed46

Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make as a classic snap: intro

Didier Roche writes about Ubuntu Make, and congratulates Galileo for becoming a core committer. Due to bottlenecks with the Debian-Ubuntu pipeline, Didier is telling us how Ubuntu Make has been made into a Snap to see what converting a complex project is like.

https://didrocks.fr/2017/07/05/ubuntu-make-as-a-classic-snap-intro/

Didier Roche has made this a series, the next post being:

Robert Ancell: Snappy Sprint - London June 2017

Robert Ancell talks about the Snappy Sprint held recently in London, UK. The main participants for the event were contributors from various distributions and desktop communities. Robert outlines the major objectives of the meet, including the usage of snapd-glib on MATE Software Boutique and KDE Discover.

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2017/07/snappy-sprint-london-june-2017.html

Brian Murray: Using the Ubuntu Error Tracker for SRUs

Brian Murray of Canonical tells us what a great tool the Ubuntu Error Tracker is for recording information useful for resolving crashes. Using a number of examples, Brian gives examples where it was both easy and required more work, but still make Error Tracker useful in squashing bugs.

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=144

Carla Seller: My first Snap.

Carla Seller tells us that she has been testing Ubuntu for some time, and decided to try something new. Though not a developer, Carla blogs about how she went about learning about Snaps, including speaking to devs on Rocket Chat, and using her knowledge to create a snap. Commands and many links are provided.

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-first-snap-i-have-been-testing-for.html

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

* Full Circle Weekly News #66 - http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-66/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E18 - Piquant Abnormal Yard

“It’s Season Ten Episode Eighteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

This week we make a green screen webcam, mention upcoming laptop reviews from Entroware and Dell and reveal an Entroware laptop competition is coming soon. Then we discuss the death of the Linux desktop, this weeks command line love is using ffmpeg to create “high quality” animated .gifs and we go over your feedback.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/07/06/s10e18-perpetual-sparkling-police/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo S10E19 - Inconclusive Squalid Driving

“It’s Season Ten Episode Nineteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

We discuss playing Tomb Raider, OEMs “making distros” is so hot right now, RED make a smartphone from the future, Skype gets an update and users hate it, Gangnam style loses its YouTube crown.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/07/13/s10e19-inconclusive-squalid-driving/

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 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 16.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2018

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