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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 857

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 857 for the week of September 8 – 14, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS released
  • Oracular Oriole (to be 24.10) now in Kernel Feature Freeze
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • UbuCon North America 2025 Status Update
  • LXD: Weekly news – 362
  • Starting of Ubuntu Bengal, a LoCo of Ubuntu based on Bengal, India
  • Opportunity Open Source Conference – IITK 2024
  • UbuCon Asia 2024: My first ever conference!
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle – Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting
  • Upstream release of cloud-init 24.3
  • ODH-029: Documenting a new project
  • Dealing with spam on Matrix
  • Advisory: Spam invite incident (2024-09-13)
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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