Issue521


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Hub
    1. Please get to testing Artful RCs (20171015)
    2. Ubuntu 17.10 Community ISO Testing
    3. Mir release 0.28
  7. The Planet
    1. Alan Pope: New Ubuntu Community Hub Launched
    2. Jorge Castro: Thoughts on the first Kubernetes Steering Election
    3. Scarlett Clark: KDE at #UbuntuRally in New York! KDE Applications snaps!
    4. Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful (Continued)
  8. Other Community News
  9. Ubuntu Cloud News
  10. Canonical News
  11. In The Press
  12. In The Blogosphere
    1. The GNOME 3.26 Point Release Is Coming to Ubuntu 17.10
    2. Canonical drops 32-bit Ubuntu desktop ISO
    3. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 to be First Linux OS to Ship with a Snap Installed By Default
    4. Ubuntu 17.10 New Features Release Date and Upgrade Procedure
    5. Dash to Panel Adds Support for Dynamic Transparency
    6. Mir 1.0 Is Pulled Back, Now It's Mir 0.28
    7. Canonical Outs Important Linux Kernel Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases
    8. GNOME and Budgie: 2 Comfy Ubuntu 17.10 Envrionments
    9. Ubuntu 17.10 Aartful Aardvark Is Now In Final Freeze, Launches October 19
    10. Canonical Puts Out Call for Users to Test Ubuntu 17.10's Release Candidate ISOs
    11. Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Enters Final Freeze - Final Release On October 19th
  13. In Other News
  14. Other Articles of Interest
  15. Featured Audio and Video
  16. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  17. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  18. Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, and 17.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 17.04 Updates
  19. Subscribe
  20. Archives
  21. Additional Ubuntu News
  22. Conclusion
  23. Credits
  24. Glossary of Terms
  25. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  26. Feedback

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 521 for the weeks of October 3 - 16, 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 Hub

Please get to testing Artful RCs (20171015)

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, has created a set of test (iso) images with serial 20171015 for testing. Everyone is able is requested to test these, before the final set will be produced Monday. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2017-October/004224.html

Ubuntu 17.10 Community ISO Testing

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-community-iso-testing/458

Mir release 0.28

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/mir-release-0-28/545

The Planet

Alan Pope: New Ubuntu Community Hub Launched

Alan Pope reminds us of his proposal to replace the static Community site and tells us the new Community site is live. Some early posts are up, with Alan showing us how they look inviting us to provide feedback if anything is missing. Alan thanks Nathan Haines, Simon Quigley, Marius Quabeck, Will Cooke, Martin Wimpress and Didier Roche for their help. http://popey.com/blog/posts/new-ubuntu-community-hub-launched.html

Jorge Castro: Thoughts on the first Kubernetes Steering Election

http://castrojo.github.io/2017/10/05/lessons-learned-from-the-first-kubernetes-steering-election/

Scarlett Clark: KDE at #UbuntuRally in New York! KDE Applications snaps!

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2017/kde-at-ubunturally-in-new-york-kde-applications-snaps/

Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful (Continued)

Didier Roche from the Desktop Team 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.

Didier Roche: Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 15 - https://didrocks.fr/2017/10/16/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-15/

Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

The GNOME 3.26 Point Release Is Coming to Ubuntu 17.10

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/gnome-3-26-1-bug-fixes

Canonical drops 32-bit Ubuntu desktop ISO

http://opensourceforu.com/2017/10/canonical-drops-32-bit-ubuntu-desktop-iso/

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 to be First Linux OS to Ship with a Snap Installed By Default

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-mate-17-10-to-be-first-linux-os-to-ship-with-a-snap-installed-by-default-517974.shtml

Ubuntu 17.10 New Features Release Date and Upgrade Procedure

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-17-10-release-features/

Dash to Panel Adds Support for Dynamic Transparency

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/dash-panel-adds-support-dynamic-transparency

Mir 1.0 Is Pulled Back, Now It's Mir 0.28

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-1.0-Now-Mir-0.28

Canonical Outs Important Linux Kernel Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-outs-important-linux-kernel-updates-for-all-supported-ubuntu-releases-518001.shtml

GNOME and Budgie: 2 Comfy Ubuntu 17.10 Envrionments

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84866.html

Ubuntu 17.10 Aartful Aardvark Is Now In Final Freeze, Launches October 19

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-10-artful-aardvark-is-now-in-final-freeze-launches-october-19-518024.shtml

Canonical Puts Out Call for Users to Test Ubuntu 17.10's Release Candidate ISOs

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-puts-out-call-for-users-to-test-ubuntu-17-10-s-release-candidate-isos-518036.shtml

Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Enters Final Freeze - Final Release On October 19th

https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-17-10-final-freeze-release-date-download/

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/10/04/kernel-team-summary-october-4-2017/

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-weekly-newsletter-6-october-2017/318

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-3435-2] Firefox regression

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004072.html

  • [USN-3438-1] Git vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004073.html

  • [USN-3439-1] Ruby vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004074.html

  • [USN-3440-1] poppler vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004075.html

  • [USN-3441-1] curl vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004076.html

  • [USN-3442-1] libXfont vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004077.html

  • [USN-3443-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004079.html

  • [USN-3443-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004080.html

  • [USN-3424-2] libxml2 vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004081.html

  • [USN-3444-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004082.html

  • [USN-3445-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004083.html

  • [USN-3444-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004084.html

  • [USN-3443-3] Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004085.html

  • [USN-3445-2] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004086.html

  • [USN-3436-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004087.html

  • [USN-3446-1] OpenStack Glance vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004088.html

  • [USN-3447-1] OpenStack Horizon vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004090.html

  • [USN-3448-1] OpenStack Keystone vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004093.html

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004092.html

  • [USN-3450-1] Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004089.html

  • [USN-3451-1] OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004091.html

  • [USN-3452-1] Ceph vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004094.html

  • [USN-3453-1] X.Org X server vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004095.html

  • [USN-3454-1] libffi vulnerability

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004096.html

  • [USN-3455-1] wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004097.html

  • [USN-3456-1] X.Org X server vulnerabilities

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-October/004098.html

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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