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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 871

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 871 for the week of December 15 – 21, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Vote Extension: 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-12-20
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Latin America, Barranquilla 2024!
  • LoCo Events
  • Advanced Intel® Battlemage GPU features now available for Ubuntu 24.10
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud 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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