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UWN Issue 968 October 25-31 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 968 for the week of October 25 - 31, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • Security advisory: Critical vulnerability found in Canonical LXD and MicroCloud
  • Tenacious T-Rex is now open for development
  • New Ubuntu Community Council 2026
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Jornada d’instal·lació i suport a Caldes de Montbui (14-11-2026)
  • Ubuntu - GITHUB COPILOT DEV DAYS NAMIBE - Angola 2026
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu Discourse
  • Slimming your snaps
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Security and Updates for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 and 26.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop

Jon Seager reminds us of Ubuntu Core and the plans to create a immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop, with the 2023 Ubuntu Core Desktop preview ‘falling short of the vision’. That 2023 attempt provided some insights into problems, with us being told of more recent work, and requirements that users need and can benefit from. We’re told of the key challenges, of the KDE Neon Core development, and the next required steps. We’re reminded the traditional Ubuntu Desktop is not going away, but told the Ubuntu Core Desktop may be the future.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/accelerating-ubuntu-core-desktop/90547

Security advisory: Critical vulnerability found in Canonical LXD and MicroCloud

Mark Laing reports a “critical vulnerability affecting LXD and MicroCloud has been identified and addressed” and gives us details. We’re urged to update ‘immediately’. We are given a link to the CVE-2026-112816 thread if we need more, a list of snap versions with fixes included, and told how we can address this issue. Thanks is given to Stéphane Graber for his collaboration.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/security-advisory-critical-vulnerability-found-in-canonical-lxd-and-microcloud/90557

Tenacious T-Rex is now open for development

Graham Inggs announces that Ubuntu Tenacious T-Rex is “open for development”. We’re told the auto-sync from Debian will be enabled soon, given a link to the release schedule, and reminded a large influx of builds & autopkgtests are expected. Any help in fixing issues will be appreciated. We’re also reminded the “-changes mailing list is no more” and told of the atom feed that’s replaced it.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-October/043674.html

New Ubuntu Community Council 2026

Merlijn Sebrechts: “I’m happy to announce the new 2026 Ubuntu Community Council! They are elected for a period of two years starting today. [Nathan Haines (~nhaines) @nhaines, Merlijn Sebrechts (~merlijn-sebrechts) @merlijn-sebrechts, Aaron Rainbolt (~arraybolt3) arraybolt3, Jose Antonio Rey (~jose) @jose, Wild_Man (~wildmanne39) @Wild_Man, Jason C. Nucciarone (~nuccitheboss) @nuccitheboss, Marius Quabeck (~marius.quabeck) @marius.quabeck]. I want to thank the outgoing community council members @teward, @scarlettmoore, @hellsworth1 for their service. It was a pleasure working with you!”

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/new-ubuntu-community-council-2026/90791

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 137933 (+172)
  • Critical: 296 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73731 (+111)

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

Translations

  • Swedish: 100.00% (0/3757)
  • Albanian: 98.38% (6163/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.14% (41402/1113)
  • German: 87.02% (49486/388)
  • French: 86.00% (53386/6628)

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 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

Jornada d’instal·lació i suport a Caldes de Montbui (14-11-2026)

Walter Garcia Fontes reminds us that Ubuntu 26.10 has been released, and to celebrate this the Ubuntu community in Catalan will hold a party November 14, in Caldes de Montbui. This post (a wiki page which can change) provides details, including links to register. This post is in Catalan.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jornada-dinstal-lacio-i-suport-a-caldes-de-montbui-14-11-2026/90482

Ubuntu - GITHUB COPILOT DEV DAYS NAMIBE - Angola 2026

Filipe Malaquias tells us that on October 25, 2026 in the city of Namibe, Moçâmedes a GitHub CoPilot Dev Days Namibe 2026 was held. We’re told of the groups that helped host the event, shown numerous photos, and provided event detail. The Python Angola Community is thanked.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-github-copilot-dev-days-namibe-angola-2026/90497/

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 Circles!/LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please also see:

Ubuntu Discourse

Slimming your snaps

Daniel W. Steinbrook reminds us of initial size limits put on Ubuntu images back in 2004 due to network speeds & disk sizes. Whilst those limits may not apply as much today, there are still benefits to keeping things small. With that said, Daniel discusses the relation to snap packages in this post. We’re told (as developers) we can firstly note the library linter messages, and given some help with that, before moving on to content snaps, and more. This post (aimed at developers) lays out the options we have that can reduce the size of our own snap packages.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/slimming-your-snaps/90413

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu firmware HWE will prevent issues on older kernel

Joey Sneddon informs us that Ubuntu is planning a new ‘linux-firmware-hwe’ package and gives us details of that, including why its required, as noted by Juerg Haefliger. We’re also alerted to a potential problem where both GA & HWE stacks are installed, but that will be addressed as well shortly.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-firmware-hwe-effort-moving-forward

Featured Audio and Video

Portugal Podcast: Episode 389 - Farmar Clones Antrópicos

“Sim, nós sabemos, este episódio sai atrasado, mas é que somos pessoas muito ocupadas; temos de ver filmes sobre KDE e o Claude escravizou o Diogo e não o deixou sair do computador até terminar a sua app de navegação. Nesta semana continuámos com os nossos afazeres doidos de software CW Trainer, queimámos tokens ao máximo, fomos acampar e também tivemos discussões acesas sobre «vibe coding», «slop», propriedade intelectual, monopólios rentistas na Internet, como tudo devia ser uma comuna anarco-sindicalista autosuficiente (com gritos e insultos); rimos muito com os clones da ArtCraft e como os LLM viraram o jogo e levámos as mãos à cabeça com o PHP apanhado de calças na mão e certificados com chaves criptográficas terminadas em 0004. Um regabofe.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e389/

Security and Updates for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 and 26.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: The jammy-changes October 2026 Archive by thread

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: The noble-changes October 2026 Archive by thread

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 26.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: The Resolute-changes October 2026 Archive by thread

End of Standard Support: April 2031

Ubuntu 26.10 Updates

Maintenance Activity: The Stonking-changes October 2026 Archive by thread

End of Life: July 2027

[The Release Update Listings] have become unwieldy so we’re providing links.

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