UWN Issue 934 March 1-7 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 934 for the week of March 1 - 7, 2026.
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In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Release Party @ Daejeon
  • Ubuntu Nepal x SXC Sandbox 3.0: Community Partnership & Mentorship at National-Level Hackathon
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu’s response to California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043)
  • Modernizing Ubuntu archive processes using charms
  • What Say You
  • The best PC upgrade in 2026
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144783 (+18)
  • Critical:309 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 74374 (+4)

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% (1/1237)
  • Albanian: 98.87% (3976/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.21% (37878/1657)
  • German: 87.16% (45070/424)
  • French: 85.78% (49935/7678)

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

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Release Party @ Daejeon

Sae Jin Kim tells us of an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Release Party at Daejeon. We’re told this event will ‘re-activate the local events’; some details are to be confirmed. Whom and how we may contact the team is given if we have questions.

https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubuntu-26-04-lts-release-party-daejeon/50472

Ubuntu Nepal x SXC Sandbox 3.0: Community Partnership & Mentorship at National-Level Hackathon

Sailesh Singh advises us that Ubuntu Nepal was an official Community Partner for SXC Sandbox 3.0 national hackathon held at St. Xavier’s College in Maitighar. We’re shown photos of the Certificate of Appreciation - presented for the mentoring - its appreciation ceremony, and hackathon event highlights, and as well we are given illuminating details.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepal-x-sxc-sandbox-3-0-community-partnership-mentorship-at-national-level-hackathon/78041

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events

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

Please also see:

The Hub

Ubuntu’s response to California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043)

Jon Seager addresses recent attention on California’s new Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) and its requirements on operating systems from 2027. This post alerts us to Canonical being aware of the legislation, which is under review with legal counsel. Any updates, changes, or plans in Ubuntu will be announced through “usual channels” when known.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntus-response-to-californias-digital-age-assurance-act-ab-1043/77948

Modernizing Ubuntu archive processes using charms

Ural Tunaboyu talks about “work being done to modernize the processes behind the Ubuntu archive”. We’re given some background to the archive’s operation before moving to the work still to be done. This is a somewhat complex and technical topic being covered, but written in language that is easy to understand; links allow those interested to learn further.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/modernizing-ubuntu-archive-processes-using-charms/78081/

What Say You

The best PC upgrade in 2026

“:heart_eyes: Just switched to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. My Windows setup was eating 4GB+ RAM just sitting on the desktop. Open 2-3 browser tabs? Boom 5.5GB gone. On Ubuntu? The entire system is idling at a crisp 1.7GB. With RAM prices so high, Linux is the smartest hardware upgrade you can get. Plus, it came with every app I need right out of the box. The best PC upgrade in 2026 isn’t a new stick of RAM, it’s a USB drive with Linux.” - Tharindu Danushka

<https://ubuntu.social/@tharindudanushka@mastodon.social/116180927756667652"

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Canonical Declares That 2026 Is the Year of Ubuntu Linux on the RISC-V Desktop, Server, and More

Gareth Halfacree writes about RISC-V mass adoption on Desktops systems running Ubuntu. With the RVA23 standard implementation Ubuntu is poised to deploy across the hardware spectrum.

https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-declares-that-2026-is-the-year-of-ubuntu-linux-on-the-risc-v-desktop-server-and-more-850a24c1e8b1

IoT Specialist Golioth Gets Snapped Up by Linux Goliath Canonical

Gareth Halfacree writes that ‘Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Golioth’ has new ownership. We’re told it is now owned by Canonical. Gareth gives some history of Golioth, and briefly discusses Canonical, and some details of the change in ownership. The change will not include any “radical changes” in Golioth’s infrastructure.

https://www.hackster.io/news/iot-specialist-golioth-gets-snapped-up-by-linux-goliath-canonical-4c738a5a2935

Git Usage Statistics On Linux Vs Other Platforms Statistics 2026

Willie blogs about Git usage statistics, contrasting Linux and other environments, wherein it is Ubuntu at the top of the lists . The post includes quite a few numbers, graphs, and lots of comparisons which include not just operating environments, but also companies funding commits.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/git-usage-statistics-on-linux-vs-other-platforms/

In the Blogosphere

Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A “Severe Performance Regression”

Michael Larabel informs us of this week’s ‘Slab allocator fixes’ for the Linux 7.0 kernel. In the details is most notably a fix to a “‘severe performance regression’ with a ~64% performance drop”. Michael gives a quote from Ming Lei, who reported the regression, and the details of another patch that will further help. A link to the pull request is of course provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Slab-Severe-Perf-Fix

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu OnAir: Mir Office Hours 25th February 2026

Agenda:

  1. Actions from previous meeting
  2. Input triggers update
  3. FOSDEM recap
  4. Lomiri running on Mir 2.x on Ubuntu Touch with hybris drivers
  5. Mir 2.26 plan
  6. GitHub - canonical/mir-extras: This contains code and components that supplement the Mir display server library · GitHub for reusable bits
  7. Discussion about output management
  8. Improvements to contribution processes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfhdxe3vsH0 | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-office-hours-2026-02-25-16-15utc/77316/3

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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