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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 869

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 869 for the week of December 1 – 7, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Forums Migration
  • Ubuntu Foundations 25.04 – Plucky Puffin Roadmap
  • Ubuntu Membership Board 2024 elections are open!
  • 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board – Voting Cycle Extension
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-12-06
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Portugal: November 2024 activity report
  • UbuCon Asia 2025 (Aug 30-31) is now looking for sponsors
  • LoCo Events
  • LXD: Time to pick a snap channel
  • Landscape: Feedback on the new web portal
  • Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools (Mir 2.19 update)
  • PSA: updating the default tracks to `24` (`ubuntu-frame*`, `*-test-tools`)
  • Introducing Launchpad Bug Templates
  • Documentation, development and design for technical authors
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić
  • Cristovao Cordeiro – cjdc
  • 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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