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UWN Issue 940 April 12-18 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 940 for the week of April 12 - 14, 2026.
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What we are working
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Resolute Raccoon (26.04 LTS) Final Freeze
Temporary performance degradation on Ubuntu archive
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New Ubuntu Member: Sailesh Singh (saileshsingh36)
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Ubuntu Studio Needs Donations
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WSY:

  • Ubuntu makes a fine router - irihapeti
  • Lubuntu made it perfectly usable - Yashwanth Rathakrishnan
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    Rocks Public Journal; 2026-04-17
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  • [daily] Server Triage Reports
  • Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in March 2026
  • Foundations Team Updates - 2026-04-16
  • +1 Maintenance report from April 13 to April 17
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    Decentralizing Open Source Awareness, Growing Open Source Communities Outside Capital
    Call for Papers: UbuConLA 2026
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    Checkbox 7.1.0 stable release
    Mir release v2.26.0
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    GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes
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    Podcast:
  • Ubuntu Portugal: E377 - Guaxinim Hipertrofiado
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General Community News

Resolute Raccoon (26.04 LTS) Final Freeze

Utkarsh Gupta reports that Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon (26.04 LTS) is now in ‘final freeze’ and reminds us what that means. We’re also told the cronjobs that create dailies are being shutdown, and that Release Candidate (RC) images will be spun soon.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2026-April/001393.html

Temporary performance degradation on Ubuntu archive

Kristofer Tingdahl (Tingdahl) informs us that Ubuntu archive servers are currently under ‘high load’, and that some rate limiting has been placed on the ‘linux-firmware’ package. The high-load situation is expected until ‘early next week’ after which the rate limiting will be removed. A quick remedy we can use is to switch to one of the community mirrors, with link to a explanatory document which walks us through this provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/temporary-performance-degradation-on-ubuntu-archive/80506

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations, Sailesh! Thank you for your continued contributions to Ubuntu, and welcome to the team!

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

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/

Meeting Reports

Team leads are responsible to summarize
Otherwise will be demoted to the “Other Meeting Reports” section as bulleted

Rocks Public Journal; 2026-04-17

New rocks in Docker Hub and ECR: Memcached, .NET10 (-deps, -runtime and -aspnet), Rust 1.93, and Busybox. Mosquitto is now also available on request. Also, Chisel v1.4.1 is out! This patch version mainly addresses the bump of the minimal Go version to 1.25.8 to fix the vulnerabilities affecting Go 1.24.6.

Starcraft Clinic - XXXX

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/starcraft-clinic-2024-aug-16/41427/4?u=soumyadghosh

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

Decentralizing Open Source Awareness, Growing Open Source Communities Outside Capital

Aaditya Singh tells us about the Lumbini Tech Month in Bitwal, which takes Open Source awareness beyond Kathmandu in Nepal. We’re shown some photos of the event, where Aaditya represented Ubuntu Nepal and GNOME Nepal, told the event was well organized, and Aaditya thanks the organizers and all participants how made the event meaningful.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/decentralizing-open-source-awareness-growing-open-source-communities-outside-capital/80125

Call for Papers: UbuConLA 2026

Naudy Villarroel Urquiola has posted on the UbuConLA 2026 thread a ‘Call for Papers’ for this 11th edition of UbuConLA. We’re shown a marketing graphic which has details, link, as well as a direct link where we can learn more and apply via google forms doc.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/santiago-de-chile-sera-el-corazon-de-ubuconla-2026/78266/3

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

Checkbox 7.1.0 stable release

Massimiliano Girardi tell us a new version of Checkbox 7.1.0 is available in the Stable PPA and via snap package (stable channel). We’re then told of “two much anticipated features” we’ll have in this newer release, as well as some other changes. We’re given update instructions, as well as warning should have have a testing session paused before update, given a (long) list of updates, and bugfixes found in the release.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/checkbox-7-1-0-stable-release/80227

Mir release v2.26.0

Alan Griffiths announces Mir 2.26.0 which includes bugfixes and other improvements. We’re told of a number of ‘work in progress’ items that are not included by default, before giving the facts of the release, ie. ABI summary, list of enhancement and more. Alan tells us the code is growing, in part because of a number of new contributors found in this release, with them named & their contribution(s) listed.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-release-v2-26-0/80323

The Planet

Other Community News

Ubuntu Studio Needs Donations

Erich Eickmeyer reminds us Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS is only “a week away”, and alerts us that donations are needed. We’re told Ubuntu Studio are changing hosting providers which means an extra monthly expense, not to mention the time ‘cost’ on rewrites done on Ubuntu Studio Installer and Audio Config apps, with Erich reminding us some expenses occur whilst doing this work, thus we’re asked to consider donating if we can.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-studio-needs-donations/80295

What Say You

Here we elicit your adventures, your trials and how you triumphed; your desktop, why it is your preference; have you made a bug report, tell the experience; coding or other development works worth the comment; tips - tricks and other neat things you have discovered … many other subjects too…

Ubuntu makes a fine router

“When my previous router was reaching the end of its safe working life, I decided I’d try putting together my own. I got a PC Engines SBC, (4GB RAM, CPU: dual core AMD G-T40E 1000 MHz, 3 ethernet ports ), wireless card, antennas, and other stuff and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. Configuration was fun, challenging, but successful. Over the ten years since then, it’s done what it’s supposed to, kept my LAN secure, and even allowed me to run stuff like Transmission torrent server so that I can seed Ubuntu releases. It’s been upgraded every couple of years to the latest LTS release, and I’ve even upgraded to 26.04 slightly ahead of schedule. It doesn’t look as fancy as the latest shiny commercial offering, but Ubuntu, once configured, “just works”, as expected. And that’s what really matters.” - irihapeti

Lubuntu made it perfectly usable

“I revived my old PC with a 3rd Gen Pentium by installing Lubuntu, and it’s been amazing. The once sluggish system that struggled with Windows 7 now multitasks smoothly and boots in about 2 minutes. The LXQt desktop looks modern after some tweaks, and despite the old processor, Lubuntu made it perfectly usable as my daily driver. Huge thanks to the developers and contributors!” - Yashwanth Rathakrishnan

https://ubuntu.social/@iamyaash@mastodon.social/116401900905457851

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

In the Blogosphere

GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes

Ji m writes about the release of GNOME 50.1, which includes “numerous bug-fixes and translation updates”. We’re told of some of these changes starting with GTK-4 toolkit now at 4.22.2. We’re also told GTK-3 was updated to 3.24.52 with fixes for GIMP, Firefox and some other apps which got compatibility updates for Wayland, and that the next GTK-3 update isn’t expected until March 2027 now. We’re told of updates in GNOME Control Centre, and other apps, shown some screenshots, and told how we can get GNOME 50.1, including it’ll be used by Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Desktop.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/gnome-50-1-released-with-numerous-fixes/

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Portugal Podcast: Episode 377 - Guaxinim Hipertrofiado

“Engordámos um Guaxinim obeso durante vários dias para vos trazer um episodão de quase 3 horas, qual Coelho da Páscoa a rebentar de ovos. Falámos de tudo: o Diogo está furioso com bancos, o Miguel resolveu georeferenciação com sítios web, falámos das muitas novidades do Firefox, Thunderbird, gestão dos Snaps, melhorias no centro de software do Ubuntu, comunicações cifradas em Matrix, novidades do Centro Linux, Ubuntu Summit, State of the Open Home, Home Assistant, novo telefone da Volla, notas da comunidade…querem mais?! Há mais, mas não temos espaço nas notas. E ainda fizemos uma campanha de caridade com música de pianinho triste!”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e377/

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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