UWN Issue 929 January 25-31 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 929 for the week of January 25 - 31, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Resolute Snapshot 3 released
  • 26.04 Resolute Raccoon Kernel Schedule
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • UbuCon Asia 2026 to be held at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan
  • UbuCon Asia 2025: The Journey, The People, The Impact - Sailesh Singh
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu Matrix room ownership after room upgrades
  • Merge-o-Matic: Recent updates and future plans
  • :ballot_box_with_ballot: VOTE - Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper Competition
  • Other Community News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Resolute Snapshot 3 released

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team announces the release of the third monthly ‘resolute’ (26.04) snapshot. We’re given details, a link to the release notes where we’re told some teams have added amplifying details, links to download, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-3-released/75832

26.04 Resolute Raccoon Kernel Schedule

Kleber Souza has posted the Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon kernel schedule. We’re reminded of the 6.20 target, and a possible kernel version number change, Kleber gives us the upstream Linux kernel schedule, reminding us of Ubuntu’s resolute schedule - with notes on how it impacts the kernel team, and more (including graphs). The post ends with a request for testing.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/26-04-resolute-raccoon-kernel-schedule/75827

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144459 (+155)
  • Critical: 307 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 74191 (+24)

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

Translations

  • Swedish: 100.00% (0/820)
  • Albanian: 98.86% (3986/106)
  • Ukrainian: 89.17% (38012/1608)
  • German: 87.13% (45196/231)
  • French: 85.74% (50079/6256)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and further dates please visit: https://ubuntu.com/community | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News

UbuCon Asia 2026 to be held at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan

Sailesh Singh tells us the UbuCon Asia Committee is announcing “UbuCon Asia 2026 will be held at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan”. We’re told UbuCon Asia and COSCUP have been coordinating, and given some details of work thus far (and links to minutes of the meeting), before moving to details of UbuCon Asia 2027. Dates, venue, participant scales are provided, though details need to be confirmed. An invite is made if you’d like to become a sponsor, and contact details if you need more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2026-to-be-held-at-coscup-2026-in-taipei-taiwan/75788

UbuCon Asia 2025: The Journey, The People, The Impact - Sailesh Singh

Sailesh Singh provides an event report on UbuCon Asia 2025 which is referred to as a “watershed moment for open-source communities across South Asia”. Sailesh gives us his pre-event reflections before moving to his role as Co-lead and his own personal expectations; given with some honesty. We’re walked through the event, shown some pictures, and mentions are made of different people and teams, including photos of global and local organizers. This is a detailed post.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2025-the-journey-the-people-the-impact-sailesh-singh/75793

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events

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

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective Circles!/LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please also see:

The Hub

Ubuntu Matrix room ownership after room upgrades

Aaron Rainbolt (Ubuntu Matrix Council) tells us “Recent upgrades to room version 12 ended up with @moderator:ubuntu.com becoming the ‘room owner’ of every upgraded room”. Aaron then tells us what this achieves, especially in regards to the Community Council’s governance role. We’re also given some details of the Mjolnir bot. Aaron advises that it was intended to give fore-warning of this change before the room upgrade; but due to ‘oversight’ this wasn’t achieved & apology is thus given.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-matrix-room-ownership-after-room-upgrades/75745

Merge-o-Matic: Recent updates and future plans

Sebastien Bacher gives us an update on Ubuntu Merge-o-Matic. Sebastien starts with a reminder of how Debian is upstream and how some differences (delta or patches) with upstream are varying in duration, with this tool helping “Ubuntu developers rebase their package” with upstream. We’re told how this work is done, some specifics of language and mention of work done to ‘charm’ it prior to moving to a new datacenter. We’re given details of the changes, before being told of what is ‘next’, which includes a proposal.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830

:ballot_box_with_ballot: VOTE - Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper Competition

Aaron J Prisk thanks all “incredible artists, photographers and pixel wizards” who submitted their creative works. We’re told it’s now time to choose which of these great artworks will make it into Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, with links to vote in Mascot, Photographic and Digital/Abstract categories.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/vote-resolute-raccoon-wallpaper-competition/75838

Other Community News

Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

The Xfce development team tell us that generous donations are being put to use in funding Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4 as a “brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce”. We’re given the goals of xfwl4, and told it’ll aim to use some xfwm4 configuration dialogs and xfconf settings so as to give a “seamless transition”. Why the re-write is being done is covered, why it’s based on smithay, given a scope of the xfwl4 project, and more. We’re given numerous links, including to the work in progress source code, and xfce-dev Matrix channel if we have questions. Thanks is given to Open Collective US and Open Collective EU.

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html

In the Press

GeForce NOW Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs

We’re told the GeForce NOW app is in beta for Linux and given details. Support is available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later releases; we are given some details of several games that are great on the app, and more.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux/

In the Blogosphere

OpenSSL 3.6.1 Is Now Available with Important Security Patches and Bug Fixes

Marius Nestor tells us that OpenSSL 3.6.1 has been released. Marius provides details of the (11) CVEs that are fixed in this release, with links so we can look up each CVE if the summary detail isn’t sufficient to remind us. Other fixes are mentioned too, with link to the project’s GitHub page if we need more.

https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-1-is-now-available-with-important-security-patches-and-bug-fixes

GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

Michael Larabel informs us of improved discrete GPU detection that has landed in GNOME 50, with link and specifics. Screenshots are included showing the effect, and we’re also reminded of an equivalent KDE switcheroo-control merge if we’re using KDE Plasma instead when running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Better-GPU-Detection

Other Articles of Interest

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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