Issue732


Contents

  1. In this Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) released
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translations
  4. Hot in Support
    1. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions
    2. Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Hub
    1. Community Meetup at Copenhagen Roadmap Sprint
  7. The Planet
    1. A jellyfish and a mainframe
    2. OpenStack Yoga for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  8. Other Community News
    1. Xubuntu 22.04 Community Wallpaper Contest Winners
    2. 第十一届“麒麟杯”大赛报名开启！全新赛制+实力导师团，等你来！
    3. 大咖云集！优麒麟受邀参加DIVE全球基础软件创新大会！
    4. 凝聚开源力量--优麒麟出席 FOSSASIA Summit 2022 开源盛会！
  9. Ubuntu Cloud News
  10. Canonical News
  11. In the Press
    1. Installation and Review of Ubuntu Budgie [Lightweight Distro]
    2. Canonical Expands Ubuntu Container Image Portfolio
  12. In the Blogosphere
    1. LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
    2. GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old "Radeon" Graphics Driver
    3. Linux 5.15.35 Released With Important Performance Fix For Intel Alder Lake
    4. KDE Gear 22.04 Is Here with Kalendar, Many Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
    5. Canonical Releases Important Ubuntu Kernel Update to Fix Eight Vulnerabilities
    6. Installed Ubuntu 22.04? Do These Things Next!
    7. Ubuntu 20.04 vs 22.04: What Has Changed Between the Two LTS Releases?
    8. Proton 7.0-2 Released For Getting More Windows Games Running On Steam Play
    9. Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak
  13. Other Articles of Interest
  14. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu On Air: Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba - April 22, 2022 with guest Mark Shuttleworth
    2. Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 157
    3. Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: 191 - Podcast Wacom Portugal
  15. Meeting Reports
  16. Updates and Security for 18.04, 20.04, 21.10, and 22.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 18.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 20.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 21.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 22.04 Updates
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archive
  19. Further News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 732 for the week of April 17 - 23, 2022.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support

  • LoCo Events

  • Community Meetup at Copenhagen Roadmap Sprint
  • A jellyfish and a mainframe

  • OpenStack Yoga for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Updates and Security for 18.04, 20.04, 21.10, and 22.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) released

Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team announces the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - available for servers, desktops on many different architectures, along with various desktop flavours. Many links are provided for those needing more details

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2022-April/000279.html

This release was widely covered, the following is a collection of articles selected by our editors:

Interested in the flavors? Release announcements as follows:

22.04’s enhancements in IOT:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 138557 (+219)
  • Critical: 329 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 69270 (+2,143)

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

Translations

  • Ukrainian: 86.72% (41790/1088)
  • German: 86.04% (43936/167)
  • French: 80.19% (62319/6935)
  • Spanish: 79.29% (65149/5569)
  • Swedish: 76.04% (75385/937)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

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

Community Meetup at Copenhagen Roadmap Sprint

Monica Ayhens-Madon tells us "Canonical is getting back to in-person meetings”; the Product Roadmap Sprint being first on 2-6 May 2022 in Copenhagen. We're told right now it looks like a dinner on Monday 2 May at 6:30 CET will be the first community meetup, with a request that you get in touch if you 'd like to join, have a question, or can attend the event.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-meetup-at-copenhagen-roadmap-sprint/27760

The Planet

A jellyfish and a mainframe

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph reports April has been an exciting month, first mentioning the release of IBM z16. We are given some links and a brief introduction to the zSystems class of mainframes, before Lyz mentions working with other open source projects; specifically mentioning openSUSE's Sarah Julia Kriesch. Many links are provided for more details on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on 'Big Iron', with Lyz focussing on sharing some key details on why we'd want to run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS if we were using IBM zSystems. Lyz includes some photos, one includes her hallmark: a Jammy Jellyfish plushie.

https://princessleia.com/journal/2022/04/a-jellyfish-and-a-mainframe/

OpenStack Yoga for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Corey Bryant on behalf of the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team announces the release of OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. A link is provided for details on the Yoga release, along with how to install it for each release, plus a short list of packages that updates exist for in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. Links are provided for the full list, supported versions, and details on how to report any bugs.

https://wrestlingpenguins.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/openstack-yoga-for-ubuntu-22-04-lts-and-ubuntu-20-04-lts/

Other Community News

Xubuntu 22.04 Community Wallpaper Contest Winners

"The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the results of the 22.04 community wallpaper contest!". A huge thank you and congratulations are expressed to all contestants, with a note that there were 130 submissions. A link is given so we can peruse all submissions, and a set of pictures of the chosen winners, and links to the full-size images.

https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-22-04-community-wallpaper-contest-winners/

第十一届“麒麟杯”大赛报名开启！全新赛制+实力导师团，等你来！

"2022 年第十一届“麒麟杯”全国开源应用软件开发大赛报名开启啦！本届大赛由麒麟软件有限公司、优麒麟开源社区、国防科技大学联合第五届中国软件开源创新大赛共同举办。截至目前大赛已成功..."

https://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/1767-cn.html

大咖云集！优麒麟受邀参加DIVE全球基础软件创新大会！

"2022 年第十一届“麒麟杯”全国开源应用软件开发大赛报名开启啦！本届大赛由麒麟软件有限公司、优麒麟开源社区、国防科技大学联合第五届中国软件开源创新大赛共同举办。截至目前大赛已成功..."

https://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/1766-cn.html

凝聚开源力量--优麒麟出席 FOSSASIA Summit 2022 开源盛会！

"近日，优麒麟社区受邀参加 2022 FOSSASIA 开源盛会，与大家分享了优麒麟社区 UKUI 桌面环境开发的相关成果，并与来自世界各地的开发人员、技术社区和公司进行讨论与分享，了解开源技术..."

https://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/1765-cn.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Installation and Review of Ubuntu Budgie [Lightweight Distro]

Jesse Afolabi has written this article in the hopes that readers will find getting started with Ubuntu Budgie easier. We are walked through what we'll see on an install, before giving us some characteristics of Ubuntu Budgie, and why we might want to consider using it.

https://www.tecmint.com/ubuntu-budgie/

Canonical Expands Ubuntu Container Image Portfolio

Mike Vizard writes that "Canonical has added Grafana Loki, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra container images to the portfolio of images" as well as Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which can be accessed via DockerHub. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "adds support for cloud confidential computing on the Microsoft Azure cloud, a real-time kernel for Industrial applications" and more. Canonical's CEO Mark Shuttleworth has said Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will "cement the company's dominance of cloud computing", with assurances that critical security issues will get fixed within 24 hours on Long Term Support Docker Image Portfolio. "The overarching goal is to provide organizations with a set of container images that have been vetted", with it easier to replace the whole container than deal with patching flaws within it.

https://containerjournal.com/features/canonical-expands-ubuntu-container-image-portfolio/

In the Blogosphere

LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Marius Nestor reports on the release of LXQt 1.1 and notes it's "packed with lots of cool changes". We are given details of many of those changes, including some screen pictures to bring home some of those improvements. We are told LXQt is built against Qt 5.15, and provided a link to the release announcement page.

https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-1-1-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old "Radeon" Graphics Driver

Michael Larabel writes that there have been recent bug reports on GNOME Shell 42 about crashes with the Radeon DRM/KMS kernel driver. Michael reports the crashes at startup (or blank screens) should now be fixed with the latest Git code applied. He goes on to explain what the issue was, and provides a workaround for those still impacted by this issue.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-42-Radeon-DRM-Fix

Linux 5.15.35 Released With Important Performance Fix For Intel Alder Lake

Michael Larabel highlights the release of Linux 5.15.35 LTS kernel and includes a back-ported Intel P-Slate driver fix for Intel Alder Lake systems that provides better performance. The article goes on to benchmark these using a Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-51535-adl

KDE Gear 22.04 Is Here with Kalendar, Many Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

Marius Nestor tells us the KDE Project has released KDE Gear 22.04. Featuring many application fixes Marius gives descriptions of the improvements and fixes we'll discover. A link to the release announcement's page is provided for full disclosure.

https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-22-04-is-here-with-kalendar-many-improvements-for-your-favorite-kde-apps

Canonical Releases Important Ubuntu Kernel Update to Fix Eight Vulnerabilities

Marius Nestor alerts us to Canonical's release of important security updates for all supported releases of Ubuntu that address eight security vulnerabilities. Marius provides details of the CVE fixes, who discovered the flaws, and how they can be misused to exploit our systems. We are told what systems are impacted and the kernels that include the fixes.

https://9to5linux.com/canonical-releases-important-ubuntu-kernel-update-to-fix-eight-vulnerabilities

Installed Ubuntu 22.04? Do These Things Next!

Joey Sneddon starts by describing Ubuntu 22.04 as "pretty perfect out-of-the-box", before going into a "few post-install tweaks" he thinks makes the experience better. After an embedded copy of his youtube video "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: What's new", Joey suggests choosing an accent colour, enabling minimize on click, and more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/installed-ubuntu-22-04-do-these-things-next

Ubuntu 20.04 vs 22.04: What Has Changed Between the Two LTS Releases?

Ankush Dus in this article explores the differences between Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with GNOME 3.36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with GNOME 42. We are given many screen pictures to clarify differences in this detailed post. Ankush makes the conclusion that "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is certainly a major overhaul in terms of user experience".

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-20-04-vs-22-04/

Proton 7.0-2 Released For Getting More Windows Games Running On Steam Play

Michael Larabel tells us that Proton 7.0-2 is out "as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Valve's Steam Play for running games on Linux / SteamOS". We are told this "gets many more Windows games running well on Linux" and also provides many bug fixes. The article provides a list of games that are known to work well, and gives a link for the full list of changes found on GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-7.0-2-Released

Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak

Joey Sneddon writes that in a recent "Q&A to celebrate the recent Ubuntu 22.04 release", Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth was asked if Ubuntu would consider shipping Flatpak support 'out of the box' by default. Mark gave an answer: "No". Mark outlined his reasoning, highlighting security and "integrity of execution", before adding that many developers & consumers prefer the "simplicity" of Snaps. Mark also acknowledged some areas where snaps need improvement. Joey notes the widening gap in package availability with Commercial and proprietary software, preferring Canonical's Snap store. However, many open-source software developers prefer Flatpak/Flathub, and that Ubuntu users can use Flatpak easily anyway.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/ubuntu-wont-support-flatpak-anytime-soon

Ubuntu On Air: Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba - April 22, 2022 with guest Mark Shuttleworth

"It's the day after the 22.04 LTS release, and we're celebrating with a Q&A session with none other than Ubuntu founder and CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth. We'll also have the Penguin Corps back with questions from some of the youngest members of the Ubuntu community."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owwtcx6QJVo

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 157

"Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is officially released 🎉 and so this week we take a quick look at the new features and enhancements, with a particular focus on security, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, Firefox, Django, Git, Gzip and more."

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-157/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: 191 - Podcast Wacom Portugal

"Dali, leia-se Diogo, foi – para variar – às compras, com o objectivo de se dotar de ferramentas criativas. O quadrado do Carrondo, viu nesse acto uma perspectiva mais técnica. Numa semana em que a Vodafone volta à conversa e as migrações também, desta feita de WordPress para Hugo, ou simples HTML…"

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e191/

Meeting Reports

Updates and Security for 18.04, 20.04, 21.10, and 22.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2023

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 21.10 Updates

End of life: July 2022

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of life: April 2027

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