Issue592


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 592 for the week of August 11 - 17, 2019.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LoCo Events

  • Mir 1.4.0 Release
  • APT Patterns
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, and 19.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 135357 (+23)
  • Critical: 379 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 66584 (+108)

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

Translations

  • Ukrainian: 87.56% (33979/2676)
  • German: 85.93% (38441/8)
  • Spanish: 85.36% (39986/2865)
  • French: 80.73% (52660/6179)
  • Bosnian: 79.91% (54876/155)

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 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

Mir 1.4.0 Release

Alan Griffiths (alan_g) announces the release of Mir 1.4.0. Alan advises "This release is mostly about supporting Mir based shells using Sway’s layer-shell extension protocol". The first steps are in progress to remove support for the mirclient API in favour of Wayland; but the ability to enable still exist. Alan gives a ABI summary and a Bugs fixed list.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-1-4-0-release/12198

The Planet

APT Patterns

Julian Andres Klode makes an implementation of APT patterns so it simplifies the way of finding automatically installed packages, garbage packages (Installed but not required anymore), etc. He makes a few patterns this week, and will be making more in the future. He also submits a pull request to Debian's APT package manager and provides means for user feedback.

https://blog.jak-linux.org/2019/08/15/apt-patterns/

Other Community News

Xfce 4.14 released

The Xfce development team announces the long awaited release of the Xfce desktop 4.14. This cycle sees all core component ports to GTK3 and GDBus, as well most components also have GObject Introspection support. The user experience got some polish, with several new features and numerous bug fixes. Highlights, the changelog, and many links for additional information of the release are provided.

https://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000

This story was also covered by a number of news sites. The following is a collection of articles selected by our editors:

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Playing Nicely With Latest Linux Distros Following BIOS Updates

Michael Larabel reports that vendors are pushing out the bios updates affecting the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series motherboards ability to boot. Michael affirms that the update "allows Ubuntu 19.04 and other newer Linux distributions to now boot gracefully on the new AMD Zen 2 desktops”.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-3000-BIOS-Update-Good

Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Discover 3~20% Boost For Current-Gen Hardware

Michael Larabel reports on this latest driver optimizations for Intel Gallium drivers that applies to the "Gen 9" graphics hardware. Credit is given to Francisco Jerez for the patches and testing that yield significant boosts in performance. The metrics for various chip sets are provided and Francisco is open to feedback from performance testing. These patches will make it into the Mesa 19.2 release (Ubuntu 19.10).

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Linux-Graphics-Gen9-Boost

Linux Finally Has A Fix For Crackling Audio Input On Recent AMD Systems

After two years, Michael Larabel finally reports that Linux 5.3 has a fix for crackling sound input, and will be backported to older Linux versions. The fix is made from Takashi Iwai's workaround. It affects motherboards that contain the recent AMD chipsets (e.g. X370/X470) and Realtek sound chipsets.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-AMD-Analog-Input-Audio-WA

NVIDIA 435.17 Linux Beta Driver Adds Vulkan + OpenGL PRIME Render Offload

Michael Larabel reports of the 435 Linux driver, noting improved PRIME/multi-GPU support slated for the xorg-server 1.21 release. However, "NVIDIA is providing an Ubuntu PPA with a patched X.Org Server build" that requires some tweaking to fit. Additionally is support for Turing notebook GPUs with a variety of bug fixes. A link is provided to NVIDIA DevTalk for more details.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-435.17-Linux-Driver

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases

Marius Nestor writes that Canonical have released major linux kernel updates for all supported architectures of Ubuntu. Users of Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM should upgrade to receive fixes for more than thirty security vulnerabilities. Marius provides specifics of selected patch fixes, all users of supported Ubuntu are encouraged to update.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-outs-major-linux-kernel-updates-for-all-supported-ubuntu-releases-527037.shtml

LibreOffice 6.2 Open-Source Office Suite Is Now Ready for Enterprise Deployments

Marius Nestor reports on this the sixth maintenance update to LibreOffice 6.2. With the latest security patches and back-ported fixes, the release is recommended for users in production environments. All users are urged to update immediately. A link to the software portal is provided that also contains the 6.3 suite series that is not recommended for deployment.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/libreoffice-6-2-open-source-office-suite-is-now-ready-for-enterprise-deployments-527043.shtml

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 42

"This week we have a special interview with Ubuntu Security Team member Jamie Strandboge, talking about security aspects of the Snap packaging system, as well as the usual roundup of security fixes from the past week."

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-42/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S12E19 – Starglider

"This week we’ve been fixing floors and playing with the new portal HTML element. We round up the Ubuntu community news including the release of 18.04.3 with a new hardware enablement stack, better desktop integration for Livepatch and improvements in accessing the latest Nvidia drivers. We also have our favourite picks from the general tech news."

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2019/08/15/s12e19-starglider/

Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

  • Kernel Team: Tue, August 20, 5pm – 6pm
  • Desktop Team: Tue, August 20, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
  • Ubuntu Membership Board: Wed, August 21, 12pm – 1pm
  • Ubuntu Foundations: Thu, August 22, 3pm – 4pm

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

Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, and 19.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life: April 2021

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

End of Life: April 2023

Ubuntu 19.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2020

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