Issue517

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 517 for the week of August 15 - 21, 2017.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful
  • Canonical News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, and 17.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (132518) +129 over last week
  • Critical (414) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (66524) +56 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

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

Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful

Didier Roche of Canonical in a series of daily blog posts describes the process of making Ubuntu GNOME Shell ready for Artful Aardvark 17.10. The desired result contains both a default Ubuntu session experience avoiding any shock for those updating from Unity 7, and the choice of a more generic GNOME session.

The following posts are part of the series:

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E24 - Fierce hurried Start

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

This week we’ve been buying a house, discuss podcasting creative commons music, serve up some command line lurve and go over your feedback."

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/08/18/s10e24-fierce-hurried-start/

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, and 17.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2018

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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See you next week!

Credits

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  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

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