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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 439 for the period October 12 - 25, 2015.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. He advises from where to download the release, points out various caveats, workarounds and known issues, and reminds us of how we can help to shape Ubuntu by providing links which tell us how we can participate in the Ubuntu project.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2015-October/000202.html

Canonical made several of their own announcements of the release:

• What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: desktop and devices - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/22/whats-new-in-ubuntu-15-10-desktop-and-devices/

• What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: cloud and server? - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/22/whats-new-in-ubuntu-15-10-cloud-and-server/

• Ubuntu 15.10 is here! - http://design.canonical.com/2015/10/ubuntu-15-10-is-here/

The release was also widely covered by various news and blog sites. The following articles are a selection found by UWN’s editors:

• Ubuntu 15.10 Available to Download, This Is What’s New - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/ubuntu-15-10-download-review-new-features

• Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download - http://www.webupd8.org/2015/10/ubuntu-1510-wily-werewolf-ready-for.html

• Ubuntu 15.10 Flavors Now Available for Download - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/ubuntu-15-10-flavors-download-now

• Ubuntu 15.10 Is Now Available For Download - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.10-Download

• Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released for Desktop, Server, and Clound - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-15-10-wily-werewolf-released-for-desktop-server-and-clound-495072.shtml

• Another great Ubuntu release to be proud of! - https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/10/another-great-ubuntu-release-to-be-proud-of/

• Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' arrives with few changes as Ubuntu Phone work continues - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2996043/operating-systems/ubuntu-1510-wily-werewolf-arrives-with-few-changes-as-ubuntu-phone-work-continues.html

• Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf released for desktop, phone, and server - http://liliputing.com/2015/10/ubuntu-15-10-wily-werewolf-released-for-desktop-phone-and-server.html

• Ubuntu 15.10: Wily Werewolf - not too hairy, not too scary - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/23/ubuntu_15_10_review/

• The Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.10, is unleashed - http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-wily-werewolf-ubuntu-15-10-is-unleashed/

X marks the spot

Mark Shuttleworth takes a brief look at some of the features that are part of and will be improved in the next release of Ubuntu, i.e. LDX, Snappy, MAAS and Juju. He announces: “All of these are coming together beautifully, making Ubuntu the fastest path to magic of all sorts. And that magic will go by the codename… xenial xerus!” adding his usual explanation of the meaning of the code name and its relevance to Ubuntu.

http://markshuttleworth.com/archives/1479

Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

Daniel Holbach writes “from 3-5 Nov we are going to have our next Ubuntu Online Summit where we plan the X release. As at the last times, everything will happen on Google Hangouts and the schedule is going to be up at summit.ubuntu.com.“ He emphasizes the short amount of time that it takes to propose a session whether they are discussion or planning sessions.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-October/001156.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Other Community News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A with Erle Robotics - 13th October 2015

This week the Community team is joined by the Erle Robotics team, who answer questions about the Erle-Spider, the robot powered by snappy Ubuntu and their IndieGoGo campaign. The broadcast includes a live demo of the Spider!

https://youtu.be/r2qwnKhtATA

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E32 – United Passions

It’s Episode Thirty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

• We share a list of podcasts we listen to and why
• We go over your feedback.
• We have a command line love, from Martin who switched to hstr and wanted to migrate his Fish shell command history to ~/.bash_history.

• We chat about going to (and presenting at) DevRelCon, using Kodi properly, judging the UbuContest, upgrading a MacBook Pro to OSX (don’t) and buying a Chromebook instead, getting glasses, ordering a Moto X Style, and getting the Ubuntu Podcast BattleBus prepped and dead-food-free for the Ubuntu Podcast OggCamp2015 Road Trip.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/16/s08e32-united-passions/

Ubuntu Snappy Core Clinic - 19th October 2015

Daniel Holbach, Ted Gould and Sergio Schvezov host another Snappy Core Clinic session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/a0yK8ZeYcZg

Community Team Q&A - 20th October 2015

Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host this week’s Q&A session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/MU71O2vUbRs

Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf - See What's New

Linux Scoop shows us, using a short video, the changes introduced in Ubuntu 15.10 which ships with Linux kernel 4.2, Unity 7.3.2, and Compiz Window Manager 0.9.12.2.

https://youtu.be/VoeCcCQuJrM

Juju Office Hours 2015/10/22

Marco Ceppi hosts another Juju Office Hours session in which he is joined by a number of guests who talk about the work they have recently been doing.

https://youtu.be/hQ4nq_6zKJ0

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues

It’s Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

• In recent days the have been reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up…
• Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing…
• Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks…
• Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released…
• Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments…
• The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development…
• CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

• 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released
• Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu
• Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016…
• A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5…
• Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community’s job board for volunteers…
• Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the ‘path to convergence’
• Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus

There are even events:

• OggCamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!!

  • Entroware are Platinum sponsors!!! Go buy your Ubuntu laptops, desktops, and servers from them. As well as helping pay for OggCamp, they’re donating a brand spanking new laptop to the OggCamp Raffle!

  • The Ubuntu community and Fedora are also very generously sponsoring OggCamp 2015.

  • Dan sends his apologies for the lack up updates on the website so far. Speaker announcements and schedule details are going up over the next few days. Also, it’s worth signing up on Eventbrite (it can be a free ticket; no money needed) because then you’ll get useful information updates by email.
• Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/23/s08e33-boggy-creek-ii-and-the-legend-continues/

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Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04

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Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

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Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

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