Issue243
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 243 for the week November 21 - 27, 2011.
In This Issue
General Community News
Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (88169) +255 over last week
- Critical (129) +4 over last week
- Unconfirmed (46175) +27 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translation Stats Oneiric
- Spanish (9073) +34 over last week
- English (Australia) (24351) -3655 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (45405) -12 over last week
- English (United Kingdom) (45882) +2607 over last week
- Bosnian (65165) +1224 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Words added to the default dictionary should be shared between computers - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28897/
Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Cloud News
The Planet
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
Security Updates
USN-1277-1: Firefox vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1277-1
USN-1277-2: Mozvoikko and ubufox update - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1277-2
USN-1269-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1269-1
USN-1278-1: Linux (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1278-1
USN-1279-1: Linux (Natty backport) vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1279-1
USN-1280-1: Linux (OMAP4) vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1280-1
USN-1281-1: Linux (OMAP4) vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1281-1
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
procps 1:3.2.8-1ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-November/012557.html
papyon 0.4.8-0ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-November/012558.html
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
procps 1:3.2.8-9ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-November/009676.html
wireshark 1.2.11-6+squeeze5build0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-November/009677.html
hedgewars 0.9.17-1~maverick0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-November/009678.html
papyon 0.5.1-0ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-November/009679.html
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
procps 1:3.2.8-10ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-November/012300.html
hedgewars 0.9.17-1~natty0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-November/012301.html
Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
ubuntuone-client 2.0.0-0ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011439.html
ubuntu-meta 1.245.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011440.html
ghostscript 9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011441.html
command-not-found 0.2.44.1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011442.html
procps 1:3.2.8-10ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011443.html
gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011444.html
banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011445.html
hedgewars 0.9.17-1~oneiric0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011446.html
jenkins-winstone 0.9.10-jenkins-25+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011447.html
jenkins 1.409.1-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011448.html
gnote 0.7.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011449.html
lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011450.html
unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011451.html
shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2011-November/011452.html
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