Issue514


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 514 for the weeks of July 17 - 31, 2017.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) End of Life Reached on July 20 2017
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey
  • Artful Aardvark 17.10 Alpha 2 Availability
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • Alan Pope: Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown
  • Brian Murray: Clarification and changes to release upgrades
  • Robie Basak: Developing Ubuntu using git
  • 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) End of Life Reached on July 20 2017

Adam Conrad of the Ubuntu Release Team confirmed that Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is no longer supported after July 20, 2017. Adam provides a brief history of Ubuntu 16.10 from release and the consequences of 16.10 no longer receiving security notices or fixes. Links are provided including upgrade path to 17.04.

http://ubuntu-news.org/2017/07/20/ubuntu-16-10-yakkety-yak-end-of-life-reached-on-july-20-2017/

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey

Dustin Kirkland of Canonical reminds us of the great response to his 17.10 survey and achievements thus far as proof feedback matters. Dustin then invites readers to contribute detail about applications preferred for default inclusion in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Links are provided.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/07/ubuntu-1804-lts-desktop-default.html

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

Artful Aardvark 17.10 Alpha 2 Availability

Simon Quigley and Dustin Krysak announce the availability of the second alpha of Artful Aardvark, which will become Ubuntu 17.10. This milestone includes images for Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, and Ubuntu Kylin. They include warnings for those unfamiliar with alpha releases, with links for getting images or more details, before giving a big thank you to the developers and testers for their help in making this alpha happen.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2017-July/004175.html

Interested in the Flavors? Alpha 2 release announcements for each as follows:

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

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (132015) +245 over last issue
  • Critical (414) +6 over last issue
  • Unconfirmed (66160) +233 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

LoCo Events

The Planet

Alan Pope: Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown

Alan Pope reminds us that we are mid-way through the Ubuntu Artful development cycle, and as such it's a great time to grab and test the coming GNOME release. Alan provides some testing suggestions, hints on how to speak to developers, and asks you mark bug reports with 'julyshakedown'.

http://popey.com/blog/posts/ubuntu-artful-desktop-july-shakedown.html

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

Brian Murray: Clarification and changes to release upgrades

Brian Murray writes about some changes made to do-release-upgrade, (this includes update-manager) and how it behaves. Information on the -d or switching to the development release is also clarified.

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=147

Robie Basak: Developing Ubuntu using git

Robie Basak from the Ubuntu Server Team describes a new workflow that new and experienced contributors alike can use to maintain Ubuntu packages using Git. He reminds us of previous efforts to attempt this with Bazaar, writing, "Some readers may be familiar with a previous effort in Ubuntu, UDD, which was largely a similar effort but with Bazaar. Nine years later, git has largely won the “VCS wars”, and appears to be preferred by the majority of developers. Our current effort could be seen as “UDD, but with git”, if you wish." He ends the post by noting that this is experimental and outlining what would make an initial release of this workflow.

http://www.justgohome.co.uk/blog/2017/07/developing-ubuntu-using-git.html

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

* Ubuntu 17.10: Back to a GNOME Future - https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/7/ubuntu-1710-back-gnome-future

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E20 - Wry Mindless Ice

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

We discuss tormenting Mycroft, review the Dell Precision 5520, give you some USB resetting command line lurve and go over your feedback."

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/07/20/s10e20-wry-mindless-ice/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E21 - Godly Heady Airport

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

This week we’ve been making a distro and playing Rust. Google Glass is back, Mycroft are re-licensing and Adobe announce that Flash is finally dead. Nearly."

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/07/27/s10e21-godly-heady-airport/

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 20, 2017 (this will be the last issue with this release's updates)

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2018

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