Issue489
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 489 for the week November 21 - 27, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
On November 18, 2016 three more people were elected into membership in the Kubuntu community. Congratulations to:
- Simon Quigley
- José Manuel Santamaría
- Walter Lapchynski.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/welcome-new-kubuntu-members/
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
Ubucon Europe 2016 - Days 2 & 3
Marcos Costales concludes his short series of articles he wrote after his visit to UbuCon Europe and shares further photographs taken during the event. Articles are in Spanish.
http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/11/ubucon-europe-2016-day-2.html http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/11/ubucon-europe-2016-day-3.html
UbuCon Europe in the retrospective
Sujeevan Vijayakumaran shares some details of each day of the recent UbuCon which took place in Essen, Germany noting that 130 people from 15 countries were welcomed. He shows us some photos that were taken during the event, and thanks those that helped to organize and sponsor the event. In his conclusion Sujeevan writes: “I'm really glad that so many people said that they liked it and I'm really looking forward for next years UbuCon Europe which will take place in Paris, France!”
https://svij.org/blog/2016/11/27/ubucon-europe-in-the-retrospective/
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
Forums Council: New SuperModerators Appointed
The Forum Council are pleased to announce 'Wild Man' and 'DuckHook' have been made SuperModerators or administrators for the Forums. They both have proven themselves as forum moderators.
https://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/new-supermoderators-appointed/
Aurélien Gâteau: Gwenview Importer is back
Aurélien Gâteau reports on completion of the port to the Gwenview Importer to KDE Frameworks 5. He says that unfortunately it wasn't done in time for KDE Applications 16.12, but it's ready for the next release.
http://agateau.com/2016/gwenview-importer-is-back
Other Community News
New snapd 2.18 release and new candidate core snap
Michael Vogt announces the 2.18 release of snapd that includes new features such as allowing the user to retrieve information about a given snap and find a list of featured snaps, plus a set of new interfaces like LXD and many bug fixes. This is available directly on github and via the “core” snap in the “candidate” channel.
https://lists.snapcraft.io/archives/snapcraft/2016-November/001761.html
Canonical News
Conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today! - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/21/conjure-up-canonical-kubernetes-under-lxd-today/
How to build your own Ubuntu Core image and other documentation add-on - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/21/how-to-build-your-own-ubuntu-core-image-and-other-documentation-add-on/
VisionMobile: State of the Developer Survey - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/21/visionmobile-state-of-the-developer-nation-survey/
Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/25/pycom-and-canonical-to-enable-lpwan-communications-via-snaps/
In The Press
System76 Oryx Pro review: Linux in a laptop has never been better
Scott Gilbertson of Ars Technica reviews the System76 Oryx Pro laptop, which he states brings desktop level performance and features, albeit in a somewhat large form factor compared with other laptops like the XPS13.
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/11/system76-oryx-pro-review-linux-laptop/
In The Blogosphere
The Station Dock Wants To Bring #Ubuntu Convergence To All Phones
Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! discusses Marius Gripsgård’s proposed new Station Dock for Ubuntu Touch phones, which is set to be released to Kickstarter in the coming weeks. The dock is set to provide HDMI and USB ports over a single USB OTG connection to the phones, with the target being a low latency convergence experience to Ubuntu Touch phones. The device is also expected to support Android phones.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/station-dock-ubuntu-phone-ubports
Ubuntu to Reject SHA-1-Signed Repos by Default in APT Starting January 1, 2017
Marius Nestor of Softpedia reports that Debian developer Julian Andres Klode plans to turn off SHA-1 support for APT beginning in January 2017. The change will disable SHA-1 based GPG signatures, and will arrive in Ubuntu 17.04 unstable repositories in the coming days. Once that is verified, it will be implemented for the versions of APT in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10, as well as in Debian.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-14 Slated for Early December Release for Ubuntu Phones, Tablets
Marius Nestor, writing for Softpedia, reports that a new OTA (Over-the-Air) update will be coming to the stable channel for supported Ubuntu Touch powered devices during the first week of December. The update is primarily for bug fixes, but will bring a new task manager as well.
Meet the Pinebook, a $89 ARM Laptop That Runs Ubuntu
Joey-Elijah Sneddon, writing for OMG! Ubuntu!, informs us that Pine64 has announced the upcoming release of an inexpensive, low power Linux laptop, the Pinebook. Featuring 11.6” and 14” models at $89 and $99 respectively, the ARM based laptop will be based on the 2GB Pine A64, and will include 2 USB 2.0 ports, a MicroSD slot, and mini HDMI out.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/pinebook-arm-laptop-runs-ubuntu
Other Articles of Interest
[CFP] FOSDEM 2017 - Distributions Devroom - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-November/001450.html
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Q&A - 22nd November 2016
Daniel Holbach and Michael Hall host another regular Q&A session on behalf of Canonical’s Ubuntu Community Team. As usual they answer questions that are put to them on IRC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv5Ymrpm1fA
S09E39 – Error Establishing Database Connection - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Season Nine Episode Thirty-Nine of Ubuntu AU! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Dan Kermac are connected and speaking to your brain.
We are four once more, thank you Australia!
In this week’s show:
- We discuss what we’ve been up to recently
- We discuss the news
- We discuss the community news
- We mention some events
That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/11/24/s09e39-error-establishing-database-connection/
Ubuntu Testing Day - 25th November 2016
Leo Arias hosts the first of a series of weekly Ubuntu On-Air sessions which will deal with testing. Leo’s guest this week is Kyle Fazzari who demonstrates the use of snapcraft on Nextcloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpi3DgON-pI
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Security Team - November 21, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20161121
Server Team - November 22, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20161122
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 12.04, 14.04, 16.04 and 16.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.10 Updates
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