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'''WORK IN PROGRESS'''

## Edit the following to include issue number, date info, and a short list
## of the top articles in this release.
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## In this section, list major topics of interest using bullets.
## Format: * <Topic name>
## Ex: * Ubuntu overtakes Microsoft with 90% market share
## This gets added right before you publish bullet points of table of contents		  * Community Council elected
 * Welcome New Members and Developers
 * Ubuntu Stats
 * Ubucon París 15.10
 * Lo``Co Events
 * Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping
 * Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Free``Geek Chicago
 * Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & Jet``Brains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11
 * Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
 * Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
 * Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
 * Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
 * Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
 * Ubuntu Cloud News
 * In The Blogosphere
 * FCM#103 is OUT!
 * Featured Audio and Video
 * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
 * Upcoming Meetings and Events
 * Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
 * And much more!
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## Make each article a subsection, via ===
## These are big articles that don't fit within another section
## Suggested sources: ubuntu-news-team mailing list, fridge.ubuntu.com		 === Community Council elected ===

Daniel Holbach announces the results of the recent election for the seats on the Ubuntu Community Council on which Daniel himself, Laura Czajkowski, Svetlana Belkin, Michael Hall, Scarlett Clark, C de-Avillez, and Marco Ceppi will serve for the next two years. He thanks all the nominees and voters and also those who served on the council for the last two years.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2015-November/000034.html
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## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members.
## developers or PPU
## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those?
## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE
## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page)		 At the Developer Membership Board meeting on November 23rd, the following applications were reviewed and new developers welcomed:

 * Contributing developer application for Dave Chiluk. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-November/002349.html
 * Core developer application for Łukasz Zemczak. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-November/002350.html
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## Data can be found at: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
## Note: "Unconfirmed" number comes from "New" number
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

    * Open (#) +/- # over last week
    * Critical (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week		     * Open (120460) +31 over last week
    * Critical (283) -1 over last week
    * Unconfirmed (60083) +64 over last week
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## AUTOMATIC (preferred method, more stats!)
## Run: ./askubuntu/askubuntu.py
## MANUAL: Go to askubuntu.com and click on "WEEK" to get the
## top questions of the week		 ==== Most Active Questions ====

 * How to print “-n” without issuing a newline? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701616/how-to-print-n-without-issuing-a-newline
 * Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701945/is-it-possible-to-have-four-equally-sized-windows-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts
 * Can someone harm my computer just using grub? http://askubuntu.com/questions/702807/can-someone-harm-my-computer-just-using-grub
 * Leave old kernels installed could be dangerous? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701492/leave-old-kernels-installed-could-be-dangerous
 * What does the “-” in “bash -” mean? http://askubuntu.com/questions/703397/what-does-the-in-bash-mean

==== Top Voted New Questions ====

 * Does Ubuntu work on a Raspberry Pi Zero? http://askubuntu.com/questions/703070/
 * Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701945/
 * What does the &quot;-&quot; in &quot;bash -&quot; mean? http://askubuntu.com/questions/703397/
 * How can the login greeter drums be turned off in Ubuntu 15.10? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701431/
 * How to print &quot;-n&quot; without issuing a newline? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701616/

People contributing the best questions and answers this week: Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6) and Mike (http://askubuntu.com/users/1269/mike)
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.
## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other
## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the
## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/		 === Ubucon París 15.10 ===

Marcos Costales shares a day by day journal of activities he participated in at Ubucon Paris, including a series of 25 photos taken throughout the event. The post is in Spanish (not French!).

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/11/ubucon-paris-2015.html
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## Run the ./loco-events/loco-events.py script to get a list  * Monthly meeting, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center, Ubuntu Massachusetts Lo``Co: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-ma/3112-monthly-meeting,-foss-user-group-at-natick-community-senior-center/
 * Ubuntu Hour San Francisco, Ubuntu California: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/3261-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/
 * Ubuntu 15.10 Release Party and Offline Meeting in Japan, Ubuntu Japanese Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/japaneseteam/3260-ubuntu-1510-release-party-and-offline-meeting-in-japan/
 * Ubuntu Hour Berkeley, Ubuntu California: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2997-ubuntu-hour-berkeley/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping ===

Graham Bancroft on behalf of the Canonical Design Team shows us how to build themes with the Vanilla framework for theme consistency across Ubuntu websites, writing that the post would be “delving a little further into how we include and customise the framework for our Ubuntu family of websites”. He provides instructions for installing the framework and customizing it for your own theme.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/vanilla-theme-wrapping/

=== Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago ===

Evelyn Lopez, Communications Coordinator at Free``Geek Chicago, is interviewed by the Xubuntu team and describes the use of Xubuntu in their production environment. She writes that they use purely open source software and that for some time Xubuntu was the main flavor that they used. She also shares the applications that they install on their systems, saying “Currently, we install Libre``Office, Krita, Inkscape, VLC Player, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP among others.”

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-freegeek-chicago/

=== Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11 ===

Didier Roche describes the new features in Ubuntu Make 15.11, notably adding Netbeans, Rust, Jet``Brains CLion, and Twine game editor support. He also shares that there have been minor fixes and changes in this new release, and describes the many tests done by the Ubuntu Jenkins system.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Netbeans-and-Rust-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11
http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/JetBrains-CLion-and-Twine-game-editor-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11.2

=== Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot ===

Rohan Garg describes his collaboration with other Kubuntu developers at the annual Li``Mux sprint to work on the Continuous Integration system used by developers, improving file tracking in projects and use of packagekit and appstream with Muon. He also mentions a backward clock that they made, inspired by one at the event venue and provides a link from where it can be downloaded.

https://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/a-clockwork-carrot/

=== Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set ===

Matthieu James from the Canonical Design Team shares the new Suru icon theme. He notes that this update focuses on more desktop icons, as before they focused only on mobile icons. He briefly describes the process they went through to make them, noting that he had to match it with the previous set.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/an-expanded-device-mono-icon-set/

=== Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow ===

Scarlett Clark provides her take on the recent Li``Mux hosted sprint in Munich, notably announcing that the Kubuntu team have developed a plan for the Xenial Xerus release and that they will be syncing with Debian on a lot of their work. She also delves into some of the infrastructure, talking about working through where the CI system should be hosted, use of a Docker sandbox for developers and some issues that they run into with Phabricator. Scarlett concludes: “Overall this was an essential team building and work event that I could not have participated in without your help. So thank you to all of you that support Ubuntu community donations.”

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2015/kubuntu-kde-munich-hackathon-kde-ci-work-and-kubuntu-workflow/

=== Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial ===

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos announces the availability of the testing version of the Ubuntu Font Family in Xenial Xerus, which finally includes both the Arabic and Hebrew glyphs created by the team working with Dalton Maag in 2011.

https://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/ubuntu-font-family-0-84-arabic-hebrew-testing-xenial/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from elsewhere in the community:
## mailing lists, team blogs not on planet, etc		 === Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic ===

Daniel Holbach gives us advance notice that the next Ubuntu Snappy Clinic will be on Ubuntu on Air! at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 2nd December. He says that the subject matter will be what’s new in snapcraft, and that he looks forward to seeing us all there.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001320.html
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## This section largely draws from the news from http://insights.ubuntu.com/ and the
## Ubuntu Planet, news from our community, not 3rd party press/blogs

== Ubuntu Phone News ==

## Just like cloud, this section largely draws from the news from http://insights.ubuntu.com/
## and the Ubuntu Planet, news from our community, not 3rd party press/blogs

== Canonical News ==

## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical
## press releases

== In The Press ==

## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.
## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.
## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting
## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu
## release reviews are also common items in this section.
## For this and the next sections, see:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/LinkSuggestions		  * Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/24/opus-2-develops-the-legal-cloud-of-the-future-on-ubuntu-openstack/
 * Diving into Juju - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/24/diving-into-juju/
 * Juju plugin: search charmstore - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/25/juju-plugin-search-charmstore/
 * #Made``With``Juju: Apache Analytics SQL - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/25/madewithjuju-apache-analytics-sql/
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.		 === Vinux Enhances Productivity for Visually Impaired Users ===

Jack M. Germain of Linux Insider provides a review of Vinux 5.0, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 and is specifically designed for blind and partially sighted users. He provides some history about the project and founder Tony Sales, explains how Unity works well for the platform describing some of the other software available, including Orca. He also explored usability of the dash and various keybindings, concluding: “The Vinux Linux distro can be both an educational requirement and a personal tool for sight-impaired computer users. It's not a perfect in its performance, but it does provide an improved and more productive computing environment for visually impaired users.”

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/82784.html

=== November Ubuntu News Roundup ===

Sam Tran of OMG! Ubuntu! provides a summary of Ubuntu News from various sources in November, including: the Kernel 4.4-rc2 release, the Ubuntu Online Summit, the dropping of Python 2, Brasero and Empathy from the default installation of the Xenial Xerus release, new Kubuntu release managers and an Ubuntu SDK Update.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/november-2015-news-roundup

=== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Continues To Focus On The Linux 4.4 Kernel ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix shares the latest from the kernel team, writing that the Linux 4.4 kernel is the target for the upcoming Xenial release in April. He goes on to share some of the features of the kernel and some of the details about how the team at Ubuntu handles backporting of various types of support.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-16.04-Linux-4.4-1

=== First Ubuntu Touch Images Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Are Now Live ===

Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes that Ubuntu Touch images based on 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) are now available in the development channel. However, he also passes on the warning that these early development images are buggy and might not work as expected.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/first-ubuntu-touch-images-based-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-xenial-xerus-are-now-live-496830.shtml
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections.

== Other Articles of Interest ==

## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature		 === FCM#103 is OUT! ===

This month:
 * Command & Conquer
 * How-To : Python in the Real World, Libre``Office, LaTeX and Practice Programming
 * Graphics : Inkscape.
 * Chrome Cult
 * Linux Labs: 3D Printer Building
 * Ubuntu Phones: OTA-8

plus: Ubuntu Games, News, Arduino, Book Review, Q&A, Security, and soooo much more.

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-103/
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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net		 === Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: 08E38 – Santa with Muscles - Ubuntu Podcast ===

It’s Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside…

In this week’s show:

 * We talk about Laura’s recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations:
 * We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot.
 * We go over your feedback.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/11/26/s08e38-santa-with-muscles/

=== Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 24th November 2015 ===

Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host another regular Q&A session on behalf on Canonical's Community team in which they answer questions that are put to them on IRC. They also update us on a new version of snapcraft, OTA-8, the Google Code In, and the Ubu``Con Summit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbENdhTAvvQ
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## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks
## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012
## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215
## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21
## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213
## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Once a month we do these in the format:
##
## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
##
## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting		  * Security Team - November 23, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20151123
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## Run security-and-updates/ListSecurity.py YEAR MONTH  * [USN-2816-1] Django vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2015-November/003198.html
 * [USN-2817-1] Iced``Tea Web vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2015-November/003199.html
 * [USN-2818-1] OpenJDK 7 vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2015-November/003200.html
 * [USN-2820-1] dpkg vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2015-November/003201.html
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH precise
## End of Life - April 2017		  * cloud-init 0.6.3-0ubuntu1.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024656.html
 * xen 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024657.html
 * xen 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024658.html
 * python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024659.html
 * python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024660.html
 * whoopsie-daisy 0.1.34.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024661.html
 * virtualbox 4.1.44-dfsg-1+deb7u1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024662.html
 * virtualbox 4.1.44-dfsg-1+deb7u1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024663.html
 * dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024664.html
 * dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2015-November/024665.html

End of Life - April 2017
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH trusty
## End of Life - April 2019		  * cloud-init 0.7.5-0ubuntu1.15 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020535.html
 * linux-meta-lts-vivid 3.19.0.37.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020536.html
 * linux-lts-vivid 3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020537.html
 * linux-signed-lts-vivid 3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020538.html
 * linux-lts-vivid_3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1_amd64.tar.gz - - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020539.html
 * python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020540.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020541.html
 * multipath-tools 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020542.html
 * libmbim 1.6.0-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020543.html
 * qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.20 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020544.html
 * unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20150916-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020545.html
 * python-debianbts 1.11ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020546.html
 * python-xlib 0.14+20091101-1ubuntu3~trusty - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020547.html
 * linux-firmware 1.127.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020548.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020549.html
 * python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020550.html
 * gccgo-4.9 4.9.3-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020551.html
 * policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020552.html
 * modemmanager 1.0.0-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020553.html
 * virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020554.html
 * virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020555.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020556.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020557.html
 * dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020558.html
 * dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2015-November/020559.html

End of Life - April 2019
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH vivid
## End of Life - January 2016		  * linux 3.19.0-37.42 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009651.html
 * linux-meta 3.19.0.37.36 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009652.html
 * linux-signed 3.19.0-37.42 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009653.html
 * linux_3.19.0-37.42_amd64.tar.gz - - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009654.html
 * cloud-init 0.7.7~bzr1091-0ubuntu12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009655.html
 * neutron 1:2015.1.2-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009656.html
 * python-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009657.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009658.html
 * python-debianbts 1.12ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009659.html
 * qemu 1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009660.html
 * ceph 0.94.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009661.html
 * linux-firmware 1.143.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009662.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009663.html
 * python-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009664.html
 * policykit-1 0.105-8ubuntu5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009665.html
 * virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009666.html
 * virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009667.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009668.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009669.html
 * dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009670.html
 * dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vivid-changes/2015-November/009671.html

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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH wily
## End of Life - July 2016		  * python-pylxd 0.18-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012451.html
 * python-django 1.7.9-1ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012452.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012453.html
 * qtcreator 3.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012454.html
 * dkms 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012455.html
 * linux-firmware 1.149.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012456.html
 * python-django 1.7.9-1ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012457.html
 * icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012458.html
 * policykit-1 0.105-11ubuntu3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012459.html
 * ffmpeg 7:2.7.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012460.html
 * ffmpeg 7:2.7.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012461.html
 * virtualbox 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012462.html
 * virtualbox 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012463.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012464.html
 * openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012465.html
 * dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012466.html
 * dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wily-changes/2015-November/012467.html

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## The following list is in chronological order.

 * Your Name Here		  * Elizabeth K. Joseph
 * Paul White
 * Vishnu Narayanan
 * Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
 * Jim Connett
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## Common acronyms


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Community Council elected
    2. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubucon París 15.10
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping
    2. Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago
    3. Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11
    4. Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
    5. Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
    6. Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
    7. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
  7. Other Community News
    1. Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
  8. Ubuntu Cloud News
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Vinux Enhances Productivity for Visually Impaired Users
    2. November Ubuntu News Roundup
    3. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Continues To Focus On The Linux 4.4 Kernel
    4. First Ubuntu Touch Images Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Are Now Live
  10. In Other News
    1. FCM#103 is OUT!
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: 08E38 – Santa with Muscles - Ubuntu Podcast
    2. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 24th November 2015
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 444 for the week November 23 - 29, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Community Council elected
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubucon París 15.10

  • LoCo Events

  • Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping

  • Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago

  • Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11

  • Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
  • Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
  • Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
  • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
  • Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • FCM#103 is OUT!
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Community Council elected

Daniel Holbach announces the results of the recent election for the seats on the Ubuntu Community Council on which Daniel himself, Laura Czajkowski, Svetlana Belkin, Michael Hall, Scarlett Clark, C de-Avillez, and Marco Ceppi will serve for the next two years. He thanks all the nominees and voters and also those who served on the council for the last two years.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2015-November/000034.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

At the Developer Membership Board meeting on November 23rd, the following applications were reviewed and new developers welcomed:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (120460) +31 over last week
  • Critical (283) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (60083) +64 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

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People contributing the best questions and answers this week: Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6) and Mike (http://askubuntu.com/users/1269/mike)

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

LoCo News

Ubucon París 15.10

Marcos Costales shares a day by day journal of activities he participated in at Ubucon Paris, including a series of 25 photos taken throughout the event. The post is in Spanish (not French!).

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/11/ubucon-paris-2015.html

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

Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping

Graham Bancroft on behalf of the Canonical Design Team shows us how to build themes with the Vanilla framework for theme consistency across Ubuntu websites, writing that the post would be “delving a little further into how we include and customise the framework for our Ubuntu family of websites”. He provides instructions for installing the framework and customizing it for your own theme.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/vanilla-theme-wrapping/

Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago

Evelyn Lopez, Communications Coordinator at FreeGeek Chicago, is interviewed by the Xubuntu team and describes the use of Xubuntu in their production environment. She writes that they use purely open source software and that for some time Xubuntu was the main flavor that they used. She also shares the applications that they install on their systems, saying “Currently, we install LibreOffice, Krita, Inkscape, VLC Player, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP among others.”

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-freegeek-chicago/

Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11

Didier Roche describes the new features in Ubuntu Make 15.11, notably adding Netbeans, Rust, JetBrains CLion, and Twine game editor support. He also shares that there have been minor fixes and changes in this new release, and describes the many tests done by the Ubuntu Jenkins system.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Netbeans-and-Rust-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11 http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/JetBrains-CLion-and-Twine-game-editor-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11.2

Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot

Rohan Garg describes his collaboration with other Kubuntu developers at the annual LiMux sprint to work on the Continuous Integration system used by developers, improving file tracking in projects and use of packagekit and appstream with Muon. He also mentions a backward clock that they made, inspired by one at the event venue and provides a link from where it can be downloaded.

https://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/a-clockwork-carrot/

Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set

Matthieu James from the Canonical Design Team shares the new Suru icon theme. He notes that this update focuses on more desktop icons, as before they focused only on mobile icons. He briefly describes the process they went through to make them, noting that he had to match it with the previous set.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/an-expanded-device-mono-icon-set/

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow

Scarlett Clark provides her take on the recent LiMux hosted sprint in Munich, notably announcing that the Kubuntu team have developed a plan for the Xenial Xerus release and that they will be syncing with Debian on a lot of their work. She also delves into some of the infrastructure, talking about working through where the CI system should be hosted, use of a Docker sandbox for developers and some issues that they run into with Phabricator. Scarlett concludes: “Overall this was an essential team building and work event that I could not have participated in without your help. So thank you to all of you that support Ubuntu community donations.”

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2015/kubuntu-kde-munich-hackathon-kde-ci-work-and-kubuntu-workflow/

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos announces the availability of the testing version of the Ubuntu Font Family in Xenial Xerus, which finally includes both the Arabic and Hebrew glyphs created by the team working with Dalton Maag in 2011.

https://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/ubuntu-font-family-0-84-arabic-hebrew-testing-xenial/

Other Community News

Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic

Daniel Holbach gives us advance notice that the next Ubuntu Snappy Clinic will be on Ubuntu on Air! at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 2nd December. He says that the subject matter will be what’s new in snapcraft, and that he looks forward to seeing us all there.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001320.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

In The Blogosphere

Vinux Enhances Productivity for Visually Impaired Users

Jack M. Germain of Linux Insider provides a review of Vinux 5.0, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 and is specifically designed for blind and partially sighted users. He provides some history about the project and founder Tony Sales, explains how Unity works well for the platform describing some of the other software available, including Orca. He also explored usability of the dash and various keybindings, concluding: “The Vinux Linux distro can be both an educational requirement and a personal tool for sight-impaired computer users. It's not a perfect in its performance, but it does provide an improved and more productive computing environment for visually impaired users.”

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/82784.html

November Ubuntu News Roundup

Sam Tran of OMG! Ubuntu! provides a summary of Ubuntu News from various sources in November, including: the Kernel 4.4-rc2 release, the Ubuntu Online Summit, the dropping of Python 2, Brasero and Empathy from the default installation of the Xenial Xerus release, new Kubuntu release managers and an Ubuntu SDK Update.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/november-2015-news-roundup

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Continues To Focus On The Linux 4.4 Kernel

Michael Larabel of Phoronix shares the latest from the kernel team, writing that the Linux 4.4 kernel is the target for the upcoming Xenial release in April. He goes on to share some of the features of the kernel and some of the details about how the team at Ubuntu handles backporting of various types of support.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-16.04-Linux-4.4-1

First Ubuntu Touch Images Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Are Now Live

Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes that Ubuntu Touch images based on 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) are now available in the development channel. However, he also passes on the warning that these early development images are buggy and might not work as expected.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/first-ubuntu-touch-images-based-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-xenial-xerus-are-now-live-496830.shtml

In Other News

FCM#103 is OUT!

This month:

  • Command & Conquer

  • How-To : Python in the Real World, LibreOffice, LaTeX and Practice Programming

  • Graphics : Inkscape.
  • Chrome Cult
  • Linux Labs: 3D Printer Building
  • Ubuntu Phones: OTA-8

plus: Ubuntu Games, News, Arduino, Book Review, Q&A, Security, and soooo much more.

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-103/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: 08E38 – Santa with Muscles - Ubuntu Podcast

It’s Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside…

In this week’s show:

  • We talk about Laura’s recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations:
  • We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot.
  • We go over your feedback.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/11/26/s08e38-santa-with-muscles/

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 24th November 2015

Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host another regular Q&A session on behalf on Canonical's Community team in which they answer questions that are put to them on IRC. They also update us on a new version of snapcraft, OTA-8, the Google Code In, and the UbuCon Summit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbENdhTAvvQ

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2016

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Paul White
  • Vishnu Narayanan
  • Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

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