UWN Issue 921 November 30 -December 6 2025.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 921 for the week of November 30 - December 6, 2025.

In this Issue

  • LTS qualifications for Resolute Raccoon
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Call for Testing: FWTS supports on ACPI 6.6
  • Chromium Armhf builds to be ended soon
  • What Say You
  • Getting the Most Out of Our Discourse Part 3: The Importance of Topic Lifecycles
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

LTS qualifications for Resolute Raccoon

Robie Basak reports the Ubuntu Technical Board have agreed that Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Cinnamon have been approved for LTS status for the Ubuntu 26.04 release. The remaining flavors are still subject to approval on request and will be non-LTS.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2025-December/003082.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 143985 (+14)
  • Critical: 315 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73895 (+5)

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: 96.02% (13965/1120)
  • Ukrainian: 88.92% (38908/1583)
  • German: 86.95% (45814/169)
  • French: 85.24% (51819/6451)

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) 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

Call for Testing: FWTS supports on ACPI 6.6

Ivan Hu tells us new features from ACPI 6.6 were added to FWTS 25.11.00 along with other bug fixes and improvements. Ivan requests users test “their ACPI 6.6 firmware with FWTS and report bugs or missing features”. A link to the source code, and details for downloading and testing are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-fwts-supports-on-acpi-6-6/72937

Chromium Armhf builds to be ended soon

Nathan Teodosio reminds us that Firefox builds on Armhf have been dropped, and warns us the same is happening for the Chromium snap too. We’re told the Armhf build of Chromium 144 failed due to Node v24 which isn’t published for ARMv7l, and with limited remaining users future builds will cease. A number of alternatives that still exist for Armhf are given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/chromium-armhf-builds-to-be-ended-soon/73161

What Say You

Getting the Most Out of Our Discourse Part 3: The Importance of Topic Lifecycles

“I would like to focus on something that seems oft-neglected or given lower priority; namely, how topics evolve over time, and how we as a community can keep discussions clear, useful, and easy to navigate long after the first post is written and published.” Rubi1200

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/getting-the-most-out-of-our-discourse-part-3-the-importance-of-topic-lifecycles/72920/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Good News! Canonical Plans to Rebuild Ubuntu Wiki From Scratch

Sourav Rudra writes that Ubuntu’s wikis have been an “essential resource” and reports that Canonical have announced (see also UWN 920) they’re working on a new Ubuntu wiki, with existing wikis being decommissioned in August 2026. Details, and discussion are provided.

https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-wiki-rebuild-plan/

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 Rolls Out with VoLTE Support for Fairphone 4, Volla Phone 22

Marius Nestor informs us that UBports Foundation have released Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 and Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 updates for Ubuntu Touch 24.04 and 20.04 users. We’re given brief details of the fixes; some for specific devices. We are told of faster boot times, and more, including a link to the release announcement.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-1-1-rolls-out-with-volte-support-for-fairphone-4-volla-phone-22

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements

Michael Larabel tells us about NVIDIA releasing the 590.44.01 Linux driver in beta. We’re given details of the improvements, and how we can test it out. Michael does note the NVIDIA web page hadn’t been updated at the time of writing, but does provide a link so we can download the binary.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.44.01-Linux-Beta

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Korea: Reflecting past 20 years with our community members - Ubuntu Korea Community 20 Years

“Soon, this December of 2025, Ubuntu Korea Community will be reaching our milestone - 20 years of the community since its beginning. To celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu Korea and also to reflect past years, We invited some of our community members who’ve been active or leading the community. Thank you Haze Lee, Sangbin Lim, Yeonguk Choo, Minseong Cho, Tahee Jang, and Janghoon Sim for participating the interview!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Y_FAli--U

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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