UWN Issue 939 April 5-11 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 939 for the week of April 5 - 11, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Summit 26.04: CALLOUT FOR MUSICIANS!
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Call for Sponsors UbuCon Cameroon
  • Event Report - PyCon Namibia 2026
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • 26.04 Beta: tests.ubuntu.com retrospective rocket
  • Llms.txt for documentation
  • Improving Ubuntu Infrastructure Status Reporting
  • Other Community News
  • What Say You
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Summit 26.04: CALLOUT FOR MUSICIANS!

Lorenzo’s Music has made a ‘callout for musicians’ telling us they’re doing another Ubuntu Summit Companion Stream, giving us details (May 27) and that they’re “looking for recordings of live performances to feature on the stream”. A link to a google-docs form is provided if we’d like to make a submission.

https://ubuntu.social/@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social/116365260598847301

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 140742 (-1,941)
  • Critical: 306 (-5)
  • Unconfirmed: 73116 (-376)

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% (1/1383)
  • Albanian: 98.87% (3977/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.37% (37339/1709)
  • German: 87.17% (45060/442)
  • French: 85.78% (49944/7727)

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

Call for Sponsors UbuCon Cameroon

Muluh Penn Junior Patrick has published a “Call for Sponsors” for Python Cameroon & Ubucon Cameroon, giving us a contact email, a link, and more details.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-sponsors-ubucon-cameroon/79757

Event Report - PyCon Namibia 2026

Juan Luis Cano has logged an event report for PyCon Namibia 2026, which gives us a quick rundown of the event and more. We’re told of Juan’s expectations given it was his third attendance of the conferences, and that he wasn’t disappointed with this one. Some photos, highlights and more are provided. The report ends with a look into the future.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-pycon-namibia-2026/79816/

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:

The Hub

26.04 Beta: tests.ubuntu.com retrospective rocket

Matthieu Clemenceau gives us a Ubuntu 26.04 beta retrospective in regards to the new tests.ubuntu.com site. We’re given some stats, with special thanks going to Aaron Rainbolt, Leo Kolbeinsson and David Mohammed. Some issues encountered are touched on, and based on feedback some issues need to be addressed; with some now fixed, and others in progress.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/26-04-beta-tests-ubuntu-com-retrospective/79853/

Llms.txt for documentation

Robert Krátký: “This is a brief overview of investigation into the usefulness of the llms.txt standard proposal: what it is, the current state of adoption, results of some benchmark tests, and an overview of implementation options for Canonical documentation (with our recommended implementation to round things off)”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/llms-txt-for-documentation/79900/

Improving Ubuntu Infrastructure Status Reporting

Sebastien Bacher notes that “a few infrastructure reliability issues” have been encountered recently, and thus the need for improved Ubuntu Infrastructure Status reporting. We’re given details on the use of Upptime, with some of its limitations addressed as well, and some sample shots of what output it shows provided. We’re then introduced to Canonical Observability Stack (COS), before being asked to ‘take a look’ and let them know of any services that are currently missing on the tracked list.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-ubuntu-infrastructure-status-reporting/79992

Other Community News

Xubuntu 26.04 Community Wallpaper Contest Winners

The Xubuntu team is happy to show us the results of the Xubuntu 26.04 community wallpaper contest. All contestants are thanked, and we’re told 40 unique submissions were made, as well as some other stats. We’re told of the “5-way tie between 5th and 6th place” with the Xubuntu team providing a tie-breaking vote. All entries are viewable on Ubuntu’s Discourse, but the winning entries are shown to us here.

https://xubuntu.org/news/releases/26.04/2026-04-10-xubuntu-26-04-community-wallpaper-contest-winners/

What Say You

Ubuntu 26.04 surprisingly AWESOME

“I put ubuntu 26.04 on a 2019 #MacPro (7,1) with a 32GB HBM2 Vega II GPU. It’s surprisingly AWESOME for both gaming (current-gen AAA GOG games through Heroic Launcher run very very well) AND quite awesome at local AI. #Qwen35 getting nearly 80 tokens per second was really unexpected for this nearly obsolete box. All in all, silent and pretty good. Definitely runs better than MacOS.” - Zygmunt Krynicki

https://ubuntu.social/@zygoon@fosstodon.org/116369940049294460

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers - and it’s not just the performance bump

Jack Wallen writes that the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release has “received a decent performance boost over version 25.10”, according to recent Phoronix benchmarks. With some remarks on what Michael (of Phoronix) found, we are then told of a recent spin Jack made with the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta and told what Jack found. We’re told of some of the changes over prior releases, and why Jack ‘loves this new Ubuntu’.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-performance/

In the Blogosphere

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

Michael Larabel writes about the release of Rust Coreutils 0.8. We’re told it has “‘significant’ performance gains across core utilities, expanded WebAssembly ‘WASI’ support”, and more. We’re given an update on the improved pass rate on GNU test suites, of a 45% faster dd command, as well as being given a link to the release notes on GitHub.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released

OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes

Marcus Nestor alerts us that OpenSSL 3.6.2 is available; it contains numerous security fixes for recent CVEs. We’re given details of the many CVEs with fixes containing brief descriptions of each of the vulnerabilities. We’re also told of OpenSSL 3.5.6, OpenSSL 3.4.5 and other older security/bugfix point releases, and given a link to the projects GitHub page for release notes.

https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-important-security-fixes

Debian’s APT 3.2 Released with History, Undo, Redo, and Rollback Support

Marcus Nestor tells us of the release of Apt 3.2 by the Debian Project. We’re told of new features, including the rollback and history functionality, which will be seen in Debian 14 (forky) release in 2027, and the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

https://9to5linux.com/debians-apt-3-2-released-with-history-undo-redo-and-rollback-support

PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices

Marcus Nestor informs us of the release of PipeWire 1.6.3. We’re told of some of the fixes for crashes, alignment with RTP timestamps so RAOP will work on more devices, and more. Marcus includes a link to the project’s GitLab for more if required.

https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-3-improves-raop-compatibility-to-make-it-work-on-more-devices

Featured Audio and Video

Late Night Linux – Episode 380

“Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.”

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-380/

Portugal Podcast: Episode 376 - O Oráculo do Cenáculo

“Santa Páscoa a todos, crentes e não crentes na Palavra do Software Livre, abençoado seja o NextCloud e as pastas partilhadas que deviam ser fáceis em Ubuntu…e todavia… Desta vez conseguimos insultar várias comunidades e pessoas em particular, o que não é de somenos. Insultámos a Oracle, quase toda a comunidade de utilizadores de Mint (que o Diogo foi ajudar, na sua modesta magnanimidade); trouxémos más notícias sobre Ubuntu Mate; rimos muito com Virtualbox, uma verdadeira matrioska de porcarias; e conseguimos insultar gratuitamente pessoas que são portadoras de Snapofobia. Mas também recomendámos um youtuber português interessante (Hat Rat) e promovemos o NextCloud como o canivete Suíço que resolve tudo. E encontrámos mais uma situação para fazermos queixinhas à CNPD.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e376/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 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 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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