UWN Issue 911 September 21-27 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 911 for the week of September 21 - 27, 2025.

In this Issue

  • First Questing Quokka test rebuild
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Registration for the 10th UbuConLa is now available!
  • Ubucon India 2025
  • OpenPrinting News: UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal
  • OpenSaturday Conf 2025 Barranquilla, here are the speakers!
  • LoCo Events
  • Checkbox 6.0.0 stable release
  • Sidetracks, detours, and the birth of autopkgtest-janitor
  • Call for testing: mesa-2404 (update to v25)
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Foundations Edition: What’s Coming and What’s Next
  • The final piece of the puzzle: autopkgtest-website
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

First Questing Quokka test rebuild

Graham Inggs reminds us of the “first test rebuild of Questing Quokka” and then tells us the rebuild has finished for the main component on all architectures. We’re also told on what architectures it’s completed, or is still running for other components. We’re told how to recognize failures without logs, and told the system will auto-retry these; further we are advised to ping Graham should we notice problems. We’re given a link to view the results of builds.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-September/001384.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143555 (-2)
  • Critical: 319 (-1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73491 (+10)

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

Translations

  • Albanian: 98.87% (3976/0)
  • German: 86.93% (45884/219)
  • Ukrainian: 86.50% (47393/1367)
  • French: 85.18% (52037/6240)
  • Swedish: 80.74% (67619/1123)

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 further dates please visit: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

LoCo News

Registration for the 10th UbuConLa is now available!

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola informs us that registration for the 10th UbuConLA is now open. We’re reminded of some details including dates (October 16-17), location (University of Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador) and given links for each day we’d like to register for.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/registration-for-the-10th-ubuconla-is-now-available/67840/

Ubucon India 2025

This post gives us details of Ubucon India 2025 to be held in Bengaluru, India on November 15-16, 2025. Details of the event, including getting tickets (note some already are sold out), and more are provided via links.

https://konfhub.com/ubucon-india-2025

OpenPrinting News: UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal

Till Kamppeter has published OpenPrinting News, with this post concentrating on UbuCon Asia 2025 which was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on August 30-31, 2025. Till tells about his attending the UbuCon, the various people he met, before giving thanks to the many global and local organizes of the event, to speakers, and more.

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-UbuCon-Asia-2025-in-Kathmandu-Nepal/

OpenSaturday Conf 2025 Barranquilla, here are the speakers!

Carlos A. Maestre (ic3br34ker) informs us of the speakers and their topics in the lineup for LinuxBQ’s first single hosted event. “All talks & workshops will be streamed live on our YouTube channel!”: https://www.youtube.com/@LinuxBQ; more details and updates are available on the various social media platforms. Thanks is given to all “who are making the first edition of OpenSaturday 2025 possible!”

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/opensaturday-conf-2025-barranquilla-here-are-the-speakers/68217

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

Checkbox 6.0.0 stable release

Massimiliano Girardi writes about the release of Checkbox 6.0.0 that is now available in the Stable PPA (link provided) or as a snap package (stable). We’re given some details of what we’ll find in this release, some advice on upgrading to it, a list of bugfixes, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/checkbox-6-0-0-stable-release/67833

Sidetracks, detours, and the birth of autopkgtest-janitor

Ural Tunaboyu continues the series on the ongoing autopkgtest overhaul. We’re told that Ural was ‘sidetracked’ with a separation issue relating to the new autopkgtest-dispatcher, so this post focuses somewhat on that fix (not a new frontend charm). We’re reminded where last week’s post left us, with Ural giving us some thoughts and saying “it never sat right with me”. He outlines problems he saw, thus prompting the creation of autopkgtest-janitor. Thanks is given to Paride Legovini for his work on clusters.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sidetracks-detours-and-the-birth-of-autopkgtest-janitor/67861

Call for testing: mesa-2404 (update to v25)

Michał Sawicz tells us the snap ‘mesa-2404’ has been updated, gives a short linked list of notable changes, and tells us how we can test it. If problems are encountered; we can reply to this thread, but if no problems are discovered we’re told the snap will be prompted to stable in a week.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-mesa-2404-update-to-v25/67904

Ubuntu 25.10 Foundations Edition: What’s Coming and What’s Next

Matthieu Clemenceau reminds us the Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release is mere weeks away. We’re told that interim releases are easiest to introduce “disruptive and ambitious changes”, with this post focusing on what the Ubuntu Foundations team have done this cycle in this regard, plus some “spoilers” for the next cycle too. This is a detailed post, so if interested I suggest reading it. Thanks is given to Stubble and Pushkarnk.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-foundations-edition-what-s-coming-and-what-s-next/68147

The final piece of the puzzle: autopkgtest-website

Ural Tunaboyu discusses autopkgtest-website (formerly autopkgtest-frontend) in this post. We’re told http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/ is “how most users interact with the autopkgtest service”, and he tells us that site won’t change, with all changes hidden underneath. We’re told how the website works, how it is planned to change in the next cycle, with thanks being given to Paride Legovini. The current state [of the new website charm] is mentioned, we’re told it will be deployed to some users for requests and to run tests. Once confirmed deployed and working, it’ll become publicly available for further stress testing.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-final-piece-of-the-puzzle-autopkgtest-website/68151

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To “Legacy” Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry

Michael Larabel writes about Intel’s announcement that support for the 11-14th generation of processors have moved to the legacy driver model for Microsoft Windows. We’re told the significance of this (security fixes only), and that this has less impact on Linux users as the legacy driver will continue to work with the latest upstream code, thanks to the open source code and continued contributions to it. Michael does mention a potential ‘caveat’ if using the Intel Computer Runtime and OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero with details given.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-11th-14th-Gen-Legacy-Drv

Ubuntu 25.10 No Longer Includes Startup Applications Tool

Joey Sneddon tells us that Ubuntu 25.10 will not include the Startup Applications tool, as it’s not part of GNOME 49. Joey tells us of the GNOME 49 changes in “how sessions are handled” which led to the removal of the app, before moving to how the newer GNOME 49 achieves the same result. Joey remarks that he suspects few users may notice this, but he liked the ‘flexibility’ of the older tool that is no longer available.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-drops-startup-applications-app

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 363 - Longa Vida a Digi Ping

“Na semana que passou o Diogo andou a arrumar tudo em caixotes e aumentou o PIB Chinês em 127%! Toda a Glória ao Celestial Comprador de Electrónica dos Povos! E num verdadeiro Pro-Dígio de velocidade, brincou com RJ45, sfp+, OpenWRT e demais jigajogas para espremer 10 Gbps até ao último bit. Ainda trouxemos muitas novidades do Firefox 143, Questing Quokka, Gnome 49, Ubuntu Touch e coisas com nomes esquisitos, como Dracut, Cuda, Loupe, Rust e Ptyxis (pronuncia-se «Ptyxis»).”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e363/

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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