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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 658 for the week of November 15 - 21, 2020.

In this Issue

Welcome New Members and Developers

• Seth Forshee; Ubuntu Kernel DKMS Uploaders: - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-November/041265.htm

Congratulations to this contributor!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open: # (+/-#)
• Critical: # (+/-#)
• Unconfirmed: # (+/-#)

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

Translations

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://ubuntuforums.org/

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 Hub

Mir 2.2.0 Release

William Wold announces the release of Mir 2.2.0, with links to the Mir PPAs and source tarball. William provides a brief summary of the fixes, plus a changelog broken into three parts: ABI, enhancements, and bugs fixed. We are also asked to help with final testing of the mir-kiosk through testing via the candidate channel; and of course reporting any issues discovered.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-2-2-0-release/19421

Media attention:

• Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-2.2-Released\

Other Community News

Linux on the Desktop

Rick Timmis writes that 2020 has been an exciting year for KDE, driven in part by momentum of cloud native computing. Rick Reminds us of the Kubuntu Focus M2 laptop, some of which have been purchased by NASA's JPL, before mentioning the Lenovo Linux range of offerings. Rick touts the desktop expressly in proclaiming "we believe the KDE desktop experience is unbeatable". He concludes by reminding us of how we can download the nightly build of Kubuntu hirsute hippo, that has the new version of the KDE Plasma desktop.

https://kubuntu.org/news/linux-on-the-desktop/

Xfce 4.16pre2 released

Simon Steinbeiss announces the release of Xfce 4.16pre2, with a list of the Xfce core components, plus links should you need the source code, tarball, or want the full 4.16 roadmap.

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2020-November/000926.html Additional coverage:

• Xfce 4.16pre2 released! - https://andreldm.com/2020/11/19/xfce4.16pre2.html

• Xfce 4.16pre2 Is Another Step Forward For This Open-Source Desktop - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xfce-4.16-pre2-Released

Canonical News

• Cybersecurity defenses for IIoT - https://ubuntu.com//blog/cybersecurity-defenses-for-iiot

• Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s - https://ubuntu.com//blog/distribute-ros-2-across-machines-with-kubernetes

In the Blogosphere

KDE Plasma Mobile On Track To End 2020 With Quite A Polished Linux Mobile Experience

Michael Larabel reports that KDE Plasma Mobile is quite an "open-source mobile Linux contender" which continues to become more polished. The October 2020 report lists their achievements, which are listed in Michael's post. Michael also provides a link to the source if you need more info.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-Mobile-Oct-2020

Other Articles of Interest

• PinePhone KDE Linux phone is getting ready for pre-orders - https://www.zdnet.com/article/pinephone-kde-linux-phone-is-getting-ready-for-pre-orders/

• Ubuntu MATE image for the GPD Win Max handheld gaming PC coming soon - https://liliputing.com/2020/11/ubuntu-mate-image-for-the-gpd-win-max-handheld-gaming-pc-coming-soon.html

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Security Podcast: Episode 97

"This week we look at vulnerabilities in MoinMoin, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, Raptor (including a discussion of CVE workflows and the oss-security mailing list) and more, whilst in community news we talk about the upcoming AppArmor webinar, migration of Ubuntu CVE information to ubuntu.com and reverse engineering of malware by the Canonical Sustaining Engineering team."

https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-97/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S13E35 – Opposing mirrors

"This week we’ve been shapening knives and revisting Morrowind. We round up new from the Ubuntu community and discuss our favourite picks from the tech news."

https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/11/19/s13e35-opposing-mirrors/

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: S01E117 - Influenciadores

"As estrelas da Internet que vocês mais admiram voltam a presentear o seu vasto auditório com pormenores de interesse duvidoso da sua vida pessoal e derivados. Aqui fica mais um episódio no vosso podcast preferido."

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e117/

Meeting Reports

• Ubuntu +1 Maintenance Reports - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-November/date.html

• Desktop Team Updates - Monday 23rd November 2020 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-23rd-november-2020/19433

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC. For more details and farther dates please visit: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 20.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2021

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2023

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 20.10 Updates

End of life: July 2021

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