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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #61 for the week October 7th - October 13th, 2007. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 7.10 RC

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-October/000104.html (add usual warnings)

Open Week

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

MOTU

• Having been away for a while, [https://launchpad.net/~jpatrick Jonathan Patrick Davies] finally has time for doing work in the ["MOTU"] team again, so his MOTU membership was re-activated. Welcome back!

• The ["Telepathy"] team has brought us a new ["MOTU"] team member: [https://launchpad.net/~bigon Laurent Bigonville] who has done kick-ass work already, and will make ["Telepathy"] rock even harder in the Hardy cycle.

Ubuntu Gutsy Release Parties

Leaving in Anchorage? Want to join the Release Party in Marseille? No problem at all, please find all the relevant infos in GutsyReleaseParties page. Feel free to add the release party you have scheduled in your area, and spread the fever, once again!

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

Launchpad bug statuses

With the janitor glitch that happened earlier, it became obvious the bug statuses in Launchpad were not used and seen the same way by LP developers, project teams and users. Please read the LP blog post to find out about all the 9 different statuses for bugs.

http://news.launchpad.net/general/of-bugs-and-statuses

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-October/002458.html

In The Press

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10971

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10970

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34293/144/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7034828.stm

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6358901134.html

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/91429/index.html

In The Blogosphere

http://techiqmag.com/2007/10/08/dell-preps-for-next-linux-desktop-release/

http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/ (interviews with Mark, Jane Siber, Tim Gardner, Daniel Holbach, Jono Bacon, Matt Zimmerman)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/04/open_season_four_shuttleworth/

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Ubuntu Forums Interviews

bapoumba has accepted to be next (see UWN #60 for details). Read the whole interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/an-interview-with-bapoumba/.

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

* USN-527-1: xen-3.0 vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-October/000604.html * USN-528-1: MySQL vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-October/000605.html * USN-529-1: Tk vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-October/000606.html * USN-530-1: hplip vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-October/000607.html

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

* dircproxy 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.6.06.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012537.html * mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012538.html * sun-java5 1.5.0-13-0ubuntu0.6.06 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012539.html * firehol 1.231-4ubuntu0.6.06 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012540.html * tk8.3 8.3.5-4ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012541.html * tk8.4 8.4.12-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-October/012542.html

Ubuntu 6.10 LTS Updates

* mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.24a-9ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008434.html * dircproxy 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.6.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008435.html * firehol 1.231-4ubuntu0.6.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008436.html * tk8.3 8.3.5-6ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008437.html * tk8.4 8.4.12-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008438.html * hplip 1.6.9-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-October/008439.html

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

* mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.38-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008758.html * dircproxy 1.0.5-5ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008759.html * tk8.3 8.3.5-6ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008760.html * tk8.4 8.4.14-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008761.html * subversion 1.4.3dfsg1-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008762.html * hplip 1.7.3-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-October/008763.html

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

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

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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