Issue565


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 565 for the week of February 3 - 9, 2019.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 18.04.2 (not-quite) RC images for testing!
  • Ubuntu 18.04.2 delayed until February 14th
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • FOSDEM 2019
  • KDE at FOSDEM 2019
  • LoCo Events

  • 2019, week 6 in Multipass
  • Mir News: 8th Febrauary 2019
  • snapcraft 3.1 is now available on the stable channel
  • What’s the OOPS ID?
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 18.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 18.04.2 (not-quite) RC images for testing!

Adam Conrad opens a call for testing the 18.04.2 point release. Adam advises that ubiquity and base-files are known as not final but testing is needed to "find MORE release critical bugs". Hope for a smooth point release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2019-February/004693.html

Ubuntu 18.04.2 delayed until February 14th

Adam Conrad advises of the delay in releasing 18.04.2. The bug, LP: #1814555, relates a boot error that can not be fixed in time for the scheduled release. Adam does encourage testing to continue, though only a select few packages will change.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2019-February/004694.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 134741 (-187)
  • Critical: 386 (-7)
  • Unconfirmed: 65877 (+2)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • Ukrainian: 87.41% (34380/2386)
  • German: 85.34% (40047/117)
  • Spanish: 84.90% (41248/2639)
  • Bosnian: 79.93% (54838/154)
  • French: 79.42% (56216/6268)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://ubuntuforums.org/

LoCo News

FOSDEM 2019

Adrien Plazas opens with a travelogue to the event where the majority of the time was spent on the GNOME booth, meeting colleagues and friends. He relates "playing" with Librem 5 devkit, testing phosh and some GNOME apps, and some of the prep for GTK 4.

http://bytesgnomeschozo.blogspot.com/2019/02/fosdem-and-gtk-hackfest-2019.html

KDE at FOSDEM 2019

Jonathan Riddell relates his experiences in this; the largest gathering of free software developers in the continent, FOSDEM 2019. Jonathan touts KDE with the theme come Home to KDE in 2019 and shares some pictures.

https://jriddell.org/2019/02/07/kde-at-fosdem-2019/

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

2019, week 6 in Multipass

Michał Sawicz (saviq) updates us on what is happening in Multipass. He lists the bugfixes and features, advises that the documentation library is developing, instructs how to install, and gives a request for feedback.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/2019-week-6-in-multipass/9730

Mir News: 8th Febrauary 2019

William Wold (wmww) gives the update this week. He writes that Alan Griffiths (alan_g) is designing a Wayland protocol extension API for MirAL, he himself is packaging his MATE Panel Wayland port into a snap. and Chris Halse Rogers (raof) "has been working on WLCS, and the mir-test-tools snap has been released to the stable channel".

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-news-8th-febrauary-2019/9733

The Planet

snapcraft 3.1 is now available on the stable channel

Sergio Schvezov advises of the changes and additions in this minor release of snapcraft 3.1. One is again able to clean parts, keywords are now supported in snapcraft, enable tags and filtering in Appstream extractor, there is cmake plugin support, rust plugin refactoring, and added support for multipass. Relevant links are provided and 30 changes are listed.

http://blog.sergiusens.org/posts/snapcraft-3.1/

What’s the OOPS ID?

Brian Murray writes of the difficulty to find the right OOPS ID for a crash and that he has made a change to whoopsie to write the OOPS ID to the corresponding .uploaded file in /var/crash. Presently only available in Disco Dingo, however, it can be made for other releases. Contact Brian or update the bug report to push.

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=167

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

Michael Larabel reports of Eleni Maria Stea's pending patches to improve the ETC2 format support on "Gen 7" and older cards (Intel i965 Mesa driver). Michael gives a short definition of ETC2 and he provides a link to Mesa-dev for more details.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ETC2-Improvements-Gen7

Canonical Patches Linux Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Update Now

Marius Nestor relates on the updated kernel for 18.04 that addresses a regression in linux-image 4.15.0-44.47 that affects docking station displays and mounting ext4 file systems. Those booting the Linux 4.15 kernel series are urged to update to linux-image 4.15.0-45.48 immediately. Update instructions are given and a warning that any third-party kernel modules will need to be reinstalled.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-patches-linux-kernel-regression-in-ubuntu-18-04-lts-update-now-524816.shtml

Canonical Releases Important Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Patches, Update Now

Marius Nestor relates on twelve Linux kernel updates that affect 18.10, 16.04. and 14.04. The associated releases and the CVEs are given and all are urged to update immediately from their stable software repositories.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-releases-important-ubuntu-kernel-security-patches-update-now-524834.shtml

Six Linux Distributions Benchmarked On The Dell XPS 9380 Laptop

Michael Larabel reports that Dell is offering the option of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as the Linux option with their new XPS 9380 laptop. Dell XPS 9380 specification has the Core i7 8565U processor at four cores / eight threads and 4.6GHz turbo boost, Intel UHD 620 Graphics, 16GB of memory, and 256GB SK Hynix NVMe solid-state drive. All the considered distros successfully tested; the results are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dellxps-9380-linux&num=1

GNOME 3.32 Beta Released With Performance Improvements, Last Minute Features

Michael Larabel reports on the GNOME 3.31.90 release, the GNOME 3.32 beta marking the the feature/UI/API freeze. The GNOME 3.31.90 release has a plethora of re-writes, animation improvements, a setting to control hardware acceleration, various switches over to Meson, performance fixes and other enhancements. The expectation is for GNOME 3.32.0 to release on 13 March.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.32-Beta-Released

LibreOffice 6.2 Shipping Today With User Interface Improvements, Many New Features

Michael Larabel tells us that The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 6.2 with the optional new 'tabbed' UI, new 'grouped-bar compact UI', better KDE/Qt5/LXQt integration and more. Also significant is LibreOffice 6.2 marks the end of x86 (32-bit) binaries. For more details a link to the release notes are provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-6.2-Releasing-Today

Updated Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Driver Tacks On Radeon VII Support

Michael Larabel informs us that a new Radeon VII driver is available; the same stream as was released last December, but includes support for second-generation Vega / Radeon VII.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Software-18.50-VII

In Other News

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 19

"This week we look at updates to the Linux kernel in preparation for the 18.04.2 release, plus updates for Open vSwitch, Firefox, Avahi, LibVNCServer and more. We also revisit and discuss upstream changes to the mincore() system call to thwart page-cache side-channel attacks first discussed in Episode 17."

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-19/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: S01E22 - Geeks aos molhos

"Neste episódio falamos do FOSDEM e da nossa experiência este ano. Se foste, partilha a tua experiência, se não foste cuidado, vais ficar com vontade de ir para o ano."

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/2019/02/07/s01e22-geeks-aos-molhos/

Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

  • Developer Membership Board: Mon, February 11, 3pm – 4pm
  • Security Team: Mon, February 11, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
  • Loco Council: Mon, February 11, 8pm – 9pm
  • Desktop Team: Tue, February 12, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
  • Kernel Team: Tue, February 12, 5pm – 6pm
  • Ubuntu Women: Tue, February 12, 6pm – 7pm
  • Technical Board: Tue, February 12, 8pm – 9pm
  • Ubuntu Foundations: Thu, February 14, 4pm – 5pm

For more details and farther dates please visit: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 18.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life: April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life: April 2021

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

End of Life: April 2023

Ubuntu 18.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2019

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