UWN Issue 926 January 4-10 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 926 for the week of January 4 - 10, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) reaches End of Life on 15th January 2026
  • London called, and the world answered: creating a Summit without borders
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2026-01-09
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • First Ubuntu community meeting of 2026 in Lagos
  • Official Event Report on UbuCon Asia 2025
  • Ubuntu Kenya Summit
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools (Mir 2.25.2 update)
  • Call for Testing: Steam snap for arm64
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) reaches End of Life on 15th January 2026

Florent ‘Skia’ Jacquet reminds us that Ubuntu 25.04 [an interim release] was released back on 17 April 2025, and will thus reach its end of life in a few days. We’re given details of what this means, a link so users can understand how they can upgrade their systems to Ubuntu 25.10, and more.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2026-January/010065.html

London called, and the world answered: creating a Summit without borders

Mauro Gaspari writes about the Ubuntu Summit 25.10. Mauro gives us a brief comparison between the in-person events of the past, and what happened at this online summit, featuring Lorenzo’s Music, Sylvia Ritter’s artwork, and “audacious talks”. This year’s Summit was presented as extended events held all around the globe. A number of photos are shown, a brief glimpse is given of some of the talks, before a thank you is given to everyone who was involved. The post closes with mention of the coming Ubuntu Summit 26.04, giving us a link to submit a talk proposal.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/london-called-and-the-world-answered-creating-a-summit-without-borders

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144149 (+19)
  • Critical: 313 (-4)
  • Unconfirmed: 73983 (+6)

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

Translations

  • Albanian: 98.86% (3986/106)
  • Swedish: 98.35% (5785/691)
  • Ukrainian: 89.17% (38012/1585)
  • German: 87.13% (45196/265)
  • French: 85.74% (50084/6262)

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/

Meeting Reports

Rocks Public Journal; 2026-01-09

New rocks for Go (1.22-24.04), PHP (8.3-24.04), and Rust (1.75-24.04) have been published to Docker Hub and ECR.

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

First Ubuntu community meeting of 2026 in Lagos

Bright Adams (mrbite) of Ubuntu Nigeria informs us of the “first community meeting of the year on the 31st of January, 2026” in Lagos. We’re given the location, told to expect big things, and that the theme is “from users to contributors”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/first-ubuntu-community-meeting-of-2026-in-lagos/74578

Official Event Report on UbuCon Asia 2025

Aaditya Singh has given us the Official Event Report on UbuCon Asia 2025. This is an extensive report, which includes charts and other metrics.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/official-event-report-on-ubucon-asia-2025/74630/

Ubuntu Kenya Summit

Doreen Peace Nangira Wanyama from Ubuntu Kenya tells us a UbuCon Africa is ‘in the plans’. To ensure this is a success, this post asks us what we’d like to see or topics we’d like covered, with feedback most welcome.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-kenya-summit/74728

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

Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools (Mir 2.25.2 update)

Michał Sawicz tells us that following Mir 2.25 release, the mir-test-tools and ubuntu-frame snaps have been updated. We’re given version details, some highlights to Ubuntu Frame, and told how to test them. If testers don’t report any problems, they’ll be promoted to 24/stable in a week.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-frame-mir-test-tools-mir-2-25-2-update/74640

Call for Testing: Steam snap for arm64

Mitchell Augustin tell us of the months of work building the arm64 Steam snap which is now available for broader testing. We’re given some details of its build, and told we should treat this build as a ‘beta’; in the details we are told how we can test it. A list of games tested, and brief hardware details are included along with some performance stats. We’re asked to let the team know how it performs on our devices.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-steam-snap-for-arm64/74719

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

GNU ddrescue 1.30 “Orders of Magnitude” Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head

Michael Larabel reminds us what GNU ddrescue is, before moving to announce the new GNU ddrescue 1.30 release. We’re given a ‘headline change’ quote highlighting how much faster it now is.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-ddrescue-1.30

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Joey Sneddon writes about the coming new HWE kernel for Ubuntu 24.04(.4) LTS. We’re reminded of the features (in Ubuntu 25.10) that will soon be available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-hwe-update-kernel-mesa

KDE Frameworks 6.22 Fixes Multiple Clipboard-Related Issues on Wayland

Marius Nestor informs us of the KDE Frameworks 6.22 released by the KDE Project. We’ve been walked through some fixes in this release, as well as given a link to the official release announcement.

https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-22-fixes-multiple-clipboard-related-issues-on-wayland

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland

Michael Larabel reports the release of the Budgie 10.10 desktop. The quote from Budgie GitHub: “This release marks our official migration from X11 to Wayland” highlights the work started last November. Michael provides the link to GitHub for the download.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Released

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: Episode 370 - Insanus IanuariusEpisode

“Qual é o pior que pode acontecer para começar o ano, quando juntamos o David Negreira, Tiago Carrondo, Miguel e Diogo Constantino? Deboche total, pois claro, num podcast sobre carros eléctricos, baterias, painéis solares, Home Assistant e outras cenas. No meio do caos e confusão conseguimos falar brevemente de aventuras tecnológicas, teclados com luzes LGBT, osciloscópios de meter na língua, intelijumência artificial local para escrever código, discos IDE cheios de pó, a merdificação geral da Internet, financeirização da economia e mais além.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e370/

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: 15 January 2026

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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