UWN Issue 907 August 24-30 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 907 for the week of August 24 - 30, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Questing Snapshot 4 released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Discover the Pre-UbuConLA 2025 Agenda – Now Available
  • Welcome to the CODA workshop at UbuCon Asia
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 7 - MySQL memory allocation
  • Mir Office Hours - 2025-08-28 15:15UTC
  • Ubuntu-pt Newsletter 1
  • A Bittersweet Farewell: My Final KDE Snap Release and the End of an Era
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Questing Snapshot 4 released

Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team, announces the release of Questing Snapshot 4. We’re reminded we can read the regularly updated release notes for some details, and that the snapshots are not ‘production ready’ images; being intended for Quality Assurance testing.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2025-August/043431.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143369 (-123)
  • Critical: 319 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 73267 (-15)

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

Translations

  • German: 86.93% (45899/137)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1402)
  • French: 85.18% (52039/6241)
  • Albanian: 82.35% (61978/0)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67608/745)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and farther dates please visit: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

LoCo News

Discover the Pre-UbuConLA 2025 Agenda – Now Available

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola tells us the “Pre-UbuConLA 2025 Agenda is now available”. We’re reminded what this is, that talks and workshops will be in Spanish. We are given details of the two blocks including confirmed topics, and more. A link is provided too for more detailed information.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/discover-the-pre-ubuconla-2025-agenda-now-available/66306/

Welcome to the CODA workshop at UbuCon Asia

Graham Morrison tells us of a “hands-on, beginner-friendly session designed to help you make your first open source contribution through documentation” in an upcoming workshop. We’re told it’ll be “real open issues from the CODA repository” and what we’ll learn. We’ve given details, and told to bring our ‘curiosity, questions and Ubuntu-ready machine’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/welcome-to-the-coda-workshop-at-ubucon-asia/66335/

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please see:

The Hub

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 7 - MySQL memory allocation

Lena Voytek tells us that thanks to “collaboration with Oracle, MySQL in Ubuntu is now faster and more memory-efficient”. This post outlines how this was achieved, gives us details of a presentation by Oracle engineers, and provides links if we’d like to “dive deeper”. We’re told of a profiler Lena used in the work that we can utilize to analyze our own workloads (in Ubuntu 25.10) too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-7-mysql-memory-allocation/66197

Mir Office Hours - 2025-08-28 15:15UTC

Michał Sawicz posts details about the Mir Office Hours for 28 August 2025, with Agenda, Notes and more provided here. A reply to the initial post gives a YouTube link for our viewing that includes some brief notes.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-office-hours-2025-08-28-15-15utc/66282

Ubuntu-pt Newsletter 1

Diogo Miguel Constantino Dos Santos debuts the Portuguese Ubuntu Newsletter featuring “regular links about Ubuntu, Free Software, and other related topics”, within an extensive list of curated categories.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pt-newsletter-1/66363/

The Planet

A Bittersweet Farewell: My Final KDE Snap Release and the End of an Era

Scarlett Gately Moore blogs about a “milestone and a turning point” in this announcement of the release of KDE Gear 25.08.0, which will also be her last snap package release. Scarlett gives us reasons behind this decision, and tells us the ‘torch’ is being ‘passed’ to Carlos from the Neon team who’ll lead future KDE snap releases. We’re given details, which includes Scarlett carrying on with her role on the Ubuntu Community Council, and more. Thanks is given to all who collaborated by testing, filing bug reports, offered encouragement, or just used the software.

https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/a-bittersweet-farewell-my-final-kde-snap-release-and-the-end-of-an-era/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs

Michael Larabel reminds us that whilst the ATI Radeon 9000/X300/X500/X600 series R300 GPU is unmaintained for Microsoft Windows, the open source ATI R300 for Linux is still being updated, and supporting the X700/X800 “R400” and X1000 “R500” GPUs too. We’re told of the Mesa 25.3-devel changes in this blog, and given a link to the merge request should we want more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-R300-Mem-Info-GL

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding

Michael Larabel writes about the release of Mir 2.22 which includes “some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support” as well as preparations for Rust language support. Along with coverage of notable changes, we’re also told it includes other fixes and we are given a link to the Canonical GitHub repository for more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.22-Released

New Apps Arrive in Ubuntu 25.10 Dev Builds

Joey Sneddon tells us about new terminal and image viewer apps that we’ll find in the latest ‘builds’ of Ubuntu 25.10. Joey also talks about the Rust based sudo, and new Ubuntu Insights and hwctl packages. In the discussion about these changes, Joey tells us these new apps use Adwaita icons (not Yaru) and more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/new-apps-arrive-in-ubuntu-25-10-daily-builds

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 361 - Prognósticos FSL

“Desta vez, o plantel está completo, numa antevisão do clássico Derby da Festa do Software Livre! Temos comentadores de peso: André Alves, Tiago Carreira e João Jotta, na mesa com Miguel e Diogo Constantino, que vão partilhar um pouco das suas aventuras tecnológicas, mas sobretudo as suas expectativas para a Festa do Software Livre, que decorrerá no Porto, de 3 a 5 de Outubro.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e361/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 25.04 Updates

End of Life: January 2026

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