UWN Issue 919 November 16-22 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 919 for the week of November 16 - 22, 2025.

In this Issue

  • Public postmortem of the Xubuntu.org download compromise
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • 2025 Korean LoCo 8th Representative Election
  • Ubucon India 2025 - A milestone!
  • Ubuntu @ FOSDEM 2026
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Debcrafters Digest Vol 3 – An Unexpected Attempted Migration in Devel Release
  • SRU cycles suspended until 2026.01.12
  • What Say You
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Public postmortem of the Xubuntu.org download compromise

Elizabeth K. Joseph reminds us [see UWN 915] of issues with the Xubuntu team website download links from a brute force intrusion. This post gives the official ‘postmortem’ of events, assures us our currently installed Xubuntu will not be at risk, and proffers an apology from the Xubuntu team. Many thanks are also given to the many who responded in assisting in the quick remediation of the situation. Elizabeth sums the response as “Thank you! This is the community we all love being a part of …” We’re told going forward Xubuntu will be switching from WordPress to a static Hugo generated site for the new Xubuntu website that cannot be attacked in the same manner. Xubuntu is a small team and stands in need of more contributors.

https://xubuntu.org/news/2025/2025-11-20-public-postmortem-of-the-website-download-compromise/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143919 (+37)
  • Critical: 315 (+2)
  • Unconfirmed: 73869 (+31)

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% (3976/106)
  • Swedish: 95.91% (14356/747)
  • Ukrainian: 88.92% (38899/1584)
  • German: 86.95% (45804/145)
  • French: 85.24% (51810/6375)

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://ubuntu.com/community | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News

2025 Korean LoCo 8th Representative Election

Youngbin Han tells us the Election Committee for Korean LoCo have announced they are looking for an 8th representative position. We’re given details, and told submissions should be before November 30, 2025; with voting to start later in December. A link for more detail is provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/2025-korean-loco-8th-representative-election/72302

Ubucon India 2025 - A milestone!

Samir Kamerkar writes about attending and speaking at UbuCon India 2025. Along with details of the event, we’re told it was “exciting and long overdue”, the campus where it was held, of Samir’s talk, and more. He concludes that he hopes UbuCon India 2025 is the “start of a new chapter for the Ubuntu community in India”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-india-2025-a-milestone/72405

Ubuntu @ FOSDEM 2026

Mauro Gaspari has created an event entry for FOSDEM 2026 (January 31 - February 2, 2026).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-fosdem-2026/72541

Ubuntu Circles! (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 also see:

The Hub

Debcrafters Digest Vol 3 – An Unexpected Attempted Migration in Devel Release

John Chittum writes about an ‘unexpected’ migration of packages from resolute-proposed to the release pocket that should have been prevented due to failing autopkgtests. We’re told Jeremy Bicha first noticed this before many members stepped in to explore and correct the issue. The problem was found & quickly fixed: Britney halted, queues corrected and all resolved before any packages actually migrated. This somewhat detailed post covers this, why packages didn’t fully migrate, and more. Special thanks are given to Andy Whitcroft and Guruprasad.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/debcrafters-digest-vol-3-an-unexpected-attempted-migration-in-devel-release/72363/

SRU cycles suspended until 2026.01.12

Stefan Bader tells us that SRU cycles are suspended until January 12, 2026. We’ve given reasons for this, with resources available still ready to handle any potential issues which may arise during that time. The current security cycle is being spent to “address known bugs of high or critical severity”. The next 12-Jan-2026 to 8-Feb-2026 cycle dates are listed.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sru-cycles-suspended-until-2026-01-12/72400

The Planet

Open design: the opportunity design students didn’t know they were missing

Miguel Divo outlines open design for us, and tells us how it can be of benefit to “universities and students of any design discipline”. We’re firstly told what Open Design is, how Canonical can help with this, how it can help students, before getting to links where people can start getting started. For those with questions, a ‘reach out’ email is provided too.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/open-design-the-opportunity-design-students-didnt-know-they-were-missing

What Say You

Getting the Most Out of Our Discourse Part 2: Some Practical Tips & Tricks for a Smoother Experience

“Last time I spoke about the importance of community, of the social side of Discourse, and what we can do to leave it a better place than we found it. This is a subject I intend returning to but this time I want to focus on more practical usage of the software that can make our experience here easier, quicker, and hopefully more functional. …” Rubi1200

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/getting-the-most-out-of-our-discourse-part-2-some-practical-tips-tricks-for-a-smoother-experience/72277

After Weeks of Distro-Hopping, Ubuntu Was the Only Thing That Didn’t Break

“I’ve spent years distro-hopping: Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, Pop!_OS, Kali, and more. I always thought Ubuntu was too basic or ‘default’ to be the best. I was wrong. After about a month of daily driving, I have to say: Ubuntu is the most perfect distribution I’ve ever used. The experience is incredibly smooth, stable, and completely functional ‘out of the box.’ Zero driver issues, zero dependency hell, and virtually no frustrating errors. It just works, letting me focus on my tasks. I’m 100% sticking with Ubuntu. Shoutout to the team for building such a polished OS!” Far_Horse_5377

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1oy8o6k/after_weeks_of_distrohopping_ubuntu_was_the_only/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of caveats

Liam Proven blogs about the release of release candidate 1 of Systemd 259. We’re given some details of what is included in this release, numerous quotes highlighting different opinions about the changes, and links should we want more information about individual changes. We are told of more System V init script depreciation, but the “total removal has been postponed until systemd 260”, with us expected to see this in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/20/rc_systemd_259/

Other Articles of Interest

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10

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

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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