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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 515 for the week of August 1 - 7, 2017.

WORK IN PROGRESS -- this is INCOMPLETE

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS released

With security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, Ubuntu 16.04.3 is finally here. The release is aimed primarily for the 64-bit hardware, focussing on maintaining stability and compatibility with the previous 16.04 LTS release. The Long Term support or the LTS maintenance updates will be available for the following 5 years to Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Base, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Kylin flavours while all the others have a 3 year schedule.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2017-August/000224.html

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

Interested in the Flavors? 16.04.3 LTS release announcements as follows:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (?) +? over last issue
  • Critical (?) +? over last issue
  • Unconfirmed (?) +? 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

Mathieu Trudel: How to sign things for Secure Boot

Mathiew Trudel tells us about Secure Boot and its trust chain, through to how it relates to Ubuntu. Mathiew then moves to creating a certificate in shim needed for UEFI Secure Boot. Detail including commands and output are provided as example. http://blog.cyphermox.net/2017/08/how-to-sign-things-for-secure-boot.html

Nish Aravamudan: git ubuntu clone

Nish Aravamudan provides the second post in a collaborative series between Nish and Robie Basak to introduce git ubuntu to readers. https://naccblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/git-ubuntu-clone/

Didier Roche: Ubuntu @ GUADEC 2017 and plans for GNOME Shell migration

The GNOME Users And Developers European Conference or GUADEC being held annually was recently concluded in Manchester, England. Didier Roche, one of our developers from Canonical writes about this year’s gala in his blog. With discussions on the GNOME based desktop experience in the forthcoming 17.10 release, he assures us that the release will certainly pack changes for the users. An upstream Vanilla session was also set up. https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/03/ubuntu--guadec-2017-and-plans-for-gnome-shell-migration/

Paul White: A quick look at the decline of Ubuntu Membership

Paul White reminds us that Ubuntu Membership is best described as recognition of significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu or its community. Paul then provides some figures on how membership has changed over the years, especially with regards new members or members sustaining membership. http://blog.pcw.me.uk/2017/08/a-quick-look-at-decline-of-ubuntu.html

Canonical News

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/08/03/stable-releases-sprints-more-a-snapd-recap/

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E22 - Dazzling Fancy Beast

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

The week we’ve been making microbit robots, we review the Entroware Apollo and announce a competition where you can win it. Protect your bits with another virtual private lurve and we go over all your feedback.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/08/03/s10e22-dazzling-fancy-beast/

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/

Security Updates

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