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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 518 for the week of August 22 - September 4, 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

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Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

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In The Press

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In The Blogosphere

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In Other News

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Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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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

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004023.html

  • [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

  • [USN-3397-1] strongSwan vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004018.html

  • [USN-3398-1] graphite2 vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004019.html

  • [USN-3399-1] cvs vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004020.html

  • [USN-3400-1] Augeas vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004021.html

  • [USN-3401-1] TeX Live vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004022.html

  • [USN-3402-1] PySAML2 vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004023.html

  • [USN-3199-3] Python Crypto vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004024.html

  • [USN-3403-1] Ghostscript vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004025.html

  • [USN-3404-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004026.html

  • [USN-3404-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004027.html

  • [USN-3405-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004028.html

  • [USN-3405-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004029.html

  • [USN-3406-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004030.html

  • [USN-3406-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004031.html

  • [USN-3407-1] PyJWT vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-August/004032.html

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

WEEK ONE:

WEEK TWO:

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

WEEK ONE:

WEEK TWO:

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

WEEK ONE:

WEEK TWO:

End of Life - January 2018

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