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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 517 for the week of August 14 - 21, 2017.

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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

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

LoCo News

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

Marcos Costales: Folder Color now has emblem file support

A brief announcement by Marcos Costales telling us folder color 0.0.85 has been released. http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2017/08/folder-color-now-has-emblem-file-support.html

Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 1

Didier Roche of Canonical in a series of five daily blogs describes the process of making Ubuntu GNOME Shell ready for Artful Aardvark 17.10. The wanted result is both a default 'ubuntu' session experience avoiding any 'shock' for those updating from Unity 7, plus the choice of a more generic "gnome' session. https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/14/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-1/

The following posts are part of the series:

Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other 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 14.04, 16.04, and 17.04

Security Updates

  • [USN-3294-2] Bash vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003979.html

  • [USN-3370-2] Apache HTTP Server vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003980.html

  • [USN-3375-1] LXC vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003982.html

  • [USN-3376-1] WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003981.html

  • [USN-3377-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003983.html

  • [USN-3377-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003984.html

  • [USN-3378-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003985.html

  • [USN-3378-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003986.html

  • [USN-3212-4] LibTIFF vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003988.html

  • [USN-3339-2] OpenVPN vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003989.html

  • [USN-3379-1] Shotwell vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003990.html

  • [USN-3380-1] FreeRDP vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003991.html

  • [USN-3381-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003992.html

  • [USN-3381-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003993.html

  • [USN-3382-1] PHP vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003994.html

  • [USN-3383-1] libsoup vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003995.html

  • [USN-3384-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003996.html

  • [USN-3384-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003997.html

  • [USN-3385-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003998.html

  • [USN-3385-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/003999.html

  • [USN-3386-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004000.html

  • [USN-3386-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004001.html

  • [USN-3387-1] Git vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004002.html

  • [USN-3388-1] Subversion vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004003.html

  • [USN-3389-1] LibGD vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004004.html

  • [USN-3389-2] GD vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004005.html

  • [USN-3390-1] PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004006.html

  • [USN-3391-1] Firefox vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004007.html

  • [USN-3392-1] Linux kernel regression

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004008.html

  • [USN-3392-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004009.html

  • [USN-3391-2] Ubufox update

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004010.html

  • [USN-3393-1] ClamAV vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004011.html

  • [USN-3394-1] libmspack vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004012.html

  • [USN-3395-1] c-ares vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004013.html

  • [USN-3393-2] ClamAV vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004015.html

  • [USN-3391-3] Firefox regression

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004016.html

  • [USN-3396-1] OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004017.html

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Start The Trusty-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End The Trusty-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

Start The Xenial-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End The Xenial-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

Start The Zesty-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End The Zesty-changes August 2017 Archive by thread

End of Life - January 2018

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